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Dallas Harvest Festival planned for Sept. 16
August 6, 2018
DALLAS TWP. — The Dallas Harvest Festival Steering Committee will hold the 2018 Dallas Harvest Festival on Sunday, Sept. 16. The annual event will be held from noon to 5 p.m. at Dallas High School off Conyngham Avenue. An array of vendors will be located both inside the school commons area and outside in the […]
Harveys Lake tradition continues with Lake Fest
August 5, 2018
HARVEYS LAKE – A three-day festival at Harveys Lake concluded on Sunday, providing both a chance to enjoy a parade and to recall the borough’s history. The event was held on-and-off for many years, but was resurrected four years ago and re-titled “Lake Fest.” “It used to be called Homecoming,” said Lex Bubb, a member […]
Online Threats: How predators lure children, others on the web
August 5, 2018
Luzerne County detective Charles Balogh’s mind raced when he received a tip earlier this year that a nude video of an area 6-year-old had been posted on the YouTube video sharing website. “I was convinced someone in that house was doing bad things to this kid and that they were the ones who were involved […]
Voting machine with paper ballots tested by Luzerne County election workers
August 2, 2018
A sample paper-trail voting machine was set up in the Luzerne County Courthouse on Thursday to obtain feedback from employees and election workers. These types of systems require a physical paper ballot that can be reviewed by voters and kept by officials as a record in case final tallies must be checked. Voters insert the […]
Shavertown United Methodist Church to hold Back-To-School Bash Aug. 4
August 1, 2018
KINGSTON TWP. — New notebooks, new pencils and new crayons – the back to school checklists are forming, and Shavertown United Methodist Church will help area parents fulfill the requirements on Aug. 4. The cost of back to school supplies, combined with clothing and shoes, can be an expense to many household budgets. SUMC hopes […]
Dallas Economics Club to host seventh annual car show Sept. 30
August 1, 2018
DALLAS TWP. — Motors will be rumbling into the Back Mountain for the seventh annual Dallas High School Economics Club Car Show on Sunday, Sept. 30. Classic muscle cars, antique roadsters as well as trucks from years gone by will be on hand for spectators’ admiration and reflection. The car show will be held in […]
Magni earns award from American International College
August 1, 2018
SPRINGFIELD, MASS. — Olivia Magni, of Sweet Valley, was recognized with the Outstanding Achievement in Biology Award during American International College’s (AIC) Academic Awards ceremony this spring. The Outstanding Achievement in Biology is presented to the student in each class year who has demonstrated excellence in the subject area. Magni is a senior majoring in […]
Real estate taxes rising in all but one Luzerne County school district
July 31, 2018
Eleven of Luzerne County’s 12 school districts have increased real estate taxes for the 2018-19 fiscal year, according to new county assessment office records. Northwest Area School District is the lone exception, with a tax rate remaining at 10.7452 mills. A mill is $1 tax on every $1,000 in assessed value of real estate. For […]
Dallas Post reporter Eileen Godin hosts journalism discussion at Back Mountain Memorial Library
July 31, 2018
DALLAS — Did you ever look at a newspaper or an online news site and wonder how reporters come up with all those story ideas? I posed the question to a group of teens at a Journalism 101 lecture July 26 at the Back Mountain Memorial Library. Six pairs of young eyes stared at me. […]
Misericordia Speech-Language Pathology student-faculty research presented in Japan
July 31, 2018
DALLAS TWP. — Misericordia University student researchers Emily Gurtizen and Katrina Giacumbo, both fifth-year graduate students in the speech-language pathology program, recently made the poster presentation called “A Perceptual Study of Communication Effectiveness in Cluttering,’’ at the “One World, Many Voices: Science and Community’’ Joint World Congress of Fluency Disorders Conference in Hiroshima, Japan. The […]