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Payroll tax bill could hit trouble

Saving a temple of area’s history

Senate Republicans are cool to the attempt to head off a tax hike, and some Democrats criticize it as it heads for votes today. By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press

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Advocates for the imposing Irem Temple in downtown Wilkes-Barre, pictured above, are trying to raise millions of dollars to preserve the structure. At top is stained glass over the building’s auditorium. Below is ornate detail above the stage.

Future of the old Irem Temple looks cloudy

By JENNIFER LEARN-ANDES jandes@timesleader.com

The Hotel Sterling is in the limelight because it’s facing demolition, but another historic landmark structure in the same downtown Wilkes-Barre block – the Irem Temple – also is endangered. The Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry bought the century-old, mosquelike building on North Franklin Street for $992,000 in 2005 from Irem Temple A.A.O.N.M.S. so it would be in safekeeping until a new use and renovation funding were identified. Cultural groups, particularly the

Little Theater of Wilkes-Barre, have expressed an interest in using the structure, but an estimated $3 million in repairs are needed just to get the building up to code, said chamber representative Larry Newman. That $3 million is a conservative estimate of what it will cost for a new boiler, electrical and fire suppression systems and modifications to make the structure accessible to people with disabiliSee IREM, Page 12A INSIDE: Sterling discussion set, 12A

WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill negotiators Thursday officially unveiled hard-fought compromise legislation to prevent 160 million workers from getting slapped with a payroll tax hike, but it ran into turbulence in the Senate, where Republicans withheld support and several Democrats attacked it. The measure is a top electionyear priority for President Barack Obama and generally won backing from his Democratic allies in Congress. But it’s getting only grudging support from House Republicans and even less from Obama’s GOP rivals in the Senate, where party negotiators shunned the measure and its $89 billion impact on the budget deficit over the coming decade. The legislation is expected to get votes in both House and Senate today, and Obama has promised to sign it right away, assuming it passes. But support in the Senate, where Democrats control 53 votes, seemed soft. It will take 60

PPL nuclear power plant in Salem Township seen in operation on Thursday. Heller’s Orchard (in Wapwallopen) is in the foreground. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ranked the plant’s Unit 1 in the bottom four of 104 plants nationwide and ordered extra inspections.

ing. The Susquehanna nuclear power Despite performance issues, Unit 1 at ar Regulatory Commission. The commission has ranked the plant’s Unit 1 generator is one of three Salem Twp. is still deemed safe. By BILL O’BOYLE boboyle@timesleader.com

SALEM TWP. – A series of operational incidents at PPL’s Luzerne County nuclear power plant over the last two years has drawn attention from the U.S. Nucle-

Mundy only area rep with primary opponent Three of the seven legislators have no opposition in the primary or general election.

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primary or the general elec2 0 1 2 tions. ELECTION That lineup emerged after Thursday’s deadline for candidates to file nominating petitions. Frank McCabe, a Luzerne County assistant district attorney who lives in Kingston, will challenge Mundy for the Democratic nomination in the 120th House District. The winner of the primary will face Republican

HARRISBURG – State Rep. Phyllis Mundy is the only one of seven incumbent Luzerne County legislators that will face a primary opponent in April. Three will have opponents in the November general election and three others, barring write-ins, will be unchallenged in both the See OPPONENTS, Page 12A

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Feds give PPL reactor low grade plant’s Unit 1 in the bottom four of 104 plants nationwide and ordered extra inspections through this year. The NRC assigns each of the country’s 104 nuclear reactors to one of five categories based on its safety performance. Most – actually 100 -- are in the top two groups, with 91 getting the highest rank-

“Let’s be honest, this is an economic relief package, not a bill that’s going to grow the economy and create jobs.”

ranked in Category 3. The only reactor that ranks lower is Browns Ferry Unit 1 near Athens, Ala., which is in the fourth category. There are no reactors ranked in the fifth and lowest category. Neil Sheehan, NRC spokesman, said See PPL, Page 9A

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What data are being collected and how the information is used is mostly unknown. By RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press

mobile apps, and the stores that sell them, should be providing parents with basic, simple-to-understand information about their products so they can choose which apps their children can use. The report also says developers should disclose whether their apps connect with social media services or include advertisements. Mobile apps can automatically capture smartphone information, such as a person’s location, phone number, call logs and personal contacts. The market for mobile apps

WASHINGTON — Kids have easy and inexpensive access to hundreds of smartphone applications, but parents are in the dark about what personal information is being collected from their children and how companies are using the data, government regulators said Thursday. The Federal Trade Commission said companies that make See APPS, Page 12A

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Tranguch plaintiff appeals dismissal by county judge

Franklin Tarantino’s family among 1,000 plaintiffs in Hazleton fuel leak case.

of the resolutions were not disclosed. In November 2009, Tarantino, who had previously represented himself in the case, made requests to have orders and setBy SHEENA DELAZIO tlements made by Ciavarella sdelazio@timesleader.com thrown out, based on the fact WILKES-BARRE – One of the that defendants and attorneys remaining plaintiffs in an 11- involved in the case made camyear-old gasoline spill lawsuit paign contributions to Ciavarelhas appealed a county judge’s la in his bid for judge. Tarantino said in his filing he ruling in the case that dismissed the lawsuit in favor of Exxon felt as if Ciavarella forced him to sign an agreement to settle the Mobil Corp. Attorneys for Franklin Taran- case and settlement offers were tino also appealed former Judge “grossly unfair.” Wetzel, who denied the reLewis Wetzel’s ruling, throwing quest just before he out a request by Tarantileft office in Decemno to void orders and set- Hundreds of ber, granted a motion tlement agreements for summary judgmade by disgraced ex- other plaintiffs in the ment for Exxon MoJudge Mark Ciavarella. The appeals were filed case resolved bil. Attorneys for Exwith the state Superior their lawsuits xon Mobil in August Court earlier this month. “The fact is that other in March 2011. filed a motion for summary judgment families went to trial, The terms of and asked that the and my family also has the resolulawsuit be dismissed that right,” Tarantino said. “Why Judge Wetzel tions were not based on there being no “evidence of an inwould deny us that right disclosed. tentional act” on bewith that ruling is behalf of Exxon Mobil, yond my ability to underand that Exxon Mobil did not stand.” Tarantino’s family was one of control the gasoline at Tranguch 1,000 plaintiffs who originally when it was sold to Tranguch by filed a lawsuit alleging fuel leaks another distributor. Sean McDonough, an attorat the former Tranguch Tire and Service Station on Church ney for Exxon Mobil, did not reStreet in Hazleton entered the turn a message seeking comground, causing residents to ment Thursday. Tarantino’s attorney, Sean come down with diseases, inLogsdon, said the legal issues cluding cancer. The case, commonly called presented were similar to arguthe Laurel Gardens gas spill, in- ments that had been made in volved the Tranguch business, other lawsuits filed in connecwhich closed in 1995 after filing tion with the Tranguch spill. In those cases, other judges alfor bankruptcy. A trial was held in September lowed the case to proceed to a 2010 for some plaintiffs in the jury. Logsdon said Wetzel did not case, and the jury ruled those plaintiffs would not receive any issue an opinion detailing his lemoney, but that Exxon Mobil gal reasoning, so he doesn’t and Tranguch were partially re- know why Wetzel ruled differently than the other judges. sponsible for the spill. Staff writer Terrie MorganHundreds of other plaintiffs in the case resolved their law- Besecker contributed to this resuits in March 2011. The terms port.

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Diversity is celebrated By JERRY LYNOTT jlynott@timesleader.com

DALLAS TWP. – For a kid who received an unsatisfactory grade for conduct in grade school Crystal Kuykendall did pretty well for herself. The author, lawyer, educator, mother and grandmother was the keynote speaker Thursday night at Misericordia University’s 21st annual Diversity Institute dinner. Kuykendall achieved quite a bit on her own, but the gangly kid who talked too much and didn’t consider herself pretty owed much of her success to people who accepted her as different from other children and included her in classes, encouraged her to use her abilities to excel. She implored the nearly 140 people in attendance to act as “merchants of hope,” just like her teachers and mentors, to make present-day changes for the benefit of future generations. “If we’re not preparing all our young people to mix and mingle with children who are different, we have not served them well,” said Kuykendall. She was born to a 19-year-old mother who was a year out of high school. Her father was a decorated and disabled veteran of World War II. But despite their limitations, they did their best to

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Misericordia University President Mike MacDowell shares a laugh with Diversity Institute Dinner guest speaker Crystal Kuykendall.

see she was taken care of and she went on to earn five advanced degrees, write the best-selling books “From Rage to Hope: Reclaiming Black and Hispanic Students,” and its follow-up, “From Rage to Hope II.” The murder of her husband in New Jersey nearly derailed her

career and sent her back to her hometown of Chicago to withdraw. However, she realized how lucky she was in life when she saw the 17-year-old boy who confessed to the murder and met the grandmother who raised him after his parents were killed in a car crash.

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February 15, 2012 atricia Ann Stella, 69, of the Miners Mills section of WilkesP Barre, passed away peacefully

Wednesday afternoon in the Hospice Community Care Inpatient Unit of Geisinger South WilkesBarre, following an illness. Born in the Miners Mills section of Wilkes-Barre, on January 14,1943, she was the daughter of the late John and Verna Bozenski Rodak. She was a graduate of Coughlin High School, Class of 1960. She had worked in several clerical positions for local businesses and most recently in the food service department of General Hospital and the Olde Country Buffet. Her main job was being a loving mother and especially a loving grandmother. Patricia enjoyed gardening, playing bingo games and getting lucky at the casino. She was preceded in death by an infant son, Harold, brother Raymond Rodak and a sister, Elizabeth (Betty) Wierzbinski. Patricia is survived by daughters, Gina Konnick and her husband, Michael, Shavertown; Christine Stack and her husband, Jeff, Portland, Maine; a son, Harold Jr., and his wife, Carrie, Hudson; sisters Helen Hassler, Clark, New Jersey; Mary Suchocki and her husband, Edmund,Wilkes-Barre; Louise Cookus and her husband, Jerry, WilkesBarre; Jean Frank and her husband, Dan, Lehman; brother John Rodak

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Molly Easo Smith, a candidate for Wilkes University president, left, talks with Wilkes Student Ambassador Christa Filipkowski before meeting with students Thursday. Smith is one of three finalists the school is considering for the position.

PITTSTON TWP. – The bicounty board that oversees the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport has decided that controllers from both Luzerne and Lackawanna counties should have the authority to sign airport-issued checks. But board members agreed checks can be issued without their signatures. A question arose in January about whether the newly adopted Luzerne County Home Rule Charter permits a county controller to sign checks for an authority or other government board. In the past, before the charter took effect, the airport board required three signers from each county plus the signature of Barry J. Centini, the airport’s executive director. One of the three signatures from each county could be that of the controller, but that was not required. The issue became heated when Centini said the board can set its own rules and does not need a con-

method should continue, but he’d member Rick Williams voted prefer to see the board require at against because he wanted a conleast one controller review and troller’s signature to be required. The board rules resign each check. quire at least two afThe matter was set One of the firmative votes from aside until Thursday, each county to adopt a when the monthly three signamotion. meeting began with tures from O’Brien declared Griffith and his counterthe motion passed part in Lackawanna each county anyway and in a phone County, Gary DiBileo, could be that interview Thursday asking the board to conafternoon said he tinue permitting con- of the conmade a mistake and trollers to sign checks. troller, but Centini, DiBileo said having a that was not apologized. reached after the controller review meeting, said the mixchecks and sign gives required. up means the matter taxpayers “another set will be placed on the of eyes, another level of agenda for the March 22 board transparency.” Corey O’Brien, chairman of the meeting. Both said the error won’t airport board and a Lackawanna affect anything because the status County commissioner, expressed quo, which the motion called for concern that checks could not be anyway, will remain in effect. Newly hired Luzerne County signed if a controller was not at a Manager Robert Lawton, who is meeting. DiBileo said he or a deputy con- the third county member on the troller would be present at all board, may be the deciding vote. meetings and Griffith has rarely Lawton was not present Thursday missed a meeting since he took of- because he is in the process of moving from California. fice.

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HARRISBURG – One player matched all five winning numbers drawn in Thursday’s “Pennsylvania Cash 5” game and will receive $225,000. Lottery officials said 65 players matched four numbers and won $272 each and 2,457 players matched three numbers and won $12 each. Monday’s “Pennsylvania Match 6 Lotto” jackpot will be worth at least $550,000 because no player holds a ticket with one row that matches all six winning numbers drawn in Thursday’s game.

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A motion to continue the past Members agree checks can be troller to sign checks. Walter Griffith, the Luzerne practice failed because one of Luissued without the signatures County controller, disagreed, say- zerne County’s three members of county controllers. ing he felt that at a minimum the was absent and County Council

and his wife, Regina, Southhampton; her loving grandchildren, Danielle and Juliana Konnick, Harold III and Samantha Stella, Carina Stack, and many nieces and nephews. Patricia’s funeral will be conducted on Monday at 9 a.m. from the Mark V. Yanaitis Funeral Home, 55 Stark Street, Plains, with a Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. in Ss. Peter and Paul Church, Plains. Interment will be private. Friends may call at the funeral home on Sunday from 6 to 9 p.m. and Monday from 8:30 a.m. to time of services. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be given to Hospice Community Care, 601 Wyoming Ave., Kingston, PA 18704. Condolences or directions may be accessed by visiting www.yanaitisfuneralhome.com.

