Scranton's Parade Day bar landscape could be different
People know what to expect on Scranton Parade Day: bagpipers, a sea of green revelers and a day of bar tours and toasts. But visitors are going to find a different landscape when they hit the streets...
View ArticleKelly: Feral cats are, always will be, a big problem but stabbing them to...
There are few experiences more humbling than having a snarling, terrified feral cat attached to your thigh. It's the perfect marriage of physical and psychological pain: The absurdity of the situation...
View ArticleMore teachers are paying for health insurance
For the region's teachers, fully paid health insurance may soon be a benefit of the past. As insurance costs increase, state funding decreases and fear of a tax that could be levied under the new...
View ArticleBusiness Buzz, March 3, 2013
Recycled shoes raise moneyPocono Medical Center's Environmental Awareness Council set up red bins to collect shoes through the TerraCycle Shoe Brigade in December. The goal was to recycle old shoes...
View ArticleCarbondale residents still adjusting to parking meters
CARBONDALE - A bright yellow sign on the doorway to the Carwanna Lunch reminds customers to deposit a few coins before stopping in. Parking meters, which became active in Carbondale in December, have...
View ArticleFuneral Notices 3/3/2013
BEATTYS, JEAN SPONSLER, Blakely, Saturday, Hedley W. Mason Funeral Home, Peckville, by the Rev. Wallace Koch, pastor, Blakely Baptist Church. Pallbearers: Chris Beattys, grandson; Andrew Patrey,...
View ArticleFire displaces five in Scranton
SCRANTON - Five people were displaced after a fire at a small apartment complex Saturday night. Around 9:15 p.m., city firefighters arrived at 1247 Diamond Ave. and found flames at the left-side door...
View ArticleLaw firm app offers help after accident
With the click of a button on your smartphone, you can take photos and video at a crash, locate the site of the crash through GPS, document information about injuries and contact a lawyer at...
View ArticleVehicle damages gas meter, leaves scene in Scranton
Vehicle hits home, gas meter, flees SCRANTON - City police are investigating a crash that damaged a South Side home's gas meter late Saturday. Acting Assistant Fire Chief Paul Triano said a...
View ArticleCar crash sends Taylor woman to hospital
Woman injured in single-car wreck SCRANTON - A Taylor woman was taken to a hospital Saturday after she crashed into a guardrail on the McDade Expressway. Lori Ann Bowen, 49, struck a guardrail near...
View ArticleJudge stresses importance of attending school
Magisterial District Judge Joanne Corbett had an important message for kindergarten students on Monday afternoon: stay in the classroom and out of the courtroom. Judge Corbett visited John G. Whittier...
View ArticleSwedish citizen wins round in lawsuit against Sandvik
Ruling favors Sandvik worker A Swedish citizen who alleges he was fired by a local steel manufacturer to thwart a workers' compensation injury claim has won a critical round in his wrongful termination...
View ArticleNamedropper, 3/5/13
Order of Eagles Pre-Purple DayMembers of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in Scranton are planning for their Pre-Purple Day Party and Health Fair to benefit the Anita Kaufmann Foundation, which promotes...
View ArticleStudy commission proponents withdraw 1,300 signatures
Supporters of a referendum to study Lackawanna County's form of government are voluntarily withdrawing petitions containing more than 1,300 of the signatures they submitted to get the question on the...
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Funeral NoticesAVERY, FRANCIS JEAN, Nicholson, today, 1 p.m., Anthony P. Litwin Funeral Home, 33 Reynolds St., Factoryville, the Rev. Lori Robinson of Factoryville United Methodist Church...
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Hometown wrongAndy Gavin, who will serve as grand marshal of the 52nd annual St. Patrick's Day Parade, is from Lake Winola, Overfield Twp. His hometown was incorrect in a brief in Monday's newspaper....
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The story of the sinkhole that swallowed up a Florida man hits too close to home for Joan O'Day."That could have been us. That very well could have been us," she said.Ms. O'Day lives in Fairview Twp....
View ArticleScranton board takes first step for possible new gym at WSHS
The Scranton School Board went beyond discussing the cramped gymnasium at West Scranton High School on Monday night and took one of the first steps in finding a permanent solution.The board voted 8-0...
View ArticleLanguage presents challenge to selling health care reform in NEPA
Until four years ago, the Bhutanese-Nepali population in Lackawanna County consisted of a handful of families. That's when Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton began resettling...
View ArticleDCED chief addresses regional job woes
HARRISBURG - Creating an umbrella state business development authority to provide financing for business park infrastructure is one way to address the high jobless rate in Northeast Pennsylvania, the...
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