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Our water department employees are currently flushing hydrants in the area of Jade Avenue and Amber Court, located in Stones Throw.  If you are in or around this area, you may experience dirty water and/or low water pressure due to this process.  You can let your water run for a few minutes until it clears up.  If you continue to have water issues, please contact our office at 570-421-8300.  We are open from 8am until 5 pm. 

June 2, 2021 – There was a water main break on West Fourth Street. Five houses on West Fourth Street (from North Courtland Street to Oak Street) are under a boil water advisory until further notice. The boil water advisory only affects those few houses on West Fourth Street, and written notices have been hand-delivered to the affected addresses. If you live in the outlying areas, you may be affected by dirty water and/or low water pressure. You can let your water run for a few minutes, which should clear up the water. If you continue to have issues, please contact our office at 570-421-8300. For updates on this and any other borough news, please sign up for CODE RED or SAVVY CITIZEN alerts. There is a link on our home page, or call Becky at 570-421-8300 ext 101.

June 2, 2021 – There was a water main break on West Fourth Street. Five houses on West Fourth Street (from North Courtland Street to Oak Street) are under a boil water advisory until further notice. The boil water advisory only affects those few houses on West Fourth Street, and written notices have been hand-delivered to the affected addresses. If you live in the outlying areas, you may be affected by dirty water and/or low water pressure. You can let your water run for a few minutes, which should clear up the water. If you continue to have issues, please contact our office at 570-421-8300. For updates on this and any other borough news, please sign up for CODE RED or SAVVY CITIZEN alerts. There is a link on our home page, or call Becky at 570-421-8300 ext 101.

June 2, 2021 – There was a water main break on West Fourth Street. Five houses on West Fourth Street (from North Courtland Street to Oak Street) are under a boil water advisory until further notice. The boil water advisory only affects those few houses on West Fourth Street, and written notices have been hand-delivered to the affected addresses. If you live in the outlying areas, you may be affected by dirty water and/or low water pressure. You can let your water run for a few minutes, which should clear up the water. If you continue to have issues, please contact our office at 570-421-8300. For updates on this and any other borough news, please sign up for CODE RED or SAVVY CITIZEN alerts. There is a link on our home page, or call Becky at 570-421-8300 ext 101.

Pa. state Rep. Maureen Madden joined several colleagues and former incarcerated people who experienced and survived solitary confinement for a press event promoting changes to this cruel and inhumane practice in our prison system. More at http://www.pahouse.com/Madden

How strangely sad it is that some, knowing so much, practise so little. I am afraid that some of you know the gospel so well that for this very reason it has lost much of its power with you, for it is as well-known as a thrice-told tale. If you heard it for the first time, its very novelty would strike you, but such interest you cannot now feel. It is said of Whitefield’s preaching that one reason for its great success was that he preached the gospel to people who had never heard it before. The gospel was to the masses of England in Whitefield’s day very much a new thing. The gospel had been either expunged from the church of England and from Dissenters’ pulpits, or, where it remained, it was with the few within the church and was unknown to the masses outside. The simple gospel of ‘believe and live’ was so great a novelty, that when Whitefield stood up in the fields to preach to his tens of thousands, they heard the gospel as if it were a new revelation fresh from the skies.

Some of the worst of tyrants have delighted to call themselves kings by divine right, emperors by the will of God, monarchs by the grace of God, and the like. It may be so; I doubt not that many of earth’s tyrants require much grace, lest their crimes should bring them to speedy ruin; and doubtless it is sometimes the will of God to inflict great scourges upon guilty nations; but, my brethren, Jesus Christ is no despotic claimant of divine right, but he is really and truly the Lord’s Anointed! ‘For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell’. God has given to him all power and authority. As the Son of man, he is now head over all things to his church, and he reigns over heaven, earth and hell with the keys of life and death at his girdle; ‘and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.’ We recognise him as King by divine right.

