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High fashion for rent at Occasions

Post a Comment - 12/3/2008 12:00 AM EST

SCRANTON- “Why can’t women rent dresses for special occasions?” asked Lori Nidoh, owner of Occasions Dress Shop, which offers dress rentals. “You watch red carpet and they’re in these fabulous dresses and they don’t own them.”

• Potbellied pigs may be put up for adoption soon - 11/28/2008 7:29 AM EST
  The 54 potbellied pigs that were rescued in the summer may soon be up for adoption.

• Arc's efforts sail through NEPA - 11/26/2008 12:00 AM EST
  SCRANTON - The Arc of Northeastern Pennsylvania serves Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Wayne, Carbon, Monroe and Pike counties. It is the local branch of the largest national organization for those with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

• Meshoppen woman charged with animal cruelty - 11/26/2008 12:00 AM EST
  GLENBURN - Marla Burnham, the previous owner of 54 potbellied pigs that were confiscated by the Humane Society of Lackawanna County on July 28, was charged with four counts of animal cruelty after a trial before a District Magistrate on Friday, Nov. 21.

• AAJRB awaits funding - 11/26/2008 12:00 AM EST
  CLARKS SUMMIT - Bill Risse, Chairman of the Abington Area Joint Recreation Board (AAJRB) said at a Nov. 20 meeting, “The funding request been distributed to all the municipalities.” Risse refers to annual funding in the amount of $46,260 requested from local municipalities to support the park.

• Home for the holidays - 11/19/2008 12:00 AM EST
  WAVERLY - Maria Wilson, Executive Director at The Waverly Community House, said events like the holiday wreathmaking tradition at the Comm have been going on for longer than she can remember.

• Alliance to accept TVs for recycling - 11/12/2008 12:00 AM EST
  Editor’s Note: This series on the hows, whys and whens of the U.S. conversion to digital television in 2009 will run monthly in The Abington Journal throughout the digital transition on February 17, 2009.

• Future improvements topic at recent AAJRB meeting - 10/29/2008 1:00 AM EDT
  A meeting of the Abington Area Joint Recreation Board was held on Thursday, Oct. 23, at the Clarks Summit Borough Building.

• A lifetime of service - 10/29/2008 1:00 AM EDT
  WAVERLY- Marjorie Black was born on November 15, 1924 to David Black and Evelyn Whitbeck Davis. On Thursday, Nov. 6, she will be presented with the R. Matthew Burne Lifetime of Service Award for 2008 by The Abington Journal.

• Carbondale shelter asking for help - 10/22/2008 1:00 AM EDT
  CARBONDALE- In the past two weeks, “We had four major things go wrong: first our shelter dog died of cancer, then we lost our furnace, his (Jim Schaeffer’s) truck broke down and my TV blew up yesterday,” said Bonnie Schaeffer of Schaeffer’s Retreat Homeless Shelter in Carbondale during an October 15 interview.