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December 23, 2009

Super Bowl betting pool broken up

KINGSTON – A $3,000 Super Bowl betting pool run out of the teachers’ lounge at the Wyoming Valley West Middle School was broken up Wednesday morning after a tipster reported it to the superintendent.

Money and the cardboard with a grid containing 100 blocks that cost $30 each were confiscated, said Charles Suppon, district superintendent.

“I don’t think it’s an appropriate thing to do,” he said of gambling on school property, especially with the ongoing public corruption probe in Luzerne County that ensnared a member of the school board.

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