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Campaign signs in Burlington With just four weeks until the election, Tracy would typically be upping his ground game about now. Hed be packing his Surly bicycle with lawn signs and flyers and hitting the city streets to drum up votes. In each of his other campaigns, meeting people has been his favorite part, he said. But the pandemic has forced him to campaign differently. Instead of house parties, Tracy has hosted online listening sessions with b...

Today Rain and snow showers in the morning changing to mainly rain showers in the afternoon. High 46F. Winds WNW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70%.. Tonight Rain showers early with overcast skies late. Low near 40F. Winds NW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50%. Updated: April 16, 2021 @ 2:32 am Police investigate Hill Section shooting Police are investigating a shooting in the 400 block of Wheeler Avenue in the city’s Hill Section. JAKE DANNA STEVENS / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Police are on t...

The Electric City’s elaborate holiday light show at Nay Aug Park seems to be drawing more visitors than usual, a city official said. While the annual, drive-thru spectacle in Scranton does not track how many vehicles pass through, at least one aspect of the popular attraction is way up this year. “We have given out 25,250 candy canes. We usually go through 15,000 from the start to the very last day,” said Bob Gattens, chairman of the Scranton Municipal Recreation Authority that o...

Shaking Up the State House Friends and alumnae Kesha Ram and Taylor Small make history as they take their seats in Vermont’s state house together. November 3, 2020, is a day that will undoubtedly make the history books. In Vermont this election day marks — aside from the obvious — a step toward a truer democracy that hears all voices. For the first time ever, Vermonters elected a woman of color to the Senate, Kesha Ram ’08, and an openly transgender woman to the House of Represen...

Stroudsburg hoping for cold, snowy winter as ice rink comes out of storage The ski slopes in the Poconos aren’t the only ones praying for a cold, snowy winter this season, given the exceptionally mild temperatures last year that turned ice rinks into ice water. In Stroudsburg, officials are pulling its ice rink out of storage and moving it to a new location across the street from where it was setup last year adjacent to the Monroe County Courthouse. This year the rink is going up at by the Qu...

The Clarks Summit region produced the most new COVID-19 cases since Thanksgiving with the Carbondale and Old Forge areas also hot spots, state ZIP code data shows. Combined, the six Scranton ZIP codes continued to produce the most confirmed cases overall, but the city’s share of new cases since Nov. 25 in the 21 ZIP codes all or largely in the county was far lower than a period The Times-Tribune reviewed in October. The Clarks Summit ZIP was fifth in a two-week period ending Oct. 25 with o...