Chris Chermak

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport board chairman Chris Belles said Thursday the board will meet during the next two weeks to decide on how to go about finding a new executive director after the chosen candidate withdrew.

Over 90 days, EmPower will study more than a dozen Lackawanna County proposed data center campuses and power plants.

Local board hired veteran airport management executive Kim William "Bill" Hopper as its new executive director.

The Lackawanna County Board of Elections voted 3 to 0 to put Action Together NEPA's question asking voters to ban county employees from insider stock trading on the Nov. 3 election ballot.

Lackawanna County residents lined up to plead with commissioners to fund a study that would analyze the air-quality and health impacts of the data center industry. The commissioners are on board to do a study, but squabbled over the cost of it, who would do it and what it would accomplish.

The more than 3-hour-long commissioners meeting was filled with residents who want the county to hire a Harvard University doctor's firm to do the study. In the end, elected officials took no action.

Commissioner Bill Gaughan on Monday called on Lackawanna County to fund an independent, $165,000 health impact study of proposed data centers and power plants.

Garrity, the Republican candidate for governor, held her campaign's first agricultural listening session in Lackawanna County on Thursday.

The East Region Junior Little League Softball Championship started Thursday in Nanticoke. The Pennsylvania State Major Baseball Tournament starts Monday in Jenkins Twp.

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport board member Bill Gaughan, a Lackawanna County commissioner, raised questions Thursday about how fellow Commissioner Chris Chermak became a finalist for the airport's executive director opening.