Forty Fort News Archives

October 29 will be a special day in the Forty Fort home of Connie and Bill Bookwalter.

BARRE A Kingston woman who police say stabbed her boyfriend in April was sentenced Tuesday to 18 to 36 months in state prison.

Is this the time of year to glare balefully at your trees as if they were fluffy old dogs and cats shedding on the furniture? No way, urban forester Vinnie Cotrone says.

Small borough mayors don't get paid much, don't have many responsibilities and don't get a vote, unless they're breaking a tie vote of council.

Public gets chance to see how crimes are investigated and solved in the real world.

Two members of borough council have opposing opinions on proposal. Forty Fort won't be accepting Kingston's offer this year to consolidate their police forces, a fact that disappoints members from both sides.

A 2010 budget with no tax increases and the possibility of a regionalized police department are in Kingston's future.

As Myrtle Chamberlain of Lehman Township brought two sheep into her spinning room, art students from the Verve Vertu program gathered close to stroke the soft brown and white wool.

Forty Fort Presbyterian Church, 1224 Wyoming Ave., Forty Fort, will conduct a 'Spirit of the Valley' music ministry from 6-9 p.m. Oct.

Degnan, a patrol commander at the Dunmore barracks, spoke to about 20 residents at Thursday's Pennsylvania State Police Citizens' Police Academy at the state police training facility in Forty Fort.

Number of overbilling calls regarding residential apartments category surprises county authority head.

Members of the township fire department will trade in their blue uniforms for pink T-shirts this month to raise awareness for breast cancer.

FORTY FORT Derrick Walters says he has plans to some day join the ranks of the "First and Finest." So when the 18-year-old first heard about the Pennsylvania State Police Citizens' Police Academy for residents in the Troop P area, Walters immediately signed up.

Prior experience: Self-employed attorney-at-law, 1973 to May 1998, Law Offices of Burke and Burke, 1460 Wyoming Ave., Forty Fort Admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and U.S. Federal District Court MILITARY SERVICE: U.S. Army July, 1969 to February, 1971; Specialist 5 Awarded Bronze Star Medal for ...

Monday, October 05, 2009 The letter arrived Friday at my Scranton home. Postmarked in Wilkes-Barre, the anonymous letter accused yet another high profile public official of having visited the "condo of corruption" in Florida that is owned by the wives of the two former Luzerne County judges now charged in a massive racketeering and kick-back ...

A planning committee is being formed for the 50th anniversary class reunion of West Side Central Catholic High School Class of 1960.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this The private jet that took Luzerne County Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr.