Good morning, Scranton.

Archbald held its National Night Out event Wednesday at A.C.

Field where families enjoyed games, bicycle raffles and giveaways while meeting local first responders (including helicopter and live Taser demonstrations). Sponsors helped support future events and food donations for Christ the King Food Pantry.

Scranton Jazz Festival runs Friday through Sunday downtown, featuring headliners Ron Carter and Dirty Dozen Brass Band.

Ron Carter will perform Sunday at the Scranton Cultural Center (Masonic Temple) and a new jazz train ride for families begins Saturday in partnership with Iron Horse Society and Steamtown.

WVIA’s Kat Bolus hosted the Good Natured podcast on August 6, 2026, where DiscoverNEPA’s Don Jacobs went rattlesnake hunting and joined an Eastern Woodland Intertribal Powwow at Luzerne County Fairgrounds — she then spoke with new team member Sydney Allabaugh about the Planters NUTmobile.

Local pediatricians are prescribing books during routine checkups to spur early reading among children + the expanding program aims to address flat literacy levels across Scranton schools.

Today, Wyoming Area graduate Dom DeLuca is at the Baltimore Ravens training camp while Sarah and Bob record a WVIA podcast that covers Little League baseball and the start of high school football camps in Northeast Pennsylvania; Bob also previews Landmark Conference football and new Lackawanna Conference coaches.