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Democrat Gilbert to run for a second term on Wilkes-Barre city council

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Wilkes University recognized as Military Friendly School

<p>The city of Nanticoke in Luzerne County will be featured in VIA Public Media&#8217;s &#8220;Our Town&#8221; series. &#8220;Our Town Nanticoke&#8221; will be a &#8220;day-in-the-life&#8221; one-hour video scrapbook focusing on the people, places and happenings of Nanticoke as seen through the eyes of its residents.</p><p>Nanticoke residents are invited to attend the first &#8220;Our Town Nanticoke&#8221; community/volunteer meeting, Thursday, Jan. 31 at 6:30 p.m. at Nanticoke City Building, 15 E. Ridge Street, Nanticoke. Residents will discuss which landmarks, events and local stories the program should tell about their town. WVIA will answer questions about the project during the meeting and ask volunteers to brainstorm a list of subjects and events to videotape.</p><p>WVIA will hold a second community/volunteer meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Fwb. 7 at Nanticoke City Building. During this meeting, volunteers will participate in a whiteboard session to determine the stories to be told in the program and which stories each volunteer will videotape to create &#8220;Our Town Nanticoke.&#8221; VIA hopes to recruit 20 to 25 area residents with personal camcorders.</p><p>Anyone interested in being a videographer and/or storyteller for the program should contact VIA &#8220;Our Town&#8221; producer, Lisa Mazzarella, at 570-602-1164 or by e-mailing lisamazzarella@wvia.org.</p><p>&#8220;Our Town Nanticoke&#8221; will debut April 25 on VIA-TV.</p><p>For more information on the &#8220;Our Town&#8221; series, visit http://www.wvia.org/television/documentaries/our-town-series/.</p><style>
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Nanticoke residents invited to partake in discussion for ‘Our Town’ series