TCMC students learn future on Match Day
The first class of students at the Commonwealth Medical College has spent the last four years together. With balloons falling and streamers flying, the soon-to-be doctors learned on Friday where they...
View ArticleThree arrested after alleged drug buy in Old Forge
Three people were arrested in Old Forge after a woman sold crack during a controlled drug purchase Friday, police said. Lackawanna County detectives said Bernadette Samuel, 46, of Pittston, and...
View ArticleHeroin, cocaine seized during home search
Lackawanna County SWAT team members were waiting when Tara Altland pulled into her Archbald driveway in a Mustang Thursday night, toting cocaine, heroin, oxycodone pills and a knife, police said....
View ArticleLackawanna County Court Notes 3/16/2013
LACKAWANNA COUNTY COURT NOTES marriage license n Jesus Gallardo and Janet Melissa Tapia, both of Scranton. PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS n Michael A. and Luz M. Booth, Dickson City, to Mara N. Lesko,...
View ArticleKids learn tips through safety program
Josie Gilces and Raj Gandhi recalled the lessons they learned about how to stay safe in and out of their homes during the Kids in Control program at the Boys and Girls Club of Northeastern...
View ArticleSouth Side fire displaces 11, injures one
SCRANTON — Eleven people were displaced and one was treated for a minor burn Saturday afternoon when a fire damaged a South Side apartment building and commercial space. Fire crews quickly...
View ArticleSouth Scranton fire displaces 11
South Side fire displaces 11 SCRANTON - A fire that began in a closet displaced 11 people and injured one Saturday afternoon, city police said. Fire crews quickly extinguished the blaze that began at...
View ArticleOfficials investigating fatal shooting outside Wilkes-Barre bar
WILKES-BARRE - A man was shot and killed early Saturday morning in the city. Renold Julien, 26, of Wilkes-Barre, died from gunshot wounds he suffered in a shooting in a parking lot outside Locals 88,...
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Perspectives on business coaching- People rarely change on their own. Some coaches say it is impossible for people to self-correct.CoachFirm business coach Robert Scott said most people require an...
View ArticleFuneral Notices 3/17/2013
BENFIELD, SISTER MARGARET, I.H.M., Monday, Mass, 11 a.m., Our Lady of Peace Residence, 2300 Adams Ave., Scranton. Interment, St. Catherine's Cemetery , Moscow. Calling hours, today, 3 to 5:30 p.m.,...
View ArticleArea residents share tales of aging in NEPA
At 82, Clara Montone sees tough times ahead. The Carbondale resident faces rising medical costs, transportation to appointments, post-retirement expenses, decreased mobility and missing companionship....
View ArticleLiberal arts college evolves as health industry grows
By Denise Allabaugh With health sciences becoming the fastest-growing job market in the country, Misericordia University has evolved to meet students' demands, said President Michael MacDowell....
View ArticleAmerican Dream evolves with times
In redefining the American Dream for the 21st century, Lackawanna County economic development director George Kelly thinks it can be instructive to go back to the 18th century and one of the...
View ArticleAround the Towns 3/17/2013
Carbondale When the first St. Patrick's Day parade marched through Carbondale in 1833, reports say there was 3 feet of snow on the ground. Today, the Carbondale Historical Society will hold "The St....
View ArticleCancer changes 24-year-old's professional outlook
As Scranton resident and longtime overachiever Alesia Walsh struggled to run a 10-mile race in May, she didn't know about the 20-pound tumor hidden inside of her.She just thought the long-distance run...
View ArticlePIECE OF HISTORY
Gaetano Ferri came to this country with little more than a desire to make a better life than the one he left behind in Italy. Like so many other immigrants, his American life started in the anthracite...
View ArticleAdult learners hit the books for better jobs
Kirsten Stevens is a mother of two and a grandmother of five.She's also a senior in college. More than 30 years after she quit college after two years to get married and have kids, the Forty Fort...
View ArticleAnother generation at plastics business
Cindi and Alan Heyen continue in the mold shaped by Don Telesca. Mr. and Mrs. Heyen, of Old Forge, acquired Northeastern Plastics Inc. in Scranton after Mr. Telesca died last June at age 84. He ran...
View ArticleBudget-minded families keeping vacations local
The family vacation remains an enduring legacy of America's post-World War II economic boom. But with the stagnated wages of the past few years, many families have less money in the travel kitty than...
View ArticleClosed bridges, roadways affect business owners throughout Lackawanna County
OLD FORGE - Orange construction signs straddled each side of the road and an LED sign advised passengers that the bridge located just beyond the righthand bend is closed. Tucked around the bend - in...
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