Clarks Summit News

Volunteers were recognized for their dedication and devotion to patients, residents, clients, consumers and families at a luncheon Allied Services Integrated Health System conducted during National Healthcare Volunteer Week.

Tom and Barb McIlwee stand outside of their Clarks Summit home with a picture of Barb and their son-in-law, Tim McCoy, following their kidney transplant operation on Thursday, Feb.

The first recipient of the professor Dr. Jay Nathan, Ph.D., scholarship at the University of Scranton is Nathawut Suksomanat, a graduate student from Chonburi, Thailand.

A Clarks Summit man awoke early Tuesday morning to the sound of his truck being driven away from the house he was sleeping at.

The Clarks Summit native said the first person he wanted to hug when he walked off stage at the Marywood University commencement ceremony was his mom, Marian Kropa.

More than 230 graduates were recognized during Saturday's 81st commencement at Baptist Bible College & Seminary, with President Jim Jeffery urging those earning diplomas to "climb higher in following and serving Jesus Christ." Diplomas presented at Phelps Student Center ranged from one-year Bible certificates to five doctoral-level degrees.

As National Nurses Week comes to a close, two nurses working for Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania say the field has more to offer than jobs in doctor's offices and hospitals.

Lackawanna County detectives said a couple was renting an apartment in a historic home in Waverly Township and at the same time the two were selling heroin and psychadelic mushrooms out of the place.

The exhibit "For the Sense" opens today at Marquis Art & Frame, 122 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre. It features photography by Katie Larsen-Lick of Mountain Top, mixed media by Mary-Beth Korutz-Killian of Plymouth and ceramics by Jeff Kuratnick of Clarks Summit.

An employee of a local veterinary hospital advised borough residents on Thursday to trap the colonies of feral cats roaming borough neighborhoods so officials can spay or neuter them.

As Scrantonians prepare to select a new mayor, former Mayor David Wenzel offered the Lackawanna Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees a look at some of the Electric City's most extraordinary leaders on Wednesday afternoon.

Vocalists, guitarists, drummers and others are part of the concert highlighting student musicians that will take place at the Clarks Summit Borough Building, 304 S. State St., during the Clarks Summit Second Friday Art Walk and the Downtown Go Around this Friday evening, May 10, from 5-10 p.m. Clarks Summit Borough will rock both inside and out ... (more)

The Waverly Community House, 1115 N. Abington Road, will host its annual "Waverly Waddle" 5K walk/run on Saturday, May 11.

Three student journalists at Hofstra University have won $10,000 from Fox News Channel in a nationwide college journalism contest.

Scott J. Binsack was released Monday from the State Correctional Institution-Rockview after spending six months there on charges he violated parole, said Sherry Tate, director of the Office of Policy, Legislative Affairs and Communications for the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole .

Power has been restored in the Clarks Summit area of Lackawanna County, but for a few hours Monday homes and businesses were left without electricity.

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Penn State alumni, delegates of agriculture societies and the board elected two incumbents and five new members to serve on the University's Board of Trustees.

Several people gathered Thursday in prayer on the lawn of Lackawanna County Courthouse Square in Scranton.

A dairy farmer from Spruce Creek, Huntingdon County was voted onto the Penn State Board of Trustees today by delegates from Pennsylvania's various agricultural and rural life organizations today.