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SCRANTON – Standing in front of the Scranton Mail Proc- essing Center Friday, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey called on the post- mastergeneraltoextendamora- torium on consolidation plans while Congress worksouthward to reform the financially strapped U.S. Postal Service . Those consolidation plans, which the Postal Service calls a money-saving move, would movement operations to the Lehigh Valley. Up to 300 jobs could be impacted if the program proceeds. "I'1000 pushing the postmaster general to extend the moratori- umandtocometoPennsylvania to run across the existent touch closures wouldhaveoncommunitiessimilar Scranton," said Casey. Standing behind Casey at the facility along Stafford Avenue were more than a dozen mail of- fice employees and their fam- ilies.
Casey asks postal delay
Scranton processing unit threatened with closure
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U.South. Sen. Bob Casey speaks Friday morning at the Mail mail service processing centre in Scranton.
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WILKES-BARRE – City Wide Tattributable owner Bob Kadluboski said he was only doing his job when he towed an unmarked statepolicecruiserfromaprivate lot Friday afternoon. Kadluboski said he towed the cruiser from a lot at Unionorth adue northd NorthWashing- ton streetsouthward to his impound yard on New Frederick Street. He said he realized information technology was a land po- lice vehellocle when two troopers showeduplater to repossess it. Trooper Tom Kelly said he parked the cruiser to at- tend an elder abuse confer- ence at the Bu- reau of Aging on Country Street. When he left the conference, hesaidhesawthesignindicating private parking. Kelly refutilized further com- ment. Kadluboski said he released thecruiserafterthetrooperspaid $150. "Herewegoagain;itlookslike for sure I won't be invited to the land constabulary clambake this twelvemonth," Kadluboski said. The lot is owned by business- man Thom Greco, who said Ka- dluboskiwasperformingworkas per his contract. "IhaveastacontractwithBobKa- dluboski to police the parking lotsIown,"Grecosaid."He'ssep- arate from me. He makes his money past towing vehicles that are not authorized to be there." Greco said it was unfortunate the land police force were not provid- ed parking from the identify they were visiting.For his part, Kadlu- boski said he has a contract to tow illegally parked vehicles froyardtheprivatelyownedlotthat he frequently inspects.
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Urban center Wide owner hauls abroad unmarked state police cruiser from private Wilkes-Barre lot.
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"Here we go again; it looks like for sure I won't be invited to the state constabulary clambake this year."
Bob Kadluboski
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WILKES-BARRE – Luzerne County is altering the payment construction for attorneys who rep- resent parents in Children and Youthcasestoaflatfee,eliminat- ing the potential for a echo of a billing scandal involving King- ston attorney Angela Stevens. The canton terminal calendar month placed an ad seeking three attorneysouthward to handle cases through the terminate of the year. The attorneys were asked to submit a allowterofinterest,whichwastoin- clude the apartment fee they would ex- pect to be paid. Thecountyhasbudgetedupto $75,000,or$25,000perattorney, for services they will provide for the approximately vii months that remain this yr, said assist- ant canton solicitor Brian Bufali- no. It has not been determined how much volition exist budgeted for next yr. Bufalino said that fee encom- laissez passeresallworkperformedbythe attorneys. "There are no benefits. They can't charge travel or administra- tive expenses. It's a gear up, fixed amount. Whatever they demand to exercise to perform the service, they have to make it piece of work nether that amount," Bufalino said. Nether the old payment struc- ture,attorneyswerepaid$55per hour, with no limit on the num- ber of hours they could charge. The lack of a cap led to major problemsforthecountylastyear,
Double-billing flap brings change in manner lawyers are paid
Reform means attorneys for county Children and Youth volition go a fixed amount.
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"In that location are no benefits. They can't accuse travel or administrative expenses. Information technology'due south a set, fixed amount."
