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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 still existed, Salavantis is still the clear front-runner going into the fall, said Ed Mitchell, a loc...

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 Stanley-Mills/ Grand Valley State University via AP)Kendra Stanley-Mills/APShow MoreShow Less 2of5In this...

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 Thompson Station, closer to Nashville, will follow next year. Arnett is teaming up with former Tenne...

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 on the big screen, pioneering Scouts and, best of all, hugs. Yes, hugs. There have been emotional,...