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Mardi Gras event brings Big Easy to W-B parish

February 15, 2020

WILKES-BARRE — It wasn’t Fat Tuesday in New Orleans, but the Mardi Gras celebration thrown by St. Robert Bellarmine Parish at St. Aloysius Church had parishioners and guests partying like they were in the Big Easy.

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Cause of medical marijuana shortage? Simple supply and demand, says dispensary exec.

February 15, 2020

Medical marijuana patients may have noticed an increased difficulty in finding a particular product: traditional marijuana buds.

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Former Tunkhannock mayor Ball dies at 84

February 15, 2020

TUNKHANNOCK — Former Tunkhannock Mayor Norman Ball died on Thursday at the Allied Hospice Center in Scranton at the age of 84.

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Former WVW football standout makes case for organ donation as he awaits transplant

February 15, 2020

WILKES-BARRE — His name is Kevin Bond.

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Leadership W-B committee teaming up with Volunteers in Medicine

February 15, 2020

WILKES-BARRE — The Leadership Wilkes-Barre project group, Mission Nutrition, is looking for community support to aid in their quest to equip Volunteers in Medicine with a commercial-grade refrigerator and other materials that will provide healthy, fresh food to their clients.

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Pashinski to host committee hearing on community college affordability

February 15, 2020

WILKES-BARRE — State Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, D-Wilkes-Barre, will host a House Democratic Policy Committee public hearing on his legislation — H.B. 2287.

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Beyond the Byline: Ben Johnson was a ‘world class’ man

February 15, 2020

WILKES-BARRE — My dad always talked about Ben Johnson, a Plymouth High School graduate who was an Olympic-caliber sprinter who went on to become a colonel in the U.S. Army.

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