On this date in NEPA
75 years ago, John Dyer, superintendent of the Scranton School District, announced that 30 to 50 teachers would lose their jobs by Feb. 7 because of a drop in enrollment of 1,100 students.
50 years ago, Olyphant police, the Lackawanna County district attorney's office and the state police were investigating the accidental shooting death of a 10-year-old Olyphant boy. The boy and two friends were playing with a handgun when it fired.
25 years ago, Judge S. John Cottone upheld an arbitration award for the Scranton firefighters union. The city had claimed the April 1987 award was illegal.
10 years ago, Auditor General Bob Casey said the Dunmore Volunteer Firefighters' Relief Association had to repay $147,671 to the state for overstating the percentage of volunteer firefighters in the borough.