Parade Day usually draws in thousands of people and lots of the money to bars and restaurants. Author: Carolyn Blackburne Updated: 10:44 PM EST March 12, 2021
SCRANTON, Pa. The sound of bagpipes won t be willing the streets of Scranton this weekend, this for the second year in a row.
This year s Saint Patrick s Day celebration was postponed to the fall because of the coronavirus.
However, bars and restaurants are making do. Waldorf Park is hosting a non-parade parade day party . Tickets sold out. We did a controlled amount of ticket sales. The governor s requirements are no more than 250 people outside so we took steps to sell tickets so that that s all the people we ll have here at one time, Joe Wechsler of Waldorf said.
A Scranton woman well-known in local Democratic politics and with plenty of managerial experience sounds like she wants the job of collecting the cityâs taxes.
Cathy Nealon Wechsler, 60, said Friday sheâs âpretty sureâ she will run for tax collector in 2021.
The job will come open after next year because the law bars Tax Collector Bill Fox from seeking a third four-year term.
Wechsler could have company on the Democratic ballot.
City Councilman
This could get interesting.
When Donahue won his council seat four years ago, he made it through a six-candidate Democratic contest to win one of three council seats. Donahue finished second well behind current council President