The Milford Garden Club Community Garden club, in partnership with Home Depot and Milford Township produced over 300 pounds of fresh vegetables, herbs and flowers for the benefit of the Ecumenical Food Pantry last year. Home Depot has renewed its grant to the club this year. Now the club is able to quadruple [...]
Eastern Pike Regional Police Department is working to improve pedestrian safety in Matamoras Borough by continuing crosswalk enforcement initiatives along Pennsylvania Avenue. The crosswalk awareness initiatives involve an off-duty, undercover police officer posing as a pedestrian crossing at a crosswalk. If oncoming drivers don’t stop for the pedestrian as required by law the vehicle [...]
The annual Paddle and River Clean Up for high school students happens June 8, on the Upper Delaware River. Students will earn eight community service hours for graduation while experiencing the beauty of the river and learning about the local watershed, wildlife, and recreation. This year’s clean up trip is limited to the first twenty [...]
The Malibu Dude Ranch is hosting a Rodeo Kickoff Party Saturday, May 4 with TLC’s Cake Boss revealing a rodeo-inspired cake, and a bull and bronc Clinic open to the public. The Cake Boss reality show is filming an episode for the American Pro Rodeo Association. The cake will be delivering the cake to Malibu [...]
An original documentary film, “Seeking the Greatest Good,” to air on WVIA Television, chronicles the legacy of Gifford Pinchot’s conservation philosophy, and celebrates its value for understanding and solving the conservation challenges of our own era. The broadcast premiere of “Seeking the Greatest Good” is Monday, April 22 at 7 p.m. on WVIA-TV. Milford [...]
Jane Mangini, who has spent 12 years touring with Trans-Siberian Orchestra and has a home in Pike County, will kick off this year’s Winter Wednesdays music series, hosted by The Columns Museum in Milford. Mangini began playing music on a toy piano given to her by her grandfather. She says she tortured her parents playing it [...]
Has Pike County gone taco crazy? The restaurant officially opened at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Workers say a man was waiting for them to unlock the door because he wanted to be able to say he was the first to eat there. They didn’t catch his name, but they remember he ordered a black [...]
The Upper Delaware GLBT Center hosts the “Share Your Heart with the Community” Valentine’s Dance and Food Drive, Saturday, Feb. 9 at the Dingman Township Fire Department “Hall of Romance” on Log Tavern Road in Milford. The event starts at 8 p.m. and is sponsored by J-Angelo Event Planning. The dance will feature local [...]
Pennsylvania Game Commission officials are encouraging bird and nature enthusiasts to join the 2013 Great Backyard Bird Count. The count, Feb. 15-18, is a joint project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society. It is an opportunity to make an important contribution to natural conservation. Bird counters across the nation contribute [...]
Pocono Record Executive Editor Chris Mele is a hardcore news junkie. He is always on the lookout for a hot story because, like his curiosity, news never sleeps. Pocono Record reporters know, if Mele drives through your beat, he is probably going to come back with a quirky story idea for you to investigate. [...]