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Crime, Politics / 05.09.2018

Heads understandably turned at last week's meeting of the Scranton School District Board of Education: two plainclothes investigators from the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General were on hand to discreetly take notes. Why were they there? Informed observers believe it is linked to the investigation requested by the school board back in January. Directors took the move after Auditor General Eugene DePasquale released a scathing performance audit of the district's finance and operations. DePasquale said his 2017 performance audit of the Scranton School District, Lackawanna County, shows serious financial instability and an extreme level of board and administrative staff dysfunction rarely observed...

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Life / 03.09.2018

Senior U.S. District Judge William J. Nealon, Scranton, passed away Thursday at home surrounded by his family. His wife of 70 years is the former Jean Sullivan. Born in Scranton, he was the son of the late William "Terry" Nealon and Ann McNally Nealon. He was a graduate of Scranton Central High School and attended Miami University in Florida before enlisting and serving in the United States Marine Corps from 1942 to 1945 and attaining the rank of first lieutenant. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Villanova University, where he was a member of the varsity basketball...

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City Confidential / 31.08.2018

Rosemary Boland, the head of the Scranton Federation of Teachers, wants the sixteen teachers laid off by the Scranton School District back to work when school starts next week. This time, who could blame her? At Monday's Board of Education meeting, directors voted 3-3 on a motion to finalize staff reductions adopted in January. The tie caused the motion to fail and calling into questions whether the cuts would go through and the teachers remain on the unemployment line. Kudos to Robert Casey, Paige Gebhardt Cognetti, Barbara Dixon, and Kate Gilmartin, Mark McAndrew, and Tom Schuster. Regardless of one's opinion on...

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