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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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