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OP-ED: Minimum wage hike overdue York Dispatch editorial board With the federal $2 trillion coronavirus relief package a done deal, a bit of unfinished business needs tending to in Pennsylvania: the state’s paltry minimum wage. When U.S. Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled that a federal minimum wage increase did not comply with the rules governing passage of the relief bill, Pennsylvania’s working poor saw their best chance in years of a wage increase vanish. That’s because state lawmakers haven’t increased the minimum wage since George W. Bush was in office. The las...

Sunapee School District proposes $10M to extend building Published: 2/28/2021 8:39:36 PM Modified: 3/4/2021 3:38:50 PM Hot topic: The Sunapee School District is proposing a $10.6 million bond to renovate and add an extension to the Sunapee Central Elementary School. This is the third time the district has proposed a similar bond; previous $26 million proposals were voted down at Town Meetings in 2019 and 2020. Budget: Voters will be asked to approve a nearly $8.3 million operating budget for the town, which is a 4.3% increase from the previous year’s budget. If the budget and warrant articl...

By Bill O’Boyle boboyle@timesleader.com Rush-hour traffic on Interstate 81 at the Suscon Road overpass in Pittston Township in this file photo. While this stretch of the highway would not be affected, PennDOT’s recently announced plan to toll nine bridges on interstates across Pennsylvania, including a nine-mile stretch along Interstate 81 in Susquehanna County, and the Nescopeck Creek bridges on Interstate 80 in Luzerne County, have raised concerns among business and community leader. Times Leader file photo �� Listen to this WILKES-BARRE — Teri Ooms, Executive Director of The Inst...

Luzerne County Manager David Pedri, along with representatives from Penn’s Northeast , speak during a news conference at Mohegan Sun Arena to announce the 2020 COVID-19 Grant Funding(“CARES”) that was received from the PA Department of Community & Economic Development that was distributed to entities throughout Luzerne County. Representatives of Luzerne County small business owners, non-profit agencies, and other grant awardees were in attendance.

Richter, the digital news editor at the Reading Eagle, described "Eye Contact" as a satirical reimagining of the myth of Medusa and Perseus, using the familiar story to examine what it means to be a hero. The juried competition, in its third year, attracted playwrights from a 100-mile radius of the New Hope-based Phillips’ Mill Community Association, receiving the maximum number of 50 submissions well before the deadline.  - Advertisement - The judges noted that while people have been writing more this year due to the pandemic, the interest in this competition was particularly strong...