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Luzerne County Manager Romilda Crocamo, left, and county Recycling Coordinator Beth DeNardi accepted the Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence in Harrisburg last week in recognition of the county’s eco-friendly renovations of a former Air Reserve Center on Wyoming Avenue in Wyoming.
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Luzerne County receives Governor’s Environmental Award

Dallas Post - June 14, 2025

Project Donating Joy, an outreach ministry of the Trucksville United Methodist Church, recently donated over 30 quilts to Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) of NEPA, Scranton. The quilts offer comfort and warmth to children who are suffering from illness or trauma. Each year, Project Donating Joy distributes approximately 700 to 1,000 quilts to multiple child-serving agencies and hospitals throughout Northeast Pennsylvania. From left: Nicole Cesarini, community education specialist/victim advocate CAC; Kailey Knorr, case manager, CAC; Judy Gober, Project Donating Joy; and Cindy Cramer, Project Donating Joy.
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Project Donating Joy provides 30 quilts to Children’s Advocacy Center of NEPA

Could your next summer vacation be at Lake Norman, N.C.?

Bill Cost, seen through prior years’ trophies won by Bosak’s, takes an order for kielbasa during the Plymouth Alive Kielbasa festival in 2019. This year’s festival is set for Aug. 11-12.
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Bazaars, festivals promise to light up summer

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Remember When

Remember When: Raising a glass to resourcefulness

Dallas Post - December 26, 2020 0

Kristy Rice uses a palette of vibrant colors to paint ornaments in her Wyoming studio, where she is part of a team of seven female artists.
Mary Therese Biebel | Times Leader

She’s eager to spread joy through art

Dallas Post - November 12, 2020 0

Shown from left are: Dallas Kiwanis members Liz Martin, Duane Frank, Beverly Atherholt, Glenn Patrick; W-B General Hospital CEO Dale Johns; Kiwanis member Mary Rodriguez, RN; Alfonso Rodriguez, MD FASN Adfinitas Health, Nursing Director Warren Shotto, ICU Nursing Director Bob Sapiego, Chief of Surgery Mark Schiowitz, Kiwanis member Abby Patrick, Adfinitas Health Regional Manager/Partner Louis Boyle, DO.

Dallas Kiwanis and Penn State Students partner to lend a helping...

Dallas Post - October 13, 2020 0

Diane Koonrad of Kingston serves spaghetti to Mary Ann Stout, 10 of Edwardsville during a fundraiser event for Breathe Deep NEPA in 2018. The group will host a fundraising spaghetti dinner this Sunday, Sept. 27 from noon to 4 p.m. at Bernardine Hall, 13 Hudson Road, Plains Township.
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Breathe Deep NEPA spaghetti fundraiser set for Sunday

Dallas Post - September 22, 2020 0

A tour guide sheds some light on the original 900-foot-deep mine shaft at The No. 9 Coal Mine in Lansford. The mine, which closed in 1972, was later reopened as a museum. This weekend the site will offer its annual Civil War encampment and a Sunday picnic with traditional coal region ethnic foods in addition to mine and museum tours.
Roger DuPuis | Times Leader

Lansford’s No. 9 Coal Mine and Museum to host picnic, Civil...

Dallas Post - September 3, 2020 0

St. Ann is revered in Catholic tradition as the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus.
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Novena to St. Ann set to begin July 18 at St....

Dallas Post - July 16, 2020 0

Uma, also known as Uma Goodness Ginochetti, celebrated her ‘birthday’ on Tuesday, the seventh anniversary of the day her family adopted her.
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Pit bull mix enjoys life despite losing leg

Dallas Post - July 9, 2020 0

Mary Therese Biebel | Times Leader

Happy 90th birthday to detective Nancy Drew

Dallas Post - June 14, 2020 0

Roppelt receives Canfield Memorial Book Scholarship

Dallas Post - June 5, 2020 0

Only Yesterday: Meadows Nursing Center honored over 100 volunteers in 2000

Dallas Post - February 17, 2020 0