Lehighton News

Ten NASSAU BROADCASTING stations in NEW JERSEY and PENNSYLVANIA are being sold in bankruptcy to NB BROADCASTING LLC, headed by DOUGLAS A. PLUSS, for a credit bid of $38.7 million plus $1,633,890 for administrative costs and assumption of liabilities.

May 27, 2012 -- State police at Lehighton said the deaths of a Nesquehoning couple at their 144 W. Railroad St.

Route 33 North is closed from mile marker 23 to mile marker 25, between the Snydersville and Lehighton exits, due to severe flooding Saturday afternoon.

A Lehigh Township man assaulted his girlfriend Thursday morning on a Route 248 drive from Weissport to East Penn Township, police said.

The word "stamina" is defined as Staying Power; endurance. During the 2012 senior games in Lehighton these past two weeks this word took on a form of its own as I watched seniors participate outside on a raw, cloudy ominous morning last Monday.

We found state workers busy at the state park near Lehighton. People were trimming trees, loading the limbs and even cutting the grass.

A Lehighton man was sentenced to a Carbon County jail term on Tuesday for beating to death a dog and then threatening a person who witnessed the act.

The crash happened at around 4:30 p.m. State police at Lehighton said the driver of a Subaru Impreza - Emilia Valente, 19, of Kresgeville - failed to negotiate a curve while driving eastbound on Kunkletown Road.

Lehighton Borough workers moved the stand Monday morning to the corner of Iron and Eighth streets, from its former location along Seventh Street.

According to crews at the scene, the woman was climbing the falls when she fell and needed to be rescued.

Gail Maholick/TIMES NEWS Lehighton area students were recognized for winning first place in their age category in the Shoemaker-Haydt American Legion Auxiliary Unit 314, Lehighton, Americanism essay contest.

Lehighton Community Days opened Friday night with a special presentation to Jacob Vargson, for his winning design on the back of the Lehighton Bike Night T-shirt. Vargson, a student at Carbon Career and Technical Institute and Lehighton Area High School, was awarded $100 by the Lehighton Downtown Initiative Committee.

Six first time offenders in the criminal justice system were placed in Carbon County's Accelerated Rehabiliation Disposition probation progam on Thursday morning by Judge Steven R. Serfass.

STACEY SOLT/SPECIAL TO THE TIMES NEWS The Carbon County Bar Association recently launched a lawyer referral service and Modest Means Program to help local residents in need of legal services.

Carolyn S. Henry to Carolyn S. Henry, 67 Berwick St., P.O. Box 217, Beaver Meadows, property at 65-67 Berwick St., $1. Kenneth J. Clark to Vincent P. Stasik, 465 Lower Nis Hollow Drive, Lehighton, property at 465 Lower Nis Hollow Drive, $174,000. Robert A. Slaw Jr.

State police from the Fogelsville barracks have released details of a crash involving a Pennridge Regional School District bus and a sedan at Hamilton Boulevard/Route 222 and the onramp to Interstate 78 in Lower Macungie Township Friday.

Joseph W. Oliver Jr., 38, of Jim Thorpe, charged by state police at Lehighton with three counts of sexual abuse of children - possession Bruce Lee Hawk Jr., 41, of Ashfield, is facing charges of aggravated and simple assault and driving under the influence of a controlled substance filed by state police at Lehighton.

The owner of the Hotel Jonas in Monroe County says due to the tough financial times, he has no choice but to shutter the more than one hundred year old building.

It was the heartbreaking loss of a little granddaughter that eventually led Betty and John Power to devote their time and care to bringing human warmth and comfort to people who are dying without family or friends to through the final hours.

The Pocono Record says two males - a driver and his passenger - were killed when the car crashed into a tree near Borger's Speedway.