From Crystal Club Soda to Gertrude Hawk ChocolateFrom Crystal Club Soda to Gertrude Hawk ChocolateFrom Crystal Club Soda to Gertrude Hawk Chocolate is a tongue in cheek look at Scranton Pennsylvania. Articles
Picture of the Day
2008-02-09 19:39:00 Photo by Guy as in Gee. More About: Picture , Picture of the day
ECTV Picked to Take Over Channel 61
2008-02-09 17:55:00 Electric City Television was selected Friday by a search committee appointed by Mayor Chris Doherty to operate Channel s 61 and 62, ending a decade-long run by the civic group Scranton Today. ECTV will receive a five-year contract to operate the channels and a yet-to-be determined amount of money from the city?s cable franchise agreement with ...
There Always After Me Lucky Charms!
2008-02-09 17:51:00 Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern will deliver the principal remarks March 16 at the annual dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Lackawanna County. The organization?s 103rd dinner, which will be at Genetti Manor in Dickson City, will take place the day before St. Patrick?s Day to accommodate Mr. Ahern?s itinerary, Mr. Haggerty ... More About: Lucky
The Family That Resists Arrest Together?
2008-02-09 01:17:00 A mother and her four daughters were arrested Wednesday after they allegedly hit, pushed, shoved and kicked two state troopers responding to a domestic dispute at the mother?s house. Investigating Trooper John D. Decker charged mother Mildred Angueira, 43, Desiree Roman, 24, Crystal Angueira, 21, and Samantha Angueira, 19, with aggravated assault on police officers ... More About: Family , Arrest , The Family
Uncle Louie Pleads Not Guilty
2008-02-08 00:37:00 Louis A. DeNaples pleaded not guilty to perjury charges, made bail and walked out the front door of the Dauphin County Courthouse on Wednesday, avoiding what his attorney feared could have become a media-fueled spectacle. Mr. DeNaples? arraignment, arranged with Dauphin County Judge Todd A. Hoover and unannounced by the court or prosecutors, went off ... More About: Louie , Guilty , Uncle
Ebay Find of the Day
2008-02-07 04:31:00 Scranton Fire Department Pictorial History More About: Ebay , Find
Picture of the Day
2008-02-07 04:23:00 Photo by joanathanslingluff. More About: Picture , Picture of the day
Uncle Louie Leaving Bank
2008-02-07 04:12:00 Louis DeNaples has requested a temporary leave of absence as director and chairman of the board of the Dunmore-based banking company First National Community Bancorp. Inc. Mr. DeNaples is the major shareholder of the publicly traded bank. Mr. DeNaples appeared in Dauphin County Court for arraignment at 3:00 p.m. today and was released on ... More About: Bank , Louie , Uncle , Leaving
U Students Robbed
2008-02-07 04:05:00 The Times-Tribune reports that the Scranton police are investigating an early morning strong-armed robbery inside a Taylor Avenue apartment occupied by university students, according to police. Dispatched at 2:07 a.m., Wednesday, patrolmen arrived at an apartment in the 400 block of Taylor Avenue after four students were held up inside their second-floor flat, said Sgt. ... More About: Students , Robbed
Uncle Louie Out Indefinitely
2008-02-06 01:51:00 The state Gaming Control Board indefinitely suspended the license of indicted Poconos casino owner Louis DeNaples this afternoon, and appointed a former Shippensburg University president to run Mount Airy Casino Resort. The board had temporarily suspended DeNaples’ license last week, when Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico charged the Scranton-area businessman with four counts of ... More About: Louie , Uncle
Returning to its Roots
2008-02-03 20:54:00 As a Scranton High alum, I was happy to hear that the Lynett Memorial Basketball Tournament will return to Lackawanna College Student Union in December, where it was played for 50 years when the building was known as the Catholic Youth Center. The tournament has been played at the new Scranton High School since 2001. ... More About: Roots
A Pain in the Ice
2008-02-02 01:08:00 A 21-vehicle pileup along the northbound lane of Interstate 81 near the interchange at Interstate 84 has shut down the roadway near the Dunmore/Drinker street exits. The crash involved 11 commercial and 10 passenger vehicles. More About: Pain
Picture of the Day
2008-02-01 00:58:00 Old school Scranton. Photo by .Ward. More About: Picture , Picture of the day
A Stab in the Dark
2008-02-01 00:52:00 Lackawanna County District Attorney Andy Jarbola was the subject of a murder-for-hire plot by a Scranton man who accused Mr. Jarbola of keeping him in prison too long, authorities and Mr. Jarbola said Wednesday. Kevin Michael McDermott, 27, who lives at 1032 Crown Ave., allegedly solicited at least two people to stab or seriously wound ... More About: Dark , The Dark
Dunmore Still Has Much Love For Uncle Louie
2008-02-01 00:37:00 The signs of Louis DeNaples? generosity to his hometown are evident throughout the borough, from the police station he donated to the ladder truck he bought for the Fire Department. Most of his contributions were made anonymously, but it?s an open secret that Mr. DeNaples has often quietly stepped in to help the chronically cash-strapped ... More About: Love , Louie , Uncle
Say It Ain?t So, Uncle Louie!
