I live in one of the townships surrounding Lehighton, I have a Lehighton mailing address. First allow me to say that Lehighton and Carbon County overall is conservative/republican and it’s actually in most areas a nice place. My kids went to Lehighton High School and it was considerably more “law and order” compared to the schools that they attended when we lived in NJ.
The part of Lehighton Boro where this took place consists of dense twin homes, most are a century or more old, are in need of repair and even things such as off street parking is rare. The cost of living here is low in comparison, drug usage is a problem. While I don’t know any of the parties involved in this particular incident, I’m sure I will get some information as time goes on. My guess is both parties have a certain addiction element to them and a lack of activity to keep one entertained and because the homes are so close together squabbles are not that uncommon.
One of the negatives of this area is many are disadvantaged economically and have no intention of ever improving thier situation. Lehighton has a population of less than 5000, the entire county (Carbon County) has a population of less than 70K. It is situated about 100 miles directly west of NYC but totally opposite in terms of everything. Carbon County is one of the 5 counties that make up the Pocono Mountains. The Boro of Jim Thorpe is the county seat, it is about 6 miles from Lehighton. The western portion of the county is scarred from the old coal mining industry which has seen better days. Having said that some of those old patch towns are actually well maintained.
Thanks. Even though I’m from SCentral PA and have been to Jim Thorpe etc it is always good to get some local flavor of involved communities. Most of America is in decline thanks to an overabundance of inept corrupt leadership, declining family values, that put woke and greed of a few and outside influence that purposely put our USA on back burner. Ah and cheap 3rd world labor whether it be in 1800s or in 2024 doesn’t always make better countries. It does tend to make some politicians and wealthy better off.