Lifeguards from other state parks are helping to keep the pool complex open at Lackawanna State Park.
The park announced Sunday on Facebook the pool will be closed indefinitely because of staffing shortages. However the park posted Tuesday that the pool will remain open for the season because of the outside help.
The pool is open Thursday to Monday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; the splash pad is open until 5 p.m. Pool hours and days open are subject to change based on lifeguard availability, the post states.
Contact 570-945-3239, option 4, for current pool information before visiting.
A Scranton native, Kathleen Bolus began her career at the paper around 2000, in a brief stint as a paper delivery girl in West Scranton. She graduated from West Scranton High School in 2006 and from Temple University in 2010 with a bachelor’s degree in communications. She ended her illustrious full-time waitressing career in 2012 to began her journalism career as a news/obituary clerk at The Times-Tribune. She was promoted to a reporter in 2013, covering the Midvalley and Upvalley, including their school districts. Kathleen now covers education and authors the Name Dropper column. She received a 2017 Pennsylvania Newsmedia Association’s Keystone Press Award for her work covering the 2016 presidential candidates’ visits and the Society of Professional Journalists’ second-place award for online breaking news. Kathleen can be found trying to visit all 50 states, hiking at Lackawanna State Park and hanging with her cat, Lily, in Scranton. Contact her at kbolus@timesshamrock.com or 570-348-9100, x5114.
