A mother is suing her estranged husband after one of his venomous snakes bit their son at a home in Pa. and he developed anxiety and PTSD as a result, according to a lawsuit recently filed in federal court.

The lawsuit—filed by the boy’s mother, Irina Mayman—said Gregory Johnson, of Monroe County, made his 8-year-old son “swear on the Bible” not to tell anyone about the incident at Johnson’s parents’ house in August of 2021, according to the lawsuit.

Pocono Mountain School District
P.O. Box 200,
Swiftwater, PA 18370-0200
October 4, 2023
Dear Parents/Guardians,
All schools in Pocono Mountain School District are participating in the Community Eligibility
Program (CEP) for the 2023-24 school year, which means all students in kindergarten through
grade 12 are eligible to receive a free breakfast and free lunch when attending school in-person
on school days.
In addition, every household with a child attending a Pocono Mountain School District school

The Monroe County Recorder of Deeds office is now offering the new Monroe County Record Alert System to all residents of Monroe County. The record alert system will be free to anyone who would like to sign-up for the service.

If you sign-up, you will receive an email from our recording vendor, Landex, alerting you anytime a document has been recorded in our office with your name. Businesses are aslo welcome to sign-up for this service. 

Return on Environment Study Shows Monroe County’s Open Spaces Generate over $1.5 Billion in Annual Revenue.

The Monroe County Return on Environment (ROE) Study demonstrates how open space is greatly contributing to the health of the local economy, as well as to a lower cost of living and improved quality of life for citizens.

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A bipartisan proposal now making the rounds of the General Assembly would allow Pennsylvania to join the company of 22 other states that allow “community solar” projects that backers say “would enable access to solar energy for all Pennsylvanians,” regardless of whether they can install solar panel on their roofs or not.

“Rising costs and energy bills are very real here in Pennsylvania, and we must help find creative solutions to maintain reasonable utility costs,” Sen. Rosemary Brown, R-Monroe, the prime sponsor of the Senate version of the proposal, said in a statement.