Pocono Summit News

The following cases appeared before Tobyhanna Magisterial District Judge Anthony Fluegel.

Michael Bartell Jr., 30, of Pocono Summit, will head to Monroe County Court on charges of setting the June 7 fire at Classic Quality Homes on Route 940 in Tobyhanna Township.

Drug addiction, not a late payment, was behind the June 7 fire that destroyed a Pocono Summit homebuilder's offices.

The following cases appeared before Tannersville Magisterial District Judge Thomas Olsen.

The fire that destroyed a Pocono Summit home builder's business Sunday night was apparently an act of revenge.

A fire that destroyed a home building business in Monroe County early Monday was no accident.

A Pocono Summit man is accused of deliberately setting a fire that destroyed a Pocono Summit homebuilder's business late Sunday night.

Editor's note: This column features some of the high and low spots in recent news.

The Monroe County open space program is kicking in $2.3 million for a permanent conservation easement at the Boys Scouts' Camp Minsi in Pocono Summit.

Two people were killed Thursday when their vehicles collided head-on at about 7:20 a.m. on Route 611 by Pocono Farm Stand in Pocono Township.

A head-on crash in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains has killed two drivers. Monroe County Coroner Dave Thomas says 69-year-old George Vinikos of Stroudsburg was pronounced dead at a hospital.

Joseph Russell, 28, of Cresco was accused of burglary, theft and related charges after using a stolen rental truck to attempt to steal pallets of flour from Horizon Milling on Harvest Lane in Pocono Summit on May 11.

Barney Anderson is winning the spending race for Monroe County judge, according to the most recent campaign finance reports, with all the candidates digging deep into their own pockets for cash.

Four Tobyhanna employees were recognized for their years of government service during the April 15 Length of Service Ceremony: Norman Wick of Pocono Summit - 35 years, equipment specialist, Forward Repair Activity Division, Intelligence, Command, Control, Computers Systems/Avionics Directorate.

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.

Jury deliberation continues today in the trial of a former Pocono Summit man charged with raping one girl and sexually molesting another.

Trials are scheduled to start Wednesday for a New Jersey man charged with assaulting two local officials with a baseball bat in East Stroudsburg and a former Pocono Summit man charged with committing sexual offenses against two girls.

Gun owners are rushing to sell firearms for fear that the Obama administration will restrict gun sales, while buyers are driving up prices on the same fears, according to an auctioneer in Pocono Summit.

POCONO SUMMIT, PA, April 20, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- In a time when teen pregnancy is on the rise once more and single mothers are being blamed for all of societies problems, Cheryl Lacey Donovan presents a view of single motherhood that tears down all the excuses for why single mother's can't succeed.

The 84 Lumber store in Pocono Summit was another casualty of the depressed housing market.