Students and faculty from the Scranton School for Deaf & Hard of Hearing Children joined members of Scranton Tomorrow and Penn State Master Gardeners in Scranton to plant flowers at
Longtime state Sen. John Blake will resign his job March 8 for a new position with U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright.
Blake, 60, confirmed only his resignation and its date, but multiple other sources confirmed he will work for Cartwright. Blake and Cartwright are scheduled to appear jointly at a news conference Monday at 11 a.m. in downtown Scranton.
Repeated efforts to reach Cartwright were unsuccessful.
âIâve given my all to it (the Senate seat),â Blake said Sunday in a telephone interview with The Times-Tribune, a Times-Shamrock newspaper. âMy passion and my joy in the job has ebbed over the past couple of years.â
Joe Biden’s Scranton neighborhood turned out a president-elect, governor, senators, other leaders
Updated Jan 20, 2021;
Posted Jan 20, 2021
President-elect Joe Biden and Jill listen during a COVID-19 memorial, with lights placed around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Washington, the night before his inauguration. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP
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By Borys Krawczeniuk | Times-Tribune
President-elect Joe Biden likes to joke how he had to leave Scranton’s Green Ridge neighborhood and move to Delaware because he knew that Casey guy down the street would block his political path in Pennsylvania.
The timelines don’t match up, of course. Biden was still a kid when his family moved around 1952 or 1953, and future Gov. Robert P. Casey Sr. graduated from Holy Cross College in 1953, but the joke carries a point.
Washington Avenue in Scranton, about 8 blocks long, has produced a governor, two state auditor generals, a state treasurer, two U.S. Senators, two congressmen, a federal judge. a city mayor, two city councilmen, the vice president and now the president of the U.S.