Ms. Judy Gatelli, vice president of Scranton City Council, brought up a recent article published in the Allentown newspaper "The Morning Call," in an effort to publicly humiliate absent minded landlords and absentee landlords into keeping up on their properties.

I believe in an effort to keep Scranton neighborhoods a clean, safe and enjoyable place to live. Ms. Gatelli stated she will be sending a copy of this article to the Mayor’s office. We’ll keep an eye on this and report on it soon.

New Cable Provider in Store?

Les Spindler, a city resident and homeowner, brought a valid concern to City Council.

Mr. Spindler proposes the city look into other cable providers, other than the one we currently have. He states "The citizens of this city need a break, everything is going up, their prices are going up and it’s ridiculous. Would anybody on Council be against looking into a new provider?"

Ms. Gatelli responded that Mrs. Garvey is going to be sending letters to cable companies, and that a notice came about a seminar for cable law and we are going to discuss sending Attorney Minora to that in January. Comcast watch yourself….competition might be coming.

Olive St. / Penn Ave traffic nightmare.

Anyone that has ever driven either to, or away from the Scranton High School or local businesses is well aware of the delays waiting to get through this busy intersection, especially after work or while school is getting out.

This subject was brought to Council’s attention by Les Spindler, citing this corner has no lines painted on the streets anywhere or signage with the arrows showing the direction the traffic should be travelling. This is true when travelling on Penn Avenue, heading toward Scranton, as well as on Olive Street, heading away from Scranton High.

Does anyone know if it is a two or three lane street? Let’s hope it doesn’t take three years to get action. The last lines he requested to be done took that long.

So being the new investigative reporter, I ran down there and measured it to be approximately 39 feet across, curb to curb, that is. "Is that enough," I asked myself. So again I took it upon myself to measure an average lane on Wyoming Avenue and Olive Street it is approximately 8.8 feet from the double yellow line to the divided white line.

I’m no engineer, but in my opinion this can be corrected safely. Drive by and take a look for yourself, if you have a couple extra minutes, that is. Just be prepared to sit and wait. Council did respond and will look into this matter.