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Salvation Army carnival set

The Salvation Army will be sponsoring a winter carnival for children who received gifts at Christmas through The Salvation Army as well as other children who would like to attend. The event will take place in the Salvation Army gym, 17 S. Pennsylvania Ave, on Monday from noon to 3 p.m. In addition to games and book and coat giveaways, Young’s Funny Farm will be bringing therapy animals for the children to pet. For more information, call 824-8741. WASHINGTON, D.C.

Library will get $25,000

U.S. Sen. Robert Casey, D-Scranton, has announced a $25,000 grant to help the West Pittston Library recover from flood damage. Flooding destroyed much of the interior of the library, but after operating at a temporary location since the September flood the Casey library will soon move back to its original location.

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Council has allowed $10,000 to help the new manager travel across the country

County paying for Lawton move By JENNIFER LEARN-ANDES jandes@timesleader.com

Luzerne County’s incoming Manager Robert Lawton has submitted cost quotes required to obtain county payment of his moving expenses, according to the county controller’s office. Lawton will be moving from Rio Vista, Calif., to a rental property in Kingston, and the county council agreed to provide up to $10,000 in moving expenses.

Though coverage of moving expenses is new to Luzerne County government, council memLawton bers said it is typically part of hiring packages for high-level municipal executives throughout the country. Lawton submitted the following quotes: Canova Moving

and Storage Co., $9,904; Global Van Lines, $10,425; and Graebel Van Lines, $10,419. He recommended Canova because it furnished the lowest price. The council recently agreed to extend Lawton’s start date from Feb. 21 to Feb. 29. Council Chairman Jim Bobeck said Lawton requested the additional time because he will be driving cross country from California with his wife and two dogs. Bobeck noted Lawton will not

start receiving his county salary until Feb. 29. The delayed start date will allow Interim Manager Tom Pribula to finish some business he started and attend the next regular council meeting on Feb. 28. Pribula also may present a “state of the county” report required by the home rule charter, Bobeck said. The report must be presented within 60 days after the close of the fiscal year, the charter says. Lawton will be in town sever-

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federal offense that is “substantially the same” as the state law offense. Brace has challenged the retirement board’s position that federal charge to which Brace pleaded guilty is equivalent to the state law crime of bribery in official and political matters, which is among the offenses that triggers a pension forfeiture. In the motion to dismiss filed Thursday, attorney Robert Tintner said the wording of state and federal statutes makes it clear that they are substantially the same. “Both statutes intend to punish a public official for soliciting, demanding

LEHMAN TWP. – The wrestling program at Lake-Lehman High School is temporarily on hold, high school Principal Doug Klopp said, to protect students from a contagious skin infection Klopp said two varsity wrestlers contracted herpes gladiatorum, a strain of the herpes simplex virus spread by skin-to-skin contact. “We’re here for the students. We want to protect the well-being of all students involved in (wrestling),” Klopp Sore throat, said. “We’ve isolated swollen lymph (the two students) to make sure it wasn’t nodes and fever or tinbring spread.” The school was gling of the alerted to the infec- skin appear tion Monday, Klopp said, and action was before skin taken shortly thereaf- lesions or ter. sores, accordAccording to the ing to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, the Department illness takes about of Health eight days to appear website. after exposure to an infected person. Sore throat, swollen lymph nodes and fever or tingling of the skin appear before skin lesions or sores, according to the Department of Health website. The sores typically affect the face, arms, legs or abdomen. “It’s incumbent upon us to protect the student body,” Klopp said. “That’s why we canceled the Wyoming Valley West wrestling match (this week), so we wouldn’t put their wrestlers at risk. “We decided it would be best to limit skin contact,” Klopp said. He said it is common practice at the school to clean wrestling mats before and after practices, as well as side walls and locker rooms. Athletes are urged to take home their equipment, not share items and participate in routine skin checks, Klopp said.

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Pittston Library gets money

State Sen. John Yudichak, D-Plymouth Township, and state Rep. Mike Carroll, D-Avoca, announced a $30,000 grant for the Pittston Memorial Library from the state Department of Education. The library applied for the grant to help pay for renovations that will include the replacement and upgrade of lighting, installation of new carpeting, the creation of a senior citizens’ study space and make other improvements. WILKES-BARRE

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Kulick PFA hearing moved

A protection-from-abuse petition hearing scheduled for Thursday was rescheduled until late March, after the defendant in the case was unable to appear because he is jailed in Monroe County. Robert Kulick, a one-time associate of reputed mob boss William D’Elia, was scheduled to appear at Kulick the hearing after his wife, Michele Mattioli-Kulick, filed the petition in January. Judge Michael Vough said the new hearing date is March 29. Mattioli-Kulick alleged Kulick threatened her and their teen son and daughter shortly after Mattioli-Kulick’s father, Joseph Mattioli, Pocono Raceway founder and chairman, passed away. Kulick was jailed Wednesday after violating the temporary PFA. He had previously been unable to attend another hearing due to being hospitalized, according to court papers.

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The Luzerne County Historical Society will host its second annual Stars of the Valley with a dinner celebrating “The Life and Work of Ham Fisher” at 6 p.m. Feb. 29 at the Westmoreland Club at Wilkes-Barre. Hammond Edward Fisher was born in Wilkes-Barre in 1900. By age 20 he pubFisher lished his first political cartoon in the Wilkes-Barre Record and, within a few years, his comic strip Joe Palooka was a national success. Dinner is $75 per person, $65 for society members and $50 for students with ID. Reservations with payment are due by Feb. 24. Mail checks to Luzerne County Historical Society, 49 S. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. To pay by credit card, call 823-6244, ext. 3.

al days before his start date and will meet with Pribula and other managers to “ensure a smoother hand-off,” Bobeck said. The council voted Jan. 24 to hire Lawton to be the county’s first permanent manager under the new home rule government. The 49-year-old will be paid $110,000 plus benefits. The manager oversees daily operations and many duties previously handled by three elected commissioners.

WVW match canceled after two high school athletes are affected by the herpes gladiatorum virus.

Mayor Tom Leighton announced the city has received $924 from Pennsylvania American Water Co.’s 2012 Fire Fighting Support Grant. The grant was used to purchase a new fire hose nozzle that replaces a 20-year-old nozzle that was recently taken out of service. “I am grateful for the support from PA American Water Company of our fire department,” Leighton said.

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hilip Evan, right, and Ian Ratchford, second-grade students at the Wyoming Valley West Chester Street Elementary School in Kingston, work on painting their rocks during Art and Science Day on Wednesday. The daylong program was hosted by the PTO.

County fights Brace pension The former deputy chief clerk says he was wrongly denied $740 per month. By TERRIE MORGAN-BESECKER tmorgan@timesleader.com

SCRANTON – The Luzerne County Retirement Board has asked a judge to dismiss a federal lawsuit filed by a former county official who was denied pension benefits based on his guilty plea to a corruption charge. Bill Brace, former deputy chief clerk, filed suit in November, alleging the boardwronglydeniedhimhis$740-permonth pension after he pleaded guilty

in January 2010 to federal charge of corrupt receipt of a reward for official action. Brace, who was later sentenced to three months in prison, adBrace mitted he accepted a tailor-made, monogrammed suit from a company as a reward for helping the business obtain a county contract. State pension law precludes public employees from receiving pension benefits if they are convicted of certain Pennsylvania state law crimes related to their employment. The forfeiture also applies if a person is convicted of a

YMCA already halfway close to meeting capital funding goal Wilkes-Barre facility receives $5 million state redevelopment grant as well as tax credits.

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The renovation includes constructing a new six-lane pool, 21 apartments for Wilkes University students and a new wellness center. The project is being managed by Radnor Property Group, which developed Gateway Corners for King’s College. “I’ve got great news for you in terms of our start,” campaign Chairman Doug Gaudet told a group of about 50 people including campaign leadership and major donors during the launch of the community portion of the campaign Thursday at Best Western Genetti Hotel & Conference Center.

WILKES-BARRE – Even before the kick-off, the Wilkes-Barre Family YMCA was more than half-way down the field. YMCA officials set a fundraising goal of $5 million for a capital campaign that will provide the final piece of funding for a $14.8 million renovation of the 78year-old downtown structure and $1.2 million in upgrades for Camp Kresge. See YMCA, Page 6A

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Tom McGrath, center, jokes with Doug Gaudet, left, and Scott Henry at the kickoff of the Wilkes-Barre Family YMCA Capital Campaign on Thursday.

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Survivors tell horrific tales Prison buildings stand taped off Thursday after a deadly fire in Comayagua, Honduras. A fire started by an inmate tore through the prison Tuesday night, killing more than 300 inmates, according to officials.

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New North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves at Kumsusan Memorial Palace on Thursday in Pyongyang after reviewing a parade of thousands of soldiers and commemorating the 70th birthday of his father, the late Kim Jong Il. HARRISBURG

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COMAYAGUA, Honduras — The prisoners whose scorched bodies were carried out piece by piece Thursday morning from a charred Honduran prison had been locked inside an overcrowded penitentiary where most inmates had never been charged, let alone convicted, according to an internal Honduran government report obtained by The Associated Press. The Honduran government report, which was sent to the United Nations this month, said 57 percent of the approximately 800 inmates of the Comayagua farm prison north of the country’s capital were either awaiting trial or being held as suspected gang members. A fire that witnesses said was started by an inmate tore through the prison Tuesday night, burning and suffocating screaming men in their locked cells as rescuers desperately searched for keys. The death toll was at 355 Thursday after-

he leader of the Pennsylvania House Democratic caucus said T Thursday that the Republican speaker

sion with guards to stage a prison break. Survivors told horrific tales of climbing walls to break the sheet metal roofing and escape, only to see prisoners in other cell blocks being burned alive. Inmates were found stuck to the roofing, their bodies fused to the metal.

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should schedule special elections for six vacant House seats that have been in limbo since the state Supreme Court threw out the legislative redistricting plan last month. The letter from Minority Leader Frank Dermody to Speaker Sam Smith said there are more than 300,000 Pennsylvanians who have been without representation for more than a month. He noted that budget deliberations will be held in the near future. A spokesman for Smith, R-Jefferson, said a final redistricting plan has not been approved, and cited the state’s Election Code, which allows Smith to hold off on scheduling special elections under the normal time constraints under those circumstances.

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Sentenced in son’s death

The parents of an 8-year-old boy who died from Hodgkin lymphoma after suffering for months from undiagnosed swollen glands was sentenced to eight years in prison Thursday after pleading guilty to denying him medical treatment. Attorneys for Monica Hussing, 37, and William Robinson Sr., 40, had said the parents had financial problems and tried to get checkups for their son but couldn’t afford it. Willie Robinson collapsed at his home on March 22, 2008. Prosecutors say he had begged his parents to take him to see a doctor but was rejected. Hodgkin lymphoma is a highly treatable cancer. Hussing’s daughter, Lillian Hussing, said the family didn’t have money for medical care when they lived in Warren, tried repeatedly to get help from social services and visited a free clinic but left when told they would have to pay $180.

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olling Stone lead singer Mick Jagger takes picures with his cellphone Thursday before the LWren Scott Fall 2012 collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York.

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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up airliner landing in Detroit on Christmas 2009.

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GOP has No Child update

House Republicans on Thursday pushed ahead with a plan to update the federal No Child Left Behind education law by shifting more control to states and school districts in determining whether children are learning. A hearing on a pair of bills to have states develop their own systems to identify low-performing schools and turn them around came days after President Barack Obama freed 11 states from some of the George W. Bush-era law’s most stringent mandates. To get waivers, states had to submit plans and get the administration’s approval. The administration says the waivers are a stopgap until Congress updates the law. Passage appears unlikely in a gridlocked Congress. FARMINGTON HILLS, MICH.

Candidates to skip debate

Aides say Mitt Romney is out and Rick Santorum is doubtful for a March 1 presidential debate in Atlanta sponsored by CNN. Romney’s campaign said Thursday that the former Massachusetts governor has participated in 20 debates and was unable to schedule the Georgia forum. Santorum’s campaign said the former Pennsylvania senator also is unlikely to attend. It was unclear if the debate would go forward with only Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul, assuming they agree to attend. All four Republican candidates are scheduled to debate Feb. 22 in Mesa, Arizona.

By ED WHITE Associated Press

DETROIT — Calling it a “just punishment,” a federal judge ordered life in prison Thursday for a Nigerian man who turned away from a privileged life and tried to blow up an international jetliner with nearly 300 people during a suicide mission for al-Qaida. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was the same defiant man who four months ago

pleaded guilty to all charges related to the attempted destruction of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with a bomb in his underwear on Christmas 2009. He seemed to relish his Abdulmutallab mandatory sentence and defended his actions as rooted in the Muslim holy book, the Quran. Earlier, four passengers and a crew member aboard Flight 253 told U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds that the event forever changed their lives. Abdulmutallab looked disinterested during their remarks — he rarely looked up

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General: Iran won’t provoke conflict

But if Iran is attacked over alleged nuke program, it could retaliate, officer says.