2008-02-01 00:20:00 In a stunning development that reverberated across the state, Dunmore businessman and casino owner Louis A. DeNaples was charged with perjury Wednesday, accused of lying to state gambling regulators when asked whether he had ties to organized crime figures. Continue reading. More About: Louie , Uncle
Scranton on AOL?s Worst Places to Live List
2008-01-27 19:54:00 Electric City Renaissance contributor Rob Watts comes to the defense of the Electric City in this article about worst places to live in America. More About: Places , List , Live , Scranton , Cran
More Office Publicity
2008-01-26 19:48:00 The Orange County Register recently published an article detailing the Scranton sites featured in The Office . More About: Publicity
The End of an Era?
2008-01-26 02:32:00 Rumor has it that Tink’s has permanently closed it’s doors. Can anyone confirm this? While I haven’t stepped foot in the place since college, a lot of good times were had there. It always was a great place to catch a live show and one of the only local venues to attract ...
They Should Have Set The Sopranos in Dunmore
2008-01-26 01:58:00 A Dunmore man arrested and jailed last week for allegedly extorting money from the company that cleaned pigeon droppings from the Lackawanna County Courthouse has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Florida with racketeering, money laundering and fraud. n a 42-count indictment that also names a man identified by prosecutors as a ... More About: The Sopranos , Sopranos
Linden St Fire
2008-01-26 01:50:00 A two-alarm blaze erupted in a downtown building under renovation at 317 Linden St. this morning. The building is owned by developer Jerry Joyce and was slated to house the local Merrill Lynch operation. View map of fire. More About: Fire
Another Small Step for Train Service
2008-01-26 01:07:00 The Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin reports that the New York Department of the Transportation and Amtrak will study the feasibility of passenger rail service from Binghamton to Scranton, Pa., staff in U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer?s office announced today. The route would provide Southern Tier residents a route over rails to the New York City region ... More About: Service , Train , Small , Step
Come Fly With Me
2008-01-25 04:43:00 In May, a charter airline will start offering non-stop flights from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Southern Skyways is already booking tickets. The airline is coming here without any financial backing from Lackawanna or Luzerne counties. The airlines that currently fly out of the airport in Luzerne County offer only connecting service to ...
On the Road to Recovery?
2008-01-24 02:49:00 The city would have saved nearly $20 million on health care costs alone if its financial recovery plan had been implemented upon approval in 2002, officials said Tuesday. The plan also would have alleviated the need for borrowing to help balance budgets over the past five years, Mayor Chris Doherty said. Continue reading. ... More About: Recovery , Road , On The Road , The Road
Old School Apartments
2008-01-19 18:33:00 The highest bidder for East Scranton Intermediate School wants to turn the school into 35 upscale apartments. GreenSpace Properties LLC has offered $569,000 for the Quincy Avenue school. The other bid, from city businessman Paul Mansour, was $525,000. Bids, for which the district had set a minimum of $500,000, were opened Friday. GreenSpace?s bid ... More About: Apartments , Old School
Anyone Remember the 717?
2008-01-19 06:44:00 While getting my daily news fix at the Times-Tribune website, I stumbled upon a new site from Team Shamrock. It’s called the570.com and it’s defiantly worth checking out. Editor’s Note: We’ll have to forgive the lack of originality in naming the site… From Crystal Club Soda To Gertrude Hawk Chocolate was already ...
One Safe City
More articles from this author:2008-01-18 03:00:00 According to the Times-Tribune, the rate of violent crime in Scranton plummeted more than 13 percent in 2007, while police recorded the most arrests in recent memory, according to crime statistics released Thursday. Scranton Police Department officials attribute the increase in arrests to more-active community policing efforts. ... More About: City , Safe 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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