Tamaqua is using its $250,000 to make improvements to its waste water treatment facility.
"In the midst of this terrible recession, I am pleased to see such a significant amount of money flowing into our community," borough council President Micah Gursky said. "Tamaqua Borough is making a serious effort to implement improvements to our waste water treatment facility.
Some men with low levels of vitamin D in their blood are at particularly high risk of developing heart disease and weakened bones that can lead to osteoporosis, researchers report.
The holidays are not always merry for people who reside in nursing homes. I know this first hand, as many Christmases were spent with my mother who resided a nursing home./p>
In a ruling that puts the city's year-old downtown security cameras in jeopardy, a state official has preliminarily ordered the city to use $48-an-hour police officers to monitor the $14.8 million system, not $10-an-hour civilians.
Ground-breaking could begin as early as December for a $78 million solar park the second-largest solar photovoltaic energy facility in the United States to be built in Nesquehoning.
By Mark Marek, host of Air Your Opinion radio show
"LAST TUESDAY'S ELECTION SAW A LOT OF THINGS: TICKET SPLITTING, SINGLE-SHOTTING, & A RETURN TO VOTER APATHY. LOTS OF YOUNGER VOTERS WHO FLOCKED TO THE POLLS FOR OBAMA LAST YEAR STAYED HOME LAST WEEK."
By TOM RAGAN (Staff Writer tragan@standardspeaker.com)
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"Pension plan contributions to Tamaqua employees of $335,449 in 2010. Tamaqua could be responsible for the whole amount if state aid amounting to $162,000 doesn't arrive...."
George Webster, my 85-year-old father, is a World War II Army veteran who still proudly raises the American flag outside his Florida home every morning.
The experiences of local World War II veterans are chronicled by a mother and son, whose 383-page book is a tribute to those who answered their country's call.
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