Monument News

The commission established to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth in Lackawanna County is on a monumental mission.

Historic Preservation group making room for oil ornaments By KAREN CLARK Photo by Jerry Sowden - These pewter ornaments are part of the collection of Betty McElhattan, a member of the Historic Franklin ...

“It's almost like a lost piece of history, and we don't want that to happen”

Deep in the woods of Curtin Township, twin stone pillars once offered a gateway to work.

From 1933 to 1935, during the depths of the Depression, the former S-121 'Salt Lick' Camp near Monument carried out the Civilian Conservation Corps' mission. For small but needed wages, CCC men built fire towers, carved out trails, cleared brush, repaired roads and planted trees -- doing their part for a country down on its luck.

Other than the crumbling pillars and a few Norway spruces in a row, little remains of the camp in the Sproul State Forest off remote Orviston Road. Read more

VFW Junior Girls list ziti dinner The Junior Girls unit of the Ladies Auxiliary to John J. Michaels Post 5207 will serve baked ziti Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m. in the post, Routes 307 and 502, Daleville. via The Times-Tribune

A Blanchard woman and a Monument young man were killed in two of three separate fatal accidents in the area over the weekend. via Lock Haven Express