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The 2020 parade was canceled as the COVID-19 pandemic grew out of control

The 2020 parade was canceled as the COVID-19 pandemic grew out of control

COVID strikes again: Morristown St. Pat's parade canceled for a second year Morristown Daily Record Coming just a few days after the first New Jersey resident died of the coronavirus in early March 2020, the cancelation of the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Morristown delivered sober warning that a "new normal" had arrived. Less than a year later, with the United States still gripped by the deadly pandemic, parade organizers wasted no time in canceling the parade for a second straight year. “Our hope is to conduct the parade at a later date when existing gathering restrictions are lifted," or...

SCRANTON, Pa. -- In the downtown here, if you pass Courthouse Square on Adams Avenue, then merge onto Washington Avenue, you’ll eventually enter Green Ridge, a neighborhood seemingly preserved in ’50s-era America. “It’s a Norman Rockwell kind of scene,” Sarah Piccini, assistant director of the Lackawanna Historical Society, told me. Indeed, stately old residences line this leafy stretch of North Washington Avenue, where “Scranton Loves Joe” signs adorn lawns and a large, ornamental donkey – clearly a tribute to the Democratic Party – commands the front porch of a Colonial re...

Updated / Tuesday, 22 Dec 2020 11:29 Cuban leader Fidel Castro in the early 1960s: Ireland agreed to a US request to search Cuban-bound planes passing through Shannon Reviewer score Publisher Royal Irish Academy Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, Volume XII: 1961-1965 recalls a period when a Catholic Irish-American had just been elected to the White House and the biggest foreign policy issue of the day concerned British relations with Europe. Ireland was about to take a seat on the United Nations Security Council. Welcome to 1961. So much for the similarities, there were also lots of diff...