St. Mary’s plans annual indoor Summer Festival

St. Mary Byzantine Catholic Church will host the area’s largest indoor Summer Festival Aug. 1-3 on the parish grounds at 522 Madison St. in Wilkes-Barre. Friday and Saturday hours are from 5 to 10 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 10 p.m. Games, prizes, homemade ethnic foods and baked goods, a giant indoor flea market, potato pancakes, a cash raffle, tricky tray raffle, live entertainment each evening, free bloo...

Event to benefit area residents

PITTSTON: The Muscular Dystrophy Association will hold its annual Lackawanna/Luzerne Stride & Ride event on Aug. 16 at Pittston Area High School. Registration begins at 9 a.m. and the event will conclude with an award ceremony at 10:30 a.m.

Gulbish wins $500 prize at Library Auction

Shown on the left is Stanley Gulbish, the first place winner in the annual Back Mountain Memorial Library Auction. Clarence J. Michael, at right, library auction chairman, presented his former Plymouth High School classmate the $500 prize.

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