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HANOVER TWP. – Loretta Gill carries her chair to work every twenty-four hour period, twice a day, to her corner office. Not simply any corner part. Gill, 75, has been a school crossing guard at South Main and Knox streets since1972, estimating she has stopped traffic for nearly 316,000 children walking from one curb to the other in 39 years. "I started when my Joey was three years old and he'southward 42 at present," a smiling Gill said. Every day for180 days of the schoolhouse year, Gill sets upward her folding lawn chair in the pre-dawn 60 minutesdue south of a tiny parking lot waiting for children to arrive at the coach stop. She stays until 9:30 in the morn and returns in the afternoon from 2 to 3:thirty p.m. Fortunately, Gill has had no accidents on the heavily traveled Southward Main Street, a major thor-
Generations of kids have come nether the care of Loretta Gill, who's staffed her crossing guard post on South Main Street 39 years
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Similar the troubadours of old, Willie Nelson has spent well-nigh of his 79 years on the road. Since first making his proper name as a songwriter in the early 1960s and becoming a super- star in the1970s, Nelson has been traveling the world bring- ing his iconic songs to his fans. On Fri nighttime, he and his band of gypsies he calls his family rolled into Wilkes-Barre in the "Honeysuckle Rose III" -- he collection the beginning two of his bout buses into the ground years ago -- and played for an adoring, sold-out oversupply at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Per- forming Arts. Nelsonorthward and his fissure band made their way through 32 songs in 90 minutes, giving the audience the all-time of Nelson's sizeable itemize and country classics past Hank Williams and Kris Kristofferson. As usual, the show got nether mode with the unfurling of a huge flag of Texas as Nelson opened with "Whiskey River." When the opening number was through, Nelson called out for the next song, and segued directly into "Still is Even so Mov- ing to Me." Keeping up with Nelson all night long was his trusty side- kick Mickey Raphael, who added brilliant harmonica solos to "Georgia on My Listen" and "Georgia on a Fast Railroad train," amongst many others. Nelson'southward younger sister Bob- bie shone brightly on the piano, particularly on her instrumen- tal showcase well-nigh the brainstorm- ning of the evening and later on "Good Hearted Woman," which Willie had dedicated to his fallen fellow outlaw Waylon Jennings. Nelson afterwards did two other songs associated with Jennings, the big hit duet "Mammas Don't Let Your Ba- bies Grow up to exist Cowboys" (which has get a shouting sing-along) and "You Ask Me to." The rhythm section of Kevin Smith on bass and Baton English on a single snare pulsate (Baton'due south blood brother Paul only played on a few numbers, including his theme song "Me and Paul") held down the lesser equally Nel- son – the only guitarist on the stage – made his trusty "Trig- ger" sound like a whole fleet of guitars. Nelson'south jazz-inflected solos were particularly great on "Night Life" and "Angel Flying Too Close to the Basis," simply he showed off his remarkable and somewhat underrated guitar piece of work all evening long. Much of the show seemed like an intimate listening party with a pristine copy of "The Essential Willie Nelson" as the ring stuck pretty close to the big hits and kept the time be- tween songs to the bare mini- mum. Simply Nelson did manage to go in a few new tunes, in- cluding a heartfelt, poignant "A Horse Called Music," which will be the opening number on his new album "Heroes" when information technology hits the streets on Tuesday. While it may accept been pre- dictable that Nelson would run through Kristofferson's "Help Me Make it Through the Nighttime," it was a bit of a surpriseast when he followed it with a scorching version of "Me and Bobby McGee." Nelson also treated the crowd to 4 songs from the Hank Williams catalog, in- cluding squeamish renditions of "Jam- balaya (on the Bayou)," "Move it on Over" and the spiritual "I Saw the Light" towards the end of the proceedings. The concert also included some of the weirdest juxtaposi- tions you volition ever encounter equally Nelson moved quickly from the gospel songs "Will the Circle exist Unbroken" and "I'll Wing Abroad" directly into his latest song, "Roll Me up and Smoke Me When I Die." Nelson's daughter Amy came out towards the cease of the evening to add some harmony vocals to the last few numbersouthward. Following the last vocal, Nelson then put down "Trig- ger" and signed autographs at the front of the stage for more than than five minutes. He grinned widely every bit he signed album covers, books, T-shirts and everything else handed to him, sometimes clutching the mark- er in his teeth to complimentary upwards both hands to greet every bit many fans as possible. Nelson and his cohorts volition be "on the road again" through- out the year, having concerts scheduled well into Nov. Here's hoping the once red- headed stranger will bring his busload of classic songs back our way sometime shortly.
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WillieNelsonperformsattheF.M.KirbyCenterinWilkes-Barre onFriday.TheshowincludedatrionlyetoWaylonJennings.
