Bill O’Boyle

WILKES-BARRE — If you want to have a great night out to see, hear and learn about some of this area’s outstanding achievers in arts and entertainment, then be at the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, Oct. 4.

WILKES-BARRE— Pennsylvania Department of Human Services Secretary Val Arkoosh and Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding joined leadership from Feeding Pennsylvania and the Central PA Food Bank this week to discuss the importance of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

WILKES-BARRE — Gone — everything was gone.

WILKES-BARRE—Wyoming County residents will have increased access to critical health care services as the Pennsylvania Department of Health opened a State Health Center in Tunkhannock this week.

WILKES-BARRE — The name says it all — West Side Regional Police Department.

WILKES-BARRE — U.S. Senators John Fetterman, D-Braddock, Mark Warner (D-VA) and Roger Marshall, M.D., (R-KS) this week reintroduced the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act — bipartisan, zero-cost legislation to improve access to care for seniors enrolled in Medicare Advantage (MA) plans.

WILKES-BARRE — PennDOT Secretary Mike Carroll this week said Paul Miller’s Law is about saving lives.

WILKES-BARRE — As utility companies raise electricity prices as a result of last year’s PJM auction, Gov. Josh Shapiro said he is working to deliver lower energy costs for Pennsylvanians and supercharge energy development in the Commonwealth.

PITTSTON TWP. — In November 2023, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport Executive Director Carl Beardsley announced that Breeze Airways would provide service to Orlando, Florida — prompting Beardsley to exclaim, “good things happen to those who wait.”