
The 165-year-old Buck Covered Bridge in Beltzville State Park will be restored. A grass-roots effort to preserve a more than 165-year-old covered bridge is underway in Carbon County. Friends of Beltzville State Park, a nonprofit group started two years ago to enhance the park outside Lehighton, took on the project to restore the bridge built by the Buck family in 1841, said John Dworsky, who is heading the project. (Ellen F. O'Connell/Hazleton Standard-Speaker via AP)
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Military parade celebrates Army’s 250th
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