Laflin News

Project goal: Route of few delays if I-81 closed. BILL O ' BOYLE boboyle@timesleader.com A Pennsylvania Department of Transportation project slated for early next year is designed to keep traffic moving when it must be detoured off Interstate 81.

Stockings hung by the fireplace with care. Yuletide carols sung by a choir. Kids bundled up like Eskimos.

He has a BA from Kings College and a MBA from the Univ. of Scranton. He heads up the A&E Group that does business with many private, non-profits and government organizations.

Luzerne County's new commissioner, Thomas P. Cooney, said he will be in the courthouse today to start briefings on the proposed 2010 budget so he's ready to vote on Dec.

MARRIAGE LICENSES Gairon Segura and Ivelisse Rosado. Jeffrey Sod and Holly Hockenbury.

A man from Luzerne County will spend at least a year in prison after pleading guilty to hitting a man with his car and killing him, then leaving the scene.

Andrew B. Durako of Laflin was recently appointed executive director of Little Flower Manor and St.

John Walton, 58, calmly walked into the courtroom while being escorted by Luzerne County sheriff deputies, a stark contrast to when he refused to get out of a cruiser and had to be carried by officers in separate proceedings.

LAFLIN Borough officials advised a Manchester Drive resident Monday that there was no way that the municipality could take over the roadway at this time.

An Episcopalian church leader from Luzerne County was in court Thursday facing charges he endangered and threatened a group of people, including his own daughters.

Laflin police initially believed a Scranton man was armed when he allegedly torched a Ford van in front of a car dealership on Tuesday.

The outcome of a K-9 unit search and a "Code Red" emergency drill earlier this month brought praise for students and staff at West Side Career and Technology Center on Monday.

Police in Luzerne County are trying to figure out if the owner of a van was so burned up about something that he torched his own vehicle right in front of the dealership where he bought it just six months ago.

New jobs are expected to fly into the Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport.

LAFLIN Borough officials Thursday gave a first reading to a 2010 budget that holds taxes and fees at current levels but still spends $5,000 less this year's budget.

YATESVILLE Borough officials on Wednesday confirmed the receipt of a $25,000 state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources grant that will be used to create a concrete path to the borough's bocci courts, as well to do as other work in the park.

PITTSTON City officials voted Tuesday night to open a dialogue with neighboring Laflin about "cooperative projects" that might eventually lead to a sharing of municipal services.

Maxim W. Furek , director of Garden Walk Recovery, recently donated his book, "The Death Proclamation of Generation X: A Self Fulfilling Prophesy of Goth, Grunge and Heroin" to Luzerne County Community College .

LAKE TWP. Supervisors on Wednesday awarded a contract to resurface part of Loyalville Road and announced a new meeting schedule and office hours.

When a train derailment in 2002 forced the evacuation of hundreds of Laflin residents, emergency crews went up and down every street going door-to-door to notify residents.