Honesdale News

While stationed in Germany as an Army radio operator in the 1970s, Leslie "Les" Sharp learned the upgraded equipment installed at his base came from Tobyhanna Army Depot.

From high blood pressure to cervical cancer screenings, federally-funded community health centers in Northeast Pennsylvania received mixed reviews in a recent quality of care report that looked at six categories using data from nearly 1,200 such centers throughout the nation.

The Clarks Green United Methodist Church's biggest fundraiser of the year is almost here, and church members are gearing up for the event.

Just as the borough begins to sizzle under the summer sun next month, a spruced-up public pool on Fair Avenue should be opening.

"God didn't see it that way for me," she said, because after having two children she had to have a hysterectomy.

Jacqueline Amber Barrise's brief life began on the floor of her parents' car and ended, within hours, beneath the weight of a cinder block.

A northeastern Pennsylvania man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing his newborn daughter with a cinderblock last year - just hours after she was born.

BY JESSICA MICKLEYjmickley@njherald.comHONESDALE, Pa. -- The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will seek the death penalty for two Vernon Township High School graduates accused of killing their baby if they - The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will seek the death penalty for two Vernon Township High School graduates accused of killing their baby.

It was a crime that shocked and outraged people across the area and Thursday morning one of the suspects was sentenced.

People living in Wayne County reacted with shock after the third small plane crash in that county in just over a week.

Octogenarian Walter "Scotty" Ogden had plenty of piloting experience, which is why friends and family were puzzled when he crashed his small airplane near his home on Sunday night.

Two people are dead and a third was taken to a Scranton hospital late Wednesday after a plane they were in crashed in a wooded area on Spring Hill Airport property, according to an official at the scene.

SCRANTON, Pa. - Officials in northeastern Pennsylvania say emergency units have been dispatched to the scene of a reported crash of a small plane near an airport.

A 67-year-old pilot, Jeffrey S. Gilbert, died in the crash of his 1973 Cessna 177B Cardinal light plane at Cherry Ridge Airport located in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, 3 miles south of Honesdale, while performing touch-and-go landings on Saturday, May 5, 2012 at 12:10 p.m. EDT, as reported on that date by the Aviation Safety Network , The Scranton ... (more)

Emergency crews managed to pull the pilot out of the wreckage and immediately transported him with a life flight helicopter to the CMC Hospital in Scranton.

The Federal Aviation Administration says Wayne County emergency dispatchers reported the accident near the Cherry Ridge Airport outside of Honesdale.

A Hazle Township man has taken a novel approach to helping shelters care for their animals: He's taken up making handmade animal beds from plastic piping and canvas.

Officials and neighbors in Honesdale are teaming up to rebuild the borough's public pool to make sure families have a place to cool off this summer.

A Lake Ariel man was arrested after he hit and choked a woman, then smashed her vehicle's windshield, on April 16 in a church parking lot, state police at Honesdale said.

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