Utility crews to fix water main valve leak today
Crews to work on water valve today SCRANTON - Utility crews are scheduled to repair a leak in a water main valve at Spruce Street and Franklin Avenue today. The valve began leaking after Pennsylvania...
View ArticleCommunity events list, 10/16/12
CLIPBOARDAbingtonsFamilies presentation: Abington Community Library Families Helping Families program, Wednesday, 7 p.m., featuring Jeff Zerechak, director of drug and alcohol programming in...
View ArticleLocal U.S. Senate candidates debate health care overhaul
This is part of a series of stories on issues in the local congressional races, leading up to the election next month. This story focuses on health care. Future stories will look at Social Security,...
View ArticleLocal experts talk ethics after string of cop incidents
They are pillars of the community who help keep crime off the streets and neighborhoods free of trouble. They are a safe place to turn when help is needed and an integral part of maintaining social...
View ArticleCity police detain man wanted in Florida theft
Police nab man wanted in Florida SCRANTON - A city man is awaiting extradition to Florida on grand theft charges after Scranton police ran his name through a criminal information check on Sunday...
View ArticleMount Pocono man charged in Carbondale assault
Carbondale attack leads to arrest CARBONDALE - A Mount Pocono man was arrested late Saturday after forcing his way into a Carbondale apartment and assaulting a woman who lives there, police said....
View ArticleLackawanna Trail board appalled at 'leniency' offered to Rosetti
Lackawanna Trail School Board members are "appalled at the leniency" being offered to Fred Rosetti, Ed.D. The former executive director of the Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit is set to...
View ArticleDriving License Centers will not be open day before election
License centers closed Nov. 5 HARRISBURG - State Department of Transportation Driver License Centers will not be open Monday, Nov. 5, the day before Election Day. PennDOT photo centers will remain...
View ArticleFive banks show interest in providing Scranton $14M short-term loan
Five banks expressed interest Monday in submitting bids to loan Scranton a $14 million tax anticipation note in 2013. In a year when the city's relationship with some banks has been strained and...
View ArticleGlenburn supervisors give ARWA a boost in its loan application process
GLENBURN TWP. - The Abington Regional Wastewater Authority got a "significant boost" in its pursuit of a loan that would help fund an upgrade to its sewage treatment plant. At a meeting Monday,...
View ArticleLackawanna County commissioners: Payroll, prison costs drive 4% tax hike
Employee salaries and benefits and new staffing requirements at the Lackawanna County Prison are driving the 4 percent property tax increase that Commissioners Jim Wansacz and Corey O'Brien have...
View ArticleRegional Briefs 10/16/2012
Police seek info in quarry theft HARFORD TWP. - State police at Gibson are looking for information on the theft of about $3,700 worth of equipment and fuel from a township quarry. Someone took a chop...
View ArticleBradford, Susquehanna receive large shares of Shale drilling impact fees
HARRISBURG - Bradford and Susquehanna counties are among the top recipients of impact fee revenue paid by drillers for natural gas production during 2011, Gov. Tom Corbett and state officials...
View ArticleJefferson Twp. Sewer Authority addresses DEP comments
JEFFERSON TWP. - Efforts by residents to use a letter from the Department of Environmental Protection to question a sewer project were turned away at a Jefferson Twp. Sewer Authority meeting Monday. A...
View ArticleSmith gives Casey a run for his money
Republican U.S. Senate nominee Tom Smith raised more money than U.S. Sen. Bob Casey in the third quarter and loaned his campaign another $10 million on top of that, leaving him with more money than...
View ArticleLuzerne County teacher charged with stealing from youth basketball team
A former official with a Kingston based youth basketball group has been charged with stealing thousands of dollars from the group. Christopher Walsh, 36, of Dallas, surrendered to Kingston police...
View ArticleGreater Scranton Chamber of Commerce opposes commuter tax; poll finds 84...
An overwhelming majority of members of the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce who responded to a survey oppose the city's plan to impose a 1 percent commuter tax.In an online survey of 1,650 business...
View ArticleOn Oct. 18 in NEPA
On this date in NEPA75 years ago, work was completed on the two runways at the Scranton Airport at Schultsville. Inspections would take place by officials from the aeronautical division of the Commerce...
View ArticleJuvenile bill goes to governor
HARRISBURG - A bill to adjust sentences for juveniles who commit murder and keep regular juvenile offenders out of detention centers goes to the governor for signing after winning final approval...
View ArticleScranton school for deaf unveils renovations
SOUTH ABINGTON TWP. - In February 2009, officials from the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf made a promise. "We promised to invest in Northeast Pennsylvania. We've done that," Donald Rhoten,...
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