The Wayne County Area Agency on Aging will be hosting a special program in May. All are welcome.

On Sunday, May 26 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. St. John's Youth group will be hosting a "Family Fun Day & Classic Car Show" at Aaron's parking lot on Route 6 in Honesdale (just west of Walmart).

The Misericordia University Nuclear Medicine Technology Certificate Program recently acknowledged the first graduating class of the program during the annual Medical Imaging Senior Recognition Luncheon that was held in Sandy and Marlene Insalaco Hall.

PennDOT has announced the following schedule of road work for May 17-26, 2013.

The Equinunk Historical Society's annual Memorial weekend program on Saturday, May 25, will honor a distinguished local veteran, John Thomas Smith, who was born January 27, 1924, died March 11, 1984.

 - The list of contested races in the Wayne County Municipal Primary may be short, but it is strong.

Kicking off the festivities of the summer season on Memorial Day weekend, Shawnee Mountain announces the return of the Shawnee Celtic Festival to be held Saturday and Sunday, May 25 and 26 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. both days, on the grounds of the popular Monroe County ski area.

The Aldenville Baptist Church announces a special day of events on Pentecost Sunday, May 19, to dedicate the new building addition.

Antique tables, chairs, dishes and items from the old Sterling School are just some of the many things being auctioned off on June 1 at The Sterling United Methodist Church.

— Billy's New Hope Barn, located at 349 Schoolhouse Road in Honesdale, will be holding a yard sale/open house on Saturday, May 25 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. rain or shine.

The PA Department of Labor and Industry has installed a direct phone line to its Unemployment Compensation Call Centers for use by all individuals to open an unemployment compensation claim or to ask questions about existing claims.

Officials from a prominent local contracting company say something needs to be done about the traffic headaches in Honesdale Borough.

-State Rep. Frank Farina, D-Lackawanna/Wayne, said he wanted to remind his constituents that he continues to represent the district that voted for him in November.

Wayne County District Attorney Janine Edwards announced that the Pennsylvania State Police, Computer Crimes Division, Dunmore, arrested George Richard Miller, Sr. on May 9 for the possession and dissemination of child pornography on the world wide web.

- As part of PPL’s support for wildlife habitat around Lake Wallenpaupack, Kipp Island will be unavailable for recreational activities through the end of July to protect a bald eagle nesting area.

The Sculpted Ice Works Factory Tour and Ice Harvest Museum opened last Memorial Day in Lakeville.

Historian Robert Powell will present a talk entitled “Terence Powderly, the Knights of Labor and the Labor Union Movement in the Lackawanna Valley” at the Dorflinger-Suydam Wildlife Sanctuary on Thursday, May 16 at 11 a.m. as part of the Sanctuary’s Lectures and Lunch series.

The following cases were addressed by the Honorable Raymond L. Hamill, President Judge, Wayne County:

The fifth annual high school Paddle and River Clean Up will take place on June 8.

The Hawley Women's Club is planning trips for June.

Weichert Realtors® - Paupack Group owners Judy Rodonski and Tom McColligan have announced the company's agents will host the fourth annual Giant Garage Sale Benefit on Saturday, May 25 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Honesdale High School 2012-2013 third quarter Distinguished Honor Roll is as follows:

HAWLEY - Weichert Realtors® - Paupack Group owners Judy Rodonski and Tom McColligan have announced the company's agents will host the fourth annual Giant Garage Sale Benefit on Saturday, May 25 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

WAYMART - "Our babies were born 36 hours apart," Courtney Krajkovich said. "I shared a room with her" after Rebecca (Mannick) Park had her little boy, Brody.

HONESDALE — The Honesdale High School 2012-2013 third quarter Distinguished Honor Roll is as follows:

HAWLEY — The Hawley Women's Club is planning trips for June.

HONESDALE - A major area drug dealer was sentenced in the Wayne County Courthouse on Thursday for three charges of delivering heroin and one charge for possession of heroin.

HONESDALE - Wayne Memorial Hospital is offering a six-week workshop designed to provide education and support in coping with the grieving process.

VARDEN — Western Wayne Middle School has announced its most recent honor roll.

GOULDSBORO — A former caretaker has been charged with abusing a person in a residential facility.

NARROWSBURG, N.Y. — The Upper Delaware Writers Collective (UDWC) will celebrate 20 years of serving poets and writers at the River Rocks Poetry Jamboree on Saturday, May 18.

TEXAS TOWNSHIP - During Monday night's meeting of the Texas Township supervisors tensions rose over Willow Avenue Bridge and what to do about it.

HONESDALE — The Greater Honesdale Partnership and GHP members The Wayne Independent and VFW Post 531 Ladies Auxiliary, in conjunction with the American Red Cross, will be sponsoring a community blood drive on May 14.

HONESDALE - The Honesdale National Bank has again been ranked in the top 15th percentile of all Community Banks by Seifried & Brew LLC, a community bank risk management firm.

REGION — The destination for the Wayne County Historical Society's spring bus trip onSunday, June 23, is the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, described by one online reviewer as "one of the strangest museum one will ever encounter."

Scholarship funding made possible through Pennsylvania's Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program

Harrisburg – Members and veterans of the United States Armed Forces whohave served with a U.S. Military Airborne Unit or as a World War II Merchant Mariner can now display their service with new license plates available from PennDOT.

The South Canaan Bible Protestant Cemetery Association announces that there will be a Memorial Day Service starting at 9 a.m., Memorial Day, May 27, at the South Canaan Bible Protest Cemetery, Route 296 South Canaan (across from the township building.)

When purchasing a larger-ticket item off of the internet, a savvy shopper will always implore if the company is reputable. Especially if the item is coming internationally.

The new livestock identification program recently launched by the federal government should not place a significant burden on producers in Pennsylvania or the East, according to an expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.

Lacawac Sanctuary’s summer Music-in-the-Forest series begins its fourth season on Sunday, May 12, with a performance by The Young Geezers.

With populations of wild and domesticated pollinators, such as honeybees, in decline, some of the world's foremost scientists in the field will converge on Penn State this summer to discuss the latest research aimed at understanding and overcoming challenges to pollinator health.

Runners and walkers will have a new event Saturday, May 4 that will ultimately benefit children battling cancer across North America.

Nobody Knows is a 2004 Japanese Film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, based on the 1988 event known as the "Affair of the four abandoned children of Sugamo" Affair of the four abandoned children of Sugamo."

On Saturday, May 18 at 2 p.m. a benefit concert will take place at the Central United Methodist Church Sanctuary for seven month old Hailey Kerwin.

Alex F. Punzi will be a student marshal for the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at the Penn State College of Engineering spring commencement ceremony on May 3.

The following cases were addressed by the Raymond L. Hamill, President Judge, Wayne County, earlier this week.

The annual springtime migration of warblers, vireos, thrushes, tanagers and other songbirds from their wintering grounds in Central and South America to their summer nesting grounds in North America is a spectacular display of color and song that treat birdwatchers and nature lovers alike.

On April 18, high school juniors participating in Leadership Lackawanna’s Tomorrow’s Leaders Today program at the Prudential office in Moosic took the next step to becoming adults and leaders as they learned about financial literacy.