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Pennsylvania’s coal region ghost town, Centralia, continues to capture the imagination and attract tourists, even when there’s no longer anything to see. On Jan. 13, the TV game show “Jeopardy!” used ...
Roman Wagner, a 6-year-old Adna boy battling leukemia, will be the Police Department's 2025 "Chief for a Day," the department announced Tuesday. Wagner will receive a tour of the police department and ...
At the Camp William Penn Museum in Cheltenham, thousands of Black Civil War soldiers are remembered for their contributions ...
The odds haven’t been in our favor, and for towns like Tarentum, they rarely are. At its peak, Tarentum was home to over ...
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If alpaca yoga, small town vibes, and horror movies are your cup of tea, then this New Jersey town belongs on your bucket ...
Little by little, it seems, the town’s identity has gone up in smoke. On Sept. 18, 2003, the Centralia ZIP code — 17927 — ceased to exist. Remaining residents get their mail at an Ashland post office.
Nestled in the embrace of Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains lies a Victorian wonderland where cobblestone streets wind between colorful 19th-century facades and forested peaks rise dramatically on all ...
Nestled in the embrace of the Pocono Mountains, where Victorian mansions perch on hillsides and the Lehigh River carves through a dramatic gorge, lies a town so picturesque it earned the nickname “The ...