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The Lackawanna County commissioners formally introduced Wednesday the almost $180.7 million budget they unveiled last month. The budget keeps revenues the same, but new assessed values will determine if new tax rates raise or lower taxes on a property.
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At Lackawanna County’s annual Adoption Day, eight families celebrated new beginnings. Staff from the county’s Office of Youth and Family Services and other employees celebrated too. -
Zhanae McClain, 20, was found unresponsive with a visible gunshot wound at a home on West Main Street in Glen Lyon Sunday evening, investigators say. -
NEWS VOICES: People with Parkinson's disease fight back, find community at Northeast Pa. boxing gymsOn this week's News Voices, WVIA's Sarah Scinto and Lydia McFarlane discuss Rock Steady Boxing, two gyms in Northeast Pennsylvania that help people with Parkinson's fight back against the disease's progression. -
PennEnvironment representatives visited Hawk Mountain Sanctuary to discuss the need for a cohesive statewide plan for wildlife corridors to protect natural habitats and prevent wildlife from being killed on the road. -
For Plains Township Commissioner Peter Biscontini, early November’s grave robbery at Good Shepherd Memorial Park isn’t just immoral, it’s personal. -
Lackawanna County Detective Colleen Catanese charged Kathie Sico and her son, Michael Sico, with writing on ballots so she could get election judge of elections. -
A federal judge sentenced Damien Boland to nine years in prison and ordered him to pay more than $2 million in restitution for his role in a 20-year theft ring that targeted 20 museums and other venues, mostly in the eastern United States but also as far away as North Dakota. -
The record-breaking federal government shutdown ended Wednesday, restoring Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits to more than 42 million Americans who rely on the food assistance program, including more than 2 million people in Pennsylvania. -
Temple University’s dental school, in partnership with the Tamaqua Area Community Partnership, located a site on Center Street for a proposed rural dentistry campus, which is set to open for students in time for the Fall 2026 semester. -
A new contract for faculty at Luzerne County Community College provides yearly raises, while also providing savings to assist in closing a $4 million budget deficit this year. -
Judge quickly denies Lackawanna County request to delay implementation of reassessed property valuesLackawanna County went to court Friday to delay by a year the implementation of new property values developed during reassessment the last three years, but county President Judge James Gibbons quickly denied the request in a one-sentence order without further comment. -
The Rev. Joseph Murgas developed the wireless tone system in the basement rectory of Sacred Heart Church in Wilkes-Barre. His work will be remembered on Saturday, as the cities’ current mayors share the same messages their predecessors sent via Morse code in 1905.
News Briefs
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- Lackawanna County issues Code Blue frigid weather alert
- UPDATED: Nanticoke police identify young man who was located near bridge
- 'No Kings' rallies planned nationwide, across region for Saturday
- Steamtown Marathon world-record attempt falls short
- Pa. officials say NY trash bag manufacturer will relocate to Hazleton, creating 101 jobs
- Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders name new president/general manager
- Geisinger to offer mobile mammograms in October
- Wilkes-Barre Area cheer and football teams fundraising for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- Dementia care and caregivers forum coming to Monroe County Oct. 9
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