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Mountain View Garden Club members visit Gourdlania in Ithaca, N.Y.
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Mountain View Garden club to learn about honey bees

Abington Journal - October 2, 2024

Firecracker Group Photo from left: Standing: Poshi Walker, Paul Kantor, Britt Demming, Jeff Ginsberg (Producer), Jessica Fernbach; Seated: Kilber Rubio, Jordan Joubert, Madeline Giardina.
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Actors Circle to present ‘The Miss Firecracker Contest’

Art of the Abingtons to launch art studio tour in fall 2025

Jewish Family Service of Northeastern Pennsylvania was one of the recipients of the 2024 Spring Community Needs Grant from the Scranton Area Community Foundation. The grant in the amount of $2,500 will assist with general operating support for JFS programs and services. From left: Laura Ducceschi, president/CEO of the Scranton Area Community Foundation; Arthur E. Levandoski, JFS Marketing & Development; Sheila Nudelman Abdo, JFS executive director; Heather Greene, JFS business manager; and Barbara O’Hara, Scranton Area Community Foundation board member.
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Scranton Area Community Foundation gives grant to Jewish Family Service of NEPA

ALIFT (Assisting Loggers Immediately Fund Trust) board members Mark and Connie Ridall, far left and far right, congratulate Brandon Groves and Chip Mertz during a fundraising event last month at Rock Mountain Sporting Clays in Meshoppen. The two had tied in the shooting competition, and ALIFT raised over $4,000.
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ALIFT raises over $4,000 at charity fundraiser

The UNICO National Scranton Chapter recently donated $200 to The Wright Center for Patient & Community Engagement’s (TWCPCE) food pantry program. It’s the fifth year UNICO has donated to TWCPCE, which helps many of the most under-resourced individuals and families in NEPA. Participating in the presentation at The Wright Center for Community Health’s primary care community health center in Jermyn are, from left: Kara Seitzinger, The Wright Center’s executive director of public affairs and advisor liaison to the president/CEO; Amy Yando, president of UNICO Ladies Auxiliary; Mary Mararra, co-chair of TWCPCE; and Helayna Szescila, The Wright Center’s deputy chief governance officer.
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UNICO supports Wright Center food pantry

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Representatives of Lackawanna County’s Safe Street Program asked visitors to La Festa Italiana on Courthouse Square to complete a survey for the project. From left: Jacob Siegel and Andrew Schwartz from Environmental Planning & Design; and Jessica Edwards and Mary Liz Donato from the Lackawanna County Department of Planning and Economic Development.
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Lackawanna County seeks Safe Streets input

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Alliance Landfill pitches automated waste collection to Ransom Twp.

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Clarks Summit Borough Council seeks millage from House Bill No. 1738

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Lackawanna Prison Board votes to add free digital books

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The East Coast Trio will perform on Oct. 5 at The Gathering Place in Clarks Summit.
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The Gathering Place to host its two final Coffee House Concert...

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Ann Pelicci and her son, Dr. Enrico Pelicci, an internal medicine resident physician at The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education, stand in their garden in Waverly Twp. Each summer, he and his mother grow an array of produce, from broccoli to zucchini, much of it grown from seed.
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One local doctor’s battle against food insecurity

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Parents of Our Lady of Peace School students attend the Taste of OLP event inside the school’s gymnasium.
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Our Lady of Peace School celebrates 70th anniversary with special events

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Solar farm a no-go in Newton Township

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Major Kathy Whitney, wife of Rotary member Judah Whitney, who recently returned from a tour in Djibouti, spoke at a recent Rotary Club of the Abingtons gathering about her time in the Horn of Africa as the Battalion’s Physician Assistant for the Paxton Task Force.
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Rotarians hear about Africa trip

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