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noon, according to attorney general’s spokesman Melvin Duarte, making it the world’s deadliest prison fire in a century. Honduran authorities said they are still investigating other possible causes based on prisoner accounts, including that the fire could have been set in collu-

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while seated just a few feet away, wearing a white skull cap and an oversized prison T-shirt. Abdulmutallab “has never expressed doubt or regret or remorse about his mission,” Edmunds said. “In contrast, he sees that mission as divinely inspired and a continuing mission.” Life in prison is a “just punishment for what he has done,” the judge said. “The defendant poses a significant ongoing threat to the safety of American citizens everywhere.” Abdulmutallab, a 25-year-old who was educated in Europe and is the son of a wealthy Nigerian banker, told the government that he trained in Yemen.

WASHINGTON — The nation’s U.S. intelligence officials said Thursday that if Iran is attacked over its alleged nuclear weapons program, it could retaliate by closing the Strait of Hormuz to ships and launch missiles at regional U.S. forces and allies. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense Intelligence Agency chief Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess said Iran is unlikely to initiate or intentionally provoke a conflict. His comments came amid growing international fears that Israel would launch military strikes against Iran to thwart its nuclear ambitions and counter recent diplomatic attacks in Thailand, India and Georgia. Israel has accused Iran of trying to kill its diplomats. Burgess and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said they do not believe that Israel has decid- This issue of ed to strike Iran. Iran has unitOn the other ed Repubside of the Capilicans and tol, Defense Secretary Leon Democrats, Panetta said in- who have telligence clamored for shows that Iran is continuing to harsh penalenrich uranium ties. but that Tehran has not made a decision to proceed with developing a nuclear weapon. The former CIA director said the United States is open to negotiations with Iran to find a diplomatic solution, but he said the U.S. keeps all options on the table to ensure that Tehran does not acquire a nuclear weapon. Clapper said it’s “technically feasible” that Tehran could produce a nuclear weapon in one or two years, if its leaders decide to build one, “but practically not likely.” Their testimony came as many in Congress are pressing the Obama administration to take tough steps against Iran, questioning whether diplomatic and economic sanctions have taken a toll on the regime. This issue of Iran has united Republicans and Democrats, who have clamored for harsh penalties. Last year, the Senate voted 100-0 to impose penalties on Iran’s Central Bank, and President Barack Obama signed the sweeping defense bill containing the sanctions on Dec. 31. Speaking with reporters, House Speaker John Boehner, ROhio, said that for the sake of Israel and moderate Arab nations, “We need to take further action.”

U.N. General Assembly OKs resolution backing Arab plan for Syrian leader The Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly has approved a resolution backing an Arab League plan that calls for Syria’s president to step down and strongly condemns human rights violations by his regime. The vote in the 193-member world body was 137-12 with 17 abstentions. Russia and China, who vetoed a similar resolution in the Security Council, voted against the resolution. There are no vetoes in the

General Assembly and while their resolutions are not legally binding, they do reflect world opinion on major issues. Supporters were hoping for a high “yes” vote to deliver a strong message to Assad to immediately end all human rights violations and attacks on civilians and hand power to his vicepresident. Moscow has maintained close ties with Damascus since the Cold War, when Syria was led by the current leader’s father, Hafez Assad.

Meanwhile, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon accused the Syrian regime of committing “almost certain” crimes against humanity Thursday as activists reported fresh violence and the arrest of several prominent dissidents, including a U.S.-born blogger. Speaking to reporters in Vienna, Ban demanded the Syrian regime stop using indiscriminate force against civilians AP PHOTO caught up in fighting between government troops and Presi- A Jordanian border policeman shuts the gate to Syria near dent Bashar Assad’s opponents. Ramtha city at the Jordanian- Syrian border Thursday.

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votes to advance the measure, and Democratic vote counters braced for defections. They also worried that Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky wasn’t rounding up Republican votes. Meanwhile, in the House, the top Republican said the $143 billion measure won’t do anything to help the economy. “Let’s be honest, this is an economic relief package, not a bill that’s going to grow the economy and create jobs,” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said. But after losing a fight over the legislation at the end of last year, Republicans were determined to clear it off of the political agenda and focus voters on Obama’s record rather than their battles with him. “It was impossible to break AP PHOTO through on the politics,” Rep. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi talks about an accord on the payroll tax cut negotiations Greg Walden, R-Ore., said. Thursday. The bill could see votes in both houses today. But several Democrats also came out publicly against the bill cians who treat Medicare pa- handed to them after a barrage of off parts of the broadcast televiand others have privately signaled tients, at a cost of $18 billion, fi- criticism from Republicans and sion airwaves to wireless compathey’re likely “nay” votes. Most nanced in part by cuts to a fund conservatives around the country nies. Even more would be raised noteworthy was Sen. Tom Har- created under Obama’s 2010 — featured almost every hour on in upcoming auctions, but broadcast license holders would be kin, who came out in “vehement health care law that awards grants 24-hour cable new networks. GOP leaders gave the talks a compensated for giving up specopposition” to the measure over for preventive care and by curbs cuts to Obama’s health care law on Medicaid payments to hospi- major boost over the weekend by trum, while $7 billion would be and the reduction in a payroll tax tals that care for a disproportion- dropping a demand that the tax dedicated to creating a new pubcut be paid for with spending lic safety network for emergency that’s dedicated to paying Social ate share of uninsured patients. first responders. That would comThe pact was cuts. Security benefits. Deficit The move guaranteed that the plete a key remaining recommenspending would make up GOP leaders gave sealed after weeks of for the lost revenue, but the talks a major negotiations, first a measure wouldn’t be popular dation of the commission that public round featur- with deficit hawks in either party. looked into the way emergency ofthat was little solace to boost over the ing speechifying and In addition to Harkin, Sens. Joe ficials dealt with the 9/11 terror the Iowa liberal. “Make no mistake weekend by drop- bickering, and then a Manchin, D-W.Va., and Mark War- attacks. The last major hang-up inmore intense private ner, D-Va., also came out against about it, this is the begin- ping a demand volved changes to a provision deround in which Rep. the measure on Thursday. ning of the end of the that the tax cut According to a Congressional manded by Republicans to reDave Camp, R-Mich., sanctity of Social Securibe paid for with and Sen. Max Bau- Budget Office estimate released quire federal workers contribute ty,” Harkin said. “The vecus, D-Mont., took Thursday, the measure would add more to their generous defined ry real risk is that Social spending cuts. the lead. The two $141 billion to the deficit during benefit pension plans. Security will become Most pension systems have men, the respective fiscal 2012-2013, with $52 billion just another program to be paid for with deficit spending, chairmen of the House and Sen- of that cost gradually recouped switched to less generous but more mobile defined contribution and then in the future, perhaps ate panel with jurisdiction over over the coming decade. Still, piling most of the mea- plans. raided to help reduce the deficit.” taxes, unemployment insurance The provision, modified to win The legislation would extend and Medicare, have forged a close sure’s cost onto the $15 trillionthrough the end of the year a 2 working relationship, even as top plus national debt meant negotia- support from key members of the percentage-point cut in payroll party leaders publicly traded sal- tors had to find just $50 billion or Maryland delegation, requires so in revenues or spending cuts to newly-hired federal workers to taxes that would fatten a typical vos over the negotiations. Combative Democrats like Sen. finance renewing jobless benefits contribute 2.3 percent more of bimonthly paycheck by $40. It also would renew jobless benefits Chuck Schumer of New York and fixing the Medicare payment their salaries toward their traditional defined benefit pensions, that deliver about $300 a week to openly boasted of the leverage rate. About $15 billion came as free raising $15 billion over the compeople out of work for more than Democrats carried into the talks. But Republicans had no interest money to be raised by auctioning ing decade. six months. And it would head off a steep in reprising their December expecut in reimbursements for physi- rience, when they got their heads

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JOANN THOMAS SANCHEZ, of Wilkes-Barre, lost her battle with Lou Gehrig’s Disease on Wednesday, February 15, 2012, with her family at her side in Reading. She was born in Wilkes-Barre, on Oct. 18, 1957. Her brother and father, Tony and George, preceded her in death. Surviving are her husband, Carlos; daughters and husbands, Kim Marie and Scott Lucas; Sherry Lee and Scott Grecco; grandchildren, Kaylie and Samantha Lucas; mother and stepfather, Edward and Florence Gurchak; brothers, Charles and D.J. Thomas. Private funeral services will be held by the family in Reading.

Helen Hardisky February 14, 2012

elen Hardisky, 90, formerly of Lehman Township and a resident of Star Hill Rest Home, Harveys Lake, passed away Tuesday. She was the daughter of the late John and Mary (Kender) Tibus. Helen attended Swoyersville schools. She was an avid fisherman and took great joy in her yard and home. Helen was preceded in death by her husband, Frank Hardisky; sisters, Elizabeth Tibus, Mary Tompko, Agnes Vichica and Anna Cunnion; brothers Joseph, John, Andrew and Frank Tibus. Surviving are a daughter; Marie Caricato, and her husband, Bob, of San Diego, Calif.; one grandson and two great-grandchildren; brother William Tibus and his wife, Rita, Swoyersville; numerous nieces and nephews. Relatives and friends may call on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Andrew Strish Funeral Home, 11 Wilson Street, Larksville. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Monday at 10 a.m. in St. John the Baptist Church, Nesbitt Street, Larksville. Interment will be held in St. Stephen’s Cemetery, Lehman Township. Friends are asked to go directly to the church on Monday.

Lucretia Mae Jones February 13, 2012

ucretia Mae Jones, 92, of Wilkes-Barre, passed away Monday, February 13, 2012 at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Born in Nanticoke on June 5, 1919, she was a daughter of the late David and Sara (Richards) Griffith. She was a member of Lyndwood Congregational Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, William R. Jones; a son, William R. Jones; granddaughter Lori Jones; daughter-inlaw Glenda Jones; brothers, David and John Griffith; Benjamin and Robert Thomas Gribble. Surviving are her son David J. Jones, Wilkes-Barre; daughter, Ruth Ann Redzensky, Kingston; grandchildren Debbie Lynn (Redzensky) Metzger; Shawn, Scott, Brett and David Jones; greatgrandchildren, Dominic, Samantha Marie, Lucas Justin, Jeremy and Danny Jones; sister, Helen Marshell; several nieces and nephews. Services were private and at the convenience of the family. Arrangements were entrusted to Kniffen O’Malley Funeral Home, Inc., 465 South Main Street, Wilkes-Barre. Send condolences at www.BestLifeTributes.com. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Lucretia’s memory may be made to your favorite charity.

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February 15, 2012

aul A. Grendzinski, 56, a resident of Swoyersville, passed away peacefully early Wednesday morning, February 15, 2012 at Hospice Care of the V.N.A., Inpatient Unit at Saint Luke’s Villa, WilkesBarre. His loving wife, Colleen L. (Roth) Grendzinski, was especially blessed to have Paul as her beloved husband for nearly 13 years. Born on July 18, 1955, in WilkesBarre, Paul was the son of Bernadine (Dobrowalski) Grendzinski of Plymouth and the late Frank Grendzinski. Raised in Plymouth, Paul was a graduate of West Side Area Voca- and his friends with an extraordintional-Technical School, Pringle. ary passion. Those who truly knew Later, he went on to further his edu- Paul will remember him for his cation at Penn State University. abounding kindness, generosity where he pursued a degree in engi- and his irrepressible sense of huneering. mor. To describe Paul in a couple of A United States Air Force veter- words, it would be “unforgettable an, Paul honorably served his coun- character.” Paul was rarely seen try as an Air Traffic Control Radar without a big smile on his face and Specialist. During his time of ser- he truly enjoyed and celebrated evvice, Paul was decorated with the ery day of his relatively short life Air Force Outstanding Unit Award here on earth before he was called to and the Air Force Good Conduct a higher purpose. Medal. Paul was honorably disIn addition to his wife, Colleen charged from the Air Force in Au- and his mother, Bernadine, Paul is gust 1980. survived by his sons, Shawn GrendPrior to his retirement, Paul was zinski and his wife Kristen, of Heremployed as a computer technician shey, and Steve Grendzinski, of Herfor Hershey Foods. Additionally, he shey; his sister, Teresa Sack, of Plywas employed as a bio-medical tech- mouth; his nieces, great-nieces and nician for the Hershey Medical Cen- nephews. ter. Relatives and friends are reOver the years, Paul belonged to spectfully invited to attend many clubs and service organiza- the funeral which will be conducted tions, including the American Le- on Monday, February 20, 2012 at gion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, 9:30 a.m. from the Wroblewski Futhe Disabled American Veterans neral Home Inc., 1442 Wyoming and Dela Ches Fishing Association. Avenue, Forty Fort, followed by a Also, Paul was a longtime member Mass of Christian Burial to be celeof the Swoyersville Lions Club and brated at 10 a.m. in Holy Name/ was actively involved with the club’s Saint Mary’s Roman Catholic various community activities and Church, 283 Shoemaker Street, fundraisers. Swoyersville, with the Reverend EdPaul was always eager and will- ward P. Lyman officiating. ing to help others in any possible Interment with the Rite of Comway, whether doing shopping, run- mittal will follow in Saint Mary of ning errands, taking friends to doc- the Nativity Cemetery, Plymouth tor appointments or just providing Township, where Military Honors company and companionship. He will be accorded by the United always kept himself busy working States Air Force. on various projects and he relaxed Family and Friends are invited to by working on Sudoku puzzles, at call on Sunday, February 19, 2012 which he was a master. from 4 to 6 p.m. at the funeral home. Known for his patriotism, Paul The Swoyersville Lions Club will was commemorated for his many conduct a Service of Remembrance hours of volunteer work at the V.A. on Sunday at 5 p.m.. Hospital in Wilkes-Barre. For additional information or to Paul enjoyed the outdoors and send the family of Mr. Paul A. nature, and fishing was his unend- Grendzinski an online message of ing passion. One could say that no condolence, you may visit the funerone loved music, pizza, the Nittany al home web-site www.wroblewskiLions and the Steelers more than funeralhome.com. Paul. In lieu of flowers, Memorial ConAnimals always gravitated to tributions may be made in Paul’s Paul and he was inseparable from memory to Hospice Care of the his beloved pets, the late Snowey V.N.A, 80 East Northampton Street, and his current best buddy, Toto. Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701 or to the Paul dearly loved his wife, Col- DAV Memorial Program, P.O. Box leen, his family, his pets, his country 14301, Cincinnati, OH 45250-0301.

