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PLAINS TWP. — The closure of the Cross Valley Expressway off-ramp for River Street scheduled for Monday has been postponed until next year in response to concerns of emergency services providers. The state Department of Transportation said Friday that new

President Judge Michael Barrasse sentenced the following defendants recently in Lackawanna County Court: ■ Tessa Thomas, 33, 15719 Dimock 2, Nicholson Road, Hop Bottom, to five years of court supervision, including 10 months, 10 days of time served in cou

Clarks Summit Civic league: Abington Heights Civic League end-of-year banquet, Constantino’s, 1385 Lackawanna Trail, Clarks Summit, June 5, 6 p.m., items for Griffin Pond Animal Shelter also collected. Contact: 570-587-3101. East Scranton Casino trip: Eas

PALMYRA TWP. State police are seeking information about an indecent assault reported Thursday night. The incident happened about 8:30 p.m. at a parking lot about a quarter mile south of the intersection of routes 507 and 6. A 19-year-old woman, who police

PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS ■ Geraldine Sharp and Bradley J. and Nicole Higgins, Dalton, to Matthew T. Pompey Jr., Clarks Summit; a property at 303 Elm St., Dalton, for $200,000. ■ Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB, doing business as Christiana Trust, not ind

Tunkhannock Area School District teachers have a new contract through the spring of 2021. Jim Maria, a representative of the Pennsylvania State Education Association who has been working with the Tunkhannock Area Education Association on discussions, said

DURYEA — A Scranton woman is facing drug-trafficking charges after police say she was caught with a mobile methamphetamine lab during a traffic stop Friday. Nicole Marie Salerno, 26, is accused of cooking meth in a pickup police pulled over in the 200 blo

CORRECTION Sentenced man address incorrect The Lackawanna County sentencings that appeared on Page A6 of Wednesday’s editions listed an incorrect address for Thomas Lavis, 28. He lives at 199 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre.

May 19, 1968 County to get land for parks Lackawanna County Commissioners Patrick J. Mellody and Edward J. Zipay announced that the county would purchase the Glen area of Moosic Lake and the No. 190 Slope near West Mountain for sites for new county parks.

Springtime hasn’t forgotten Northeast Pennsylvania, despite the season’s seemingly uncharacteristic grayness. AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dave Dombek thinks it’s more a matter of people forgetting how gray and dreary springs in Northeast Pennsylvania