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When the first passenger trains rolled into Mahanoy City in 1863, the town was in its infancy. The area’s population was small but growing as anthracite demand soared.
The Standard-Speaker publishes seven days a week, 365 days a year, serving Greater Hazleton and other communities in southern Luzerne, northern Schuylkill and northern and western Carbon counties of Pennsylvania.
The arresting historical vignette of Darwin’s fraught meeting with Bradlaugh and Aveling at his country retreat would doubtless make for a good TV docudrama.
When Locust Lake State Park opened in June of 1972, it cost $1.75 to rent a campsite for the night. There wasn’t a camp store at the time, and visitors would have to wait another few years for a beach...
The big news on the Supreme Court this term wasn’t that the justices were again weighing the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act or that Roe