SCRANTON — A $680,000 Pennsylvania American Water project to improve a section of Roaring Brook in Scranton muddied from an upstream dam project in 2024 will include construction of a disabled-accessible fishing platform, restoration of the streambank and enhancement of aquatic habitat, the company recently announced. The project in the Darcy Park area across from the East Scranton Little League fields along Richter Avenue stems from an agreement reached last year between the state Department of Environmental Protection and PAW after the water company inadvertently released large quantities of silt and sediment from a dam rehabilitation project in Dunmore. The […]

Officials ask North Pocono residents to complete a survey that will help develop regional land use and zoning regulations. The North Pocono Planning Association released an online survey last week. It asks residents in the eight North Pocono municipalities participating in the project about issues pertaining to types of land use, preservation of forested land and farms, public services, recreation, transportation, and what they like or don’t like about the North Pocono area. The survey also includes questions about demographics. The association, established last year and comprising Moscow borough and Covington, Elmhurst, Jefferson, Madison, Roaring Brook, Spring Brook and Thornhurst […]

Property owners challenging new assessed values calculated during Lackawanna County’s first reassessment in nearly six decades will have a chance to make their cases at formal appeal hearings starting next month. The pending appeals process that begins Aug. 4 and runs through October is one of the last procedural steps in the long-overdue reassessment that began in 2022 and will culminate later this year when officials formally certify new assessments to take effect next year. Because the county, municipalities and school districts use assessed property values to calculate annual property tax bills, new assessments stemming from the reassessment project will […]

The state provided $14.6 million in low-interest loans to two dam repair projects in Lackawanna County. The funding from Pennsylvania Instrastructure Investment Authority (Pennvest) includes a pair of $7.3 million loans to Pennsylvania American Water for dam rehabilitation projects at drinking-water reservoirs in Lackawanna County — the Marshwood Dam in Olyphant and the Maple Lake Dam in Spring Brook Township. Both of these projects will increase capacity and decrease the risk of dam failures from floods via improvements to the outlet system. Those upgrades will include: installation of a 30-inch diameter pipe to bypass a weir structure; installation of a […]

SCOTT TWP. — A manufacturer of beauty, skin-care and personal-care products underscored its commitment to Lackawanna County through a new $60 million, 200,000-square-foot facility in the Scott Technology Park. Kolmar’s second campus within the park will create 280 jobs, while retaining an additional 290 existing positions, state officials said. The project, initially announced in 2019, included an incentive package from the state Department of Community and Economic Development for $480,000 in Job Creation Tax Credits (JCTC) and a $126,000 WEDnet grant to train workers, state officials said. The project is also located in a Keystone Opportunity Zone (KOZ), which has […]

As data center projects begin to proliferate through Northeast Pennsylvania, a developer proposes constructing a nearly three-dozen-building data center campus in Clifton and Covington townships, challenging the validity of Clifton’s data center zoning while Covington moves to enact legislation governing the high-tech facilities.

The city hopes to reach a compromise with parking-system bondholders to keep downtown street parking free on Saturdays, under a restructuring of debt that would avoid a default, Mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti said Wednesday.