St. Stanislaus Stays Open as Place of Worship

A worship center a New Jersey-based Hindu organization plans for the former St. Stanislaus Church in North Scranton will be its first in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The center, or mandir, will serve about 25 area families who are followers of BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, said Lenin Joshi, a spokesman at the organization’s…

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Churches Born Again

When Vince Brust started searching for a new home for his dance studio a decade ago, he told his real estate agent he needed a big empty space. “Like a factory,” he remembers saying. What he found was something far more divine.

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CPG Move Stalled Over Stalls

John Loyack thought the second floor of the Glenmaura Plaza building would make a good headquarters for local plastics manufacturer CPG International Inc., except for one problem: the bathrooms. Specifically, it was the bathroom stalls and partitions made of metal. CPG is the nation’s leading producer of plastic bathroom partitions,…

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