Drilling for natural gas in the Upper Delaware region could be a welcome boon to the local economy; it could also have grave consequences for the natural environment, particularly  water resources.

Participants are wanted for this year’s Santa Parade in Honesdale. The parade is scheduled for Friday, November 27 (rain date Saturday, November 28). Line up will begin at 5 p.m. (exact location to be advised) and the parade will kick-off at 6 p.m.

Susie Corbin’s eyes fill with unshed tears when she talks about Operation Christmas Child. How that trip to the local dollar store with her children, to buy gifts for a hurting child half a world away, touches her beyond words. How every year, her family fills  shoe boxes for both a boy and girl, children living in crisis situations, whether it’s war, natural disaster or poverty.

 Both directions of the Route 6 bridge both directions over Interstate 84, Pike County, are now open following reconstruction.

A natural gas drilling company must provide a permanent supply of water to 13 homes in Dimock Township, Susquehanna County along with correcting problems at its well sites that caused methane to pollute drinking water in this small rural community, environmental regulators said.

It’s the second bank robbery in six days in neighboring Callicoon, NY. The latest victim, the First National Bank of Jeffersonville (Jeff Bank), State Route 17B, was robbed at gunpoint Wednesday afternoon, around 4:45 p.m.

The Pike County Public Library (PCPL) issued a statement late Tuesday night, expressing disappointed that the proposed dedicated library tax was defeated.
With 18 of 18 precincts reporting, the library tax  proposal received 7,437 “NO” votes and 1,714 “YES” votes. The referendum was defeated in every precinct. The referendum had asked for a one mill tax to support the county library system.
The “NO” vote amounted to 81 percent of the total vote.

There’s a phone scammer out there playing dirty tricks again.

Vote turnout across Wayne County, Pa., Tuesday, stood at 31.10 percent, with 9,869 out of 31,729 registered voters, turning out. In other words, Tuesday’s victories and losses were decided by just under a third of the registered electorate.

Banquet set Nov. 14

A tradition of charitable giving goes a long way in Wayne County. One of the larger local sources of philanthropy is the Honesdale Area Lions Club, which has been the conduit for over $400,000  in the last 41 years.

Cathy Hunt is in line to be the first female supervisor in Berlin Township.
In a phone interview Wednesday, Hunt thanked Democratic competitor Scott Taninies for running a clean race and welcomed his continued employment on the township road crew. 

An all-out search for a missing Staten Island woman continued Wednesday in neighboring, Narrowsburg, New York.
Thirty-six-year-old Gail Greico-Weishoff, who was visiting family in Narrowsburg, was last seen late Wednesday, October 28. Her purse was found near a bench along the Delaware River in Narrowsburg. 

With winter soon sweeping in, Waymart Mayor John Millard said the overnight parking ban on borough streets will be in effect in less than two weeks and that fines will be definitely issued for those who violate the law.

Unrelenting property thefts persisted throughout Wayne County in October, state police Honesdale barracks reported.

A Waymart man faces several charges for allegedly yelling obscenities at a borough resident while shooting a BB gun at his cat and home.