Sister Mary Juanita Koterba February 14, 2012 Sister Mary Juanita Koterba entered into her eternal reward at St. Joseph’s Villa, Reading, on the morning of Feb. 14, 2012, of natural causes. Sister had been a resident since 2002. Born as Genevie on March 29, 1928, to the late Catherine Wielpishewski and Joseph Koterba in WilkesBarre, she attended and graduated from Marymount High School, class of 1944. Sister entered the Bernadine Sisters of St. Francis at Mt. Alvernia, Reading, on July 31, 1944. Having served in religious life for 67 years, Sister earned degrees in Bachelor of Science in elementary education from Villanova University and a Master of Arts in elementary educational administration from Eastern Michigan University. Sister served as principal and teacher in parochial schools of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Texas. She was preceded in death, in addition to her parents, by brothers, Bernard, Edward and Joseph. Surviving are four sisters, Irene (Koterba) Broznowski, Wilkes-

William Rutherford and James O’Donnell, and sisters, Margaret Rutherford Greenall and Sister M. Eymard O’Donnell, IHM also preceded her in death. Anne will be missed by her son, Brendan, and his wife, Maria Boroski of Jamison; daughter, Maura, and her husband, Ronald Poulin of White Haven; granddaughters, Lauren and Megan Boroski; and nephew, Edwin Greenall. Celebration of Anne’s Life will be held on Saturday with a Funeral Mass at 11:30 a.m. in the Church of Saint Patrick, Church and Allegheny streets in White Haven. Relatives and friends are invited to visit at the church beginning at 10:30 a.m. Memorial donations are preferred and may be made to the Church of Saint Patrick, 411 Allegheny Street, White Haven, PA 186611310. Arrangements are by McLaughlin’s – The Family Funeral Service. Permanent messages and memories can be shared with Anne’s family at www.celebrateherlife.com.

Rose Williams February 12, 2012 Williams, 71, formerly of R ose Pittston, died Sunday, February

12, 2012 at Highland Manor and Convalescent Home, Exeter. She was the wife of Archie Williams of Pittston. Rose was the daughter of the late Ross and Pauline Bufalino Shandra. Surviving are children, Paulette Musto, Plains, and Steven, Hughestown; Archie Williams, Duryea; Brian, Pittston; grandchildren, Brien Speck; Justin Williams; Ashley Harper; Joe and Kevin Musto; Shawn, Erick, Jeremy, Samantha, Mirion, Dayna Williams; seven great-grandchildren, brother, Jimmy Shandra. Memorial Service will be held at 3 p.m. on Saturday at the Yeosock Funeral Home, 40 S. Main St,

Plains, with the Rev Reginald H Thomas officiating. Relatives and friends may call 2 to 3 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the family.

Ramon P. Moretti February 15, 2012 P. Moretti, 65, of Dupont, R amon passed away Wednesday eve-

Barre; Sister Charlotte Marie, Farmington, Mo.; Theresa Koterba, Wilkes-Barre, and Marian Koterba Koviack, Hixson, Tenn. and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Feb. 18, with Mass of Christian Burial at Sacred Heart Convent Chapel, Mt. Alvernia. Burial will be in the Sisters Cemetery of Mt. Alvernia.

Gladys Miller February 14, 2012 Miller, 89, of WilkesG ladys Barre, passed away Tuesday,

February 14, 2012 in Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Born in Millmont, Pennsylvania, on January 6, 1923, she was a daughter of the late Wilbur and Marion O. (Dooley) Miller. Gladys was the oldest and a lifetime member of Mount Zion Baptist Church, Wilkes-Barre. She was very active in the church and served as a trustee for over 50 years and an usher for over 40 years. She served as a Sunday School teacher and worked in the kitchen preparing meals for youth celebrations for over 20 years. For 13 years, she was in the Foster Grandparent Program at Heights Murray Elementary School. For 45 years, she worked as a housekeeper for Dr. Murray Dolphin. The NAACP recently recognized her as one of the founding members of the Negro Women’s Civic League. Her family meant everything to her, and she was always there to lend a hand. She played an active part in the upbringing of several children. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brothers, Harold, Wilbur and Donald Miller, and Benjamin Claiborne and sisters Myrtle Miller and Valorra

nne O’Donnell Boroski, 87, of Ash Lane in White Haven, died in the presence of her family on Wednesday evening at Timber Ridge in Wilkes-Barre. Born July 5, 1924, in Plymouth, she was a daughter of the late Patrick and Anne McHugh Rutherford O’Donnell. The valedictorian of her graduating class at Saint Vincent’s High School in Plymouth, Anne earned her baccalaureate degree from Misericordia University and Master of Science in Chemistry from the University of Maryland. Anne was a lifelong teacher of biology and chemistry in Salem, New Jersey, Surrattsville High School in Clinton, Maryland, where she was chair of the science department, and Scranton schools. Anne embraced teaching and spent many extra hours at science fairs and clubs with her students. Retiring from full-time teaching, she continued as a substitute teacher at Crestwood High School in Mountain Top and at Weatherly High School. She also worked as a treasurer of United To Serve in White Haven, raising funds for White Haven Center through golf tournaments and Christmas house tours. Anne was a member of the Parish of Saint Patrick in White Haven. She enjoyed cooking for many family and friend-filled gatherings at her summer home in White Haven. Her pies and desserts were phenomenal. Anne always said, “Cooking is chemistry.” Her husband, Ambrose Boroski, died October 25, 1989. Brothers,

ning, February 15, 2012 at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Plains Township. Born on April 27, 1946, in Nanticoke, he was a son of the late Fred L. and Ruth Bronson Moretti Sr. He graduated from Greater Nanticoke Area High School in 1964. A veteran of the Vietnam War, Ramon served with the U.S. Army from 1965 to 1968. He was awarded the National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal with device 60 and attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant. After his military service, he resided in Washington State for a number of years before returning to this area. He was last employed at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Plains Township, in the records department, retiring in 2011. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Linda Cobb in 1997. Surviving are his brother, Fred Moretti, and his wife, Ursula, Mid-

lothian, Va.; and a niece, Lee Ann Yingling, her husband, Michael, and their four children of Chesterfield, Va. A memorial service will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. from Davis-Dinelli Funeral Home, 170 East Broad Street, Nanticoke, with pastor Timothy G. Hall, of Nebo Baptist Church, Nanticoke, officiating. Private interment will follow in Maple Grove Cemetery, Pikes Creek. Visitation will be Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the funeral home.

Vincent P. Cella February 16, 2012 P. Cella, 86, of West PittV incent ston, passed away Thursday,

Claiborne. Left to cherish her memory are sisters Sandra Lee and Patricia Burton, both of Wilkes-Barre; a host of nieces, nephews and cousins. Homegoing services will be held Monday at noon at Mount Zion Baptist Church, 105 Hill Street, Wilkes-Barre, with the Reverend Michael Brewster officiating. Interment will follow in Oak Lawn Cemetery, Hanover Township. Friends may call Monday from 10 a.m. to noon at the church. Services have been entrusted to Kniffen O’Malley Funeral Home Inc., 465 S. Main Street, WilkesBarre. To send Gladys’ family words of comfort and friendship, please visit www.BestLifeTributes.com.

Feb. 16, 2012, at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, Plains Township. Born in West Pittston, on June 12, 1925, he was the son of the late Pasquale and Maria Oliveri Cella. He was a member of Corpus Christi Parish/Immaculate Conception Church, West Pittston. Vincent was formerly employed at B.F. Goodrich Co., Walsh Brothers Plumbing and retired as caddy master at Fox Hill Country Club. He was preceded in death by his wife, Magdalena, in 2002; brothers Charles, Carmen, Anthony and Louis; sisters Ann Oleski, Clara Cella and Carmella Ventre. Surviving are daughters, Margaret Wolcott and her husband, Jack, of Harding, and Maria Tarullo and her husband, David, of West Pittston; brother Frank Cella of Macungie; sister Josephine Fetch of Wyom-

ing; grandchildren, Jessica Rusinski and her husband, Jesse; Brian Wolcott and Lindsay Wolcott; Jason, Christopher and Patrick Tarullo; great-granddaughter, Olivia Rusinski; numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral will be held Monday, Feb. 20, at 9 a.m. from the Anthony Recupero Funeral Home, 406 Susquehanna Ave., West Pittston, with Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. in Immaculate Conception Church, with Monsignor John Sempa officiating. Interment will be in West Pittston Cemetery. Friends may call Sunday, Feb. 19, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home.

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FUNERALS CAFFREY – Thomas, celebration of life 12:10 p.m. Sunday. with a memorial Mass in the Church of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, 130 S. Washington St., WilkesBarre. CASEY – Tillie, funeral 9:30 a.m. Saturday in the Nat & Gawlas Funeral Home, 89 Park Ave., Wilkes-Barre. Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in St. Andre Bessette Parish at Holy Saviour Church, Wilkes-Barre. Friends may call to 7 p.m. today in the funeral home. CYBUL – Paul, funeral 11 a.m. Saturday in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery Chapel. DELSORDO – Philip, funeral 8 p.m. today in the Kniffen O’Malley Funeral Home Inc., 465 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre. Friends may call 6 p.m. until the time of the service. The procession will depart the funeral home at 9:30 a.m. Anyone attending is asked to be at the funeral home at 9 a.m. EDDY – Claybert, memorial service 10 a.m. today in the Bennett Street Presbyterian Church, Bennett Street, Luzerne. Friends may call 9 a.m. until time of service. FINNEY – Janet, funeral 10 a.m. today in the Williams-Hagen Funeral Home Inc., 114 W. Main St., Plymouth. FREY – Edwin, funeral 11 a.m. today in the Kniffen O’Malley Funeral Home Inc., 465 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre. Friends may call 10 a.m. until the time of the service. GOSART – Jesse, memorial service 1 p.m. Saturday in the Nat & Gawlas Funeral Home, 89 Park Ave., Wilkes-Barre. Friends may call noon to 1 p.m. in the funeral home. HOMETCHKO – Joseph, Mass of Christian Burial 11 a.m. Saturday in Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, 116 Hughes St., Swoyersville. LYNCH – Thomas, funeral 11 a.m. today in the Curtis L. Swanson Funeral Home Inc., corner of Routes 29 & 118, Pikes Creek. Friends may call 9 to 11 a.m. before the service. LAWTON – Grace, funeral 7 p.m. today in McCune Funeral Home, 80 S. Mountain Blvd., Mountain Top. Friends may call 5 p.m. until the time of the service at the funeral home. MIGNONE – Anna, prayer service 2 p.m. Sunday in St. Jude’s school cafeteria, Mountain Top. MYERS – Raymond, memorial service 10 a.m. Saturday in McCune Funeral Home, 80 S. Mountain Blvd., Mountain Top. OLIVER – Esther, funeral 1 p.m. Saturday in the Clarke Piatt Funeral Home Inc., 6 Sunset Lake Rd., Hunlock Creek. Friends may call 11 a.m. until the time of service in the funeral home. Committal services at the funeral home after the funeral. ORELIK – Caroline, funeral 10 a.m. Saturday in the Davis-Dinelli Funeral Home, 170 E. Broad St., Nanticoke. Friends may call 4 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home. OSTROSKY – Bernard, Mass of Christian Burial 10 a.m. Saturday in Holy Rosary Church, Duryea. Friends may call 9:30 to 10 a.m. in Holy Rosary Church. PARSONS – Ruth, funeral 10 a.m. Saturday in the Hugh B. Hughes & Son Inc. Funeral Home, 1044 Wyoming Ave., Forty Fort. Friends may call 7 to 9 p.m. today in the funeral home. REESE – Harry, memorial service 4 p.m. Saturday in the William A. Reese Funeral Chapel, rear 56 Gaylord Ave., Plymouth. Friends may call 3 p.m. until time of service. ROTHSTEIN – Beulah, memorial gathering 1 p.m. Feb. 26, in Temple B’nai B’rith, Kingston. SAYLOR – Marguerite, funeral 9:30 a.m. today in the Sheldon-Kukuchka Funeral Home Inc., 73 W. Tioga St., Tunkhannock. Mass of Christian Burial 10 a.m. in Nativity BVM Church, Tunkhannock. SAVAKINAS – Dorothy, Mass of Christian Burial 11 a.m. Saturday in St. Anne’s Church, Bennett Street, Luzerne. Friends may call 9 to 11 a.m. in Betz-Jastremski Funeral Home, 568 Bennett St., Luzerne. VALESHA – Joseph, funeral 11 a.m. Saturday in the Hugh P. Boyle & Son Funeral Home Inc., 416 Wyoming Ave., Kingston. Friends may call 9:30 a.m. until the time of service. VNUK – Marie, Mass of Christian Burial 9:30 a.m. today in All Saints Parrish Church, Willow Street, Plymouth. Friends may call 9 a.m. until time of service at the church. YAROLIN – Helen, funeral 9:15 a.m. Saturday in the Baloga Funeral Home Inc., 1201 Main St., Pittston (Port Griffith). Office of Christian Burial with Divine Liturgy at 10 a.m. in St. Michael’s Byzantine Catholic Church, Pittston. Friends may call 5 to 8 p.m. with Parastas at 7 p.m. today in the funeral home.

