The name across Tyler Svetik's jersey reads Coplay but on Friday night you couldn't blame the right-handed hurler if he was thinking about a differ

It's one of those quotations that's so dead-on no one disputes it, like Ralph Waldo Emerson's observation, "Knowledge is the antidote to fear."

After winning the first game in the best-of-three District 18 9-10 Little League Championship Series Thursday night, Tamaqua Blue knew what it had

I typed the headline of this column about 20 minutes ago.

"You're not going to be happy with me," a good friend said near the beginning of a recent training ride. "I cracked. Did I ever crack."

Years ago, a teacher I didn't know very well entered my classroom after school.

By MIKE HAINES

It's been a cold, wet spring.

Nobody knows that better than area high school sports teams.

Earlier this month, America celebrated the 150th Anniversary to the start of the American Civil War.

By SHAWN MCFARLAND