Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Luzerne County Flood Protection Authority appeals order to release Homeland Security lease

Audience members yelled “shame” and voiced other negative comments Tuesday when Luzerne County’s Flood Protection Authority voted to appeal a state open records directive to release its lease with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Luzerne County Study Commission rethinking election board plan

Second thoughts were raised Monday about last week’s Luzerne County Study Commission proposal to give an election board of five citizen volunteers full power to hire an election director and solicitor, choose the county’s voting system and obtain an election budget from county council.

Luzerne County Council will interview three prospective Nanticoke/West Nanticoke Bridge engineers

Luzerne County Council will hold a special meeting in the second half of June to publicly interview the three top-ranked engineering firms for the Nanticoke/West Nanticoke Bridge replacement project, officials said Monday.

Luzerne County proposes employee discount for community college classes

Luzerne County government workers would receive a discount on Luzerne County Community College courses through a program under consideration.


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H.S. Girls Basketball: Crestwood rolls Dallas for first-ever district championship

CORRECTION: The box score was initially missing a basket for Crestwood’s Norah Sklarosky and has been updated.

H.S. Boys Basketball: Rally sends Wyoming Area to Class 4A state playoffs

DALLAS TWP. — Wyoming Area relived a nightmare from two weeks ago in the first quarter against Dallas on Tuesday night.

H.S. Girls Basketball: Dallas heads to D2-5A title game with win over Pittston Area

YATESVILLE — Dallas’ Odessa Kanton was the best player on the court Saturday afternoon.

H.S. Girls Basketball: Holy Redeemer uses defense to post D2-3A semifinal win

LEHMAN TWP. — Holy Redeemer demonstrated early on that the third matchup with Lake-Lehman wouldn’t be like the first two.

H.S. Boys Basketball: Incredible rally gives Dallas WVC Tournament championship

PLAINS TWP. — Down 13 entering the fourth quarter Sunday afternoon, Dallas could have simply written off the Wyoming Valley Conference boys basketball championship.

H.S. Boys Basketball: Dallas, Holy Redeemer square off for WVC title

Some were expecting Round 4 of Dallas vs. Wilkes-Barre Area.

H.S. Girls Basketball: Crestwood rallies past Lake-Lehman in WVC semifinals

NANTICOKE — Surrendering 18 consecutive points is usually a sign of doom.

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