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Times Leader P.M. Update: 4/1/21
April 1, 2021
Pat Kernan here with your P.M. Update: Market Street Burgers debuts in Kingston, the region’s three big summer festivals are returning, Ed Lewis reports on an arrest in a violent Wilkes-Barre domestic disturbance and more.
Luzerne County Election Board schedules special meeting to select chair
April 1, 2021
Luzerne County’s Election Board plans to select its fifth member/chair person at a special meeting next Wednesday.
Plymouth Kielbasa Festival returns this year
March 31, 2021
PLYMOUTH — The Plymouth Alive Kielbasa Festival will return in 2021 and the sponsoring group announced plans for a new event with the promise of more to come.
Meuser bill would allow stimulus dollars to go to infrastructure projects
March 31, 2021
DALLAS — U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser Tuesday said with the expected introduction of a federal transportation and infrastructure proposal, Congress should prioritize previously appropriated funds before spending trillions more at the expense of the taxpayer.
Tomasino’s owners plead guilty over $95k in payroll taxes
March 31, 2021
DALLAS — The owners of a Back Mountain restaurant pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday on charges that they had failed to collect and pay $95,710 in federal payroll taxes.
With fir tree and a flag, final beam placed at Geisinger cancer center
March 31, 2021
PLAINS TWP. — An evergreen tree on one side, an American flag on the other, and scores of signatures from Geisinger employees on every flat surface, the ceremonial final steel beam soared into an overcast sky, past a banner with pictures of health care workers shaped to form the word “HOPE,” and into place Wednesday at the Henry Cancer Center of Geisinger Wyoming Valley.
Pennsylvania schools to get $4.9B in federal pandemic aid
March 30, 2021
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania schools will get nearly $5 billion from the federal COVID-19 aid package, the Wolf administration announced Monday.
Meuser wants independent pharmacies part of state’s vaccine distribution
March 30, 2021
DALLAS — U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser has sent a letter to the Pennsylvania Acting Secretary of Health, Alison Beam, urging the commonwealth to reengage independent pharmacies as vaccine providers to increase access and promote equitable distribution.
DCNR announces operational changes at state parks, forests
March 30, 2021
WILKES-BARRE — Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn said environmental education and other outdoors programs helped the state parks system attain national prominence and she knows they were sorely missed by visitors.
WB police investigate Saturday night shooting
March 28, 2021
WILKES-BARRE — City police say they are searching for a suspect after a man was shot in the torso during a gathering at a Lloyds Lane home Saturday night.