Moosic seeks fees, costs in suit filed by doctor

Moosic borough wants a federal judge to award it more than $134,000 in attorney’s fees and costs related to its defense of a lawsuit filed six years ago by the doctor whose company provides inmate medical care at the Lackawanna County Prison. In seeking the award, attorneys for Moosic argue the lawsuit that Edward Zaloga, D.O., and his company, Correctional Care Inc., brought against the borough and several of its officials in December 2010 was mostly frivolous and without foundation.

Train route between Scranton, New York City not yet a reality

MICHAEL J. MULLEN / TIMES-SHAMROCK FILE U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-Moosic, who holds a seat on the Appropriations Committee, has turned the train’s revival into his mission in Congress. Larry Malski, president of the Pennsylvania Northeast Regional Railroad Authority, rode the last passenger train that ran between Scranton and New York City on Jan. 5, 1970, and remains optimistic he can ride the next one.