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Font size: [A] [A] [A] Peoples National Bank has a new leader. Alan Dakey, former senior vice president of the Dime Bank in Honesdale and past president and chief executive officer of MidPenn Bank in Millersburg, is the new president and CEO, replacing Richard Lochen.

A Carbondale man who died in a crash Thursday on the Casey Highway was stopped, facing the wrong direction with his lights off, when another the vehicle plowed into his Jeep Cherokee, state police said.

In a survey recently conducted by the National Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds, seven of 31 independent, privately owned U.S. campgrounds given an overall A-rating are located in Pennsylvania.

ALAN DAKEY RICHARD LOCHEN Richard Lochen has stepped down as president and CEO of People's National Bank and will be replaced by a central Pennsylvania banker who has roots in Wayne County.

More than 300 state workers are getting bad news this week. They're being told they're out of a job because of the state budget crisis.

WAYNE COUNTY COURT NOTES Wayne County court notes are published Tuesdays in The Times-Tribune. MARRIAGE LICENSE - Jeffrey Buli and Kristen Schultz, both of South Canaan Twp.

A trailer home is in shambles after an early morning fire in Wayne County. It happened Wednesday morning just before 3 o'clock in the Waymart area.

Pocono Mountain Regional Police arrested two people after they reportedly tried to steal more than $200-worth of video games from the K-Mart in Mount Pocono on Tuesday.

WAYNE COUNTY COURT NOTES Wayne County court notes are published Tuesdays in The Times-Tribune. DIVORCE SOUGHT - Christina Crandall, 139 E. Tyron St., Apt.

Wayne County court notes are published Tuesdays in The Times-Tribune. DIVORCES sought - Joseph Tighe, 59 Batzel Road, Lake Ariel, v. Juanita Tighe, P.O. Box 369, Lake Ariel; married, May 26, 1990; Oressa Campbell, attorney.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this Marriage license - Javaugn Emilio Springer and Racquel Novona Nicholson, both of Scranton.

Michael J. Mullen / Staff Photographer A kitten rests in hay near a young Holstein heifer in Don and Christina Salak's barn.

As he waited for the roughly 60 participants on the 2009 Pennsylvania Maple Tour to arrive, Gene Yatsonsky reflected on his family's recent efforts to transition to a more sustainable lifestyle.

A heavily-traveled stretch of road in Wayne County was shut down for hours Tuesday after an unknown substance was discovered on the road.

It's a switch that has been in the making for nearly a decade in Honesdale as PennDOT gets ready to change the town's two main drags from two-way traffic to one-way this weekend.

Unique health care center provides both day care and medical supervision for ill children.

Wyalusing Valley Wine Festival Set for September 12 - 9/3/2009 Pre-event ticket sales are still running ahead of last year's Wyalusing Valley Wine Festival when more than 1,300 people attended.

The heated debate over health care reform continued Monday in Wayne County. Democratic Congressman Chris Carney held a town hall meeting with hundreds at the Wayne County courthouse in Honesdale to address some of the rumors and concerns.

'I saw ordinary people doing an ordinary thing and yet, it was extraordinary,' said Mary Handler, a Wayne County, PA resident who decided she needed to see for herself the process that members of the Northern Wayne Property Owners Alliance were going through as they began signing natural gas leases with Hess Corporation last week.

'I saw ordinary people doing an ordinary thing and yet, it was extraordinary,' said Mary Handler, a Wayne County, PA resident who decided she needed to see for herself the process that members of the Northern Wayne Property Owners Alliance were going through as they began signing natural gas leases with Hess Corporation last week.