Job Posting – President of Penn’s Northeast, (Pittston, PA)

Penn’s Northeast, a regional economic development marketing collaborative, is seeking a President who will serve as the Chief Executive and will be responsible to develop and execute an annual program of work that results in the marketing/branding of the region, the creation and retention of jobs and the investment of…

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John Cognett elected SIDCo VP

The Scranton Industrial Development Co. elected the following officers for 2013: President, Joseph P Migliorino of First National Bank; Vice President, Vincent O’Bell of Peoples Neighborhood Bank; Vice President, John T. Cognetti of Hinerfeld Commercial Real Estate; Secretary-Treasure, James F. Coleman of the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce.   —…

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NEPA swept up in the tide of ‘BoWash’

The year 2010 looked a long way off in 1968, I was 18 and a freshman at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., having left safe, secure, clean, friendly Scranton for a city that had just come through a riot with blocks of charred buildings. The closest thing I ever came…

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