Model trains entrance visitors to steamtown Saturday
Model trains were always an "old guy" hobby, said Clem O'Jevich Jr. of the Warrior Run Locomotive Works. Time, disposable income and nostalgia predispose older gentlemen to the hobby, he contended...
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Penn Mutual gives $50G in storm aid Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. is making a donation of $50,000 to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund in an effort to support communities affected by...
View ArticleHoliday train spreads spirit, collects food, on journey
In addition to lighting up the locomotive and providing entertainment, the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train has a charitable purpose: collecting food for local people. The Holiday Train will roll into...
View ArticlePolyglot teacher and author, 90, fills retirement in Midvalley by writing
JESSUP - When Paulette Maggiolo moved to America from France 65 years ago, she brought her languages with her. All five of them. After she married an American officer she had met during World War II,...
View ArticleFederal audit: $6M in Sterling cash misused
Luzerne County should return $6 million in federal funds misspent on the failed project to revitalize the historic Hotel Sterling in downtown Wilkes-Barre, according to a federal audit. The county...
View ArticleContest had 10 shopping in style
SCRANTON - Jenna Urban and 10 others did some holiday shopping in style on Saturday. A group she co-founded, Eventful Moms, randomly selected five people who liked the Facebook page of one of nine...
View ArticleLarge crowd gathers at Olyphant bar to "support our troops"
OLYPHANT - Supporting soldiers has gotten to be a way of life for Lisa Fumanti-Francis. As the president of the Rolling Angels for Armed Forces Chapter Two, she has been holding an annual Support Our...
View ArticleVeterans News 11/25/2012
SAL breakfast set for today SAL breakfast, today, 8-11 a.m., American Legion Post 357, Hallstead. VFW Post 6528 to meet Monday VFW Hyde Park Memorial Post 6528 meeting, Monday, 6:30 p.m., Christmas...
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Tuesday: The Greater Hazleton Chamber of Commerce Women's Networking Committee women's networking luncheon program, noon-1 p.m., Tom's Kitchen, Route 93, Sugarloaf. Event open to all women in Greater...
View ArticleBusiness Week in Review, Nov. 25, 2012
Black Friday creeps into holidayBlack Friday started a day early for many shoppers, as Thanksgiving morphed into the unofficial kickoff of the Christmas holiday shopping season. Pre-midnight openings...
View ArticlePolice seek stolen trailer, backhoe
COVINGTON TWP. - State police at Dunmore are looking for a trailer and backhoe stolen from Pocono Transportation Inc. on Route 435 in Lackawanna County. Sometime on Sunday or Monday someone removed a...
View ArticleDunmore council borrows $5M to fund pensions
DUNMORE - Borough council unanimously approved a $5 million loan Monday to support the borough's retirement pensions, which the state had labeled as "moderately distressed." Council members addressed...
View ArticleMotion deals with Musto's health
Motion deals with Musto's health The defense and prosecution in the Raphael J. Musto bribery case filed dueling arguments with the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals last week on the issue of whether...
View ArticleOne patient allegedly assaults another at state hospital
Assault alleged at state hospital SCRANTON - State police have charged a patient at Clarks Summit State Hospital with punching another patient there. Timothy J. Gray, 31, punched Gary E. Wilber, 51,...
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Four inducted into DV Hall of FameJon Almquist, the late Henry Arneberg, Jo Benson and Kim Pearce were the honorees at this year's Delaware Valley High School Hall of Fame induction banquet. The event,...
View ArticleNorth Scranton man worked on sunken HMS Bounty
Hurricane Sandy sank the HMS Bounty last month, killing the wooden ship's captain and a crew member and ripping out part of Kenn Anderson's heart. Long ago, when all he was looking for was just a...
View ArticleFuneral Notices 11/27/2012
ALLARDYCE, LT. JOHN T., Navy retired, Lake Ariel, Mass, Wednesday, 10 a.m., St. Thomas More Church, 105 Gravity Road, Lake Ariel. Go directly to church. Cremation, Lake Region Crematory, Lake Ariel....
View ArticleFeds want two years in prison for Mellow
Federal prosecutors want former state Senate Democratic Leader Robert J. Mellow imprisoned for two years because he ran his Senate office like a political organization, using its staff and resources...
View ArticleAn estimated 750,000 hunters take to Pa. woods
Zach Traver knew the Blue Bird II Diner in Factoryville would do a brisk breakfast business among hunters when he arrived at work Monday morning. "We had trucks lined up outside before we opened the...
View ArticleAgency to make Marcellus housing aid decisions
Gas fee revenue sought for local housing HARRISBURG - An initial outlay of revenue from gas drilling impact fees to address affordable housing needs in the Marcellus Shale region will be made next...
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