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Geisinger’s Mobile Care Gap bus offers care to those with diabetes
Geisinger is hitting the road to make better health easier for people who have diabetes with its Mobile Care Gap bus. The bus is intended to reach those who have a care gap in their preventive health.
Dietrich Film Festival to open July 15 in Tunkhannock
An elderly taxi driver in Britain has a noble reason for stealing a Goya painting and holding it hostage.
To Your Health: Culprits of hand and wrist pain
When we think of bone, muscle and joint health, the first parts of the body that often come to mind are the back, hips, shoulders and knees.
Around Town: Take some time to enjoy summer
Can you believe the 4th of July has come and gone already?
Tell Giselle: Furious over being passed over
I have been working for a company that I have generally felt good about. The products I represent are well made and comport with my personal interests so it has been relatively easy to work for them f
Misericordia honors faculty for teaching, scholarship and service excellence
Misericordia University honored three faculty members for their excellence in teaching, scholarship and service during the May 14 commencement ceremony held at the university s Anderson Sports and Hea
Flea market at St. Nick’s Bazaar seems especially large this summer
From curtains and drapes to pots and pans and don t forget the Pope Francis Bobblehead statuette you could probably furnish an entire household with one visit to the giant indoor flea market t
Watermelon, cheese, mint create ‘unusually delicious’ salad
That was unusually delicious, columnist Bill O Boyle said after trying a salad, fresh from the Times Leader Test Kitchen, made from watermelon and cheese spiked with diced red onions and whole mint l
Honoring a Nanticoke legend
NANTICOKE From Australia and Japan to Chicago and Bloomsburg and many points in between, 86-year-old John Stanky Stankovic of Nanticoke is known as the leader of a polka band who started to play t
Child actors add impressive depth to ‘The Black Phone’
Set in Northern Denver during the idyllic late 1970s, comes the hair-raising tale of a sleepy town haunted by a sadistic child abductor on the prowl for his next innocent victim. While the popular Bee
Red Hat groups enjoy luncheon at Woodlands
Red Hat groups from Northeast Pennsylvania recently gathered at The Woodlands to celebrate their annual Red Hat Day Luncheon.
To Your Health: Technology helps diagnose heart disease
Throughout my medical career the progress in technology has led to remarkable advancements in our ability to deal ever more successfully with previously confounding medical conditions. Recently, there
Around Town: Connor McGovern giving back to NEPA
If you ve lived around here for a while, you ve undoubtedly heard of Connor McGovern, the Lake-Lehman High School and Penn State alumnus who is now an offensive lineman for the Dallas Cowboys.
King’s College to host exhibit of art by Lois Pluskey
He s wearing a button-down shirt and a tie, like thousands of other office workers. But the young man in the portrait is also surrounded by about a dozen paper airplanes in flight.
Tell Giselle: Can someone divulge personal health information about their partner?
My girlfriend has been really upset about the Supreme Court ruling taking constitutional rights away from females. We chose to end her pregnancy and up till now have kept this mostly private. Now she
Internships jumpstart careers for ESU medical technology students
When Emily Sobelman came to East Stroudsburg University she knew she wanted to earn a degree that would allow her to work in the healthcare field. I didn t want to do bedside care, but I wanted to wo
Inaugural golf tournament will benefit North Pocono Public Library
The North Pocono Public Library (NPPL) is proud to announce the co-chairs of its inaugural golf tournament, to be held Monday, Aug. 9 at Elmhurst Country Club in Moscow.
Disasters often led to ancestors’ relocation
We genealogists, like everyone else, live and work in the real world.
‘It’s delicious, it’s refreshing and I love the lemon flavor’
When I told the Times Leader taste testers the patriotic pie I made this week would make them want to stand up and sing the national anthem, I was teasing.
‘It’s what a peach should taste like’
Ask our local farmers what they expect to bring this week to the Wilkes-Barre Farmers Market, which opens at 10 a.m. today on Public Square, and you ll hear about radishes, rhubarb and sugar snap peas