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November 20, 2009

Area schools share in Keystone Awards for academic achievement

Touted by the state as “showing sustained academic achievement,” 35 local schools in 12 districts received Keystone Achievement Awards on Thursday.

November 12, 2009

A woman for the ages

WILKES-BARRE TWP. – Margaret Karassik said she was going to the movies with her two sons and she wanted to make sure she got her senior citizen’s discount.

November 9, 2009

Larksville marking its 100th

LARKSVILLE -- It was once a part of Plymouth Township, known as Blindtown, the most populated municipality in Luzerne County and home to five collieries.

October 14, 2009

MMI 7th-grader has the formula

Claire Sheen, a seventh-grader at MMI Preparatory School in Freeland, recently won the National Zoo prize during the Discovery 3M Young Scientist Challenge in New York City.

October 6, 2009

Good-looking project

FORTY FORT – Two local chapters of the Greater Federation of Women’s Clubs have joined forces to create perennial and bee pollination gardens on the Luzerne County Recreation Complex in Forty Fort.

October 5, 2009

Racing to aid kids

EXETER – More than 150 people ran through a parking lot pushing hospital beds on Sunday to raise money to help the family of a sick little girl.

October 2, 2009

Dash of humor helps educator connect

KINGSTON – Call it “Mr. Nick’s greatest hits.”

September 28, 2009

Getting taste of Big Apple

For five local women artists, the dream of showcasing their combined talents in the same neighborhood that has been an art hub in New York City for decades has come true.

September 27, 2009

Parents seeking out the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization often are looking for someone to add healthy influences and a stable relationship to the life of their child. But in 1977, Kay Pettinger yearned for those feelings in her own adult life.

September 24, 2009

A point of pride

WILKES-BARRE – Katie, Erin, Emma and Ryan Murphy were among the first children to utilize the new playground at Coal Street Park on Thursday, and deservedly so.

September 23, 2009

Courthouse at 100 a worthy party, say officials

Local history lovers are revved up for this weekend’s Luzerne County Courthouse centennial celebration, and they hope people are able to separate the building from the nationally publicized misdeeds of some who worked there.

September 15, 2009

Ice, ice baby: Frozen floor just beginning at Coal St. Park

WILKES-BARRE – A big chill is coming to Coal Street Park this week – water that will become the new ice rink at the Ice-A-Rama will be poured and skating will soon follow.

August 27, 2009

River Common attracts tree lovers

WILKES-BARRE – The River Common park has caught the eye of tree lovers who are coming to the city Friday for the summer meeting of the Northeast Pennsylvania Community Tree Association.

August 26, 2009

Ceremony set for new GOP HQ

WILKES-BARRE – Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele will cut the ceremonial ribbon on Sept. 9 when the Luzerne County Republican Party holds a grand opening of its new permanent headquarters in the city.

August 25, 2009

Numbers up for W.S. Tech Center

PRINGLE -- West Side Career and Technology Center will start classes Monday with 566 students, the largest enrollment in 10 years, the school’s administrative director said.

August 25, 2009

Area grad’s work heading into space

A research scientist at the University of Utah who is originally from Plains Township participated in a project for NASA that will be launched as a six-month experimental trial on today’s scheduled liftoff of space shuttle Discovery.

August 21, 2009

Teacher has a wheel adventure

HAZLETON – Pleasant Valley High School teacher Keith Bast spent his summer vacation in a reclined position. And it wasn’t in a hammock or lawn chair.

August 20, 2009

Digging into summer fun

WILKES-BARRE – Mix tons of mulched soil, about 400 plants, and 10 and 1/2 kids and what do you get? Dirty fingers, a few worms, corny lyrics to an ad-libbed song, and a community garden outside an urban elementary center intended to become an “edible schoolyard.”

August 19, 2009

Local schools shine for higher degrees

Five local schools made the top 100 master’s universities of the North rankings that appear in the latest edition of “America’s Best Colleges” published by U.S. News & World Report. The full lists will be made public online and in print today.