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The Cookie Corner celebrates 35th anniversary

WILKES-BARRE &#8212; Times Leader staff members garnered two awards in this year&#8217;s Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors Association contest, the Associated Press reported Friday.The newsroom won a second-place staff-wide award for spot news coverage for its reporting on the verdict in Hugo Selenski&#8217;s double homicide trial. Sportswriter Tom Venesky also won a second-place award in the sports/outdoors column category for his column, &#8220;Respecting all wildlife big and small.&#8221;Both awards were in the contest&#8217;s division for daily papers with circulations between 30,001 and 75,000.Forty-seven newspapers submitted 1,497 entries in the contest, which featured news and sports stories, features, editorials, columns, graphics and photos from 2015, the AP reported.<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta>Staff and wire service reports</bylineMeta></div>

Times Leader staffers win PAPME awards for spot news coverage, outdoors column