Last weekend we went out and got our Christmas tree at the Farmers Basket in Stroudsburg which is located directly to the left of Ritas Water Ice(which is closed for the season). Every year since I moved to the Poconos I have gotten my tree from there, initially simply because it was close to where [...]
In today’s world scandal and gossip seems to travel faster then the speed of light, and good news, well that can be hard to get a hold of sometimes.
Yesterday I received a check in the mail for $420 from my bank, it was an overage from them calculating my taxes because the Homestead Tax Relief Act had kicked in. Simply put, I finally got my “casino discount”. If your taxes are not escrowed in(mine are), or are already calculated with this discount(mine were not) then instead of a refund you would just not be paying that money up front. So next year, I will just pay that much less in taxes and might even get a greater discount depending on how the casino does.
So the question is, did you get a break this year? Are you eligible? And why is no one talking about this?!
A few weeks back we were on our way home from a trip up to the Scranton/Carbondale area when we hit a deer. Fortunately no one was hurt, except the deer, but we were all were pretty shook up from it and it reminded me just how unpredictable deer, and life, can be. We were [...]
If you drove through downtown Stroudsburg at night this week you would notice that the Christmas lights are up on the trees! I love the “old town” charm of the christmas lights on trees in winter, the flower baskets hanging off the poles in summer, those things that give Stroudsburg that ‘small town’ charm feeling [...]
I sure as heck can’t – stop by the Eastburg Friendly’s this Saturday June 6th from 12pm – 5pm to receive a free single scoop cone or dish. Yum!
