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Luzerne County Community College is receiving $788,405 in state funding for adult education programs, and it’s a $90,000 increase that will allow an addition of 12 students. The programs will now benefit 630 students, said Kim Gavlick, director of the Adu

The people of Mountain Top are mourning the death of one of the community’s best known businessmen, Edward Deets. Deets, who owned bus companies, a trucking business, a landmark restaurant and more, died Thursday. He was 89. “He was always trying to impro

WILKES-BARRE — City officials want to establish a new appeals process for parking tickets and ensure that drivers who get a ticket know how to appeal it if they wish. City Administrator Ted Wampole presented to council at a work session Monday an ordinanc

The F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts added two new shows to its season’s roster. Singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam appears at the Wilkes-Barre venue Oct. 5, while Swedish heavy metal band Ghost appears at the theater Dec. 5 as a part of its “A Pale

KINGSTON — The Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce will honor community leaders at this year’s EPIC Awards ceremony. The awards and honorees include: The ATHENA Award, to Kathleen Dunsmuir, a senior vice president and wealth management director at PN

The wife of a Hazleton police officer is being credited with spotting a missing 71-year-old man in Wilkes-Barre. The man, Louis Penza, was taken to the hospital but appears to be alright. Hazleton police Chief Jerry Speziale said Allison McAlarney, wife o

Greater Nanticoke Area Senior High School held its commencement exercises Monday in the school’s auditorium. For a list of graduates, be sure to check out our annual graduation special section on June 28.

The state Department of Transportation announced the following upcoming road work projects: Interstate 80 n Patching will take place from Exit 263 Mountain Top to Exit 256 Conyngham from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday to Thursday. n May 1 to June 30 there

HANOVER TWP. — For the third straight year, local history buffs and re-enactors refused to let rain ruin the annual Hanover Green Cemetery Heritage Day celebration on Sunday. Sunday’s ceremony honored veterans of World War I, since that war ended 100 year

SCRANTON — Jane Widenor flips through the tattered black book filled with the names of hundreds of First Christian Church parishioners spanning eight decades. The book is bittersweet for the 85-year-old Clarks Summit woman because it is one of the few mem