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Last week’s announcement that the four boroughs of the Panther Valley have been approved as a Blueprint Community comes as good news for the future. By resolution, each of the municipalities - Coaldal...

Summit Hill Borough along with its historical society want to bring history to life with an immersive museum experience that tells the region’s coal mining and industrial history. They are partnering ...

The crisp autumn air and fall season are on their way! Mother Nature puts on a stunning show in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, and the fall colors that cloak…

A helicopter of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources refills a bucket of water at Mauch Chunk Lake. The chopper was brought in to fight a fast-moving brush fire in the Hacklebernie sec...

The Nesquehoning Historical Society will host the start of a new season of presentations at the NHS Museum. To kick it off, the NHS will sponsor a talk and visual presentation entitled “The Lehigh Co...

For Vince Hydro, love of local history has been in his blood all his life. “It seems like I have always been interested in local history. When I was in eighth grade, I would bike from Nesquehoning dow...