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WILKES-BARRE — Luzerne County’s voting trends will soon be back in the national spotlight as next year’s midterm elections approach, and Ed Mitchell sees that…

The race for Luzerne County judge has narrowed to three candidates — all of them women — for the November general election, and if two of them prevail the county bench will have an equal number of women and men in 2022 for the first time in history. Former Luzerne County District Attorney Stefanie Salavantis won both a Republican and Democratic nomination in Tuesday’s primary election, unofficial results show. While that would have been a bigger deal when straight-party voting st...

Colleges form alliance to support student-designed learning ANNIE MA, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5In this image provided by Grand Valley State University, Jordan Bernal, a Sport Management student at Grand Valley State University, poses outside Kindschi Hall of Science in Allendale, Mich. on Sept. 1, 2020. Bernal said first-generation college students like himself often struggle to find and take advantage of resources and scholarships once they enroll. (Kendra Stanl...

AP NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The former top distiller at Jack Daniel’s announced earlier this week that he and several partners are opening a new whiskey distillery near the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. Company Distilling will first open a 4,000-square-foot (3,712-square-meter) tasting room and restaurant in Townsend, Tennessee, former Jack Daniel’s master distiller Jeff Arnett and his partners said. A 20,000-square-foot (1,858-square-meter) main distillery in Alcoa and a tasting room in ...

THE ISSUE: It’s Monday, the day we take a few moments to highlight the good news in Lancaster County. Some of these items are welcome developments on the economic front or for neighborhoods across the county. Others are local stories of achievement, perseverance, compassion and creativity that represent welcome points of light in a still-difficult time. All of this news deserves a brighter spotlight. For this week’s installment of Good Things, we have a science fair champion, Godzilla...

A Ministry of Health programme set up to reduce sudden and unexpected deaths of babies in their sleep has not succeeded, and fatalities actually rose two years into the programme.

Maher died Friday. He was 87. In the days leading up to Thursday’s funeral for Maher, those who knew the influential Democrat have been giving tributes, including his longtime boss. “Paul was a well-liked guy and a well-connected guy. There were very few places where he didn’t have contacts. He was my lead man in the district in getting in touch with people. He really was my right hand man,” Kanjorski said Wednesday. After serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, Mahe...

pandemic, and now as vaccines become more widely available, we are reporting on how our local schools, businesses and communities are returning to a more "normal" future. Theres never been more of a need for the kind of local, independent and unbiased journalism that The Day produces. Please support our work by subscribing today. First haircut Chris Frye cuts the hair of his his son Chris, 1, as he sits in his mother Elizabeth Munch´s lap and his grandfather Ed Mitchell and cousin Justin Ca...

Fifty years ago, Alan Shepard blasted from an endless sand trap and we just now found his ball Updated Feb 11, 2021; Posted Feb 07, 2021 Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard admires his second shot on the Moon during live broadcast on Feb. 6, 1971. He exclaimed that it went "miles and miles and miles" in the 1/6th gravity, though it seems that was a bit of an exaggeration.NASA Facebook Share The most widely watched golf shot in history did not occur in a major tournament. It wasn’t even in a PG...

Amazon coming to Alcoa: Gov. Lee confirms distribution center project Site work is underway right now for the distribution center on Singleton Station Road east of Alcoa Highway. Author: WBIR Staff Updated: 7:12 PM EST February 3, 2021 Gov. Bill Lee, state and local officials formally confirmed Wednesday morning what has been apparent for weeks: Amazon is building a distribution center in Alcoa east of Alcoa Highway. The more than 634,000-square-foot building wil...