Gov. wants to spend $80M on PA’s housing crisis. Here’s how.

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River Reporter joins forces with Spotlight PA

For the past decade, there’s been nothing short of a crisis in our state capital. More and more of Pennsylvania’s sprawling and costly bureaucracy operated without scrutiny from …
Around the Area
Legislature: Protect Wurtsboro from runaway trucks

MONTICELLO, NY — The Sullivan County Legislature’s Public Works Committee has asked the NYS Department of Transportation (DOT) to improve the safety of a dangerous Wurtsboro intersection. …

Legislature: Protect Wurtsboro from runaway trucks

MONTICELLO, NY — The Sullivan County Legislature’s Public Works Committee has asked the NYS Department of Transportation (DOT) to improve the safety of a dangerous Wurtsboro intersection. …

Providing a ‘very bright future’ for everyone

SCRANTON, PA — As her elementary school classmates dreamed about being firefighters, ballerinas and movie stars, Erin McFadden’s aspirations focused on the miracles of modern medicine. …

election 2024

PA Greens nominate Jill Stein for President 

On March 10, Green Party delegates and friends from 12 Pennsylvania counties met online for the Green Party of PA (GPPA) State Committee meeting.  They had just completed the first GPPA …
election 2024

Jeff Olsommer to run for PA-139 special election

Jeff Olsommer was chosen by 139th Legislative District Republican conferees from Pike and Wayne counties to be the Republican nominee for state representative in the April 23 special election. …
election 2024

Michele Frazier meets threshold for public financing

New York State Senate candidate Michele Frazier filed her first fundraising report in her race for the 51st District, which includes all of Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie and Sullivan counties, as well …
Letter to the editor

This election year, don’t surrender your common sense

Beware of people who are oblivious to the obvious. People who lose an election, and believe they won. Not based on evidence. But based on what they “feel.” I am a Conservative. Many …

Callicoon well replacement continues

TOWN OF DELAWARE, NY — The Delaware town board convened on March 13 to update the community on the ongoing well replacement in Callicoon. Seeking to address ongoing turbidity issues, the …

Highland board members agree to counseling to cool hostilities

HIGHLAND, NY — Highland supervisor John Pizzolato offered town board members a path out of their hostile stand-off. At the March town board meeting, he suggested using the Dispute …

UPDATE: Sullivan West ends lock out

JEFFERSONVILLE, NY -- Sullivan West Central School posted an emergency message on its website Monday morning. "Sullivan West Central School is in a lockout due to the close proximity of a …

‘They don’t know where to go’

MONTICELLO, NY — Last year, the New York State Division of Human Rights awarded nearly $7 million to more than 1,000 victims of discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodation …

Artificial turf to replace game-canceling sod at ECS

School is near decision after years of discussion By NICK ROES ELDRED, NY — The Eldred Central School District is moving …

Misinformation spreads about migrants in Wayne County

HONESDALE, PA — The River Reporter has received many recent reports from readers who—without offering evidence other than anonymous social media posts and unsubstantiated …

Sullivan’s crime analyst is tracking drug cartels, not local doctors

Sullivan’s crime analyst is tracking cartels, not local doctors DA says tracking prescription drugs needs ‘a much larger investigation’ By RUBY RAYNER-HASELKORN …

New to farming? Here’s help

LIVINGSTON MANOR, NY — The sun set over the undulating hills around Livingston Manor as farmers from around Sullivan County ambled into the Upward Brewing Company.  Taylor Adam, …

Leap Year baby born at Wayne Memorial

HONESDALE, PA — Little Ainsley Adames doesn’t know it yet, but she’s a “leapling.”  That’s the name given to babies born on February 29, a day that comes …

PA train derailment dumps plastic pellets, diesel fuel

STEEL CITY, PA — Diesel fuel and polypropylene pellets spilled from a Norfork Southern freight train that slid down the bank of the Lehigh River on Saturday morning. The Lower Saucon …

Chief ranger: If a river disaster happened today, strong relationships would save it

UPPER RIVER VALLEY — It’s been a year since 38 train cars spilled toxins into the land and groundwater at East Palestine, Ohio.  It’s been six years since a derailment at …

Short-term rentals ‘not in harmony’ might be denied

ELDRED, NY — Highland’s new attorney pointed to a way for the planning board to deny certain short-term rentals. This represents a departure from the previous attorney’s …

Honesdale thinks spring with approval of park events

HONESDALE, PA — Even though it’s still February, the beautiful weather this week everyone’s sights set on the warmer months, including the Honesdale Borough Council. The main …

The Delaware like you’ve never seen it

NARROWSBURG, NY — It used to be that checking the health of a river meant taking samples from some sites and then extrapolating the findings to the rest of the stream. This method is now …

Damascus solar panel project goes to court 

DAMASCUS, PA — A solar array developer has filed in court after Damascus Township rejected its application. Supervisors at their February 20 meeting said the law firm of Chariton & …

Stroudsburg brothers arrested for assaulting police during Capitol riot

STROUDSBURG, PA — Two brothers from Stroudsburg, PA, have been arrested on felony charges for assaulting police during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.  Andrew …