Longer working hours, longer commutes and the rise of dual-income households have left less time for volunteering.

Andrew Barrow and his younger half brother Ronald Stanley ‘Stosh’ Webb Jr. could be poster children for the county, there’s a key difference. Andy is white. Stosh is Black.

Larry Wittig resigned from the board in 2017 after the Philadelphia Inquirer first published the allegations, but he remains school board president of the Tamaqua Area School District in Schuylkill County.

Arming teachers to prevent or lessen the death toll of mass shootings is a controversial proposition, and the training teachers receive before being authorized to carry guns in the classroom is one of the biggest sources of debate.