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July 3, 2009

Gas-lease tips offered before you sign up

ROSS TWP. – Gas-lease offers might be low, thanks to a lagging economy, but that’s not stopping drillers from proposing them.

July 3, 2009

Big dream takes flight

BEAUMONT – Perhaps Wende DeOliveira’s plan is no more plausible than the one that preceded it at the nondescript old farmstead nestled on the sloping marshland off Crow Hill Road.

July 3, 2009

Choreographer: ‘Everybody’s an artist; we paint the sky’

WILKES-BARRE – The four-man crew from Zambelli Fireworks arrived just before 3 p.m. on Friday, minutes ahead of the rolling thunder and lightning that foreshadowed what they had come to unleash.

July 1, 2009

NRC to discuss safety at nuclear plant

Federal regulators will meet with PPL Corp. representatives on Monday to discuss the company’s response to concerns about an atmosphere at the Susquehanna nuclear plant in Salem Township that deterred workers from reporting safety issues.

June 30, 2009

Piers under construction for new span

The landscape is a lot different these days along River Street in Jenkins Township since several buildings have been leveled to make way for a new, smoother and wider Eighth Street Bridge.

June 29, 2009

Report: Drilling may employ 13,000 by ’12

As the natural-gas drilling industry ramps up in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale, it could employ perhaps 13,000 workers by 2012, the vast majority of them general laborers with basic skill sets, according to a needs assessment released last week by the Marcellus Shale Education & Training Center.

June 29, 2009

Owner of attacked dog seeking information

WILKES-BARRE – The owner of a dog that was euthanized as the result of a dog attack on Monday at the recently opened River Common park is looking for witnesses to report information to police to help identify the attacking dogs’ owners.

June 29, 2009

Benefit held for late state Trooper Miller

PLAINS TWP. – The size of the turnout at a benefit on Monday for slain state Trooper Joshua Miller didn’t matter to the family in attendance. The fact that anyone thought to make the effort in the first place was enough.

June 28, 2009

Hassles built into road work

KINGSTON – For those commuters, business owners and residents frustrated with lane changes, construction and, now, exit closures on the Cross-Valley Expressway, take heart. There’s just a few months left to go, and then it’s all over – for this project at least.

June 26, 2009

LOOKING GOOD: Regional Planning

For regional planners, one of the lessons of the strip mall era has been that people like it when all aspects of living – commerce, industry, living space, recreation, education – are within easy access of each other.