PHILADELPHIA — Inside a climate-controlled storage room with a guard posted at the door, Tania Treiger unzips a purposely nondescriptcaseandliftsoutane oftheworld'soldestandmostsig- nificant archaeological artifacts. The Israel Antiquities Writer- ityconservatorisoneofonlyfour people in the world immune to handle the Dead Body of water Scrolls, the centerpieceofanewexhibitionat The Franklin Institute, where a painstaking exam of the ancient treasures was conducted before they are placed on public view. "Deadvertising Sea Gyredue south: Life and FaisparseAncientTimes"opensto- solar day and runs through Oct. 14. The 20 scrolls chosen for The Franklin Constitute — the outset set of10wilfiftybeswitchedwith10oth- ers halfway through the five- month exhibit — contain mitt- written texts from several books of the Quondam Testament including the opening passage from Factor- sis, "In the beginning, God creat- ed the heaven and the globe." Several days earlier the show's opening,TreigerandPninaShor, curatorandheadoftheDeadSea ScrollsProject,whoisalsobased attheindependentgovernmental organization in Jerusalem, pro- vided a rare backside-the-scenes expect at the "condition reporting" thathappenseverytimethefrag- ile two,000-twelvemonth-old scrolls travel. "The status report means nosotros are documenting the state of the scroll whedue north information technology leaves our premisesandwhenitreachedue souththe venue,"Shorsaid.Treigerplaced aclimate-controlledsealedframe containing a remarkably intact leather parchment known as the PsalmsScrollonalon1000tableand, joined by Franklin Institute cura- tor Cheryl Desmond, compared ittoaaforementioned-sizephotographwith penciled notations of the tiniest dinchiliad,scrapeandpitonthethree- foot-long parchment. Under brightmagnifyinglamps,thepair exhaustively examines the scroll foranychangesthatmayhaveoc- curred in transit. Afterward more than an hourlong inspection,everythinglooksfine. No changes have so far been noted in any scrolls during these examinations, Shor said with a sigh of relief. The rolls, considered by many to be the most significant archaeological find of the 20th century,arethoughttohavebeen writtenorcollectedpastanascetic Jewish sect that fled Jerusalem and settled at Qumran, in the Ju- dean Desert on the banks of the Expressionless Bounding main. The ancient holy books and apocalyptic texts were constitute be- tween 1947 and 1956 in 11 caves where they had been preserved by the arid climate inside large clay jars for two millennia. Portions of the roughly 900 manuscriptsthatwereeventually discovered, some fragmentary andothersintact,containtheear- liest known versions of portions of the Hebrew Bible and have shedlightonthedevelopmentof Judaisgrand and the beginning of Christianity.
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ore than100 Dallasouthward High School students line trip the light fantastic in the school lobby during the 7th annual Mini-THON on Friday night. The half-dozen-hr event, sponsored by the Dallas High School Mini-THON Lodge, raises funds for the Penn State Hershey Medical Center'south Four Diamonds Fund for patients and fam- ilies facing the battle confronting pediatric cancer.
SCRANTON – A former Wilkes-Barre woman Thursday waschargedwithescapingfroma one-halfwayhouseinScrantodue northwhere she was to stop serving a two- twelvemonth sentence federa50 sentence on drug-related charges. MiaRobichau10,26,failedtore- porttotheCatholicSocialServic- es halfway house on January. four, 2011 and was arrested on April 17 of this year, according to docu- mentsfiledinU.S.DistrictCourt, Scranton. At the time of her es- cape, she was serving a judgement for conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distrib- ute cocaine. The U.S. Attorney'south Office also filed a plea agreement in the es- cape case. Robichaux who is in federalcustodyfacesamaximum sentence of v years in prison.
Adult female charged with halfway business firm escape
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HAZLETON
–Policesaida residentofthe200blockofEast ThirdStreetreporteda2010Acura TSXwasscratchedwhileitwas parkednearHayesStreetbetween i:30a.m.and10a.m.onSunday.
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–Themanager ofRFMServicesreportedcatalytic converterswerestolenfromtwo servicevehiclesparkedonIndustri- alDrivebetweenWednesdaynighttime andThursdaymorning.
