Blakeslee News

The Inn, which opened in 1902, is the longest continuously operating resort in the Pocono Mountains and one of the oldest in North America.

Large-scale private community home construction, much of it sold to long-distance job commuters, might never return to the Poconos, even when the national housing recession ends, says a visiting fellow at a Washington, D.C., think tank.

Joseph Melford, 43, of Blakeslee, was taken to Pocono Medical Center for back and hip pain after the propane truck he was driving crashed at 6:18 a.m. Tuesday in Tunkhannock Township.

He was a guy from the city who fell in love with the Poconos and lived out one of his dreams in the region.

Nearly simultaneous 911 calls from a neighbor and a customer at the Phillipsburg BP gas station on Jan.

David Beagell, 21, of Blakeslee, Pa.; Zachary D. Flowers, 18 of Allentown; and Andrew B. Torres, 22 of Allentown, leave court today in Lehigh County.