This is sacred ground.
Tucked away on pristine farmland, about 30 miles away from Honesdale in
New York State is a sparkling amphitheater that means more to people than
just seeing a summer concert.
The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts has established itself as a premier
concert venue.
The views of the countryside are beyond picturesque. The parking is easy
to enter and depart as opposed to other venues and the facilities are
first rate.
How to characterize New Orleans five years after Hurricane Katrina slammed the city and surrounding region?
How far has it come since the storm overwhelmed the Big Easy's levees and flooded 80 percent of the metropolis? How is the Crescent City handling the double-whammy that arrived with the BP oil spill? What is the legacy of a disaster that killed more than 1,800 and poked a hole in the nation's sense of invulnerability?
They lined up outside their homes on Monday morning, awaiting the familiar site of a yellow school bus coming down the road.
On Monday, The Wayne Highlands School District opened its doors to students for the start of the 2010-2011 school year.
With the arrival of any new school year, there’s always a great amount of anticipation, expectations and excitement.
On college campuses across the country, students will decide to embibe.
They may try alcohol for the first time, full well knowing that they aren’t age 21.
In a sense, that’s part of the college experience and most of us can say that we’ve probably had a drink before we turned of legal drinking age.
But it’s illegal.
It’s easy to forget sometimes that Honesale is a borough of culture.
Take a stroll downtown and you’ll be surprised — pleasantly of course — by the number of art galleries littered throughout Main Street.
There’s the Philip Hone Gallery, Milkweed and The Hanson Gallery.
The arts will really have a place in our hearts this weekend.
We have much to be thankful when we consider our local police.
As in thousands of small-town communities across America, we have before us our bands of officers who pledge to uphold the law, to defend us and be there when we have a need a police officer can meet.
Rod Blagojevich is not innocent by any means.
The jury in his corruption trial could not agree enough to convict him on 23 of the 24 counts he was charged with.
Besides reporting anemic job creation in the private sector, late week's monthly federal jobs report noted another drag on the economy: The loss of thousands of jobs in the public sector.
State and local governments cut 48,000 jobs in July, more than 100,000 in the last three months.
Memo to President Barack Obama: You need not express your opinion about everything, need not impose yourself into every situation.
The latest example of Obama wading into an issue he'd have been wiser to steer clear of is the heated debate over construction of a Muslim community center/mosque two blocks from New York's Ground Zero.
It’s another weekend in Wayne County.
You know the drill. Saturday is filled with chores and maybe taking in an event; Sunday is a rest day.
Tragedies happen.
Whether they happen at a professional football or baseball game, music concert or at The Wayne County Fair, sometimes something happens that is unfortunate and tragic.
It served notice.
What took place at PPL's Susquehanna nuclear power plant near Berwick shook a few people up on Tuesday.
The 16 people who will make up the jury in the trial of Jeffrey Plishka might make one of the biggest decisions of their lives.
As attorneys go through the process of selecting a jury from a large pool of candidates, one of Wayne County’s most notorious suspects will be in court with his life on the line.
If your child's college was not on the party school list released this week, we bet you were breathing a sigh of relief.
You shouldn't be.
This is it.
Starting today, the 148th annual Wayne County Fair gets underway.
This is Wayne County’s main event, like hosting the World Series or Super Bowl.
Waymart doesn’t get the credit it deserves.
This tiny community of 1,400 people sometimes gets lost among the big towns and cities of Honesdale and Carbondale because it’s basically stuck in the middle of them.
When school opens this fall, there will be countless numbers of high schoolers struggling to drag themselves out of bed in the early morning.
Of course, some of that reluctance to rise is due to a summer of sleeping in, but it's largely biological: Teens generally just don't function well in the early morning hours, and a recent study has reinforced the theory.
They are our protectors in the community; enforcers of our laws.
The presence of State Police in Wayne County and our region are crucial to our quality of life, especially as crime continues to escalate.
The “Dogs Days of Summer.”
It’s an interesting phrase. As we head into the sunset of this summer, this phrase takes on even greater meaning.
