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Larksville police issue warning after two incidents

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Coworkers at Wilkes-Barre store allegedly ran scam at cash registers, pocketing money

<p>Giving Santa a head start, here&#8217;s a coal-only edition for those who earned a stockingful this year. Next week: nothing but gems.</p><p><strong>Coal </strong>to Louis Elmy, former Wilkes-Barre Area School Board member, board president and candidate for Wilkes-Barre city council. Elmy held, and sought, positions of considerable authority in public office and employment as a Luzerne County prison work release counselor. He trashed the public trust like the crack cocaine junkie he turned out to be, abused his position at the prison in appalling fashion, and &#8212; according to prosecutors &#8212; sank to the scummy depth of selling guns to feed his habit. He did this while entrusted with the care and education of our children. Vile and wretched are too tame as descriptors.</p><p><strong>Coal</strong> to teachers who abuse their positions by doing despicable things like having sex with students, being a lookout while co-workers have sex with students and providing alcohol to the under aged. The incidents of misconduct were too numerous and too foul this year, and they stain the hundreds, even thousands of hard-working educators at a time when teachers already take an unjust beating from pundits and critics. It is almost inconceivable that someone who lands a job with good &#8212; even coveted, in this area &#8212; pay, security, health care and retirement benefits would toss it all away to indulge in acts that betray that most fundamental trust: Children are safe in school. When the threat comes from a teacher, the act is doubly heinous.</p><p><strong>Coal</strong> to Attorney Robert Powell, former Luzerne County Judge Michael Conahan, and any other person disgraced by the loathsome &#8220;Kids for Cash&#8221; corruption case who hasn&#8217;t slunk silently into their indelible shame. That these figures keep percolating back to the surface in legal paperwork is disheartening at least and dismaying at worst. The fact that the legal maneuvers are most often about which of the crooks owes the other money is downright disgusting. When you end up convicted as a player in a plot that toyed with children&#8217;s lives, you serve us all best by either fading quietly out of view or making a truly heroic effort at sincere rehabilitation. Neither of those is happening here.</p><p><strong>Coal</strong> to Paselo Logistics, LAG wrecking, and any other company or individual owning prominent and prominently dangerous property who fails to fix the risks. Philadelphia-based Paselo has abjectly avoided cleaning up the site of the former Huber Breaker &#8212; the loss of which, incidentally, also merits an ironic coal, but that&#8217;s old news. And LAG Wrecking, where Leo Glodzik III&#8217;s sister is president, has let the rotting Coxton railroad bridge grow more dangerous by the day. Everyone has a pet peeve property they want to see razed, but these are hazards to the community at large, and failure to deal with them for so long is beyond egregious, it&#8217;s unconscionable.</p><style>
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Our view: Nothing but coal for those on this list