Brown Invites Local Students to Participate in Essay Contest As we prepare to celebrate our nation’s 250th anniversary, I am pleased to offer a unique opportunity for a high school student in the 40th Senatorial District to take part in a special Pennsylvania Senate Ceremonial Meeting in partnership with America250PA. One student will be selected […]
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A petition is circling to stop a data center from coming to Smithfield Township, but opposition won't matter.
We're told it comes down to a municipality's ordinances. News3's Nicole Walters has the details:
"The developer behind the Smithfield Gateway project presented the new plans to the East Straudsburg school board last night. [...]"
A confrontation involving several teenagers and two adults at a township park earlier this month prompted a police response and is now the subject of multiple videos circulating locally.
The incident occurred Wednesday, March 11 at Chestnuthill Township Park.
Two cellphone videos reviewed by this outlet appear to show a group of teenagers near the park’s basketball courts when an adult woman approaches and begins yelling, escalating the situation. At one point in the footage, an adult male is seen striking a teenager and forcing the individual to the ground.
A newly formed local troop (#51056, established Feb 18) is holding a short, last-minute cookie sale to help get started.
Pickup: Mountainhome (Cresco)
The troop is also seeking daytime locations (offices, workplaces, community spaces) for cookie tables. If you can help or have a connection, please reach out.
Thank you for supporting a new group of local Girl Scouts!
Angry citizen from Pocono Lake speaks up at a Township Meeting, challenging the legality of the change in ordiance in Tobyhanna TWP, that changes one property owner's use of land that borders Pinchot Forest and The Thomas Darling preserve, to allow the use from a quarry to multiple data centers.
A proposal that could bring data centers to part of the long-planned Smithfield Gateway development was discussed during a recent Smithfield Township Planning Commission meeting.
Mount Airy Casino Resort in Monroe County settled a class-action lawsuit for $2.3 million with table games dealers who claimed they were denied tips, pay and overtime, according to court documents.
Filed in February 2025 in U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, the lawsuit claimed the casino in Paradise Twp. pooled employee tips and shared them with supervisors, rounded work hours on time clocks and miscalculated overtime, in violation of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act and the state Wage Payment and Collection Law.
An Environmental Win for Monroe County: Tunkhannock Creek Protected From Mega-Warehouse Pollution Runoff
Pennsylvania community and environmental groups applaud PA DEP’s decision to deny a stormwater permit for a large distribution center developer after four years of advocacy to protect Exception Value Tunkhannock Creek.