Skytop News

Tucked away in the mountains in the tiny community of LaAnna, a small church stands ready for the Christmas season.

The Barrett-Paradise Business Association invites the public to tour the country inns of the mountain villages from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.

The fifth annual Skytop Holiday Arts Festival, presented by Pocono Mountain Arts Council and Skytop Lodge, will be held Saturday and Sunday in the Executive Conference Center.

Here's a preview to what you'll find in Friday's edition of Weekend: If the crowds at the stores dampen your holiday cheer, it might be time to check out the fifth annual Skytop Holiday Arts Festival this weekend.

There will be a special showing of the movie "Slumdog Millionaire," at the Barrett Paradise Friendly Library on Route 390 in Cresco at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec.

Wherever the Poconos tourism industry is headed, it's going to be led there by its customers.

In honor of the 75th anniversary of the Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau, it honored 11 businesses that have been in business in the Poconos for 75 years or more at its annual report dinner.

Who knew that art could be found in the back yard? It can be if that "back yard" is at Barrett Elementary, where the 15th annual Art in Our Back Yard Show/Sale is set for Sunday.

Who knew that art could be found in the back yard? It can be if that "back yard" is at Barrett Elementary, where the 15th annual Art in Our Back Yard Show/Sale is set for Sunday.

The Pocono Mountain School District's credit score has been downgraded - a move that could hit taxpayers by making it more costly for the district to borrow money and pay off its debts.

Barrett Township is celebrating its birthday the way most people would like to - with a week-long event.

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.

June 17, 2009 By Andrea Doyle Out of the stream and into the frying pan. Nature takes center stage at the Skytop Lodge, a 1920s-era Poconos mountain resort located in Skytop, PA, so it is fitting that it recently arranged a F&B event for a group that included grabbing fishing poles and catching their own trout.