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MEETINGS Northwest Area board looking for economies

UNION TWP. – A proposed 2012-13 budget, which under current projected figures has the Northwest Area School District increasing expenditures by 0.8 percent, came up for discussion at Wednesday night’s school board meeting and produced a warning from board President Randy Tomasacci. Tomasacci didn’t say the district was in dire financial straits, but he did state that since Gov. Tom Corbett’s budget doesn’t provide for an increase in reimbursement to the state’s public school districts, “there is at this point, a need for the administration and professional staff to tighten down.” The board’s budget and finance committee has already begun a series of public meetings to discuss finances. The next session has been scheduled for Thursday at 1 p.m. in the board room of the high school. Peter Lanza, transportation chairman, also stated that his committee, in the face of prospects of $5 per gallon gasoline, is considering consolidating bus runs and staggering class starting times in 2012-13 in an attempt to contain costs. Besides fiscal issues, the board concurred unanimously with a recommendation by Superintendent Ronald Grevera to suspend for 35 days a high school student who violated the district’s policy on weapons. Grevera said the student had a pellet gun and knives in his car, which was parked on school property, although he never expressed any threats or threatened any students or teachers. Grevera said the student volunteered the information in a casual conversation with one of his teachers.In his report to the board, Grevera said that in the interest of costs, he is exploring the feasibility of bringing back into the school district students who attend classes at other districts under a program administered by the intermediate unit. Grevera said in his view it will be better to have these included in the activities and classes of their home district.

He additionally asked for parents as well as other people from the community to participate on a strategic planning committee to implement Chapter 12 programs. Tom Huntington

Dallas looks to plans for Toby Creek issues

DALLAS – Officials announced Wednesday the borough will continue to pursue plans to address storm water issues caused by Toby Creek. Borough Manager Tracey Carr said the borough is moving forward in applying for a grant through the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to “clean up debris and sediment” within Toby Creek. Carr said there are no specific plans yet because she wants to see if the project could even be funded before property owners and engineers get involved in the details. She said depending on the funds received, the borough and property owners along the creek may have to contribute to the cost of the project. She also said all landowners involved would have to cooperate in allowing the work for the project to be successful. Council also voted to apply for a grant from the Luzerne County Office of Community Development to address storm water and street infrastructure issues on Wellington Avenue. Carr said the street has been on the paving list for a few years, but the borough has never had enough funds to complete the project. She said every three years municipalities are eligible for a Community Development Block Grant. She added surveys will need to be conducted and additional information gathered to see if the street is eligible for the program. In other business, council approved an ordinance banning large donation boxes within the borough. At last month’s meeting, Carr said the donation boxes, typically for clothing, furniture and other physical items, have become a nuisance in the borough and block public access to driveways and other areas. Council also approved a resolution to limit public comments

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The PPL nuclear power plant is seen in June 1993. According to the federal Energy Information Administration, the Unit 1 reactor at the Salem Township plant went into operation in June 1983, and Unit 2 entered service in February 1985. Both received 20-year license extensions in November 2009 to 2042 and 2044, respectively. The commission has ranked the plant’s Unit 1 in the bottom four of 104 plants nationwide.

prevent future occurrences.” There are two NRC inspectors on-site at Susquehanna at all times, Sheehan said. When asked how long the additional teams will be dispatched, Sheehan said, “Until the NRC is satisfied. At least for a year, but it could be longer if the concerns are not being met.” Sheehan noted that Unit 2 at Susquehanna is in the top column – Licensee Response. Scopelliti said he wanted to stress that there is no danger to the public. “We’re about getting better and we want to and need to continue to get better,” he said. “Anything the NRC can do to help us we will listen; we’re not above learning. Our people have worked hard to make improvements.” According to the federal Energy Information Administration, PPL Susquehanna Unit 1 went into operation in June 1983, and Unit 2 entered service in February 1985. Both received 20-year license extensions in November 2009 to 2042 and 2044, respectively.

during the meetings to a fiveminute time frame. Carr said this has always been the rule at meetings, but there was never any formal resolution declaring it. Eric Domzalski was rehired for the part-time season position of summer recreation director at $9 per hour. Carr was authorized to seek applications for summer recreation program counselors. Sarah Hite

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cil voted to raise the fees for postage and handling of refuse stickers for the city and the borough of Hughestown from $2.75 to $3.50. Moskovitz said recent increases in postage costs forced the city to pay $3.35 for the mailing while it was only charging residents of the two municipalities $2.75. B. Garret Rogan

that complainants submit their grievances to the township in writing and identify themselves. He was told, however, the anonymity policy exists to protect the callers and his request could not be honored. “I told DEP, at that time, that they should change their policy,” Stella said. Resident Mark Kijek, also irritated that the anonymous complaints continue after a year, suggested the supervisors write a formal letter to the state representative to see about changing the policy. They agreed to draft a letter. Jon O’Connell

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Back Mt. group joins Chamber of Commerce

DALLAS TWP. – The Back Mountain Community Partnership officially joined the Back Mountain Chamber of Commerce at a meeting Thursday. Lynn Banta, co-founder of the chamber, presented information to the partnership about the chamber and its inclusion of governmental bodies, nonprofit RICE TWP. – Supervisors on agencies and educational facilTuesday night assured conities. cerned residents that their wellThe group unanimously debeing took highest priority as cided to join the chamber. The they wait for the Nuangola Borpartnership consists of Dallas ough Council to finalize plans Borough and Dallas, Franklin, for a sewage project that is to Jackson, Kingston and Lehman run pipes through the township. LAKE TWP. – Discolored townships. Representatives “I’m sure that everyone at this water found off Zosh Road was from Jackson and Lehman towntable cares about the residents,” tested and found to be safe. said recently elected Supervisor Supervisor Amy Salansky said ships were not present Thursday. Marcia Thomas. “That’s first during the last supervisors Chairman James Reino Jr., of and foremost.” meeting on Feb. 8 that a LehThe project will almost cerman Township resident brought Kingston Township, said the action gives municipalities a tainly require blasting. to the supervisors’ attention The township’s three board discolored water off Zosh Road. chance to open the lines of communication with local busimembers agreed to send a letter The state Department of nesses. to Nuangola officials indicating Environmental Protection test“In most cases, communities the township would agree to the ed the water and found it safe, don’t hear from businesses sewer authority’s project, if the “just swamp water,” Salansky unless they are applying for Nuangola officials sign an insaid. something or are expanding, demnification agreement to She said there are several and then there is no input until protect residents’ and township swampy areas off Zosh Road. it’s too late,” said Reino, who property from any consequential Some feared the discolored will serve as the group’s repredamage. water was a result from a well sentative for the chamber. “I Chairman Miller Stella said established by Encana Oil and think this is the first chamber the agreement has to be airGas in 2010 on Paul and Amy like this I’ve heard of in the tight. Salansky’s property. state.” “We have to make 100 percent The Salanskys acquired the The group also discussed sure that we have this in black property after the previous and white,” Stella said. “Bottom owner had signed a legal agree- earned income tax collection within individual municipalities. line is to make sure that we ment with Encana. Mike Prokopchak, of Franklin protect our residents.” After drilling, Encana discovTownship, said there have been The agreement would require ered the area was lacking the instances in which residents’ sewer authority workers to keep large commercial amounts of addresses don’t reflect where video evidence along the sewer gas needed. The well was they actually live, and this could route and make full restitutions capped and the land is beginresult in the wrong municipality should blasting cause property ning to be reclaimed. damage. Salansky said the supervisors collecting earned income taxes. “For example, I live in FranIn other business, the superreported the water issue to visors discussed an ongoing Encana, which had DEP test the klin Township, but my address says ... Dallas,” he said. problem. water. He said that sort of confusion Thomas recounted a series of In another matter, Salansky hurts smaller municipalities like fictitious, anonymous comattended a meeting of the Back Franklin Township, which has plaints to the state Department Mountain Community Partan annual budget of about of Environmental Protection nership in January and said it concerning residential sewage would be in the township’s best $300,000. The group agreed to ask a violations. interest if they joined the partrepresentative from the Don Upon investigating these nership. Wilkinson Agency to discuss complaints, Alan Snelson, the Currently, the partnership is township’s sewage enforcement composed of six municipalities: this and other issues at its next officer, found no violations. Dallas, Franklin, Jackson, King- meeting. Sarah Hite Stella said he called the state ston and Lehman townships and agency’s local office to request

Rice Township board Pittston council moves acts on sewer concern on street paving plan

PITTSTON – City Council voted to advertise for bids to pave Union and West Oak streets and possibly Wharf Street during Wednesday night’s regular meeting. The issue was brought up during January’s meeting, but the council refrained from taking any action, citing cost concerns. Now that Reilly Associates, the city’s engineering firm, has evaluated the area, city officials are confident they can have the project completed for around $150,000. Reilly Associates evaluated Union, Thistle, East and West Oak streets. Of those, Union and West Oak were deemed to have been in the most deplorable condition. Although it was not listed with the initial four streets that were evaluated, officials hope a small section of Wharf Street, which is in need of paving, could possibly be included with little or no extra cost added on to what was budgeted for Union and West Oak streets. In other business, Solicitor Sam Falcone confirmed Popple Construction is putting the city on notice for a possible lawsuit resulting from disputes over payments received concerning work done on the city’s sewer project. Falcone stopped short of going into any detail as the legal issue is still pending. City Manager Joseph Moskovitz also did not address the possible lawsuit in detail but he did say that despite how drawnout the sewer project has become, the payments that have been made, and are scheduled to be paid are within the amount initially budgeted. Also on Wednesday, the coun-

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better.” Sheehan said the NRC issued a white inspection finding at Susquehanna Unit 1on July16, 2010, ,after an internal flooding event. He said leakage from a condenser led to “significant flooding.” “The NRC felt the situation could have been identified earlier and prevented,” Sheehan said. The unit experienced four other white inspection findings within a period of 7,000 operating hours, Sheehan said. They occurred on April 22, May 14 and July 16, 2010, and on June 25, 2011, he said. “These were performance indicators,” Sheehan said. “They were unplanned scrams or shutdowns.” Sheehan said that due to the incidents Susquehanna Unit 1 was placed in the third, or Downgraded Cornerstone Column. The lower ranking brings much higher NRC oversight and scrutiny. “The plant will remain in that category until the NRC is assured PPL fully understands why the problems occurred and has shown that they have implemented effective corrective actions to

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Ethan Cashwell Damiana P. Aregood Damiana Peaches Aregood, daughter of Deborah and Donald Aregood Jr., Wilkes-Barre, is celebrating her first birthday today, Feb. 17. Damiana is a granddaughter of Alice and Donald Aregood Sr., Shavertown, and Deborah Evans and the late Joseph Evans, Exeter. She is a great-granddaughter of Betty Rinehimer and the late Samuel Rinehimer; Ann Kirkpatrick and the late Joseph Kirkpatrick; and the late Betty and Donald Aregood, Kingston. Damiana has five brothers, Josh, 12, Jacob, 1 1, Derrick, 8, Lucas, 6, and Marcus, 5, and a sister, Jocelyn, 10.

Ethan Cashwell, son of Scott and Allison Smalley Weidl, Clermont, Fla., is celebrating his sixth birthday today, Feb. 17. Ethan is a grandson of Nina and Joe Smalley, Pittston, and Tom Weidl and Sharon Damron, Orlando, Fla. He has a brother, Aiden, 10 months.

