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Lehighton Cross Country Girls Sweep East Stroudsburg North and South
Chris Bosco turns to Daulton Radler andsays, "This is how champions tie their shoes." Daulton Radler says, "Just watch my back." Emily Oldt says, "Yup!" as she laughs.The Right Stuff? Some days...
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Salt, Time, Cabbage...and other secrets of a long and happy life
The brick-wall water filter of the old cistern, now a ground cellar, is the backdrop of Charlie's yearly sauerkraut making. Charlie learned how to make sauerkraut with his Aunt May starting in the...
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Switchback Railroad Hike - The Fall 2011 Tour
Here we see the barney car emerge from the pit. An "outrigger" was winched downonto the "cat step." This safety device is identical to the one adopted by successive rollercoasters and gave both...
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Jeni Beers takes 5th Place in MVC Championship - Lehighton Girls Team Places 5th
(Left to Right) - Ally Armbruster (mgr), Emily Oldt, Coach Marushak, Cassie Rehnert, Erica Koutch, Alyssa Schleicher, Jeni Beers, Coach Rabenold and Sophie Coombe (Middle School XC Team). Left to...
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Lehighton's Jeni Beers Moves onto States
The District XI Cross Country Championship was run in a the damp rain today, but that didnt stop Jeni Beers from a berth in the State Championship at Hershey next week.Despite the raw weather, Jeni...
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The Race of My Life
Click Here - FOR TIMES NEWS Announcement of CandidacyI find myself saying I've been making myself ready for this moment all my life. I have run many races in my life, literally and metaphorically. This...
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Remember Those Who Served - Union Hill
On behalf of those who have served, buried here, in the ground at our feet, I thank you for being here.As Lehighton native, Major General Marvin Jay Barry reminded us at a program at the Middle School:...
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A Time of Renewal
Here is a story I posted on Al Zagofsky's e-zine "Carbon County Magazine" back in March. It has been my pleasure to be a regular contributor to this effort that chronicles our lives here in Carbon....
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Filling the Bathtub with Gene Autry’s Money
Gene Autry was brought toLehighton by a trainand a need to gethis saddle fixed. He put countrymusic into the mainstream, our most famous singing cowboy. He was the real deal.(This article first...
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Following the Path of Reason
The more I read, the more reaffirmed I become about our life here, and how we must care for one another. It doesn't matter where your spiritual nature derives its direction, I know we all are heading...
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4th Annual Fall Hike to Mt. Pisgah
A quick historical overview and time at the scenicoverlook, the hikers head toward the HacklebernieTunnel, first driven in 1824 (said to be the oldesttunnel in North America).Our most well attended...
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Veteran's Day with Dad at Legion Post #314
Randy Rabenold's graduation picture from Paris Island. He's 6th from the right in the second row.Complete Story of Randy Rabenold's service in the Marine Corps in Korea up to the Inchon Invasion Part...
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Of Monarchs and Other Metaphors
Of Monarchs and Other MetaphorsCreation is soul-searching. Nothing is ever finished. ~Carl RugglesRegina Tauke of Northampton County is avolunteer for the University of Kansas herecollecting Monarchs...
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Go Forth: Be as Content as a Kid in a Tent
We are a collection of destinations planned and unplanned, sometimes envisioned but never fully grasped, sometimes grasped but conceived in vagueness. No matter where you are now, you have arrived...
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Part 1: Randy Rabenold and the Bulldogs Who Went to War by Ronald Rabenold
Randy Rabenold as a young Marine atCamp Pendleton, California sometimebefore July 1950.Part TWO - Randy Rabenold and the Bulldogs Who Went to WarPart THREE - Randy Rabenold and the Bulldogs Who Went to...
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The Trench Art of Randy Rabenold
(This is a companion post to "Randy Rabenold and the Bulldogs Who Went to War," Part 1 of 3. Part 2 will be posted soon.)(Incidentally, fellow blogger Terry Clark, professor of journalism at the...
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Part 2: Randy Rabenold and The Bulldogs Who Went to War, "In Korea" by Ronald...
Randy Rabenold and the Bulldogs Who Went to War Part ONERandy Rabenold and the Bulldogs Who Went to War Part TWOMemorial Day May 2013 Tribute to Rabenold and the BulldogsThe Trench Art of Randy...
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Lehighton Students Investigate the Moravian Massacre and the Building of Fort...
It was a stormy night, the heavy rains nearly drove them away, but a determined few achieved their objective. The group (students, their parents and teacher) from April 13th gather beneath the shelter...
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Moravian History - My Students Are Guest Writers First of Four
Today you will hear the first of four posts written by my students about the early colonial period from the Walking Purchase of 1737 up to the end of the French and Indian War here in Carbon County....
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Memorial Day 2013 - A Tribute to Dad and his First Division Marine Corps...
Below is the transcript from my speech about Dad, Randy Rabenold, delivered at the Lehighton Area Middle School Memorial Day Program, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. A presentation of 37 slides accompanied...
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