Coaldale Borough Council has sold two vacant lots where they recently demolished blighted homes.
By selling the homes, the borough successfully returned to the tax rolls two properties that once racke...
KeyBank, with headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, has made a $700,000, multiyear commitment with two $50,000 grants to the Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley and Communities In Schools of th...
Schuylkill County continues to fight blight by tearing down dilapidated buildings.
Commissioners on Wednesday approved two option agreements for properties slated for demolition.
One is at 30 W. Coal ...
Schuylkill County has committed all but $105,000 of a $1.4 million state grant to tear down dilapidated buildings.
The county received the grant through the state Department of Community and Economic ...
“We want people to see pretty things in our town,” says Emma Williamson, one of the members of Brownie Troop 33013 who have taken on the task of creating a community garden in Tamaqua.
Fellow Scout L...
Coaldale Borough Council said last night it will seek bids for a vacant lot it owns, but it isn’t completely sure it will sell it.
The lot exists at 223 E. Ridge St. where the borough had a building d...
Going, going, gone … and back on the tax rolls for Schuylkill County.
At a judicial sale held Jan. 4, 42 parcels were sold. During January the county’s Tax Claim Bureau also oversaw 13 repository sale...
Gov. Tom Wolf visited Lansford Borough on Monday to promote a new program that would use a tax on the natural gas industry to fight blight.
Joined by state Sen. John Yudichak and a group of local offi...
On Thursday, Department of Environmental Protection Northeast Regional Director Mike Bedrin joined state Rep. Maureen Madden, D-Monroe, and other local officials to address the environmental impact of...
In a continued fight to deal with blight in the area, state Rep. Doyle Heffley and the Carbon Chamber and Economic Development Corporation partnered Thursday for a discussion on the topic in Jim Thorp...