Bar Pazzo joined this culinary community in May and carved out a niche in the market with its authentic dishes rooted in Old World and Sicilian influences. Now, the eatery housed in downtown Scranton’s Connell Building, 131 N. Washington Ave., offers Sunday brunch, too, with an emphasis on cured meats, cheeses and fresh fruit. The new offerings extend Bar Pazzo’sspotlight on the purest, simplest ingredients in its food.

Bar Pazzo will open soon inside the Connell Building. The building is also home to about 100 apartments. Downtown living is one of the reasons Bar Pazzo’s owners wanted to give downtown Scranton a try. “It always had to be where there’s a lot of people. There’s 100 people that live upstairs, so we’re going to cater to everyone who is downtown,” said Sam Agolino. Part-owner Agolino says he wanted to capitalize on the growing number of people who live in downtown Scranton. The restaurant will share the Connell Building with about 100 downtown residents.

They fill the hallway between classes, some giggling in pairs and others tapping their smartphones as they lumber toward their next class. The crowd of teens in T-shirts and jeans is punctuated by a few in leotards and others with large instrument cases slung over their shoulders. Some practice their fancy footwork in the hallways, while others warm up their vocal chords by singing a few bars. It’s just a typical day at the new Lehigh Valley Charter School for the Arts, which moved into a new building last fall in south Bethlehem. In what was once a quintessential blue-collar part of town, students now learn to pirouette, write music and paint while they master their academic subjects.

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