PLYMOUTH
–Policearelooking foramanorthwardarmedwithapistolwho fledfromthebaseballfieldat BarnesStreetParklateThursday nighttime. Policesaidtheyweredispatched totheparkat10:iv6p.m.andsawa groupofpeoplewithflashlights behindthepressbox.Allofthe peopleweretrespassingatthetime andthreepeopleastweretakeninto custody,policesaid.Fourother peoplefledintothewoodsandtwo ofthemwerearmedwithpistols, policesaid.Threeofthefourwere laterlocatedandapistolrecovered, policesaid. Anyonewithinformationalmost thestillsoughtaftermanisaskedto contactpolicePlymouthPoliceastwardat 570779-2147orLuzerneCounty 911.
HANOVERTWP.
–Township policereportedthefollowing: •RebeccaRaeofMyrtleStreet reportedthreetiresonhervehicle werepuncturedbetweenThursday nightandFridaymorning. •RobertFergusonofMountain TopreportedFridaythesoftcover ofhis201twoJeepwasdamagedwhile itwasparkedatDoveIndustrieson theSansSouciParkway.
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–Citypoliceastward reportedthefollowing: •PaulLewisreportedaDell computerwithamonitorandkey board,asweeper,tableandbed framewereleftnexttohistrashbin betweenintherearof82S.MainorthwardSt. between7p.m.Tuesdayand8a.chiliad. Westednesday. •MichaelOwensofNorthGrant StreetreportedThursdayhewas punchedintheheadandfaceand sprayedwithpeppersprayinthe areaof54SpringSt.
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ALLENTOWN — Politicoice say more than a dozen stu- dents suffered small injuries afterwards a school bus crashed on its way home from an charm- ment park in eastern Penn- sylvania. The accident happened around 6:15 p.m. Friday when the motorbus collided with a car about the on-ramp to In- terstate 78, on the border of South Whitehall and Lower Macungie townships. Authorities say theast bus had 30 students aboard and was ane of 3 taking a group of Pennridge High School freshmen home from a class trip to Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom. School officials say one adult and 13 students were taken to the hospital, simply that the injuries are minor. Police say the bus driver will be cited for failure to yield to oncoming traffic.
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mosquito caught in Jenkins Township this calendar week has tested positive for the West Nile Virus, the Section of Surroundal Protection said Friday. This was Luzerne Canton'southward first positive this year and there have at present been 5 reported positives statewide this twelvemonth. Positives also accept been establish in Berks, Dauphin, Erie and North- ampton counties.
DALLAS TWP.
DEP lists mud details
The state Department of Envi- ronmental Protection released additional details Friday about several releases of drilling mud during recent structure of a natural gas pipeline in Dallas Township. DEP records in- dicate there have been five occurrences in four locations since May 1 in which drill- ing mud has outburst through the basis during horizontal drilling beneath wet- lands in Dallas Township for Chief Gathering'southward Wyoming County Pipeline, which will tap into the Transco interstate pipeline in Dal- las Township. The first occurred May 1 and released 50 gallons of drilling mud into a wetland nearly Leonard Creek. Crews from Chief contained the fluid on site, but it overflowed the following day, releasing 200 gallons. Also on May two, mud returned to the surface in another area about Leonard creek, releasing 20 gal- lons outside containment. DEP visited the site odue north May 2 and four and saw no bear upon on water quality in Leonard Creek. On May 5, Chief reported that 5,000 to 6,000 gallons of mud flowed into a wetland 200 feet off Upper Demunds Road. The company used vacuum trucks to remove mud from the site. On Mon, Chief discovered 1,000 gallons of mud had burst through an erstwhile bound between Kunkle Road and Leonard Creek, with some of the mud entering the creek causing cloudiness, DEP said. A follow-upwardly inspection Thurs- day found most of the mud had been removed but a slight deject- iness remained in the creek. DEP said the mud contained bentonite, a clay used in drilling. Chief said no chemicals or addi- tives were used.
