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Community Kitchen of Monroe County needs food and financial donations in order to provide free meals to anyone in need.

Lehighton Area School District is again the benefactor of a program designed to provide students with meals. Michelle Rex, Giant store manager at the Lehighton Giant, visited the district Friday morni...

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Backpack Buddies, an effort through Churches Touching Lives for Christ, is striving to provide about 1,300 Temple Independent School District students with school supplies and a new backpack for the upcoming school year. However, Carol Lynch — who has been running Backpack Buddies for the past 16 years — said that figure is actually shy of the number of students in need. “The number in need is close to 2,000, but what we can realistically do through the sponsorship with the commu...