3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (588+ words) Something about back-to-school season always feels like the start of a new year. You can feel it in the air, as summer starts to let up just a bit with cooler mornings, gentler breezes and shorter days. And all at…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (441+ words) The Scranton Iron Furnaces historic site will be fired up with a new series of arts events beginning with a music festival Saturday. Fall at the Furnaces includes Saturday’s Good Things Are Happening music festival, headlined by the alt-rock band…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (914+ words) SCRANTON — City resident Donna Gerard and her daughter Ashley Abda of Throop don’t just come to La Festa Italiana every year for the food and people. For them, it’s a way to support a long-running community institution. “I guess it…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (613+ words) CARBONDALE – West Scranton’s brother combination of Austin and Jonye Sostre was dynamic, and Kaz Colbert flashed his explosiveness for the second straight week. Each athlete made key plays, and No. 10 West Scranton earned a 25-20 win over Carbondale Area in a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (417+ words) The late Dr. Wayne J. Sebastianelli, a longtime Penn State sports medicine leader, will be honored at a memorial celebration hosted by the Greater Scranton Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association on Sunday, Oct. 4. In recognition of the Jessup native’s…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (464+ words) SCRANTON — Jennifer Telesco sees the impact of increased state funding on the faces of students as they achieve their goals and embrace new opportunities. The former first grade teacher at John Adams Elementary School — who now serves as president of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (408+ words) Driven by growing demand, the Geisinger College of Health Sciences decided to expand its nursing school into downtown Scranton. Housed in the college’s Medical Sciences Building on Pine Street, the Northeast Campus of the Geisinger School of Nursing will start…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (266+ words) Members of the Scranton Half Marathon gathered recently with representatives from each of Scranton’s Little Leagues and Tripp Park Little League Softball for a check presentation. A total of $35,882 was distributed among the seven o… Members of the Scranton Half…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (258+ words) Scranton Mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti urged the state Department of Environmental Protection to hold a hearing in Scranton on potential stormwater runoff from a PPL Electric Utilities project to upgrade a century-old transmission line in mountainous parts of Lackawanna and…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (383+ words) The addition of eight townhouses will provide a new housing opportunity in Scranton’s Hill Section. Christian Nicolais of Clarks Summit-based CKPA LLC aims to have the properties along the 1000 block of Wheeler Avenue finished and available to rent by Sept....