Lake Ariel

Lake Ariel is a village in Lake and Salem Townships, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded by settlers with the name of Jones, and was previously known as Jonestown. Following a name change, Lake Ariel became home to Lake Ariel Park, a major tourist destination for Pennsylvanians in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Lake Ariel Elementary School closed down in 2011, after a new elementary school was built in a nearby town. The building was demolished in mid to late 2016. Lake Ariel also contains many churches and religious institutions, such as St. Thomas More's Catholic Church and Avoy Christian Church. It is located in the center of the community, while several Protestant churches are located at other places in the community. It also has schools in the nearby communities of Waymart, Hamlin, and Varden, and Evergreen Elementary, which opened August 31, 2011. The new school is the premier 'green' school in the state, and attained the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification for its geo-thermal heating and cooling. The school is located on Route 191 between Lake and Hamlin Elementary and Lake Ariel Hamlin. It replaced the Lake Ariel School, which was closed in the early 1950s due to summer hurricanes and bad winters the park had to be shut down in the mid-1950s. It has been used as an elementary school since the 1950s in held the grades kindergarten through 12th. In 1996 the construction for the expansion of the church began; the rectory was torn down and rebuilt across the street.

History

Lake Ariel is the primary city name, but also Cobbs Lake Preserve, Cobbs Lk Pres, Jefferson Township, Jefferson Twp, Mount Cobb, Roaring Bk Tp, Roaring Brook Twp are acceptable city names or spellings. The official name is Village of Lake Ariel. The town of Lake Ariel was first settled in 1822 by the Jones family. It was first called The Stock Farm and later Jonestown or Jones Pond. The Lake Ariel Park was a major tourist destination in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The town also had a post office named Ariel, which would later lead to the change in name of the town. Lake Ariel also contains many churches and religious institutions, including St. Thomas More's Catholic Church, Avoy Christian Church, and the Gravity Pentecostal Church. The original Lake Ariel Elementary School closed down in 2011, after a new elementary school was built in a nearby town. The building was demolished in mid to late 2016. The new school, Evergreen Elementary, opened August 31, 2011. It is located on Route 191 between Lake Ariel and Hamlin. According to the school's website, it houses pre-k-k between 191 and 191 between the communities of Waymart, Hamlin, and Varden. The school is the premier 'green' school in the state. It attained the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design in Silver Certification for its use of geo-malmal heating and cooling, solar and wind energy. It also attained the. Leadership in Environmental Design Silver Certification in Silver for its. use of geothermal heating and. cooling and solar and energy. It is now used as a house. The church was dedicated in 1942. In 1996 the rectory was torn down and rebuilt across the street, the church was converted into a steeple and offices and a new, larger church was built.

Media in Lake Ariel

WCRV 97.7FM is a low-powered station serving Lake Ariel, Cherry Ridge, and Southern Honesdale. The station is owned by WCRV Media, which also owns the station's sister station, WLZF. WLzF is also available on satellite radio on iHeartRadio, a satellite-only radio network. W LZF is available on the Internet at http://www.lzf.com/news/local/wcrV-97-7-FM-Cherry-Ridge-Southern-Honesdale-Lake-Ariel.html. It also has a satellite feed on the internet at www.lopezradio.com. It is available in English and Spanish, with an emphasis on Spanish and English. It broadcasts from a base in Lake Ariel and a transmitter in Cherry Ridge. It can also be heard on satellite in Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. It has a translator in South Mountain, New Jersey, which can be heard in Spanish and Portuguese. It was built in the 1970s and broadcasts from Lake Ariel in the 1980s and 1990s. In the 1990s, the station moved to Cherry Ridge in the South Mountain area, which is also known as "Cherry Ridge" The station also broadcasts in Italian and Spanish. It currently broadcasts in French and Italian, with a Spanish translator in the North Mountain area of the North Mountains, and an Italian translator in Northumberland, New York.