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Lehman Sanctuary adds swale and rain garden to teaching tools
October 1, 2020
LEHMAN TWP. — If you’ve visited the Lehman Sanctuary, you know the drill. Start at the top of a hill at the end of a clearing where a long strip of very tall grass blocks much of the view below, and learn how that “prairie grass meadow” is pivotal in protecting the forest wetlands you are about to walk down to.
Protestors blast Luzerne County over discarded military ballots
September 30, 2020
Nanticoke resident Ronald Knapp participated in a protest Wednesday because he believes Luzerne County’s premature unsealing and discarding of nine overseas military Nov. 3 election mail-in ballots was a “travesty.”
Pa. counties push for changes to mail ballot law
September 30, 2020
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s counties pressed lawmakers and Gov. Tom Wolf to allow them to process mail-in ballots before Election Day in the battleground state as they consider the prospect of waiting until polls open to dig into what could be 3 million or more envelopes.
St. Louis gun couple touring NEPA Wednesday to support Trump
September 29, 2020
KINGSTON — The Republican Party of Luzerne County, in coordination with the Luzerne County Young Republicans, is hosting a “Team Trump” bus tour with stops in three different Northeastern Pennsylvania locations tomorrow — and they have guests.
Luzerne County Councilman Griffith discusses ballot controversy protest plans
September 29, 2020
Luzerne County Councilman Walter Griffith said he has two primary reasons for organizing a Wednesday afternoon protest over last week’s revelation that nine oversees military mail-in ballots were prematurely opened and discarded.
More than 55K Luzerne County voters seek mail-in ballots
September 29, 2020
Approximately 55,360 Luzerne County voters have applied for mail-in ballots in the Nov. 3 general election to date, county Election Director Shelby Watchilla said Monday.
Misericordia offering free bi-weekly biology seminar online
September 29, 2020
DALLAS TWP. — Misericordia University will launch it’s free, four-part biology seminar Thursday with “A Look Inside Dinosaur Paleohistology.” Histology is the study of biological tissues under a microscope; paleohistology is using the technique on fossils.
‘Rise of Secularism’ topic for next King’s College ethics lecture
September 29, 2020
WILKES-BARRE — Perhaps particularly apropos in the wake of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the King’s College 2020 Hesburgh Lecture next Monday will be titled “The rise of secularism in America.”
Ballot probe becomes campaign outrage fuel
September 26, 2020
HARRISBURG — The news release from a U.S. attorney in Pennsylvania was provocative: Nine mailed-in military ballots had been “discarded” by the local election office in a swing county of one of the most important presidential battleground states.
Wilkes-Barre, Kingston surpass Hazleton as biggest sources of new cases
September 26, 2020
State ZIP code data on COVID-19 cases shows that Wilkes-Barre and Kingston have become the biggest source of new cases, surpassing Hazleton.