On the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's death, Pa. state Rep. Maureen Madden reflects on his murder and how it has crushed the blue wall of silence, likely leading to much needed police reform across America. More at http://www.pahouse.com/Madden

In Genesis 3.6 we see Eve’s response to the serpent’s temptation, “When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for wisdom, she took some and she ate it.” Hebrew (tov). Up until this point, only God had made judgments about whether something was good or not good. God say that creation was good or very good. In 2:18, it was God who said that it was not good for man to be alone. And in Gen 2:16,17, when giving the command about the tree, God calls it the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Again, the word used here is the simple word for good and the simple word for evil. The same word tov/good that has been used throughout the story, is used here.  Can this not be a clue as to what the danger of this tree is. Up until this point, God made the assessment of what was good and what was not good. Mankind did not have any need to know good and evil, because this sort of judgment is not his place.

Pa. state Rep. Maureen Madden joined members of the House Democratic Policy Committee in Dickson City to discuss how the proposed $350 million of investments in the Pa. Rescue Plan would provide the tools and resources to those working to provide patient healthcare in Monroe County and across Pennsylvania. More at http://www.pahouse.com/Madden

Pa. state Rep. Maureen Madden participated in a joint House Education/Appropriations hearing with the PA State System of Higher Education concerning university consolidation and act 50 implementation. Madden says we must do our best to save the PASSHE system and that the proposed consolidation will result in a loss of jobs, education quality, and the identity of existing university communities. More at http://www.pahouse.com/Madden

Earnest intercession will be sure to bring love with it. I do not believe you can hate a man for whom you habitually pray. If you dislike any brother Christian, pray for him doubly, not only for his sake, but for your own, that you may be cured of prejudice and saved from all unkind feeling. Remember the old story of the man who waited on his pastor to tell him that he could not enjoy his preaching. The minister wisely said, ‘My dear brother, before we talk that matter over, let us pray together.’ After they had both prayed, the complainant found he had nothing to say except to confess that he himself had been very negligent in prayer for his pastor, and he laid his not profiting to that account. I ascribe lack of brotherly love to the decline of intercessory prayer. Pray for one another earnestly, habitually, fervently, and you will knit your hearts together in love as the heart of one man.

Pa. state Rep. Maureen Madden discusses how the PA Rescue Plan will help small businesses and workers across the state by investing in workforce development, job training, and expanded childcare for hard working Pennsylvanians. More at http://www.pahouse.com/Madden

The Monroe County Board of Commissioners will hold a public auction on Friday, May 21, 2021, at 10:00 A.M. at Auto in Motion, 1142 Route 390, Cresco, PA for the purpose of selling county-owned and confiscated vehicles.The vehicles will be available for public inspection on that same date from 8:00 A.M. to 10:00 A.M. at Auto in Motion, located on Route 390 near the intersection with Golf Drive in Barrett Township.  All vehicles will be auctioned in “as is” condition with no guarantee as to condition.The successful bidders must able to provide at least one form of photo identification containing current address and must be prepared to pay for the vehicles by the close of the auction on with cash or a certified check only.  No personal checks or credit card payments will be accepted.

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Pa. state Rep. Maureen Madden highlights the benefits of the House Democrats’ PA Rescue Plan, from expanding healthcare access, to job training opportunities and improved telehealth capabilities. More at http://www.pahouse.com/Madden

According to The United Nations’ estimation, about 1 billion individuals volunteer every year tosupport their community and the world around them. Last year, the COVID-19 outbreak resultedto the cancelation of […]

Pa. state Rep. Maureen Madden joined colleagues and advocates to rally for the legalization of adult-use cannabis in Pennsylvania. Madden says there's momentum now and is hopeful current legislation will move forward soon. More at http://www.pahouse.com/Madden

The purpose of this article is to discuss the faulty logic that was used for determining commercial property values when Monroe County went through its reassessment in 2018.When determining a property's value, we are considering how much a property would be worth if was sold. Appraisals are performed by banks and assessments by taxing authorities, but the two sets of numbers should be similar.  On page 2 of the appeal form, Monroe County asks:A. how much the owner is charges for renting each unit. B. how much much was financed, the term, and rate.C. It also asks for 3 years of income and expenses.(!!!?!?)On page 3, it asks for more details that are irrelevant to the value of that property: 3 years of expenses for insurance, electricity, water, manager's salary, legal & accounting, advertising, and more.

After a series of House State Government Committee hearings on the 2020 election, Pa. state Rep. Maureen Madden discusses her takeaways, saying the elections were fair and people supported the efforts to expand voter access. More at http://www.pahouse.com/Madden