J. Robert Zane is enamored of lists. Before the internet, he’d scour almanacs looking for random information he considered noteworthy. In 1903, when the Schuylkill County Historical Society ...

Unlike Santa Claus, the Belsnickel doesn’t make a list and check it twice to see which kids were naughty or nice. Nor do kids ...

When Sharon Garcia was growing up in Maryland, her grandmother was fond of wearing a gold ring with a red stone. “My grandmother was high fashion,” Garcia said of the late Alice Watford, who wore the ...

POTTSVILLE — The rousing sound of ‘Ma-roons, Ma-roons’ echoed through the second floor hallway of the Schuylkill County Historical Society Thursday afternoon. Pottsville City Controller Michael Weres’ ...

POTTSVILLE — John “Black Jack” Kehoe was not the leader of the so-called Molly Maguires, and was innocent of the crime for which he was hanged in 1878, a direct descendant said recently at a program ...

POTTSVILLE — Given the oppressive conditions under which they lived and worked, it’s hard to imagine how 19th Century Irish immigrants had time to volunteer as firefighters. Yet they did, according to ...

POTTSVILLE, Pa. - Officials in Schuylkill County are honoring a locally beloved football team. The Pottsville Maroons formed just after World War I in the early years of the NFL. Back then, ...

Mar. 24—In his debut novel, James Wosochlo Jr. tells the story of a local man who is considered to be America's first unofficial serial killer. "Appalachian: Schaumboch's Tavern," based on true events ...

The Pottsville Maroons 100th anniversary of their NFL World Championship title was celebrated Saturday evening at Mountain Valley Golf Course. The night remembered the Maroons 1925 achievement and ...