Chris Chermak

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.

Josh Castellani, the executive assistant to Lackawanna County Commissioner Thom Welby, resigned Monday amid Electric City Trolley Museum Manager Chris Calvey's accusation of political "strong-arming" in the county Democratic Party officer election last week.

Lackawanna County Commissioner Chris Chermak said he's more than qualified to serve as the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport's new executive director.

The Lackawanna County commissioners voted 2 to 1 to temporarily replace Commissioner Chris Chermak on the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport board because he's a candidate to run the airport.