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Sunday Dispatch - June 21, 2026

My Corner, Your Corner: Remembering the great fathers

James Burrows poses at the premiere of the Hulu series ‘Mid-Century Modern’ on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles.
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James Burrows, director of classic TV comedies including ‘Cheers’ and ‘Friends,’ dies at 85

Luzerne County Acting Correctional Services Division Head Stanley Fiedorczyk speaks to council’s Correctional Services Committee in May about a mobile phone app staff will be using to track inmates.
File photo

Stanley Fiedorczyk nominated to oversee Luzerne County prison system

Monuments on the Luzerne County Courthouse south lawn have been cleaned using a $3,150 allocation from the county’s Marcellus Shale natural-gas recreation funding.
Submitted photo

Luzerne County Courthouse grounds spruced up for America’s 250th

Clean up organizer Josh Maguire, right, along with his late brother, Jake, collected over 50 tires, 17 trash bags of garbage, mattresses, and box springs along the railroad track in Exeter. All told, over 2,000 lbs. of trash was hauled away.
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Cleaning up the railroad tracks

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The 1st Lt. Jeffrey DePrimo West Pittston American Legion Post 542 held the annual Vettes for Vets Corvette car show at the parking lots of Agolino’s Restaurant, West Pittston, on Sunday, June 14. Approximately 80 Corvettes were entered into the show.
Tony Callaio | For Sunday Dispatch

Vettes for Vets car show a success

Sunday Dispatch - June 19, 2026 0

State, county, and borough officials gathered on Friday to review the latest $3.4 million sewer separation project in the Borough of West Pittston. From left: Ian Stephenson, council; John Kerns, council; Kurt Van Duzer, Reilly Associates; Ellen Quinn, council; Michael Bugelholl, council; Ariane Pupali, council; Toni Valenti, council; State Rep. Jim Haddock.
Tony Callaio | For Sunday Dispatch

West Pittston’s latest sewer separation is complete

Sunday Dispatch - June 19, 2026 0

Sherry Emershaw, portraying Amy Harding, and Mark Kahn, portraying Rev. Joshua Entwhistle, as they play a wreath at the grave of Benjamin and Stuckley Harding during a ceremony in 2025, who was killed by the Indians on June, 30, 1778.
Tony Callaio file photo | For Sunday Dispatch

West Pittston’s First to Fall ceremony set for June 28

Sunday Dispatch - June 19, 2026 0

Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 travels side by side with the Reading & Northern 2102 and makes its way to Pittston Yard last Sunday.
Margaret Roarty | Times Leader

History made: Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014 passes through Pittston...

Sunday Dispatch - June 19, 2026 0

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Registered sex offender charged in child sex sting

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Luzerne County residents and officials attend a Thursday night town hall to discuss county road and bridge projects.
Jennifer Learn-Andes | Times Leader

Luzerne County road and bridge projects discussed in town hall

Sunday Dispatch - June 18, 2026 0

The Dr. Frank A. Serino Pittston Area School District administrative suite.
Sydney Allabaugh | Sunday Dispatch

Pittston Area School Board approves final 2026-27 budget with no tax...

Sunday Dispatch - June 16, 2026 0

A $650,150 project to stop erosion creeping toward part of the Wyoming Valley Levee wall in Wilkes-Barre is set to begin next week. The impacted flood wall along Riverside Drive in Wilkes-Barre is behind the orange netting.
Times Leader File Photo

Project to stop erosion near Wyoming Valley Levee expected to start...

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