Clarks Summit News

"We enjoy the park. We enjoy the music," Laurel Verchuk said, standing between her mother and her son Eli, 2. "The ceremony itself was very nice." Like every Memorial Day, they enjoyed the afternoon in Nay Aug Park, where the Ron Leas Brass Band opened the summer concert series.

Maybe it is the product of growing up the daughter of a single mom. Maybe it springs from empathy developed in facing up to her personal childhood challenge in the form of attention deficit disorder.

From left, Kieran Boyle, cousin Jack Burke, both 7, and Jack's father, Leonard Burke, all of Clarks Summit, enter the Tundra Tornado at Sno Cove on Friday.

The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport bi-county board approved a change order Thursday morning that reduces the contract for a surface parking lot expansion project by $194,260.80. Clarks Summit-based Sproul Construction Inc's contract was decreased from $607,747.46 to $413,486.66 since items were removed associated with the installation ... (more)

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 7069 members stand in front of the memorial at the post.

The summer travel season starts this weekend, and unlike most years, prices at the pump have been falling leading up to Memorial Day weekend.

It doesn't matter if it's a $7.99 bottle of Roc de Chateauvieux Muscadet or a $55.99 bottle of Chimney Rock Cabernet Sauvignon.

A Wyoming County judge heard arguments Friday about whether an individual should be allowed to stand in the way of a developer planning to create a new drive-through drugstore in Tunkhannock.

The eleventh annual Whole Road of Yard Sales will take place on Saturday, May 19, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. along North Turnpike Road in Dalton.

18, 2010, on Lackawanna Ave., Olyphant; Jeffrey S. Simons, attorney. - Karen and Stanley MiezeA jewA ski, 1258 Reynolds Ave., Taylor, v. Infinity Auto Insurance Co., 3700 Colonnade Parkway, BirmA ingham Ala.; seeking in excess of $50,000 plus compensatory damages, punitive damages, interest, cost of suit, attorneys fees and other damages allowed on ... (more)

A pair of car crashes that began with a deer dashing across one side of the McDade Expressway ended with a 15-year-old crashing his mother's car into a police cruiser on the other side, nearly striking an officer early Monday.

A traffic advisory for drivers this Friday morning from Penn-Dot and PPL. Drivers who take Routes 6 and 11 in the Lackawanna County "notch" area are expected to hit major delays this morning.

A jury dismissed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday brought by the former head chef of a private country club in the Abingtons who claimed he was fired because of his age.

ELLEN F. O'CONNELL / times-shamrock A motorist stops for gas Monday at the UniMart on South Church Street in Hazleton.

A civil jury trial involving a former executive chef at the Country Club of Scranton who sued the club after he was fired because of alleged age discrimination got under way in federal court in Scranton on Monday.

The University of Scranton Concert Band and Concert Choir received a standing ovation for their world premiere performances of two works by composers Sam Pilafian and Joseph Boga.

A Blakely engineering firm is trying to recoup money lost from a bookkeeper's forgery and embezzlement from the bank that cashed the bogus checks.

Inc., 1031 Reeves St., Dunmore; seeking in excess of $50,000 for injuries suffered on Aug.

The Waverly Community House, 1115 N. Abington Road, held its annual House, Garden and Gift show this past weekend.

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