WEST PITTSTON — Sara Bertocki spent Christmas checking on the rapidly rising Susquehanna River and lugging belongings from her basement to the first floor.
Bald eagle seen on the Dec. 13 Search for Eagles (Photo provided) Bald eagle near nest seen on the Dec. 13 Search for Eagles (Photo provided)
The year’s first Brandwein Field Trip, Search for Eagles took place in the Delaware Valley Sunday, Dec. 13 from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The temperature at the start was 36 degrees and at the finish 50 degrees. It was foggy with low visibility at the start until the fog lifted at 10 am. It was a pleasant partly sunny day that began with watching feeder birds, including hairy and downy woodpeckers, dark-eyed junco, blue jays, and pileated woodpeckers, among others. Four participants, wearing face coverings and social distancing, logged 150 miles in the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and Upper Delaware Scenic River from the Pocono Environmental Education Center (PEEC) to the Bushkill Access and the trip’s conclusion at the headwaters of the Lackawaxen River.
Pennsylvania River of the Year: What’s your choice? PennLive.com 12/23/2020 Marcus Schneck, pennlive.com
The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has opened voting for the 2021 Pennsylvania River of the Year.
The five nominated waterways are Buffalo Creek in Allegheny, Armstrong and Butler counties; Lehigh River in Carbon, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe, Northampton and Wayne counties; Loyalhanna Creek in Westmoreland County; Shenango River in Crawford, Lawrence and Mercer counties; and Tunkhannock Creek in Susquehanna and Wyoming counties.
Nominations were based on each waterway’s conservation needs and successes, as well as celebration plans if the nominee is voted 2021 River of the Year. In cooperation with DCNR, selection of public voting choices is overseen by the Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers.
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
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