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Team USA teenager
Ever since she picked up a basketball Faith Pavalonis has excelled at the game. The Wilkes Barre Clutch player is one of the best 13 year olds in the area. Faith Pavalonis, TEAM USA(Riverside) says, “ I just love the game overall. Like, I'm really aggressive. I just like getting my body into this ball. With you guys going up on my shot, falling through. Everything about basketball is great. "
Back Mountain Library Auction holds kick-off dinner
Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. “I try not to have my husband too close. He pulls my hand down,” Stacy Fry of Mountain Top said with a laugh, describing past library auctions during which her husband may have wanted to rein in her bidding. Joseph...
Sullivan County parents plead guilty after death of child
SULLIVAN COUNTY, Pa. — Parents from Sullivan County admitted to not getting their newborn help, leading to the baby's death. According to investigators, the baby was born at home near Mildred in January 2022. Shortly after, the infant showed signs of distress. The baby died from cardiac arrest two...
1st step for these smoothies: head out to the field
Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. “Summer is officially here,” Mark said as he tasted a strawberry smoothie from the Times Leader test kitchen. “This is very refreshing.”. I agreed; the cool mix of berries, milk and yogurt tasted like summer. But, for me, the...
Man claims he was tortured in Carlisle St. ‘House of Horrors’
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — There are new developments in an ongoing investigation into what police describe as a ” House of Horrors.” Investigators say the house on Carlisle Street in Wilkes-Barre was the scene of the torture and murder of 38-year-old Nicole Cuevas. Five people were charged in connection with her murder. Police are […]
Look Back: No trial for solved 1903 fatal shooting of bricklayer
Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Wilkes-Barre Police Chief John Jones assigned nearly half the police force to investigate the fatal shooting of bricklayer John Baltes on June 9, 1903. Baltes was walking to his home at 35 Edison St. with Benedict Kessler and John Weidman, both...
W-B Academy students study Native American cultures
Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. The third grade class at Wilkes-Barre Academy recently studied various Native American tribes and cultures. To celebrate our learning, we performed a Native American poetry animation entitled “Sky Bear,” about the origin of the Ursa Major (Big Bear) constellation, and a play entitled “The Star and the Lily” about how the beautiful waterlily came to be. Students shown include: David Sperlazzo, Mason Qualters, Ayva Guntur, Eliana Hrichison, Paisley Sims, Eulalie Holly, Emilia Gillam, Lily Gorski, Brayden Pientka, Miles Spencer, Abigail Sompayrac, Colin Perry, John Patrick Robinson, Jaxon Senczakowicz, Aria Kaluzny, and Gabrielle Adonis.
Wyoming Seminary graduate to compete for Team USA in 2024 Paris Olympics
KINGSTON, Pa. — Behind the walls of an old bank building along Wyoming Avenue in Kingston sits a training ground of wrestling champions at Wyoming Seminary. It's where Emma Grimes has learned the ropes. "I've learned a lot of discipline, and you know, a lot of stuff to keep...
PD: Fight between five teens at Wilkes-Barre park
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Police are investigating a fight they say happened at a park in Wilkes-Barre involving five teenage girls. On June 4 around 7:00 p.m., Wilkes-Barre City Police say officers were called to Miner Park for a report of a fight happening. Once officers arrived police said the suspects had fled the […]
Weathering the Flood of 1936
Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. “Dearest Mother,” the letter begins. “Well, a lot of water has certainly passed under, over and around the bridge since I wrote you last.”. With those words Mary Jane Hayes, then a young staffer at the Osterhout Free Library in...
Pavilion dedicated to Sullivan County soldier
DUSHORE, Pa. — This pavilion outside the Dushore American Legion is a place for members to gather. And now, it will also be a place to remember one of our nation's heroes—Staff Sergeant Raymond Paul McMahon. "54 years ago today in Cambodia, he was shot with a single...
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