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Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this Weatherly Area School Director Bonita Barbush-Urban was one of nearly 900 Pennsylvania school directors who were recently honored by the Pennsylvania School Boards Association for their years of service.

Weatherly Area School Board has a new president who will head a contingent of school directors that has temporarily been reduced to eight voting members.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this A A FREE LUNCH will be offered at the Salvation Army today from 10:30 a.m. to noon.

Luzerne County officials had a conference Monday with representatives from five companies interested in providing a day-reporting center for prison inmates, County Manager/Chief Clerk Doug Pape said.

A Carbon County man has been arrested on charges he had indecent contact with a young girl.

A Weatherly man waived charges related to car break-ins last week to Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas, court papers said.

Residents of Weatherly will not see an increase in their taxes or utility rates next year.

The cause of a fire that severely damaged an apartment building at the corner of North Lehigh Avenue and Spring Street on Saturday afternoon appears to be accidental, state and local fire officials determined.

If residents in Lehigh and Lausanne townships are concerned about coverage by the L&L Volunteer Fire Company, they should know that the firefighters in those areas are doing the best they can with the available manpower, a former fire company chief said.

In a hard-to-find alley of Hazleton you can step inside a former bakery and look at downtown Jim Thorpe.

Weatherly Area's revenue projections are expected to fall in 2010-2011, but school directors say they're aiming to keep any potential tax increase within the state index.

Carbon County has filed a lawsuit against Panther Valley School District to try to recover tax records and commissions from 2000 to present.

Carbon County commissioners may be forced to raise real estate taxes to keep Weatherwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Home in Weatherly afloat.

Weatherly Area School District on Saturday will hold the first of three free H1N1 vaccination clinics in November.

A small, one story cabin in Lehigh Township, was destroyed by fire, late Saturday night.

With 34 percent of the electorate voting Tuesday, Swinesburg polled 192 votes, while Tax Collector Joan Hinkle garnered 203 votes in her unopposed bid.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this Republican candidates had a field day in Weatherly in Tuesday's election, as the entire GOP slate for borough council was elected.

Wyoming Seminary awarded Upper School Merit Scholarships to six freshmen students from Luzerne and Lackawanna counties.

And while the legacy of King Coal's effect on area streams and rivers might be less apparent, it's just as, if not more, devastating.

Carbon County wants to reclaim thousands of delinquent taxes that were lost because six taxing bodies utilized a third party tax collection agency instead of the county tax claim bureau.