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‘Swingin’ Jazz Nutcracker Suite’ to highlight holiday concert
Have you ever heard of the Peanut Brittle Brigade?
Changing Frequencies: Works by Jon Carsman on display at Everhart Museum
The exhibit Changing Frequencies: Works by Jon Carsman recently opened at the Everhart Museum in Scranton, and will remain on display through spring 2023.
Out on a Limb: DNA test can be gift that keeps on giving
If you re a genealogist, you know Christmas is drawing near when you start seeing more ads for DNA testing kits.
Ashley/Sugar Notch High School classmates reunite for informal reunion
Classmates who attended the former Ashley/Sugar Notch High School recently got together for an informal reunion at the Newtown Cafe in Hanover Township. The group attended Ashley/Sugar Notch High Scho
Lots of love for these documentaries
According to Websters dictionary the precise definition of a Motion Picture is: a series of pictures projected on a screen in rapid succession with objects shown in successive positions slightly cha
Artwork, music, dancing and a Santa Parade
It s so good, it ranks right up there with the Warhol exhibit, Patricia Lacy said Wednesday morning, urging her fellow members of Wilkes-Barre s Downtown Artistic Forum to visit the Sordoni Art Galle
Community Bank announces Raymour & Flanigan giveaway winner
WILKES-BARRE TWP. Community Bank recently announced that William Tomalinas is the winner of a $10,000 giveaway prize to Raymour s new Pennsylvania flagship location in Wilkes-Barre Township. From l
Gift of backpacks, blankets to help homeless veterans
The New Vision Telephone Pioneers have donated backpacks along with blankets, socks, and hygiene essentials to be used by Amvets Post 59 and The Forward Support Base (FSB) Iniative to support homeless
To Your Health: Chest pain should be evaluated
A few weeks ago, we discussed the spectrum of chest pain as it relates to heart attacks and the different degrees of severity and complexity that can follow a cardiac event.
Scranton native serves communityby filling cavities – and gaps in dental workforce
To become a dentist, Dr. Caitlin McCarthy reluctantly left her family and native Northeast Pennsylvania community, devoting four years to a dental school in Philadelphia and one year to residency trai
Ways to stretch your holiday dollar
So, how can use save money on your food bill this Thanksgiving?
Community Champion: Emily’s Gracious Gifts, a fund of The Luzerne Foundation
Emily Longmore was a typical three-year-old who loved animals, the movie Frozen , and bacon mac and cheese. She enjoyed playing veterinarian with her big sister, Lily, playing outside with her big br
For shoppers, time to talk turkey
Turkey fans and Thanksgiving Day cooks, you can all breathe a sigh of relief.
Little Ruthie is here, and Nana is over the moon
On Mother s Day, my son Greg, and his fianc Melina, told me they were naming the baby girl they were expecting after me and also Melina s mom (Elizabeth). It was such an unexpected honor. I was speec
Tell Giselle: How to earn friends and grow richer
From a mature woman comes a query about changing relationships that becomes an opportunity to reconsider priorities, and begin the work of becoming more self-aware:
Taking a virtual tour of Pennsylvania’s state parks and forests
From birdwatching to paddling, from picnicking to quiet contemplation.
`Twenty years from now, I hope these trees will still be here’
I m like the strongest one here, 17-year-old Macey Durofchalk said with a laugh Thursday morning as a group of horticulture students from the Wilkes-Barre Area Career & Technical Center dug a hole in
“The Voices Project: Immigration” will air on WVIA-TV
Even if you ve never played soccer, you can probably imagine what it would be like to stand in the cleated shoes of a high school student from West Scranton when he suddenly found himself facing a sta
Guardians of a sacred text
WILKES-BARRE It was printed in London when Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I still walked among the living.