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SCRANTON, Pa. In the downtown here, if you pass Courthouse Square on Adams Avenue, then merge onto Washington Avenue, you’ll eventually enter Green Ridge, a neighborhood seemingly preserved in ’50s-era America. “It’s a Norman Rockwell kind of scene,” Sarah Piccini, assistant director of the Lackawanna Historical Society, told me.
Indeed, stately old residences line this leafy stretch of North Washington Avenue, where “Scranton Loves Joe” signs adorn lawns and a large, ornamental donkey – clearly a tribute to the Democratic Party – commands the front porch of a Colonial revival home. There isn’t any doubt about the politics of this section, where President-elect Joe Biden spent his early youth. “Where Biden grew up in Green Ridge, Irish-Catholic Democrat was one conjoined word,” said Austin Burke, former president of the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce. Even today, that political, if not tribal, allegiance remains intact – especially with a native son
Delaware & Hudson named Pennsylvania Trail of the Year
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
Posted Jan 12, 2021
The Delaware & Hudson Trail in northeastern Pennsylvania has been named Pennsylvania Trail of the Year by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
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The 38-mile trail extends through Lackawanna, Susquehanna and Wayne counties.
It traces the former corridor of the Delaware & Hudson Railway, which primarily carried anthracite coal out of the Lackawanna Valley during the second half of the 19th century.
Parts of the trail run through in the Lackawanna Heritage Valley Heritage Region, the Endless Mountains Heritage Region and the Pocono Forest and Waters Conservation Landscape. (The Pennsylvania Heritage Areas Program is a multi-region, asset-based, economic development program rooted in the state’s natural, cultural and industrial history. Conservation landscapes are regional to drive strategic investment and actions around sustainability, co
For many of us this year, Christmas morning may look a little different.
The gatherings weâre used to may be a little smaller. The presents under the tree, a little fewer. And we might decide to stay home and stay safe instead of venturing out to a church service celebrating one of the most holy days in the Christian religion.
But the message of hope prevails. Read on for Christmas messages from church leaders from around the Midvalley and Upvalley.
Purity, innocence and peace
It was something that was quite unexpected. The shepherds were out on a night, just a night like any other night. It was probably cold. They were probably under the stars, just watching their sheep. But something extraordinary happened â the Angel of the Lord appeared to them and gave them these glad tidings, this good news that a Savior is born. He is Christ the Lord. You will find a baby in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger, in a feeding trough for animals. And this is why that night was so u
Scranton is an interesting place. It has for years been considered the quintessential has-been: once an industrial giant, the capital of the anthracite coal industry, then a significant center of clothing manufacturing and on to a place that had no particular industrial strength.
It became a ârust beltâ shrinking city in a shrinking part of the country. But the image doesnât really hold up.
The cityâs several academic institutions were joined 10 years ago by the Commonwealth Medical College, now morphed into the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. At the time Bill Scranton, a former governor and the areaâs most prominent citizen, said that the opening of the medical school was the most important thing that had happened here in his life. The med school could only happen because a diligent, impassioned strategizing small group of doctors and others met on a weekly basis. They were concerned about the need for better medical care in the region. The pass