WILKES-BARRE — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Inside the Luzerne County Courthouse on Friday, there was no silence among friends as residents, leaders and dignitaries echoed the words of the civil rights leader.
This is where Shavertown native Jaime Verazin, before she made it to Broadway, shimmied up a pillar dressed like Peter Pan.
The top two wrestling teams in the country squared off on Friday night in Blairstown, N.J. and the match lived up to its billing.
Excitement surrounded the Toyota SportsPlex ahead of the biggest game in Wilkes men’s hockey’s short history. The Colonels were hosting No. 6 Utica, after they had been risen to No. 12 themselves in the USCHO poll.
An impending snowstorm wiped out Saturday’s high school sports schedule and altered the starting times of college basketball games involving local teams.
DALLAS TWP. — Apparently, the Dallas Mountaineers don’t like losing very much.
For nearly 20 years now, Santa has brought us a jigsaw puzzle for Christmas. This has become one of our family’s favorite holiday traditions and I have written about it in the past. Every Christmas, after our meal is finished and the table gets cleared, we spread out the puzzle pieces and begin to put it together. The edges first, of course.
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