Olyphant News

Rose Ellen Skodacek's introduction to the good works of the Lions Club came when she became the moderator of its Leo Club chapter at Mid Valley Secondary Center.

Italian celebration on Center Street SCRANTON - Tuesdays on Center Street returns to highlight Italian food, music and culture starting at 5 p.m. tonight.

Woman, 74, injured in city apartment fire SCRANTON - A city woman was hospitalized Sunday after she was injured in a fire at the Jermyn Apartments.

PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS Michael and Stacy Stuenzi, Dalton, to Alice Sheehan, Throop, a property in Throop for $82,000. Salvatore V. and Jill K. Marino, Mayfield, to Anthony J. IV and Kerrie Depoti, Mayfield, a ...

Soon, when people attend a concert or a play in the Elk Lake School District auditorium, they should be able to hear the performance a lot better.

Council members considered tweaking the city's capital budget during Wednesday's meeting to purchase emergency response and road clearing equipment.

For details, call 489-1935. Dickson City Tax office: The borough tax office will be open Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to noon.

Midvalley sewer separation complete A sewer separation project on the border of Olyphant and Jessup that began in May and was to be completed in mid-June is finished.

FOR THE REVIEW The Wyalusing Valley Wine Festival may be held in a rural community, but over the course of its first four years it has blossomed into one of the largest events of its kind in Northeastern ...

If interested in helping with these or any other volunteer opportunities, call Voluntary Action Center at 347-5616. Receptionist/clerical volunteers: needed in Olyphant.

"Mom, don't panic. Don't freak out, OK?" Nancy Sweder recalled her son telling her.

It took a bit of sprucing up for William Sanderson to move from plotting in "Deadwood" to patrolling the undead on the brand new HBO series, "True Blood." "I've shaved and cut my hair," said Sanderson, who ...

The following were sentenced by Lackawanna County Judge Michael Barrasse: n James T. Blake, 18, 100 Belvedere Drive, Scranton, 15 months to four years and 10 months in prison after pleading guilty to criminal ...

Lucky Susan Gryziec. Her favorite way to eat kielbasa is on a stick, and she's sure she'll find vendors serving it that way today and tomorrow at the Plymouth Kielbasa Festival, which she helped organize.

The cost for Olyphant residents to power their homes will increase by 11.3 percent starting Sept.

OLYPHANT, LACKAWANNA COUNTY The Geneva School in Olyphant is one of many beginning their Fall Semester before Labor Day this year.

Carbondale Sibshops program: Tri-County Human Services Center Inc. Sibshops program will meet Wednesday, 5 to 7 p.m., at the Carbondale YMCA.

It was quite a scene in Lackawanna County Friday afternoon. Emergency crews were called to a plant in Olyphant after someone reported seeing a cloud of orange smoke.

Operations at a chemical laboratory in the Mid Valley Industrial Park will be investigated after thick, orange emissions released from one of the lab's smokestacks Friday filled about 200 square feet of sky and ...

The following people were sentenced in Lackawanna County Court recently by Judge Michael Barrasse: a- Menyuna Thompson, 18, 846 Saginaw St., Apt.