2+ day, 3+ min ago   (364+ words) With another school year underway, United Way Greater Hazleton has been working throughout the community to help ensure local students have the basic resources they need to arrive at school prepared, confident, and ready to learn. Through its Back to…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (221+ words) The parishioners and friends of St. Luke’s Evangelical Lutheran Church will celebrate the church’s sesquicentennial anniversary with a church service at 11 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 20. The celebration coincides with Freeland’s 150th celebration this year. The actual anniversary date is June 25, 1876. On…...

4+ day, 29+ min ago   (545+ words) HAZLETON — The Rev. Kevin Miller remarked he couldn’t remember the last time he saw the pews of St. Gabriel’s Church so crowded for a 9/11 memorial Mass. Perhaps it is because this year marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks that…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (180+ words) The Nesquehoning Historical Society announced the next event in a series of Local History Presentations as part of Carbon County and Nesquehoning’s America250 Celebration. The visual presentation “The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company’s Summit Hill and Panther Valley Mining Operations 1818 to…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (712+ words) Seventh grader Michael Velotta said learning to play a new instrument was challenging enough before his school band had to move to the gym. “As a musician, it would be difficult … to hear music with that noise, and it could…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (202+ words) The Standard-Speaker Hazleton Rotary welcomed current District 7410 Governor Andy Lane Chapman as she made her official visit to the club on Sept. 2, providing the members with an update on upcoming district events and activities. The district governor also awarded Immediate…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (140+ words) The Standard-Speaker The David J. Miller Memorial Scholarship Committee will hold its fourth annual captain and crew golf tournament on Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Sugarloaf Golf Club, Sugarloaf Twp. Shotgun start time is 9 a.m. Cost is $125 per golfer or $500 per team. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (177+ words) The Standard-Speaker Members of American Legion Auxiliary Unit 360 in Weatherly delivered school supplies for 40 students to Weatherly Elementary School Principal Chris Kimmel for the unit’s Give Ten to Education project. As the Weatherly Area School District students, teachers and staff…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (218+ words) The Hazleton City Authority held its annual electronics recycling event on Aug. 22 and the numbers are in. More than 13 tons of electronics were collected. Most items were old TVs and scanners. “The event was a big success by our metrics,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (165+ words) standardspeaker.com A 1940s-style swing dance will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, September 4 at the Freeland Public Park Pavilion. The dance is the last of the free Friday evening concerts in the historic pavilion for the summer season. The swing…...