The Grinch turns 50! I'll bet you a can of Who Hash that you didn't realize the classic holiday special "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Chri...
Better solutions for Truancy A Berks County woman who was ordered to serve a two-day prison term because she failed to pay $2,000 for truancy fines d...
Porngate - a whitewash hogwash After months of anguish and about $400,000 later, the much-anticipated Porngate investigation has come to an end with a ...
Property tax elimination This is in response to an article by Bruce Frassinelli onNov. 1. It's about the state GOP making the road bumpier for Wo...
Bring back the 1950s diner Dear Editor, To some this may sound weird, but here goes anyway! My wife and I drive by what used to be the White Diner ...
Thank you for fighting Dear Editor, We would like to thank all those people in Kunkletown and Eldred Township who did not waver in their fight ...
Raising Kane Nearly 3½ months after former state Attorney General Kathleen Kane resigned, a House subcommittee has issued a report th...
More to Gen. Mattis than tough nickname Of the cabinet appointments nominated so far, Gen. James Mattis, known to his troops as "Mad Dog Mattis," is receiving t...
Beware of consequences I am 83 years old. As a youngster when I went to the movies I saw Adolf Hitler giving speeches on the news. He promised ...
It's time to give it a rest We're still scratching our heads trying to figure out why third-party candidate Jill Stein is pushing for a recount in t...
John Adams’ vision still ‘illuminating’ John Adams was a visionary. Who’d have thought — all these years later — that the fledgling nation he helped create would still be going str...
ON THIS DATE JULY 3, 1984 Bill O’Gurek of Summit Hill, a 28-year-old reporter for the Times News, was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Mayor Kenneth Frassinell...