North Pocono

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Hundreds of North Pocono-area residents attended a zoning board hearing about a challenge to Clifton Twp.'s zoning ordinance that now includes data centers.

At the end of a four-hour meeting Thursday night, Covington Twp. supervisors approved an ordinance change to allow data centers in the rural Lackawanna County community.

ICE says a federal immigration judge said Nasario Damian Contreras, 45, had to go back to his native Mexico in February 2023, but he opened and operated three Lackawanna County restaurants.

ICE took restaurant owner Nasario Damian Contreras, a native of Mexico, into custody last Tuesday outside Isabella's Restaurant in Lackawanna County. Now, his family is hoping for the best.

ICE took restaurant owner Nasario Damian Contreras, a native of Mexico, into custody last Tuesday outside Isabella's Restaurant in Jefferson Twp., part of the North Pocono region in Lackawanna County.