FNCB Bank has announced a $6,000 Pennsylvania Education Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) donation to Marywood University for its Momentum Program. Marywood Universityâs Momentum Program provides high school juniors and seniors with the opportunity to get a head start on college by enrolling in college level courses. Students can choose from a variety of courses, most often liberal arts courses, during the fall, spring, summer I and summer II semesters through high school graduation. Since 2010, FNCB has contributed just under $2 million to local educational and scholarship organizations through the EITC initiative. The support of Marywood University is part of FNCBâs larger Community Caring initiative. From left, are Patricia Rosetti, Marywood University leadership annual giving officer; and Jerry Champi, FNCB Bank president and CEO.
Many Northeast Pennsylvania ensembles found new ways to share their talents this holiday season.
When the coronavirus pandemic left them unable to hold in-person concerts and fundraisers as usual, they moved their efforts online. Hereâs how you can stream these local performances from the safety of quarantine.
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The Scranton Shakespeare Festival put together a virtual variety show featuring a series of holiday music videos by festival alumni and Northeast Pennsylvania natives alongside host and season regular Conor McGuigan. Proceeds benefit the festivalâs upcoming 10th season. The show will be available to download until the new year.
Details: Tickets cost $20 for an individual download, $40 for a family download and $15 for the album only.
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Who: Ann Dougherty remembers her sister, Mary Elizabeth Dougherty, as a kind, gentle, sweet and generous soul. Born Sept. 28, 1958, in Scranton, Mary Elizabeth was the daughter of Margaret Laboranti Dougherty and the late Joseph M. Dougherty and the eldest of their 12 children. After graduating from Bishop Hannan High School, where she was the first female student council president elected in its history, Mary earned a bachelorâs degree in sociology from Marywood University. She became âa strong advocate for mental health education and awareness and gave countless hours of her time towards committees devoted to mental health issues,â her sister said.
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