Clarks Summit News

"There's one opening in the field I'd like to be in," Ms. Shields, 63, of Clarks Summit, said Friday as she glanced at a computer at the state CareerLink office in Scranton.

As autumn gets crowded out by an unseasonably insistent cold snap, we can find ourselves longing for a diversion, something - anything - to get us out of the house.

A bipartisan group of elected officials on Monday joined several dozen workers from Allentown State Hospital and union officials to demonstrate support to keep the state institution open.

Local politicians will join Allentown State Hospital workers during their lunch break today to protest the state's possible closure of the nearly 100-year-old facility on Hanover Avenue.

The following are excerpts about Abington area gardens that were nominated by the community and profiled weekly from July through October in The Abington Journal.

Playing his acoustic music on 14th Street in New York City one day, 27-year-old Clarks Summit guitarist Billy Rogan was discovered.

When Annie and Matt Jenkins were in the process of moving from Ardmore, outside of Philadelphia, back to their hometown in the Abingtons, a spacious home on Nelson Street in Clarks Summit caught their eye.

On Wednesday, September 16, the Abington Heights School District voted 4-3 to eliminate funding for the Abington Heights High School Rifle Team.

Marriage licenses - Jimmy Allen Rizzo and Minerva Rizzo, both of Dunmore. Property Transactions - Myer M. Alperin, individually, and as attorney-in-fact for Shirley Alperin, Clarks Summit, to Philip and Kathleen Graff, Waverly; a property at 35 Oakford Glen, Abington Twp., for $370,000. - Robert C. Wilson, Dickson City, to Jason E. Parry, Dickson ...

Durbin has served on the Abington Township Shade Tree Commission for the past three years and currently is the Commission Chair.

Attorney P. Timothy Kelly, of Clarks Summit, has been selected for inclusion in Pennsylvania's Super Lawyers magazine for 2009.

A campaign fundraiser for Margie Bisignani Moyle, who is running for Lackawanna County Judge, was hosted by of Euro Caf on Thursday Oct.

The University has appointed 31 new full-time faculty members for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Where do you live? That simple question often leads to confusion among the residents of Abington Twp., officials said, because many use a mailing address of Waverly, Clarks Summit or Dalton.

Following the recent verdict jury decision in Lackawanna County Court which awarded more than $2.3 million in damages, plus interest, to property owner Peter Amato and land developer Michael Noto in the Grandview Street court case, the situation has become a topic of conversation and debate among residents of Clarks Summit.

Nine months after the Abington Area Joint Recreation Board approved an idea for a dog park, a small group of community members is getting ready to raise the $40,000 needed to make it a reality.

Strung Out, a California-based punk rock band, will perform a concert on Saturday, Oct.

Border guards are trying to determine what's on a laptop computer seized from an American man who refused to give them access to encrypted information stored on the device.

Residents of Clarks Summit met with borough officials for the first time since the borough lost in court, regarding a long-running dispute over a road closure.

The 13th annual Lupus Loop 5K Walk/Run is scheduled to take place Oct. 4 at Nay Aug Park in Scranton.