Lackawanna County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in Northeastern Pennsylvania and had a population of 215,896 as of the 2020 census. Its county seat and most populous city is Scranton.
Scranton is a city in and the county seat of Lackawanna County,Pennsylvania,United States. With a population of 76,328 as of the 2020 U.S. census,Scranton is the most populous city in Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Wyoming Valley metropolitan area,which has a population of 562,037 as of 2020. It is the sixth-most populous city in Pennsylvania.
Stroudsburg is a borough and county seat of Monroe County,Pennsylvania,United States. It lies within the Poconos region approximately five miles (8 km) from the Delaware Water Gap at the confluence of Brodhead Creek,McMichaels,and Pocono Creeks in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Stroudsburg is part of the East Stroudsburg,PA Metropolitan Statistical Area,which in turn is part of the New York combined statistical area. The population was 5,927 at the 2020 census.
PNC Field is a 10,000-seat minor league baseball stadium that is located in Moosic,Pennsylvania,in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area that was built in 1989 and rebuilt in 2013. The stadium is home to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders,the Triple-A affiliate of the New York Yankees.
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport is mostly in Pittston Township,Pennsylvania,and spans the border between Luzerne County and Lackawanna County. It is owned and operated by the two counties;it is about 7 miles from Scranton and 8 miles from Wilkes-Barre. It is the fifth-largest airport in Pennsylvania by passenger count and calls itself "your gateway to Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Pocono Mountains".
WYOU is a television station licensed to Scranton,Pennsylvania,United States,serving as the CBS affiliate for Northeastern Pennsylvania. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting,which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Nexstar Media Group,owner of Wilkes-Barre–licensed NBC affiliate WBRE-TV,for the provision of certain services. The two stations share studios on South Franklin Street in downtown Wilkes-Barre,with a news bureau and sales office in the Ritz Theater in downtown Scranton. WYOU's transmitter is located at the Penobscot Knob antenna farm near Mountain Top.
The President Joseph R. Biden,Jr. Expressway, commonly referred to as the President Biden Expressway,and formerly known as the Central Scranton Expressway,is a 0.76-mile-long (1.22 km) freeway southeast of downtown Scranton in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It runs east-southeast from U.S. Route 11 /Pennsylvania Route 307 near downtown to Interstate 81 (I-81).
Beverly D. Mackereth is an American politician who formerly represented the 196th District in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from 2001 to 2008. A Republican,Mackereth served as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare from 2013 to 2015.
The Marketplace at Steamtown is a shopping mall in Scranton,Pennsylvania. United States. It was conceived in the mid-1980s as the keystone of downtown revitalization,though the project was not completed until 1993. Its opening in 1993 was nationally televised on CNN and attended by then-Pennsylvania Governor Robert P. Casey,Sr.,who was instrumental in securing funding for and initiating development of the mall. The mall is built on approximately half of the former Delaware,Lackawanna and Western Railroad yard that was abandoned by Conrail in the late 1970s. The mall is located on Lackawanna Avenue in the heart of downtown Scranton,and includes a parking garage that stretches the length of the mall between Boscov's and the former The Bon-Ton. The mall has two levels with a food court overlooking Steamtown National Historic Site on the second floor. There is a pedestrian bridge leading from the food court out to Steamtown. The mall was featured several times on the NBC sitcom The Office which was set in Scranton.
Edward G. Staback was an American politician who served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives,representing the 115th District from 1985 to 2012. A Democrat,Staback also served on the Lackawanna County Board of Commissioners in 2015.
The Harrison Avenue Bridge was a concrete deck arch bridge carrying Harrison Avenue in Scranton,Pennsylvania,United States.
Corey Daniel O’Brien is an American lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Lackawanna County Board of Commissioners from 2008 to 2015. In 2010,he challenged incumbent Congressman Paul Kanjorski in the May 2010 Democratic primary but lost.
Lackawanna Transit Center is the main bus station and a proposed train station in Scranton,Pennsylvania,operated by the County of Lackawanna Transit System (COLTS).
Viewmont Mall is a shopping mall located in Scranton,Pennsylvania. It is anchored by JCPenney,Macy's,Dick's Sporting Goods / Field &Stream,and HomeGoods.
The Scranton Lace Company,also known as the Scranton Lace Curtain Company and Scranton Lace Curtain Manufacturing Company,was an American lace manufacturer in Scranton,Pennsylvania.
Matthew Alton Cartwright is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative from Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district since 2013. The district,numbered as the 17th district from 2013 through 2019,includes a large swath of northeastern Pennsylvania,anchored by Scranton,Wilkes-Barre,and the Poconos. A member of the Democratic Party,Cartwright defeated 10-term incumbent Tim Holden,the dean of Pennsylvania's congressional delegation,in the Democratic primary on April 24,2012,57%–43%. He then defeated Republican nominee Laureen Cummings in the general election on November 6,2012,61%–39%. As an attorney,Cartwright previously worked at the law firm of Munley,Munley,and Cartwright.
Mary Adrian Barrett,I.H.M.,commonly referred to as Sister Adrian,was an American Catholic religious sister,who was a member of the Sisters,Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,an educator and the founder of Friends of the Poor,a nonprofit organization based in Scranton,Pennsylvania.
Bridget Malloy Kosierowski is an American politician. She is a Democrat who represents the 114th district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
The 2021 Pennsylvania elections were held on November 2,2021,to fill judicial positions on the Supreme Court,Superior Court,and Commonwealth Court,to allow judicial retention votes,and to fill numerous county,local and municipal offices.
The 2024 Pennsylvania Auditor General election will be held on November 5,2024,to elect the Pennsylvania Auditor General. Incumbent one-term Republican Auditor General Timothy DeFoor is running for reelection.
