Lifelong coal miner David A. Lucas breathes into the plastic tube attached to a computerized machine in a small room in Blue Mountain Health System's Gnaden Huetten campus. The machine assesses Lucas' ability to breathe.
Lucas, of Hegins, has Black Lung disease, caused by inhaling coal dust. The dust builds up, hardening and scarring the lungs. It can trigger other health problems, including heart failure.
The minute the Weatherly girls' volleyball team walked off the court last October against Nativity it knew darn well it just witnessed missing out on making school history.
It only took a few seconds to forget about those visions of watching their district playoff hopes diminish thanks to finishing...
Once again, the rotisserie chicken rescues the weeknight cook.
And I'm fairly confident I've never actually eaten a rotisserie chicken as one would a traditional roasted chicken – as in, slabs or chunks of meat hacked from the bird.
In my cooking, these chickens are a not-so-raw (thankfully!) ingredient on which to build the rest of the meal without adding any cooking time.
"The Amazing Lehighton Race," sponsored by the Lehighton Downtown Initiative Committee, will be held in Lehighton on Sunday, Sept. 12, beginning at 10 a.m.
Todd P. Zimmerman, coordinator, said the LIDC is looking for teams of two to compete in this "mildly physical and mental competition."
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