Kent Jackson

CONYNGHAM — Music played, hamburgers sizzled and ice cream melted while children and their parents checked out police cars, fire engines and ambulances at Whispering Willows Park during National Night Out.

Visitors could descend 884 feet into a coal mine, walk through a replica of a coal breaker and finish with a drink at a craft brewery at a tourist attraction proposed for Hazleton.

Valley Scoops ice cream stand on Route 93 in Sugarloaf Twp. will reopen at noon July 31, less than 48 hours after a vehicle drove through a wall beneath the takeout windows.

HAZLETON — The closing of Our Lady of Grace Church is a time of mourning for parishioners, Rev. Anthony Generose said as he prepared for the last Mass on Aug. 2

Residents said during a hearing with a federal agency that new limits for pre-treating industrial waste sent to a local sewage treatment plant could endanger trout and other aquatic life and add to pollution in Black Creek.

Justin Emershaw mentioned some of the sights that he would like tourists to see in a coal mine beneath Hazleton.

Hazleton Art League now shares space on an app with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Field in Chicago, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. and other art museums, sculpture gardens and cultural spaces around the world.

Demolition of St. Paul's Methodist Church began this week, a year after fire ruined plans for re-using the 127-year-old building in downtown Hazleton.

HAZLE TWP. — Mike Marsicano went to where he heard gunshots at Hazleton Regional Airport.

A plan for a trail connecting Whispering Willows Park in Conyngham with Joe Larock Park in Sugarloaf Twp. doesn't follow the shortest or cheapest route.