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SCRANTON CITY COUNCIL MEETING -- Nov. 18, 2008
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Food and Pantry
Submitted by admin on Fri, 11/14/2008 - 16:54Please support the Scranton-Lackawanna County Taxpayers Association in their unwavering effort to stock our local food pantries. Struggling working families, seniors, single parents as well as the poor are desperately in need of your help. Please donate any non-perishable item(s), you could make a difference in a person or child’s life, that without your help might go to be hungry tonight. The Scranton Post urges you to become involved and donate today. There is no donation too big or small, and all help is truly and greatly appreciated. Non-perishable food donations can be dropped off at any local fire station. Monetary donations as well as non-perishable food donations can be made to the order of The Scranton-Lackawanna County Taxpayers Association deliverable to 116 Masters Street, Scranton, Pa. 18510. If you have any questions please call The Scranton-Lackawanna County Taxpayers Association directly at 570-347-8813. Thank you and have a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday.
Distressed Or Oppressed?
Submitted by admin on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 15:00Which one of these are we truly? A distressed city like some of our public servants would like us to believe or an oppressed city being held captive by the actions taken by some of our supposed trusted public servants for agendas which do not necessarily serve the public interest. I’m sure most of us are aware why we are financially oppressed and distressed, possibly due to the expert financial accounting practices, behind closed door meetings, negotiations and disgraceful mismanagement of our fair city’s affairs. These offenders, our elected public servants are repeatedly perpetrating these acts right in front our very eyes in various forms. It is time to come together as a community and stand united, to be heard as one voice. If allowed to be continued at this rate, I fear it will be a hole we won’t be able to dig out of for a very long time. There is a chance however, to make a change in these matters.
Election Opinions
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 16:12By Jason Roth Scranton residents fell back into their regular routines Wednesday, as results of Tuesday’s Presidential election produced a clear victor.
Professor Discusses MRSA, Flu, Over-Use of Antibiotics
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 16:10Michael A. Sulzinski, Ph.D., is a professor of biology at the University of Scranton. He was named associate professor of biology with tenure at the school in 1995 and became a full professor in 2001. Dr.
A Voice For The Voiceless
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 16:00Since we have no live broadcast from ECTV, we would like to try to bring you up to speed on as much as possible in regards to our Scranton City Council meetings. The following is intended to do so. Ms. Judy Gatelli, vice president of Scranton City Council, brought up a recent article published in the Allentown newspaper "The Morning Call," in an effort to publicly humiliate absent minded landlords and absentee landlords into keeping up on their properties. I believe in an effort to keep Scranton neighborhoods a clean, safe and enjoyable place to live. Ms. Gatelli stated she will be sending a copy of this article to the Mayor’s office. We’ll keep an eye on this and report on it soon. New Cable Provider in Store? Les Spindler, a city resident and homeowner, brought a valid concern to City Council. Mr. Spindler proposes the city look into other cable providers, other than the one we currently have. He states "The citizens of this city need a break, everything is going up, their prices are going up and it’s ridiculous. Would anybody on Council be against looking into a new provider?" Ms. Gatelli responded that Mrs. Garvey is going to be sending letters to cable companies, and that a notice came about a seminar for cable law and we are going to discuss sending Attorney Minora to that in January. Comcast watch yourself….competition might be coming. Olive St. / Penn Ave traffic nightmare. Anyone that has ever driven either to, or away from the Scranton High School or local businesses is well aware of the delays waiting to get through this busy intersection, especially after work or while school is getting out. This subject was brought to Council’s attention by Les Spindler, citing this corner has no lines painted on the streets anywhere or signage with the arrows showing the direction the traffic should be travelling. This is true when travelling on Penn Avenue, heading toward Scranton, as well as on Olive Street, heading away from Scranton High. Does anyone know if it is a two or three lane street? Let’s hope it doesn’t take three years to get action. The last lines he requested to be done took that long. So being the new investigative reporter, I ran down there and measured it to be approximately 39 feet across, curb to curb, that is. "Is that enough," I asked myself. So again I took it upon myself to measure an average lane on Wyoming Avenue and Olive Street it is approximately 8.8 feet from the double yellow line to the divided white line. I’m no engineer, but in my opinion this can be corrected safely. Drive by and take a look for yourself, if you have a couple extra minutes, that is. Just be prepared to sit and wait. Council did respond and will look into this matter.
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Students Recognized for Excellence
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 15:42William E. Bryan, Christopher J. Lucas, Brian J. Patchcoski, John J. Rizzo, Lisa F. Toole, Gian P.Vergnetti and Robert Knight, all of Scranton, were among the 64 outstanding members of the University of Scranton’s undergraduate class of 2008 who were recognized for their academic excellence and/or service during the university’s recently held Class Night.
Hurricane Katrina Exhibit Begins
Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 15:30Marywood University is presenting a new photography exhibit entitled "It Happened Here: Francis Cape," which includes color photographs taken by the artist in central New Orleans two months after Hurricane Katrina.
