Kill the Keystone Exams. It’s time. They are nothing but an albatross around the necks of our high school students and teachers, an anchor holding real education back, a relic of the misbegotten belief adopted […]
Diamonds to the Wilkes-Barre Family YMCA, Wilkes-Barre Area School District, Hanover Area School District and the various foundations and other partners who made the Power Scholars Academy happen at Kistler Elementary and Hanover Area’s high […]
Reading is fundamental. We all remember those commercials from our childhoods, don’t we? You know the ones. They seemed to interrupt every episode of Bugs Bunny or the Road Runner we watched on Saturday mornings, […]
This week, it started feeling hot enough for corn to pop on the cob, for chocolate bars to be drinkable, for eggs to poach in the pool. It’s been the kind of weather that makes […]
Diamonds to those who organized and attended the many events marking July 4, particularly the fireworks and family fun at Kirby Park and the reenactors and history experts at the Battle of Wyoming remembrance in […]
It’s Independence Day this week and the usual safety tips will be trotted out as fireworks season (theoretically) peaks, but you know them all, don’t you? Never allow young children to ignite them, sparklers burn […]
Diamonds to all involved for the successful start of Wilkes-Barre’s 40th Farmers Market season Thursday. It’s true there seemed to be more flowers and herbs than fresh produce, but the season is young and the […]
If you lose your wallet and it’s full of money, chances are someone will turn it in – cash and all. In a world where we worry about identity thief and cyber fraud, it’s nice […]
If you haven’t sampled the area’s community theater scene lately, the stars have aligned for a mega-dose of options that show the diversity local live plays provide. You can traipse through Oz with Dorothy, go […]
Diamonds to the Friends of the Osterhout Free Library for staging another outstanding tent book sale this week, including Wednesday’s focus on youngsters with the help of “That Bubble Guy” Mark Krokos. The sale is […]
Diamonds to the Edwardsville Hometown Committee and others who helped successfully stage the sixth annual Pierogi Festival last weekend. The festival has matured from a quirky salute to an ethnic food popular locally into a […]
If you’ve been following the saga of Luzerne County computer server woes, well, welcome to the digital world’s hazardous reality. So far the county seems to be doing everything right, shutting down servers as a […]
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