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Ceejay Smith’s family didn’t know anything was wrong until it was too late. The Elk Lake eighth grader smiled all the time. He wanted to be a storm chaser when he grew up. He hoped to get a television in his room for Christmas and a four wheeler as a rewa → Read More
The state Environmental Hearing Board declined to rescind Keystone Sanitary Landfill’s operating permit but required the facility to prepare a groundwater assessment plan because of contamination a monitoring well has picked up for 15 years. The board rej → Read More
The state Environmental Hearing Board declined to rescind Keystone Sanitary Landfill’s operating permit but required the facility to prepare a groundwater assessment plan because of contamination a monitoring well has picked up for 15 years. The board rej → Read More
The air show at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport may return next year or 2019. The Pittston Twp. airport held its first air show in 17 years on Aug. 12 and 13, drawing about 25,000 people but losing about $70,000. Airport officials applied → Read More
The air show at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport may return next year or 2019. The Pittston Twp. airport held its first air show in 17 years on Aug. 12 and 13, drawing about 25,000 people but losing about $70,000. Airport officials applied → Read More
Friends of Lackawanna’s zoning challenge against Keystone Sanitary Landfill’s controversial expansion plan reached Commonwealth Court — about three years after members first questioned whether the proposal would violate a Dunmore height restriction. Frien → Read More
Throop Mayor Frank Shimkus will soon resign from his elected office to resume his career in broadcast journalism. Starting Oct. 30, Shimkus will take over WILK’s talk radio time slot from 3-6 p.m. that Steve Corbett previously occupied until March, follow → Read More
A roughly 2-acre property is exactly the type of visible spot organizers had in mind to honor servicemembers, said Robert Turlip, chairman of the Archbald Borough Veterans Monument Park Committee. → Read More
Donna Hill knew it was Hunter’s last visit to the vet’s office. Hill still was processing the devastating news about her guide dog’s deteriorating health when staff at Veterinary Referral and Emergency Center in South Abington Twp. brought her a surprise → Read More
Anthracite Unite is circulating an online petition calling for U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, R-11, Hazleton, to resign from the advisory board of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. Barletta is among 48 people who sit on the advisory board. The Sout → Read More
David Romeo’s origin story began in an IGA grocery store outside of Hazleton in 1973. The 5-year-old’s parents noticed him eyeing up the Amazing Spider-Man No. 119 — featuring a battle between Spidey and the Incredible Hulk — and offered to buy the comic → Read More
OLD FORGE — Lisa DePaulo got a little choked up just walking into Arcaro & Genell’s on Saturday. The 56-year-old Dunmore native’s father, Joseph — who died in 1991 — owned Glenwood Ford down the street in Taylor and used to take her out for Old Forge pizz → Read More
The March 14-15 storm paralyzed the region with more than 2 feet of snow and cost county governments, municipalities, school districts, nonprofit organizations and state agencies $11.6 million in cleanup costs over 48 hours. → Read More
The March 14-15 storm paralyzed the region with more than 2 feet of snow and cost county governments, municipalities, school districts, nonprofit organizations and state agencies $11.6 million in cleanup costs over 48 hours. → Read More
PITTSTON TWP. — Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport will host an air show this summer for the first time in 17 years. The annual air show regularly drew large crowds between 1983 and 2000, when it was suspended for construction of the new terminal → Read More
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport will host an air show this summer for the first time in 17 years. The annual air show regularly drew large crowds between 1983 and 2000, when it was suspended for construction of the new terminal and never retur → Read More
Former President Bill Clinton touched on many aspects of his wife’s public policy platform during his visit to Scranton on Thursday, but his commentary on who she is perhaps made more of an impression on supporters than anything else. “He talked about his 40 years with Hillary and his perspective on her,” Fleetville resident and Scranton business owner Helen Lavelle said. “She could have gone… → Read More