Organists entertain at White Haven Center

‘Cooking for a Cause’ will benefit WVCA Brotherhood of Chef’s is hosting ‘Cooking for a Cause,’ a gourmet dinner to benefit Wyoming Valley Children’s Association (WVCA), Forty Fort, on Feb. 27 at the Woodlands Inn and Resort. Ticket price is $125. Cocktail hour begins at 6 p.m. and dinner will be served at 7 p.m. Contact the WVCA for tickets at 714-1246. Some of the participants, from left, first row: Jane Denion, Gage Long, Sophie Barlik, Penelope Hardinsky, Angelina Ranieli, Zachary Young, Zayden Isopi and Nico Isopi. Second row: Thomas Malloy, attorney Peter Moses, Jammie Yourren, Frank Priore, Nello Allegrucci, Paul McMillan, John Exter and Edward Ancas. Also participating are Bruce Deeble; Carmen Allegrucci; Robert Manfre; Mike Struzzeri; Paul Cozza; Nate Evans; Tom Krulack; Matt Magda; Justin Temperine; Paul Dombroski; Dave Alcaraz; Rob Schaffer; Edward Kobesky; Joseph Coyne, retired police chief; and Michael Rucsetti.

Trevor R. Yurkin

Jillian Grenewicz Jillian Grenewicz, daughter of Eric and Amy Grenewicz, West Chester, is celebrating her first birthday today, Feb. 17. Jillian is a granddaughter of Joe and Debbie Grenewicz, Upper Askam, Hanover Township, and John and Cheryl Dempsey, Bethany Beach, Del. She is a great-granddaughter of Ethel Priestman, Upper Askam, Hanover Township, and Georgina Timberman, Newark, Del. Jillian has a brother, Dylan.

White Haven State Center recently welcomed John and JoAnne Rygiel, Wyoming, who entertained in Pine Hall, Laurel Hall, Hemlock Hall and Pocono Hall. The Rygiels played organ music and favorite songs. White Haven Center is an intermediate care facility for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, serving the community since 1956. At the event are John and JoAnne Rygiel and Trish Breuer, daughter of the Rygiels and employee of White Haven State Center.

Trevor R. Yurkin, son of Danielle Ferraro, Wilkes-Barre, and Richard Yurkin, New York, is celebrating his 10th birthday today, Feb. 17. Trevor is a grandson of Carol and Ken Swartwood, Wilkes-Barre; Charles and Gail Ferraro, Berwick; and Richard Yurkin, Laurel Run. He is a great-grandson of Ethel Ferraro, Plains Township. Trevor has a brother, R.J., 14.

MEETINGS

Spaghetti dinner planned at St. Aloysius Church

Today KINGSTON: Wilkes-Barre Chapter 342 of National Active and Retired Federal Employees (NARFE), 1 p.m. at the Black Diamond American Legion, 386 Wyoming Avenue. All members and those interested in joining are urged to attend. Pizza and light refreshments will be served.

Dancers entertain at Little Stars Nursery School The Encore School of Dance of Mountain Top recently presented a program at Little Stars Nursery School in Nanticoke. Angela MartinoHigdon engaged the students in many rhythmic movements and exercises with various selections of music. Participants, from left, first row, are Noah Cimakasky and Kaitlyn Mikus. Second row: Sofia Holodick, Hannah Fink, Martino-Higdon, Jordyn Vida and Joey Waichulis.

St. Robert Bellarmine Altar and Rosary Society at St. Aloysius Church, Barney Street, Wilkes-Barre, will hold its annual spaghetti dinner noon-5 p.m. Sunday in Padden Hall. Take outs will be available. Cost is $7.50 for adults; $3 for children 6-12; and free for children under 6 accompanied by an adult. Menu includes spaghetti and meatballs, salad, rolls, beverage and cake. Members of the planning committee, from left, first row, are Betty Missal, Mary Kirkpatrick, Dolores Wallace, Linda Ciechoski, Ellie McGlynn and Barbara Elgonitis. Second row: Catherine Smith, Regina Korba, Caroline Domanski, Sandra Klemash and Sandra Snook.

Bowl For Kids’ Sake event needs sponsors, teams

Flood victim gives thank-you concert to Falls Senior Center Members and friends of the Falls Senior Center enjoyed a vocal/guitar concert by Jodi Kashuba of Falls. Members supported Jodi and her husband when their home was affected by the flood, so she gave the performance as a thank you. Participants, from left, first row, are Twila Watkins. Second row: Marilyn Fitzgerald, Donna Holeman, Margaret Zalackas, Norma Talbot, Norene Faux, Don Faux, Mary Yatsko and Elaine Pendleton. Third row: Jeanette Martin, Mary Lou Bugelholl, Pat Smith, Rosemary Lunny, Marie Mantione, Jodi Kashuba, Pat Fisher and Nancy Dietrich. Fourth row: Glenna Rozelle, Margie O’Fier, Tom Rogers, Eugene Smith, Stanley Kaiser, Ronald Jackson, John Headley, Ron Dietrich and Darlene Headley.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of The Bridge, a program of Catholic Social Services, is seeking local businesses to sponsor lanes and assemble teams for its upcoming Bowl For Kids’ Sake on March 31 at six different bowling lanes throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania. Big Brothers Big Sisters is a United Way partner agency and this event is its largest annual fundraiser. All proceeds from Bowl For Kids’ Sake help provide mentors for young people of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Local businesses or individuals wishing to sponsor a lane or assemble a team may call 8248756 or visit www.bbbsnepa.org. In recognition of the 30th anniversary of the Wilkes-Barre Bowl For Kids’ Sake at Stanton Lanes, the agency is also asking past participants to post photos of past Bowl For Kids’ Sake events and memorabilia on its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ bbbsnepa March 9-12. Some representatives from Big Brother Big Sisters, from left, first row: Sue Jones, caseworker; Sandy Frazier, program assistant; Tanya Olaviany, program director; Nicole Nealon, caseworker. Second row: Meghan Bedwick, caseworker, and Melanie Maciejczak, caseworker.

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OUR OPINION: KETTLE CAMPAIGN

Meeting needs with good deeds

IDWAY through February, the bleakest of months, many of us yearn for a warm feeling and a few, even if fleeting, sunny moments. The Salvation Army of Wilkes-Barre provided that scenario Wednesday as it honored some of the area’s bright spots – the men and women who volunteer during its annual Red Kettle Campaign as bell ringers. They included the suit-wearing Tom Kasper, a conscientious 68-year-old retired computer programmer who last year brought in the most bucks, as well as college students, former Salvation Army clients, repeat ringers who call themselves the “ding-a-lings” and a cross-section of other people who care about this community. Together, the bunch collected more than $167,000. The Salvation Army calculated the volunteers’ efforts, saying they tallied 7,000 hours of service from Nov. 12 until Christmas Eve. These souls had posted themselves at area grocery stores and retail outlets. They braved the elements and hordes of frenzied holiday shoppers. They accepted cash and, for the first time locally, credit cards. Thanks to an unidentified donor, they even pulled from one red collection pot a pair of diamond earrings. The sum of their labors, add-

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ed to those of similar kettle projects across the United States in 2011, allowed the Salvation Army to take in a recordsetting $147.6 million, according to the Virginia-based organization. It marked the national campaign’s 120th year Beyond dollars and cents, the Red Kettle Campaign measures success this way: lives changed and needs met. Donations help the Salvation Army’s network of chapters to supply food, clothing, shelter and counseling. Locally, the attention that ringers drew to the army’s fundraising crusade ultimately brought cheer to nearly 4,000 area residents, some of whom received food vouchers and children’s Christmas gifts. Hooray and thanks to the area’s intrepid bell ringers. You are a blessing to the Greater Wyoming Valley. Gratitude also goes to all those businesses that annually allow the ringers to station themselves near busy entrances and exits. And, of course, thank you to the people who pause by those kettles and share loose change or lots more. Your generosity warms our hearts.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “The essential question of the election is, ‘Who’s going to restore economic security for the middle class?’” Ben LaBolt President Obama’s campaign spokesman assessed the race to capture the White House in 2012. Recent polling of Republicans by the Pew Research Center suggests the top GOP contender, Mitt Romney, so far receives only lukewarm support from white, middle-class voters.

OTHER OPINION: PHOTO ID DEBATE

Focus on real flaw with voting rolls

NATIONAL survey showing flaws in voter record-keeping offers further proof that Harrisburg and other Republican-run state capitals pushing to require government-issued photo identification to vote are ignoring a glaring problem while battling virtually nonexistent voter fraud. The finding announced Tuesday by the Pew Center on the States demonstrates the need to clean up voter rolls that are muddled by duplicate and out-of-date registrations. Among the issues needing attention are purging the rolls of voters who have died or moved and registered elsewhere and correcting data that’s incorrect in other ways. Such registration problems led to 2.2 million votes being lost during the 2008 elections, according to experts. What the Pew study did not EDITORIAL BOARD

find, though, was any evidence that the bad record-keeping has led to voter fraud. GOP lawmakers promoting so-called voter ID laws – Gov. Tom Corbett among them – point to supposed fraud as the reason to require citizens to go to unheard-of lengths to identify themselves at the polls. But since fraud has not been shown by any study to be a significant factor in the outcome of elections in Pennsylvania, that’s clearly a bogus issue. While one in eight registrations nationwide were found to be invalid or incorrect in Pew’s study, the center also said 25 percent of voting-age Americans were not registered at all. That’s yet another sign the nation needs to make it easier to register and vote – rather than erect new barriers to voting like photo ID rules. The Philadelphia Inquirer

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MALLARD FILLMORE

Given the options, county council did what it had to do LUZERNE COUNTY Council made the right choice this week in opting to balance the 2012 budget through a mix of layoffs and a tax increase. It wasn’t the best choice, but it was the

right one. The best choice would have been for unions to agree to wage freezes, for workers who get both longevity pay and annual raises to give up one of those two, and for the state to pick up a bigger share of the services that Harrisburg mandates but doesn’t fully fund. If we could go back in time and knock the heads of a few profligate past commissioners who borrowed money the way most of us change socks, well, that would be a bonus. None of those choices was available to the council in the scant weeks it had between taking office in January and amending a budget left by outgoing commissioners as we changed forms of government. Council members ultimately had two options: Lay off a lot of people across the board without time to figure out the consequences, or raise taxes a modest 2 percent and reduce the layoffs, buying time to figure out how to right the listing ship they suddenly run. They bought time. Or more exactly, they borrowed money from property owners to buy time. As the co-owner (with my wife) of two properties, I’d much prefer no tax hike. The

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LETTERS FROM READERS

Those who fight for us merit rock star honor

here are the priorities? A singer with a history of drug and alcohol abuse dies at the age of 48 and the world is at its wits’ end. A soldier dies fighting for his country at the age of 19 and nobody knows his name. Perhaps just a simple headline in a paper that would say, “Our country is in mourning, for a soldier died today.” Patrick J. Conway Plains Township

Corbett and the GOP: It’s their way all the way

ess without risking mayhem. Now they have 10 months to prove this was a one-time patch – to do what it takes to put the county on the path to firm financial footing. COMMENTARY Barring some dramatic change in finances, unions need to know concessions are an essential part of that path. Council needs to idea that it could have been avoided by unions accepting what I, my wife and many get hard-nosed. Start by opening the books and challenge others in the private sector have lived with unions to come up with ways to balance the for years – stagnant pay until the economy budget without a tax hike. Encourage collabpicks up – is galling. oration, invite cost-cutting ideas, try for the But we can afford the modest tax incooperative solution. It’s always the best crease, and council deserves a chance to prove it is trying to end the old ways respon- one. But make it unequivocally clear to all sibly, not extend them. employees that a tax hike is not an option Consider the potential fallout from massive layoffs across the board (aside from the next year, and that the goal is to roll back likely spate of lawsuits costing money we’re this year’s 2 percent increase. Spell out how many layoffs will be necestrying to save). Radical cuts without careful sary without concessions or other savings. review could leave critical departments understaffed and overworked. Those are the Figure out who is most likely to go, and publicize the list. Give unions and the public same conditions we had in juvenile court plenty of time to react; give them plenty of when then-judges Michael Conahan and reasons for the decisions. Mark Ciavarella launched their travesty of That way, when it comes time to pass justice. Such conditions create fertile next year’s budget with no tax hike and ground for the unscrupulous to thrive. impending layoffs, no one can cry foul at the Do we really want to slash staffing in key departments such as District Attorney, Pub- last minute. Because you can bet taxpayers on fixed lic Defender and Probation? Do we want incomes, unemployment compensation or fewer eyes making sure criminals – alleged and convicted – are guaranteed their rights, flatlined salaries in the private sector will paying their punishments and following the not tolerate another tax hike simply so county workers can get a raise. rules? Do we want to make it easier for a crooked employee to game the system? A majority of council members did what Mark Guydish can be reached at 829-7161 or email mguydish@timesleader.com. they had to do to get past this budget proc-

number of recent newspaper articles have revealed how Gov. Tom Corbett and the Republican-controlled Legislature generate laws to support their patrons, large oil and gas corporations, while at the same time forcing residents of Pennsylvania to relinquish their right to a peaceful, safe and clean environment for themselves and their children.

