Blakeslee News

Local flying club members have concerns that a proposed cell tower in Hamilton Township will endanger pilots landing at their small grass-runway airport.

As we approach summer it's time to start thinking about how we'll protect ourselves from mosquitos and ticks.

Charged with robbing the Blakeslee Pharmacy in Tobyhanna Township at gunpoint April 19, Edward R. Warfield, 36, of Stroudsburg, waived his right to a preliminary hearing Thursday before Pocono Pines Magisterial District Judge Richard Claypool.

A Blakeslee man may have thought he could use his motorcycle to outrun Pocono Mountain Regional Police, according to an arrest report.

Today, avoid Interstate 80 West and 611 North heading toward Bartonsville due to road work being performed by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation on I-80. Also today and Thursday is crack-sealing in both directions on I-80, between Exits 298 and 284 , as well as guide rail repair work on I-80 in both directions between Exits 302 and 293 ... (more)

A Monroe County man was arrested on Monday charged with the armed robbery of a pharmacy that occurred on Friday, April 19.