Nearly 75 years later, fallen Marine finally home
SCRANTON — Nearly 75 years after his death, six Marines carried the flag-draped casket of Harold Patrick Hannon into a South Side church on Saturday morning. His family members — nieces and nephews he...
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1. Officials and farmers in Northeast Pennsylvania are on the lookout for egg masses of an invasive species called ... A. Godzilla Mothra. B. mayflies. C. spotted lanternfly. D. kudzu. 2. A Scranton...
View ArticleScranton High School honor roll
SCRANTON HIGH SCHOOL GRADE 12 Ethan Aceron, Debbie Acosta, Paola Alicea, Gabriel Araujo, Gladys Arroyo, Ryan Astleford, Nestor Ayala, Juan Ayala Rodriguez, Johnatha Bailer, Erin Barrett, Corine Belles,...
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VFW Post 4909 plans dinner-dance Dupont VFW Post 4909 Home Association’s Valentine’s Day dinner-dance, Feb. 10, post; bar open, 7:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; dinner, 7:30-8:45; Millennium playing, 9 p.m.-1...
View ArticleCHRIS KELLY: Make 'Room' for 'Cali'
“You must become zee spidair. You must become a scary, leggy atrocity.” — Academy Award-winning actress Mira Sorvino, playing a French, paraplegic ballet teacher in “The Trouble With Cali.”...
View ArticleBible in Canada linked to Wilkes-Barre family
This Holy Bible appears to be a family heirloom kept for generations after a couple was married in Wilkes-Barre in 1929. Nobody seems to know how it ended up all these years later in the home of an...
View ArticleLackawanna County Commissioners award Arts and Culture grants to 52 entities...
A free after-school program offering the arts to area kids and a popular local film festival number among 52 entities, programs, individuals and projects set to benefit from more than $257,000 in...
View ArticleLocal History: Pilot pulls off daredevil landing at Cathedral Cemetery
The distant roar of the plane engine captured the attention of West Side residents on a cold night in January 86 years ago. Then came a bright light, which guided a young pilot and his icy mail plane...
View ArticleNamedropper 1/14/2018
UNICO to honor longtime member Charlie Spano will be awarded the UNICO National Scranton Chapter’s UNICAN of the Year. Spano served as the previous chairman of the board and president. Spano, who was...
View ArticleAround the Towns 1/14/2018
Abingtons Members of the Rotary Club of the Abingtons gave a check for $10,000 to the Salvation Army at a recent meeting. Steve Oaten accepted the check on behalf the Salvation Army. The donation...
View ArticleSmoke from HVAC unit evacuates Red Robin restaurant
DICKSON CITY — A rooftop heating/ventilation/air-conditioning unit overheated at Red Robin on Saturday afternoon, sending light smoke into the restaurant, borough Fire Chief Matthew Horvath said....
View ArticleLackawanna County offices and courthouse, Scranton City Hall closed Monday
SCRANTON — City Hall will be closed Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The city Department of Public Works will be off, and pickup of garbage and blue recycling containers will be a...
View ArticleWayne County sentencings
Wayne County Senior Judge Raymond L. Hamill recently sentenced: ■ William Marcinkevich, 51, Hamlin, four months to five years in the Wayne County Correctional Facility, $1,500 fine, drug and alcohol...
View ArticleGertrude Hawk's nostalgic future home
THROOP — The new building that will house Gertrude Hawk Chocolates’ offices looks more than a smidgen different than most modern local office buildings. Remembering the last time the company moved its...
View ArticleTiming the market. Is it a winning strategy?
With the stock market’s bull run for the past eight years, I get asked these questions all the time: When is it time to get out of the market? Or should I get in the market now or wait until it drops?...
View ArticleNEPA’s Most Wanted Fugitives 1/14/2018
Corey Nelson Wanted by: State Board of Probation and Parole. Fugitive since: Jan. 3. Wanted for: Theft by deception, flight to avoid apprehension, create/reinforce false impression. Sentenced to one...
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Pets of the Week 1/14/2018
Find a pet who needs a new home at the Griffin Pond Animal Shelter. Cinnamon is an adult, female Pittbull. She is very friendly and loves to cuddle, but should be the only pet in the household....
View ArticleDeNaples claims Pennsylvania’s auditor general got it wrong
After Pennsylvania’s auditor general criticized the Scranton School District’s no-bid contract and busing costs with DeNaples Transportation, businessman Louis DeNaples commissioned his own audit....
View ArticlePeople on the Move
Times-Shamrock Communications James Cunha was promoted to digital sales manager, said Don Farley, chief operating officer of Times-Shamrock Print and Digital. Farley said Cunha is an experienced...
View ArticleJessup cooking fire results in smoke, no injuries
JESSUP — A smoky cooking fire drew firefighters to a borough home Saturday afternoon. Crews responding to a reported structure fire at 111 Front St. about 5:20 p.m. discovered that a “pot on the...
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