Bill O’Boyle

WILKES-BARRE — Driving home Friday evening I passed the Keystone Mission facility at Union Street and Penn Avenue.

WILKES-BARRE — Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn joined Pennsylvania Outdoor Corps adult crews at Camp Hebron in Dauphin County to kick off the upcoming season of work on public lands.

WILKES-BARRE — Walking into the Hoyt Library in Kingston the other day to do a story on the recently dedicated “Larry Cook Historian Center for Presidential Research” — it only took a minute for memories to flood my brain.

WILKES-BARRE — The Shapiro Administration this week highlighted National Procurement Month by recognizing modernization achievements made by the Department of General Services (DGS), Bureau of Procurement (BOP) and agency procurement professionals in purchasing goods and services to support Pennsylvanians’ needs every day.

“It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”

WILKES-BARRE — Gov. Josh Shapiro this week signed Executive Order 2025-01 to help fill critical vacancies in the Commonwealth workforce with experienced former federal employees who have specialized expertise in important fields like civil engineering, nursing, corrections, accounting and more.

WILKES-BARRE — With this week’s death of legendary actor Gene Hackman, one of his roles will forever be embedded in my soul — that of Coach Norman Dale in “Hoosiers.”

WILKES-BARRE — First Lady Lori Shapiro this week visited Tunkhannock Area High School to highlight how the school district supports its students by offering free menstrual products in school restrooms through their “Code Red” program.

WILKES-BARRE — U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser and U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan Jr. agreed on Thursday that the budget resolution that narrowly passed the House on Tuesday did not cut anything from Medicaid or Medicare.