First Posted: 3/20/2014
Stephanie Jallen and Patrick Solano join a long list of distinguished honorees.
Past recipients of the Greater Pittston Person of the Year beginning with the year 2000 are:
Mike Lombardo
Lori Nocito
Frank Bartoli
Our Fighting Men and Women
Ron D’Eliseo
Father Paul McDonnell
The Joyces (William, John, Joseph and David Joyce, and Michael Joyce, posthumously)
Monsignor John Bendik
Peggy Burke
Trooper Joshua Miller
Richie Kossuth
Our Flooded Neighbors
Charles Adonizio
The Lifetime of Service Award was initiated by the Sunday Dispatch in 2001 and Atty. Joseph Saporito Sr. was honored posthumously. The next year his family came forward to sponsor future awards and it became known as the Joseph Saporito Lifetime of Service Award.
The recipients of the Saporito Award beginning in 2002 are:
Tom “Kubby” Kobeski
Charles “Cugsy” Adonizio
Betty Miller
Warren Pollard
Janet Delaney
Joseph Tavaglione
James Steer
Maria Caporella-Montante
Alan and Ann Rose
Fred DeSanto
Dr. Lewis Druffner
