The Jim Thorpe Area Sports Hall of Fame recently announced its Class of 2025. The 33rd class of inductees includes Samuel Hydro, Ethan Mordaunt, Jarrin Geisinger, Dylan Dailey, Jonathan Lilly, and ...

Athletes compete Thursday, May 2, 2024, at the Olympian Invite track & field meet at Jim Thorpe High School. Northwestern Lehigh’s Brant Burnard competes in boys triple jumpThursday, May 2 ...

Bill Diehm was 8 years old, living above his grandfather’s hardware store on Susquehanna Street, when he watched his hometown ...

More than 70 years after his death, Jim Thorpe is still remembered as one of the greatest sports figures of the 20th century.

Jim Thorpe's epic performance in the 15 events ... “If you look at old pictures of him he looks almost modern. He’s cut. He doesn’t look soft like the other guys did back then.

Biographical pictures are invariably fictionalized accounts and should be regarded on those terms, but along with the usual conflations and inaccuracies of detail, “Jim Thorpe — All American ...

which were once a part of the old courthouse in the town of Mauch Chunk, now known as Jim Thorpe, still adorn the stately masterpiece. Historical local photos have also been hung in The Y on ...

On this day in 1888 was the birth of Jim Thorpe, an Olympian and western actor who appeared in the movie “Outlaw Trail,” ...

Memorial Day weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway, the excursion operation of the Reading & ...

Jim Thorpe’s tribal name ... Thorpe flourished on the field and languished off it. Pictures of Thorpe attest to his efficiently proportioned body. Medical examiners, measuring every part ...

which started Saturday on Bear Mountain near Jim Thorpe, is 100% contained. The fire started about 4:30 p.m. Saturday and reached 560 acres by Tuesday. A state fire response team was called in ...

The Packerton Fire, which is also known as the Jim Thorpe Fire or Bear Mountain Fire, set 426 acres ablaze and is 15% contained, according to USA TODAY's wildfire data. The fire is burning east of ...