Community events list, 11/16/12
CLIPBOARDClarks SummitBreakfast: Clarks Summit Fire Company 1 all-you-can-eat breakfast, Sunday, 8 a.m.-noon, 321 Bedford St., $8/adults and $5/under 10; auxiliary cookie walk, Dec. 8. DunmoreBoard...
View ArticleScranton School Board votes raise transparency issues
Members of the Scranton School Board deciding via telephone to remove the tentative budget from the public agenda "raises significant issues" with transparency, a legal expert said Thursday. Other...
View ArticleFeed-A-Friend needs help for Thanksgiving
Feed-A-Friend, the annual drive to provide families in need with a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, is short on funds. United Neighborhood Centers' annual Thanksgiving food basket program has only a...
View ArticleAfter 58 years, Scranton Transit car No. 505 comes back home
The No. 505 no longer looks anything like the spiffy, royal blue and cream-colored trolley Andy Maginnis remembers riding on the Green Ridge Suburban line way back in the early 1950s. But for the...
View ArticleSecond arrest made in Florida cold case murder of West Scranton native
Eleven years after her daughter's murder, Sharon Ord McPhillips knows better than to look for closure in the booking photos. Yes, authorities in Hardwick, Vt., on Wednesday arrested 43-year-old...
View ArticleTrolley museum sets holiday trips
SCRANTON - The Electric City Trolley Museum will hold a series of holiday season trips while helping bring cheer to the less fortunate. Over Thanksgiving weekend, Nov. 23, 24 and 25, any child who...
View ArticleTentative Archbald budget has no tax increase
No tax increase in Archbald plan ARCHBALD - Borough council adopted a tentative 2013 budget with no tax increase at a meeting Wednesday. The $3.5 million final budget, which council President Joseph...
View ArticleLackawanna County Court Sentencings 11/16/2012
SENTENCINGS The following defendants were sentenced recently in Lackawanna County Court by Judge Michael Barrasse: - Donald C. Voudren, 57, of 217 W. Market St., 1st Floor, Scranton, to two years of...
View ArticleUnited Way reaches $3.5M fundraising goal
DICKSON CITY - With final numbers tallied Thursday evening, Tim and JoAnn Speicher had reason to celebrate. The co-chairmen of the United Way of Lackawanna and Wayne Counties' annual fundraising...
View ArticleBoscov's getting out of large-appliance business
Major appliances will be making way for more couches and dining room sets as department store giant Boscov's will begin phasing out video and household appliances beginning on Thanksgiving. Jim...
View ArticleFirefighters respond to blaze in Wayne County
Wayne County 911 dispatchers said a fire broke out a restaurant, Joe's Ranch House, just after 10 p.m. Thursday. The Beach Lake Fire Company responded to a call for a structure fire at 1054 Beach Lake...
View ArticlePower out in North Scranton and Dickson city
SCRANTON - A blown transformer left people in North Scranton and Dickson City without power late Thursday night, Lackawanna County 911 dispatcher said. The power outage occurred at about 11:10 p.m....
View ArticlePolice: Parking ticket helped solve kidnap plot
VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — A parking ticket helped police unravel what they say is a bizarre kidnapping plot in a tony Philadelphia suburb. Radnor Township police say 76-year-old John Felder staged a...
View ArticleUniversity of Scranton dance group gives local kids chance to shine
Second-grader Allen Duverge sat in a gymnasium Friday evening hoping to learn some new dance moves. Fifteen minutes after arriving at the Progressive Childcare Center on Olive Street in Scranton, the...
View ArticleScranton police search for robbery suspects
City police seek armed robbers SCRANTON - Police are looking for two men who robbed a person on Olive Street near Central City on Friday night. Lackawanna 911 dispatchers said two men made a threat...
View ArticleTCMC students volunteer for Sandy cleanup
As an emergency responder, Robert Gessman witnessed the destruction caused by hurricanes Ike and Gustav in 2008. Now, he and 30 of his classmates at the Commonwealth Medical College will respond to...
View ArticleFlood insurance to remain cheaper for some Scranton residents
Scranton's flood zone residents will keep getting cheaper flood insurance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has renewed a designation that means lower prices on insurance of up to 20 percent...
View ArticleFuneral Notices 11/17/2012
ALBANESE, THE REV. NICHOLAS, Wind Gap, today, 11 a.m., St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 340 N. Lehigh Ave., Wind Gap. Arrangements: Guerro & Ruggiero Funeral Home, ruggierofuneralhome.com, 126 E....
View ArticleMan accused of sexual assault as a child waives hearing
A 23-year-old Montrose man who was 14 when he allegedly sexually assaulted a 7-year-old boy waived his preliminary hearing on Friday. The charge of sexual assault against Donald Whitmire was held for...
View ArticleCorrection
$60M being spent at Moses TaylorA story in Thursday's edition incorrectly reported that Commonwealth Health committed $60 million for capital improvements at its eight hospitals in the region. In fact,...
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