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Opinion
    • No fracking!

      Northeast Pennsylvania offers many activities that center around our lakes and rivers. That might change if Congressman Rob Bresnahan, new EPA …

    • Nothin’ but the truth

      To the citizens and taxpayers of the Town of Highland:  Last fall my wife and I attended our first local football game. It happened to …

Sports
TALKING SPORTS

‘Fly fishing has become my whole life’

LIVINGSTON MANOR, NY — Unlike a lot of fly fishing folks, Laura Colangelo, the new director of operations at the world-famous Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum (CFFCM), doesn’t …
press release from the town of fallsburg

Town of Fallsburg welcomes Hudson Valley Rivermen

FALLSBURG, NY — The Town of Fallsburg is proud to welcome the Hudson Valley Rivermen, a professional men’s basketball team in the American Basketball Association (ABA), as they make …
TALKING SPORTS

Bulldogs honor winter scholar-athletes

LAKE HUNTINGTON, NY — All hail the Sullivan West winter scholar-athletes! On Wednesday, March 5, the local school district honored its 2024-2025 junior varsity and varsity winter season …
Editorial
Small businesses are the heartbeat of our communities. They are the corner stores, family-owned restaurants and local service providers that fuel our neighborhoods, create jobs and drive economic …
Leisure

GRAHAMSVILLE, NY — Volunteer Open House will be held on Sunday, April 6, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Time and the Valleys Museum, St. Rt. 55, Grahamsville, NY.   The afternoon is a …

NARROWSBURG, NY — The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA) is putting a call out for artists “to uplift voices of those touched by fracking through artistic exploration that will create …
NARROWSBURG, NY — Tusten Social is launching the next session of its Teen Club, a free afterschool program designed to provide local teens with structured, creative activities. It takes place …
HONESDALE, PA — “The WCAA Dinner Party: Setting the Table for Women,” an exhibit of work by 240 students that honors the women they admire and the women in their lives, will close …
Police Blotter
Lackawanna County man sentenced to 96 months’ imprisonment for theft of major artwork

SCRANTON, PA —  The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Thomas Trotta, age 49, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on March 13, …

Blooming Grove man charged with possession, distribution of child sexual abuse material

Bushkill man convicted of child abuse

ICE raids Honesdale restaurant

Fishkill man charged with possession with intent to deliver

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(Reprinted with permission from Mr. Eldred’s “Historically Speaking” column in the Jan.-Feb.-Mar.: 2011 issue of the Wayne County Historical Society Newsletter.) The battle of …

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