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.

H.S. Softball: Comitz powers Dallas to District 2 Class 4A win

DALLAS — Dallas senior Carolyn Comitz doubled in two runs in the first inning Tuesday for her 100th career hit.

H.S. Baseball: Snyder, Vacula throw combined no-hitter for Wyoming Area

WEST PITTSTON — If Wyoming Area is going to remain in contention for the Wyoming Valley Conference Division 2 title, it’s going to need some pitching performances like on Tuesday.

H.S. Baseball: Quaglia, Holy Redeemer shut out Lake-Lehman

LEHMAN TWP. — Holy Redeemer’s pitching did it again to Lake-Lehman.

Carl P. Leubsdorf: Compromise is difficult to find

The prolonged negotiations among four senators that produced this week’s compromise on a modest gun control bill show how hard it is to reach bipartisan agreement on contentious issues in a time of sharply partisan politics.

Our View: We support train station tourism office plan

For more years than we want to remember, it has seemed as if salvation for the historic downtown Wilkes-Barre train station was always just out of reach.

Remember When: Raising a glass to resourcefulness

I can’t find any record of a patron saint of bootleggers. But if there ever had been one, a lot of Wyoming Valley people would have been praying to him during holiday time a century ago.

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