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Students and faculty from the Scranton School for Deaf & Hard of Hearing Children joined members of Scranton Tomorrow and Penn State Master Gardeners in Scranton to plant flowers at

Longtime state Sen. John Blake will resign his job March 8 for a new position with U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright. Blake, 60, confirmed only his resignation and its date, but multiple other sources confirmed he will work for Cartwright. Blake and Cartwright are scheduled to appear jointly at a news conference Monday at 11 a.m. in downtown Scranton. Repeated efforts to reach Cartwright were unsuccessful. “I’ve given my all to it (the Senate seat),” Blake said Sunday in a telephone inte...

Joe Biden’s Scranton neighborhood turned out a president-elect, governor, senators, other leaders Updated Jan 20, 2021; Posted Jan 20, 2021 President-elect Joe Biden and Jill listen during a COVID-19 memorial, with lights placed around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Washington, the night before his inauguration. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP Facebook Share By Borys Krawczeniuk | Times-Tribune President-elect Joe Biden likes to joke how he had to leave Scranton�...

Washington Avenue in Scranton, about 8 blocks long, has produced a governor, two state auditor generals, a state treasurer, two U.S. Senators, two congressmen, a federal judge. a city mayor, two city councilmen, the vice president and now the president of the U.S.