Beginning Tuesday, the pool at Lackawanna State Park will be closed.
The pool will shut down indefinitely due to a lack of lifeguard availability, according to a post on the park’s Facebook page.
The last day for swimming is today from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The park is looking for full-time lifeguards at $13.70 to $14.78 an hour, according to the post. The positions are not posted yet but will be on www.employment.pa.gov.
For details, visit Lackawanna State Park on Facebook or dcnr.pa.gov.
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.