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Select lawmakers from the House and Senate met with the governor’s office in closed-door sessions to discuss the complexities of a new proposal dealing with a variety of gas drilling issues. Concern has been expressed that the ideas of Democratic lawmakers were not allowed into the discussion or, if they were, they were quickly negated. Of course, any fresh ideas might move the discussion from the agenda dictated and paid for by gas drilling corporations. Public input, filtered and distorted by elected representatives, was judged to be far too simplistic to be of any value. At a time when we need collaborative input from a variety of perspectives in order to solve, in a comprehensive manner,

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our economic and environmental problems, state leadership has decided that its one-dimensional point of view is the only one worthy of consideration. Apparently the only collaboration the governor and the Republican leadership are willing to consider is with gas drilling corporations. William Burns Shavertown

Assurance phone user questions toll-free fees

he government is helping low-income people with free cell phones and 250 free minutes a month. I am one of those people. I have an Assurance cell phone and I have a question. I noticed that I was being charged for toll-free calls. I thought toll-free meant the company I was calling paid for the call, hence “toll free.” My question is: Can they do this? Is this right, to charge the government for calls that someone else is paying? Does anyone know the answer? K. Stancyk Edwardsville

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Public gets chance to weigh in on Sterling situation have unanswered questions and want The Luzerne County Council to provide citizens with an opportunity schedules a work session on the fate to speak on the subject. of the old Wilkes-Barre hotel. Council members stressed meeting

By JENNIFER LEARN-ANDES jandes@timesleader.com

Luzerne County Council members are devoting part of Tuesday’s public work session to a discussion about the Hotel Sterling project. Council members Harry Haas, Elaine Maddon Curry and Rick Williams had requested public discussion on the topic as they weigh whether they’ll support demolition of the landmark downtown Wilkes-Barre structure. The council members said they still

attendees advocating preservation will be asked to identify funding streams because a consulting study estimated it would cost $26.8 million to $35.6 million to fully restore the structure, and no developers or government funding sources have surfaced. A majority of council agrees demolition is the only option, but council members won’t vote on the matter unless a cooperative agreement is reached among the county, Wilkes-Barre and the building’s nonprofit owner, CityVest. The agreement is designed to re-

move the county from liability during demolition and ensure the county acquires the more than 3-acres of prime land after the structure at the corner of River and Market streets is demolished. The complicated demolition design won’t be started without a signed agreement, officials said. CityVest owes the county $6 million loaned to preserve and market the structure, and the county has set aside another $1 million in community development funding for demolition. The nonprofit is out of money and asked the county to decide the building’s fate last year. CityVest representatives haven’t signed the agreement in large part because it holds CityVest and its volun-

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The Luzerne County Council will hold a public work session at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday in the county’s Emergency Management Agency Building on Water Street in Wilkes-Barre to discuss general business. Discussion on the Hotel Sterling project will begin at 6 p.m.

teer board liable for any damage or injury claims that aren’t covered by CityVest’s insurance, county officials have said. Council Chairman Jim Bobeck said the work session will touch on the history of the project, but he wants to focus more on the current condition of the building and how to proceed.

“It’s about the status now and what could be done, the best course,” Bobeck said. If an agreement isn’t reached, WilkesBarre may be forced to demolish the city-condemned structure at its expense. The city would then have to put a lien on the property in an attempt to recoup the money. Wilkes-Barre has pledged about $260,000 in gaming taxes toward demolition. CityVest could also attempt to file for bankruptcy, which would put the project in limbo as the building continues to deteriorate. CityVest representatives have been asked to attend Tuesday’s session, but it’s still unclear if they will participate.

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Paint is peeling inside the Irem Temple auditorium, above, but roof repairs stopped further water damage to much of the artwork and decorative details. At left is one of four towering minarets standing atop the Wilkes-Barre building.

Urban said he wants to see the property restored but hasn’t seen any evidence of progress. “The chamber shouldn’t have bought it if it didn’t have a plan Continued from Page 1A to raise the money,” Urban said. “I don’t want to see the building ties, Newman said. Additional funding will be decay like the Sterling.” Newman said the building is needed for masonry and cosmetic repairs, though he said the dry and secure, comparing it to a “time capsule.” He does not bebuilding is structurally sound. lieve anyone in the private sector Fundraiser in works would buy the building at a tax A capital fundraiser is being sale and invest the money needed to preserve it. planned in the near fu“To think that this ture to seek private and A capital building is ever going to corporate donations for fundraiser is be something other than the project, Newman said. Many cultural en- being planned a nonprofit civic building is wishful thinking,” tities must get involved in the near because the structure is future to seek Newman said. “It’s not an issue of people being too big for one group, private and interested in being able he said. to use the facility. It’s an The status of the pro- corporate ject might be discussed donations for issue of getting the facility into the condition by Luzerne County offi- the project, where people can use it cials in the near future (Larry) Newagain.” because the property could be listed in an up- man said. Point of curiosity coming tax sale. The Newman is confident property carries around $145,200 in back taxes from 2006 many want the building preserved, saying residents and visthrough 2008. Past commissioners voted to itors frequently visit the chamremove it from prior tax sales in ber to inquire about the status and history of the unique struc2009 and 2010. County Councilman Stephen ture. Built in 1907, the brick buildA. Urban, a former commissioner, recently told council mem- ing is topped with a dome and bers they will have to decide distinguished by four towering whether to continue keeping the minarets and decorative markings. It has several stained-glass structure out of the sales.

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Aaron Kaufer, also of Kingston, in the fall. Kaufer, a Wyoming Valley West High School and Lafayette College graduate, is unemployed. He said he has decided to focus his time on getting elected. No matter who wins the primary, it will be an all-Kingston final, as Mundy also lives in the municipality. Mundy has served in the House for more than 21 years, making her the mostsenior local legislator. Three other incumbents are not facing primary challenges from within their own party but will have opponents in the fall. Butler Township Supervisor Ransom Young will seek the Democratic nomination for representative from the state’s 116th legislative district. That seat is currently held by first-term Republican Tarah Toohil, a fellow Butler Township resident. Young has been a member of the Butler Township Board of Supervisors for 28 years and previously served as chairman.

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Larry Newman, at left, discusses the need for community involvement in preserving the Irem Temple. Above: artwork over the stage.

windows and interior marble stairs. Though paint is peeling inside, murals of desert scenes and other artwork above the stage is largely intact because the chamber spent $120,000 on roof repairs to stop damaging leaks. Newman said it’s one of the most significant “postcard image” buildings in the city, an example of the Moorish revival style of architecture. It’s also one of the oldest standing examples of a temple built by the Shriners, a Masonic organization, he said.

Republican Rick Arnold, a homebuilder from Rice Township, filed for a rematch in the 119th District. Rep. Gerry Mullery, D-Newport Township, who beat Arnold two years ago, is seeking second term. Republican Pete Mailloux, a smallbusiness owner from Fairview Township, announced a run for the 121st District, currently represented by Eddie Day Pashinski, D-Wilkes-Barre. But Mailloux’s candidacy is in flux because of the uncertainty of the legislative redistricting process. Fairview Township was moved to the 119th District under a reapportionment plan approved by a state commission at the end of 2011. But the state Supreme Court ruled the maps were not constitutional and that current maps should remain in effect until new ones are drawn. The commission could vote on revised maps at a meeting next week. Mailloux said if Fairview Township is kept in the 119th he would likely not run against Arnold as one of the men would withdraw. No one filed paperwork Thursday to challenge Rep. Mike Carroll, D-Avoca; Rep. Karen Boback, R-Harveys Lake or Sen. John Gordner, R-Berwick.

“It’s this magnificent cartoon of a building,” Newman said. “If we as a community want to save the building, we need to work together and be patient so we can systematically figure out how to do what’s necessary to get this building back into service.” The Irem was the major performing arts center in WilkesBarre until the F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts opened in the 1980s, Newman said. The building also has a high-ceiling basement that once served as a primary conference center and a

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The school has been consulting with professionals and a local doctor, who had assisted the school during a previous outbreak of the infection a number of weeks ago, he said. The Department of Health recommends:

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or accepting anything of value or a pecuniary benefit,” Tintner wrote. “It is illogical to assume the legislature intended the guilty plea pursuant to a state bribery statute to result in the forfeiture of retirement benefits, but a different result if the guilty plea was pursuant to a federal bribery statute.” Brace also contends the retirement board violated his rights to due proc-

small ballroom with ancillary rooms on the second floor. Those involved in the project believe the Irem could serve as a performance venue for groups that don’t need a facility as large as the Kirby. ‘Exceptional’ prospect Bob Stanley, who volunteers with Little Theater, recently toured the Irem with Newman. “This is a jewel. It cannot be destroyed,” Stanley said. “To have something of this quality in a community of this size is ex-

• Showers immediately after practices. • Washing with soap and water using your own soap. • Washing towels after each use with detergent and bleach. • Cleaning athletic gear. • Practicing good hygiene. • Cleaning and disinfecting the environment. The condition is typically treated with antiviral medications such as Valtrex or Acyclovir. ess because it did not give hearing before voting to terminate his pension benefits. Tintner argues the board was not required to provide him that hearing because the facts clearly established he had committed an offense that triggered the forfeiture of the pension. Once he pleaded guilty, the retirement board had no discretion to award him the benefits. Brace’s attorney, Carol Poveromo, will have an opportunity to respond to the motion. A judge will issue a ruling at a later date.

ceptional, and this is an opportunity that can’t be lost.” Joe Sheridan, also of the Little Theater, said his 90-year-old organization is one of the oldest continually operating community theaters in the country, and it originally performed at the Irem. He believes many performance groups, including dance companies, would use the facility. “The building is just phenomenal, and we’re losing too much,” Sheridan said, referring to other historical structures that have been demolished.

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has exploded over the past few years, according to the FTC. In 2008, there were about 600 apps available to smartphone users. Now there are hundreds of thousands that have been downloaded more than 28 billion times, the commission said. “This rapidly growing market provides enormous opportunities and benefits for app users of all ages, but raises questions about users’ privacy, especially when the users are children and teens,” the report by the FTC staff said. Using the word “kids,” FTC staff searched online app stores and examined pages promoting apps for word games, math and number games, and entertainment. Most of the product descriptions stated that they were for use by children. Prices for the apps ranged from free to $9.99. “But most apps were $0.99 or less, and free apps were overwhelmingly the most frequently downloaded,” the report said.

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H.S. GIRLS BASKETBALL

Defense leads Meyers to win By MATTHEW SHUTT For The Times Leader

WILKES â&#x20AC;&#x201C; BARRE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no rule in the sport of basketball that says every win has to be a pretty one. Meyers allowed cross-town rival GAR just five field goals, kept all but two Grenadiers from scoring and held GAR to four points or less in all four quarters of a 2813 win in a Wyoming Valley Conference Division III girls game. Meyers ended its regular season with an overall record of 11-11 and finished 4-3 in second-half league play. GAR finishes at 6-15

with a secondhalf league play MEYERS record of 3-4. The Mohawks are in the District 2 Class 2A GAR playoffs as the WVCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second seed. GAR and Wyoming Seminary will determine the third seed in an elimination game at a site and time to be determined. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The last time we met, it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go the way we hoped it would. I really challenged the girls tonight to come out and force GAR to make some plays to beat us,â&#x20AC;?

LOCAL COLLEGE BASKETBALL

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said Meyers coach Chris Gray. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think any coach would be pleased with the defensive effort we turned in tonight.â&#x20AC;? Meyers kept GAR off balance from the opening tip. The Mohawks started the game in a 2-1-2 fullcourt press that flustered GARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ballhandlers into some early turnovers, and Meyersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; center-power forward duo of MacKenzie Winder and Jazma Robertson spent the first half vacuuming up rebounds and swatting away most shot attempts that came their way. By the end of the first half, a basket and free throw

from Quieterriua Gross and a jump shot from Brea Seabrook was all the offense the GAR could manage, finding itself in an 11-5 hole to start the third quarter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first time this season we matched up with them, we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really establish any post presence, defensively speaking,â&#x20AC;? said Gray. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Winder and Robertson really stepped up for us tonight. The way they rebounded the basketball, it was one and done for GAR almost every time down the court.â&#x20AC;?

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GARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bree Seabrook tries to pass the ball to Marena Spence as Meyersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Brianna DiMaggio tries to block her Thursday night.

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Forever the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Busy time will have WBS Pens scrambling

Former local high school stars are playing key roles for Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Misericordia and Wilkes menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs. N O T E B O O K

Ten-day stretch will feature six games, including three on the road starting tonight.

By DEREK LEVARSE dlevarse@timesleader.com

As one of the Freedom Conferenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top allaround players, Ethan Eichhorst (Hazleton Area) has Misericordia in the hunt for a league championship. But heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s far from the only Wyoming Valley Conference alum making an impact on the local college basketball scene this season. And not all of them are still playing. Look no further than at Wilkes. The Colonels do have guard Tyler Breznitsky (MMI Prep), a valuable role player able to start or come off the bench, averaging seven points per game in 22 minutes while shooting 40 percent from behind the arc. Beyond that, Wilkes also has recently graduated guard Chris DeRojas (Bishop Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Reilly) still on the bench as a first-year assistant coach for Jerry Rickrode. Among other things, DeRojas has helped his

By TOM VENESKY tvenesky@timesleader.com

Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins head coach John Hynes approaches the season in chunks. Rather than deal with the long term, Hynes focuses on the here and now. In the next 10 days, there will be a lot to focus on. The Penguins begin a UP NEXT stretch of six games in 10 WBS Penguins at days tonight Binghamton when they Senators travel to 7:05 p.m. today Binghamton Radio: 102.2-FM to take on the Senators. The next day, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll head to Albany to face the Devils and then itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s off to Portland after one day of rest for a Monday matchup. After that, the Penguins will return home for a three-game stint, wrapping up the stretch on Feb. 26 with a bout against Norfolk. Hynes said the busy stretch is just what the Penguins need. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It comes at a good time. If you have practices and a lot of time between games, particularly in this month, it starts to drag,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a good challenge for us.â&#x20AC;? To prepare for the challenge, the Penguins held a team meeting on Thursday and only a handful of players skated afterward. Hynes said thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the benefits of a 76-game schedule â&#x20AC;&#x201C; more recovery time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have chunks of time to practice and work out, and you also have recovery days,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The players have time to take care of their bodies and get into the weight room. It helps you keep the schedule fresh.â&#x20AC;? The upcoming stretch features matchups against teams in the thick of Eastern Conference playoff race. Norfolk is currently tied with the Penguins for the division lead, Manchester is in sixth overall, and the other upcoming foes are all vying for the last playoff spot.

