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Groups complete protection of 1,400 acres of Wilkes-Barre Mountain
The Times-Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) via Yahoo News· 6 months agoOct. 21—Regional conservation partners North Branch Land Trust, Earth Conservancy, and the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation of Natural Resources (DCNR) have finalized the conservation ...
Look Back: 1923 Laurel Line robbery of $70,125 in coal miner pay
The Times-Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) via Yahoo Finance· 9 months agoJul. 21—Bloodhounds were brought in for the hunt of seven bandits who killed a Scranton oil salesman, injured four people and stole more than $70,000 from a coal company paymaster near Avoca ...
Y Walk Wednesdays begin with 'Millionaires and Mansions'
The Times-Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJun. 12—Florence Foster Jenkins, portrayed by Meryl Streep in a 2016 movie, "was evidently the world's worst opera singer." Malcolm Burnside, an early owner of The Boston Store (now known as ...