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Today Partly cloudy skies early then becoming cloudy with periods of rain late. Snow may mix in late. Low 36F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90%.. Tonight Partly cloudy skies early then becoming cloudy with periods of rain late. Snow may mix in late. Low 36F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90%. Updated: April 20, 2021 @ 7:31 pm
New mayor takes Scrantonâs reins This is not how Paige Gebhardt Cognetti envisioned her first year as Scrantonâs mayor. Elected in November 2019 to fill the final two years of former Mayor Bill Courtrightâs term after his guilty plea to federal corruption charges, Cognetti took office Jan. 6 and had to start working almost immediately to put out figurative fires. The first was dealing with the potentially devastating Lackawanna County Court decision in a tax lawsuit that threatened to drive the city into insolvency, followed in short order by the burgeoning COVID-19 crisis that...