Municipal News

May 29, 2008

local briefs

SCRANTON -- The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre affiliate of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network will be holding its monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Clarion Hotel in Scranton. Join us and learn what you can do to help fight pancreatic cancer. Please RSVP to tjones@pancan.org or 498-9488 if planning on attending.

LUZERNE COUNTY -- Plans were recently finalized for a Sobriety Checkpoint on Friday.

The Luzerne County Sobriety Checkpoint Program, administered through the Luzerne County Probation Services with funding provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, will conduct the checkpoint, which will be on Friday in Nescopeck Borough.

The operations by the Nescopeck Police Department will be dependent on the weather.

Police officers running the checkpoint will be out in force to enhance public safety and advise drivers of the dangers of drinking and driving.

The Roving Patrol/Sobriety Checkpoint program is designed as a reminder that the impaired driver puts lives in jeopardy.

For more information, contact Peter J. Quinn, who serves as Checkpoint Program Coordinator at Luzerne County Probation Services, 570-830-5136.

HAZLETON – Motorists should expect delays on state Route 3026 (Airport Road) between state Routes 93 and 309 today until 8 a.m.

Nighttime paving will resume this evening at 9:30 and continue until Friday morning at 8.

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