SHAVERTOWN
Climate discussion set
Citizens for Pennsylvania's Fu- ture and The Lands at Hillside Farms volition host an evening of fine food and drink on May 24 from 6 to 8 at Hillside's historic Charabanc Barn, 65 Hillside Road. Speakers will lead a discussion on the impact of climate change on food supply in Pennsylvania and what local citizens tin can do. Guests will enjoy locally pro- duced hors d'oeuvres, ciders, wines and beers as well every bit infor- mational displays. Speakers in- clude Jeff Moyer, farm director of Rodale Institute; George Jugovic Jr., PennFuture's president and CEO; and, Douglas J. Ayers, foun- der and lath chair, The Lands at Hillside Farms. Access is complimentary for PennFuture members and $10 for others. Res- ervations tin be fabricated at www.pennfuture.org/events or by calling 208-1757.
HANOVER TWP.
Constabulary host open firm
An open up house is scheduled from ii to five p.m. May 19 to cele- brate the 100th anniversary of the Hanover Township Police force Depart- ment. Residents are invited to the open house at the police department, 1267 Sans Souci Parkway, to come across with partrs, watch a canine dem- onstration and tour the station. There volition be child identification kits for parents, face painting, games, treat bags and prophylactic hand- outs.
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HANOVER TWP. – Dawn Mendygral is encouraged by the outpouring of sup- portsheandhersonhavereceivedsince going public on Th with allega- tions of bullying by a teacher. "I expected some response," Mendy- gral, 41, of Hanover Township said. "I was inundated. Information technology's a positivdue east thing. Jared is happy, too." Mendygral and her son, Jared Swank, an18-year-quondamsenioratHanoverAreaJu- nior/Senior High School, met with membersofthepressonThursdayafter- noon and Mendygral addressed the Ha- nover Area School Board Thursday dark. TheysayateacherusedheriPhoneto videotapeSwank,whoisopenlygay,and his transgstoper date dancing at the prom last week and then up- loaded the video to a computer and showed ittostudentsinhersci- ence form 3 days later. Though Mendygral and her son have identified the teacher, The Times Leader is withholding the name because it has not been independ- ently confirmed she is the subject of in- vestigation by Hanover Area school offi- cials. Mendygra50saidsheandSwankhavea meeting and interview scheduled with district officials on Tuesday as function of that probe. Theywentpublicwiththeallegations withassistancefromtheNEPARainbow Alliance existcause Mendygral com- plained to the school principal in the by about bullying incidents and was that told they would exist looked into, but the bullying connected and got worse, Mendygral said. Mendygral said she has spoken with an attorney about the issue but has non retained counsel. "My goal was not to sue her, my goal was to expose her," she said. MendygralsaidseveralformerHanov- erAreastudentshavecontactedherand applauded her going public because they too experienced bullying in the schooldistrictwhentheywerestudents, with some naming the same instructor in- volved in the video incident. Both Mendygral and Lori Prashker- Thomas, program assist- ant at the Rainbow Alli- ance,saidcurrentandfor- mer students should re- port any past bullying by teachers to Superintend- ent Anthony Podczasy and then that it's put on record in the investigation and then the schoolhouse lath tin be made aware that a prob- lem of bullying by teach- ers practicees exist in theastward schoolhouse district.
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A2005studypastAlanMcEvoy,profes- sorofsociologyanddepartmentheadat NorthernorthMichiganUniversity,suggests that bullying by teachers is a pervasive problem.
Gay teen's mom is buoyed by support
Woman says teacher at Hanover Area bullied son
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Luzerne County Manager Robert Lawton is struggling to set up a new home dominion government on a tight bud- go,buthedoesn'tregrettakingthepo- sition. "I take non been disappointed in whatever way," Lawton said duringaluncheonFri- twenty-four hour period sponsored by the Pennsylvania Econo- thousandy Fiftyeague adue northd Wilkes-Barre cham- ber. "Thursdayis has existen a tremendous experi- ence, and every day thedecisionthatIfee50Imadeinaccept- ing this position has proven more and more than correct." No other canton managers take this opportunity, said Lawton, who has been on the job10 weekdue south. "Rightnow,thisisthebestjobinpub- licadministrationintheUnitedStates," he told the audience at the Genetti Ho- tel & Conference Center in Wilkes- Barre. The county's debt -- $444 meg in principal and involvement owed over the next 18 years – is probably the largest hurdle, he said. Lawton said he's working to obtain a county credit rating needed to refi- nance debt, but almost of the interest ratesarelockedinforyears.Countyre- payments will be around $25 million annually in the foreseeable time to come, he said. "I'm not going to be in a position no
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On the task x weeks, Luzerne County's manager is optimistic.
