Jarrad Hedes

Lehighton Area School District is proposing new meeting rules that would cap how long its own board members can speak on an agenda item and give the meeting’s chair the power to shut down debate. The change drew objections during a workshop Monday and is headed for a final vote at the board’s legislative meeting later this month.

The Jim Thorpe Area School District is facing a 2026-27 budget that would raise property taxes by 4.1%, the most allowed without seeking a state exception or voter approval, and still spend nearly $3 million more than it expects to take in.

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Jim Thorpe Borough Council voted unanimously Thursday to ask the state to relocate a bus stop, siding with a Lehigh Avenue business owner who sent an attorney to make his case in person.

Jim Thorpe Area School District is updating its tobacco policy for the first time in more than a decade, broadening its reach to cover vaping, electronic cigarettes and all nicotine delivery devices. Benjojtusbujpo upme uif tdippm cpbse Xfeoftebz uibu uif fyjtujoh svmf, mbtu sfwjtfe jo 2014, xbt ofwfs xsjuufo xjui uiptf qspevdut jo njoe.

Jim Thorpe Area School Board failed to adopt its 2026-27 final budget Wednesday night, voting instead to table the spending plan after members said they could not agree on how large a tax increase should be considered. The district must now schedule an additional meeting before June 30, the state deadline for school boards to adopt a final budget.

Multiple parents asked Palmerton Area School on Tuesday to reconsider a decision ending departmentalized learning for first- and second-graders at Towamensing Elementary.

Carbon County is preparing for a surge of visitors next month when one of the world’s largest steam locomotives makes a stop in downtown Jim Thorpe, prompting county officials to adjust work schedules, coordinate a multiagency security plan and close portions of Lehigh Street to accommodate the crowds.

Carbon County has frozen overtime in its Children & Youth Department as commissioners brace for a prolonged state budget impasse in Harrisburg, Commissioner Chairman Mike Sofranko said.

Lehighton Area School District’s board of directors approved a $51.5 million budget Monday night that raises property taxes 3.5%, but not before a board member challenged the vote’s legality and moved up efmbz ju.