Canadensis News

It's an appropriate issue for July 4 weekend: It's not quite taxation without representation, but might qualify as "taxation without quite as much to show for it as some other folks." The popularity of private communities for residential living, a trend that started decades ago and continues today, has checkerboarded the Poconos with entities that ...

Mansfield borough police are looking for witnesses to a car-pedestrian crash that occurred around 6 p.m. Sunday in front of the Dollar General Store on North Main Street.

WNEP's 4-wheel drive, the four of us - television host Don Jacobs, co-host and good buddy Rick Koval, cameraman Brian Hollingshead and I - descended the Pike County mountain and headed back to Skytop, five miles away.

Mehmet Ali Edgu, the getaway driver in two separate break-ins at a pizzeria in Mountainhome, pleaded guilty to reduced charges Monday morning and awaits deportation.

A Monroe County man was arrested Monday for allegedly stealing nearly $100,000 from the Promised Land Volunteer Fire and Ambulance Department while he was treasurer.

A volunteer firefighter from northeastern Pennsylvania is accused of stealing nearly $100,000 from his department.

Theft charges have been filed against the former treasurer of a volunteer fire department in Pike County.

Canadensis resident Peg Winters will present an art show and sale from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Cresco Station Museum.

The Barrett Paradise Friendly Library on Route 390 in Cresco invites patrons and members of its extended communities to celebrate the official opening on Sunday, June 14, from 2 to 4 p.m. The library actually opened last June to serve patrons but a lot of fine tuning of details, such as landscaping, has finally been completed.

If you found a tick on your child, would you know the correct way to remove it? Many think they know how, but they really don't. "If Grandma told you how to do it, it's probably wrong," said Jacquelyn Hakim, director of Monroe County Vector Control in Stroudsburg.

Did financial distress drive Mumun "Marty" Barbaros over the edge, into a secret life of vandalizing business competitors' restaurants and - after being caught and charged - to suicide? Or was he always hell-bent on sabotaging anyone or anything that got in his way? Barrett Township residents and business operators who knew Barbaros - including one ...

Four years ago, when interest waned in organizing the annual Memorial Day parade, one man stepped up.

Tuesday's primary will all but decide the race for supervisor in Barrett Township.

Your local letter carriers will be picking up donations for area food pantries this Saturday, May 9, during the 17th annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive.

Police have closed their investigation into the accidental deaths of two Pocono Mountain students who died March 3 in their homes, according to Pocono Township Police Chief Rick Staples.

Doin' it like the old days. That's the idea behind the second Pocono Mountain Restaurant Week, according to one of its organizers, Steve Ertle, owner of Big Daddy's on Route 611 in Mount Pocono.

Tables are filled with people filling out applications. Ronnie Gouger photo April 14, 2009 11:29 a.m. John DeLorenzo is 37 and he's at his first job fair.

'Toxic effects of methadone' is the cause and 'accidental' is the manner of death for two Pocono Mountain students who died in their sleep at their homes on March 3, the Monroe County Coroner's Office said today.

A corrections officer at the county jail in charge of the cell block where an inmate committed suicide was not making his required rounds, a security camera showed.

The following cases appeared before Snydersville Magisterial District Judge JoLana Krawitz.