ByJENNIFERLEARN-ANDES
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TwoschoolsintheWyoming Valley were airtight Friday, one due to a bed bug existence institute a secondtime,theotherbecause of a blocked sewer line. JohnF.KennedyElementary School in Exeter was airtight Fridaydayforthesecondtimeafter a single bed bug was found in the schoolhouse's master office. Expert Shepherd Academy in Kingston dismissed students atnoonFridayduetoablocked sewer line that backed up into the schoolhouse'southward basement. "(Thursday) afternoon we noticed the second bed bug," Wyoming Area School District Superintendent Ray Bernardi said. "We had a representative from Ehrlich here training on the identification of bed bugs. He happened to be here and confirmed it was a bed problems." Bernardi said the first inci- dent happened April 27 in the same office. A canine bed bug inspectionwasconducted,and the merely positivdue east striking for bed bugs was in the master office. Thesinglebedproblemssightinyard, Bernardi said, was treated and the surface area cleaned on April 30. The 2nd single bed problems was located Thursday later on- noon and the school treated and cleaned Friday afternoon. He said the schoolhouse volition reopen Monday. "Wdue east are goingrand to do the whole building over again only to makeastward sure," Bernardi said. "Westwarde're keeping our fingersouth crossed." In the other incident, Paul Keating, ambassador for the Municipality of Kingston, said burn department personnel and representatives of the Wyom- ing Valley Sanitary Authority arrived on the scene at 10:45 a.grand. Friday and discovered a blocked main sew togetherer line on Maple Avenue. Keating said the line was cleared at 12:17 p.k. "The Kingston Fire Depart- ment was called every bit a precau- tion and inspected the school and found no hazardous emis- sions," said Bill Genello, spokesman for the Diocese of Scranton. "Everythinchiliad checkedoutandschoolwillre- sume Monday morning." Adept Shepherd Academy, a partner in the Holy Redeemer Regional Schoolhouse System, en- rolls students from pre-kinder- garten through eighth grade. "This is not uncommon," Keating said. "But a lot of the water backed upwardly into the base- ment."
Problems interrupt 2 schools
A bed problems and a blocked sewer line get students sent home early.
BySHEENADELAZIO andBILLO'BOYLE
sdelazio@timesleader.com, boboyle@timesleader.com
BREAKING THE TIE VOTE
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ipartisan ballot workers Chris Brawley and T.J. Baloga utilise numbered assurance shaken in a container at Luzerne County'south election agency Friday to break ties in Republican committee member write-in races. Winners volition be posted on the county election page at world wide web.luzernecounty.org. The Repub- lican commission members must select party district chairs and a county Republican chair in coming weeks.
WILKES-BARRE TWP. – Mohegan Dominicus Arena volition take new offerings for hockey fans this coming season and an ani- matronicshowthissummeron par with the wildly popular "Walking With Dinosaurs." Come September, the Pen- guins likely volition have a new, state-of-the-art scoreboard sus- pendedovercentericethatwill come at a cost in the neighbor- hood of $1million, said Donna Cupinski, chairwoman of the Luzerne County Convention Heart Authority, which over- sees the arena. LED panels on the current scoreboard, which is nearly12- yr-old, are malfunctioning faster than they tin be re- paired, and obtaining a new onewillbemoreeconomicalin the long run, Cupinski said. The board recently voted to haveAnthonyJamesPartners– a specialist in professional scorelath design – produce design specifications and write up a request for proposals at a cost of $45,000, and an addi- tional $10,000 if the board de- cidesouthwardtoalsopur- chase a 360-de- gree LED ribbon for advertising and messages around the cir- cumference of the arena. Refurbished suites are in the works equally well. Theboardauthorizedspend- ing $287,000 to updateastward all suites with new flooring, furni- ture,countertopsandapplianc- es besides as flat-screen TVs to supersede worn, 12-year-old modern- els. A mock suite with new fur- nishing is available for viewing past date. Of the changes coming, Bon- nevier is near keyed up about the new show opening June 27 – Dreamworks' "How to Train
Arena to add together new hockey scoreboard, testify
The board authorized spending $287,000 to update all suites.
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