Jim Thorpe

Frackville resident Joe Huth remembers Hurricane Agnes. He fears his home, which lies at the foot of Broad Mountain, wouldn’t survive a similar storm.

Governor Josh Shapiro proposed in his recent budget address adding the Glen Onoko Fall Trails in Carbon County to the Lehigh Gorge State Park. The Pennsylvania Game Commission closed the popular, but dangerous trail near Jim Thorpe in 2019 because of the number of accidents there.

Plenty of events planned for this mid-October weekend provide opportunities to celebrate spooky season all sorts of ways.

For over a decade, Jim Thorpe Borough Council has failed to demolish a blighted home in the center of a bustling neighborhood.