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NASCAR drivers Trevor Bayne, left, and Austin Dillon talk before taking part in interviews Thursday.

Bayne not a lock for Daytona 500 By CHRIS JENKINS AP Sports Writer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; A year later, Trevor Bayne still canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t quite believe the whirlwind of instant notoriety that followed his wild Daytona 500 victory. Bayne fondly recalls taking a congratulatory phone call from Vice President Joe Biden, meeting a list of celebrities that included Pamela Anderson, and talking to an athlete heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s often compared with, Tim Tebow. What all that newfound fame hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done for Bayne, though, is get him a full-time ride in NASCARâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sprint Cup series or a guaranteed starting spot in this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Daytona 500. Bayneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team, Wood Brothers Racing, currently plans to

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New York Metsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Gary Carter celebrates his 12th inning game-winning hit against the Houston Astros in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series in 1986 in New York.

Brain tumor claims Hall of Famer

By BEN WALKER AP Baseball Writer

NEW YORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gary Carter was nicknamed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kidâ&#x20AC;? for good reason. His smile, bubbly personality and eagerness to excel on a ball field made him a joy to watch at the plate and behind it. Even his Hall of Fame bronze plaque at Cooperstown shows him with a toothy grin â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Kid forever. The star catcher, whose single for the New York Mets in the 1986 World Series touched off one of the most

improbable rallies in baseball, died Thursday. He was 57. Carter was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor last May, two weeks after finishing his second season as coach at Palm Beach Atlantic University. Mets spokesman Jay Horwitz said Carter died at a hospice in the West Palm Beach, Fla., area. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am deeply saddened to tell you all that my precious dad went to be with Jesus today at 4:10 p.m.,â&#x20AC;? Carterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter Kimmy Bloemers wrote on the family website. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is

the most difficult thing I have ever had to write in my entire life but I wanted you all to know.â&#x20AC;? Carter was an 11-time All-Star and three-time Gold Glove winner. His bottom-of-the-10th single in Game 6 of the 1986 Series helped the Mets mount a charge against the Boston Red Sox and eventually beat them. With curly, blond locks flaring out from beneath his helmet, and a rigid, upright batting stance, Carter was See CARTER, Page 7B

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L O C A L C A L E N D A R TODAY'S EVENTS BOYS BASKETBALL Berwick at Holy Redeemer, 7:15 p.m. Crestwood at Coughlin, 7:15 p.m. Hazleton Area at Wyoming Valley West, 7:15 p.m. Pittston Area at Wyoming Area, 7:15 p.m. Dallas at Tunkhannock, 7:15 p.m. Hanover Area at Nanticoke, 7:15 p.m. Meyers at GAR, 7:15 p.m. Northwest at MMI Prep, 7:15 p.m. Wyoming Seminary at Lake-Lehman, 7:15 p.m. GIRLS BASKETBALL MMI Prep at Northwest, 7:15 p.m. Tunkhannock at Dallas, 7:15 p.m. HS WRESTLING Coughlin at Tamaqua, 6 p.m. Pennsylvania Prep Championships COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD Misericordia at Susquehanna, 10 a.m. COLLEGE WRESTLING King’s at Wilkes, 7 p.m.

MONDAY, FEB. 20 BOYS BASKETBALL

WVC playoffs GIRLS BASKETBALL WVC playoffs MEN'S COLLEGE TENNIS Wilkes at Drew Invitational (All Day)

TUESDAY, FEB. 21 GIRLS BASKETBALL District 2 tiebreakers

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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL 7:15 p.m. SE-2 — Berwick at Holy Redeemer WLYN — Northwest at MMI Prep

AUTO RACING 5 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, practice for Budweiser Shootout, at Daytona Beach, Fla. 6:30 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Sprint Cup, final practice for Budweiser Shootout, at Daytona Beach, Fla. 8:30 p.m. SPEED — Selection Show for Budweiser Shootout, at Daytona Beach, Fla. (same-day tape)

BOXING 9 p.m. ESPN2 — Junior welterweights, Miguel Gonzalez (20-2-0) vs. Mike Dallas Jr. (17-2-1), at Arlington, Texas 11 p.m. SHO — Junior middleweights, Jonathan Gonzalez (14-0-0) vs. Billy Lyell (24-10-2); welterweights, Thomas Dulorme (13-0-0) vs. Aris Ambriz (16-2-1), at Santa Ynez, Calif.

GOLF 9 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, Avantha Masters, second round, at New Delhi (same-day tape) 12:30 p.m. TGC — LPGA Thailand, second round, at Chonburi, Thailand (same-day tape) 3 p.m. TGC — PGA Tour, Northern Trust Open, second round, at Los Angeles 6:30 p.m. TGC — Champions Tour, ACE Group Classic, first round, at Naples, Fla. (same-day tape)

MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 7 p.m. ESPN2 — N. Iowa at VCU

MEN'S COLLEGE HOCKEY 7:30 p.m. NBCSN — Dartmouth at Yale BTN – Northern Michigan at Michigan

NBA 7 p.m. CSN — Dallas at Philadelphia 8 p.m. ESPN — Dallas at Philadelphia MSG — New Orleans at New York 10:30 p.m. ESPN — Phoenix at L.A. Lakers

NHL 7 p.m. PLUS — Anaheim at New Jersey

WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL 7 p.m. YES — Dartmouth at Yale

KENTUCKY—Announced the resignation of wide receivers coach Tee Martin to take a similar position at Southern California. MOUNT ST. MARY’S—Announced men’s basketball coach Robert Burke was placed on paid administrative leave at his request. NEW JERSEY CITY—Named Patrick Snyder men’s soccer coach. SAINT FRANCIS (PA.)—Named Scott Benzel codefensive coordinator and assistant head coach. TULSA—Named Terry Boss men’s assistant soccer coach.

B A S K E T B A L L National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Philadelphia ................. 20 10 .667 Boston........................... 15 13 .536 New York ...................... 15 15 .500 Toronto ......................... 9 22 .290 New Jersey .................. 8 23 .258 Southeast Division W L Pct Miami............................. 23 7 .767 Atlanta ........................... 19 11 .633 Orlando ......................... 19 11 .633 Washington .................. 7 23 .233 Charlotte ....................... 3 26 .103 Central Division W L Pct Chicago .......................... 24 7 .774 Indiana............................ 18 12 .600 Milwaukee ...................... 12 17 .414 Cleveland ....................... 11 16 .407 Detroit ............................. 9 22 .290 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct San Antonio.................. 21 9 .700 Dallas ............................ 19 11 .633 Houston ........................ 17 13 .567 Memphis ....................... 16 14 .533 New Orleans ................ 6 23 .207 Northwest Division W L Pct Oklahoma City............... 22 7 .759 Denver............................ 17 13 .567 Portland .......................... 16 14 .533 Utah ................................ 14 14 .500 Minnesota ...................... 14 16 .467 Pacific Division W L Pct L.A. Clippers .................. 18 9 .667 L.A. Lakers..................... 17 12 .586 Golden State .................. 11 15 .423 Phoenix .......................... 12 18 .400 Sacramento ................... 10 19 .345 Wednesday's Games San Antonio 113, Toronto 106 Orlando 103, Philadelphia 87 Detroit 98, Boston 88 Cleveland 98, Indiana 87 Memphis 105, New Jersey 100 New York 100, Sacramento 85 Houston 96, Oklahoma City 95 Minnesota 102, Charlotte 90 New Orleans 92, Milwaukee 89 Dallas 102, Denver 84 Atlanta 101, Phoenix 99 Portland 93, Golden State 91 L.A. Clippers 102, Washington 84 Thursday's Games Indiana 93, New Jersey 88 Boston at Chicago, late L.A. Clippers at Portland, late Today's Games Charlotte at Toronto, 7 p.m. Milwaukee at Orlando, 7 p.m. Miami at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m. Sacramento at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Minnesota at Houston, 8 p.m. Golden State at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. Denver at Memphis, 8 p.m. New Orleans at New York, 8 p.m. Dallas at Philadelphia, 8 p.m. Washington at Utah, 9 p.m. Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m. Saturday's Games San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 3:30 p.m. New Jersey at Chicago, 4 p.m. Golden State at Memphis, 8 p.m. Atlanta at Portland, 10 p.m.

BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX—Agreed to terms with 1B Mauro Gomez and RHP Ross Ohlendorf on minor league contracts and assigned them to Pawtucket (IL). National League PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Agreed to terms with 3B Casey McGehee on a one-year contract. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS—Agreed to terms with Justin Christian and RHP Ramon Ortiz on minor league contracts. American Association EL PASO DIABLOS—Released INF Albenis Machado. Signed RHP Cody Railsback and C Jonathan Cisneros. GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS—Signed RHP TJ Wohlever. GRAND PRAIRIE AIRHOGS—Signed LHP Ronnie Morales and RHP Mike Hart. SIOUX FALLS PHEASANTS—Signed RHP Miguel Mejia.

BASKETBALL Women's National Basketball Association WASHINGTON MYSTICS—Re-signed F Crystal Langhorne.

FOOTBALL Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS—Signed WR Greg Carr. Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS—Signed OL Drew Miller.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS—Recalled F Tomas Tatar from Grand Rapids (AHL). Placed F Dan Cleary on the injured reserve list, retroactive to Feb. 8. WASHINGTON CAPITALS—Recalled F Keith Aucoin from Hershey (AHL). American Hockey League BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS—Released F Chris Langkow. HAMILTON BULLDOGS—Signed C Eric Lampe, LW Peter Lenes and LW Joey Haddad. SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE—Signed D Tyler Ludwig. ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS—Announced F Wacey Hamilton and D Josh Godfrey were recalled to Binghamton (AHL). Re-signed F Corey Bellamy. GWINNETT GLADIATORS—Announced F Jonathan Parker was assigned to the team from Rochester (AHL) and F Joey Haddad was called up to Hamilton (AHL). Signed D Stephen Mallaro.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MONTREAL IMPACT—Acquired a conditional pick in the 2013 MLS SuperDraft from Houston for F Brian Ching. PORTLAND TIMBERS—Signed MF Franck Songo’o. VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC—Acquired MF Barry Robson.

COLLEGE CONNECTICUT—Suspended senior S Jerome Junior, who is no longer enrolled at the school. IOWA STATE—Named Troy Douglas secondary coach.

GB — 4 5 111⁄2 121⁄2 GB — 4 4 16 191⁄2 GB — 51⁄2 11 11 15 GB — 2 4 5 141⁄2 GB — 51⁄2 61⁄2 71⁄2 81⁄2 GB — 2 61⁄2 71⁄2 9

NCAA Men Top 25 Upcoming Schedule All Times EST Today's Games No games scheduled Saturday's Games No. 1 Kentucky vs. Mississippi, 4 p.m. No. 3 Missouri at Texas A&M, 2 p.m. No. 4 Kansas vs. Texas Tech, 8 p.m. No. 6 Ohio State at No. 17 Michigan, 9 p.m. No. 8 North Carolina vs. Clemson, 4 p.m. No. 9 Baylor vs. Kansas State, 1:45 p.m. No. 10 Georgetown at Providence, 7 p.m. No. 11 UNLV at New Mexico, 1 p.m. No. 12 Marquette vs. UConn at the XL Center, Hartford, Conn., Noon No. 13 San Diego St. at Air Force, 4 p.m. No. 14 Florida at Arkansas, 6 p.m. No. 16 Murray State vs. No. 21 Saint Mary’s (Cal), 6 p.m. No. 19 Louisville at DePaul, Noon No. 20 Florida State at NC State, 1 p.m. No. 22 Virginia vs. Maryland, 1 p.m. No. 23 Notre Dame at Villanova, 9 p.m. No. 24 Gonzaga at San Francisco, 8 p.m. No. 24 Wichita State at Davidson, Noon Sunday's Games No. 2 Syracuse at Rutgers, 1 p.m. No. 5 Duke at Boston College, 6 p.m. No. 7 Michigan State at Purdue, 1 p.m. No. 15 Wisconsin vs. Penn State, 4 p.m. No. 18 Indiana at Iowa, 6 p.m.

Women's Top 25 Upcoming Schedule All Times EST Today's Games No games scheduled Saturday's Games No. 1 Baylor vs. Texas Tech, 8 p.m. No. 2 UConn vs. St. John’s, 7 p.m. No. 3 Stanford at Oregon, 5 p.m. No. 11 Green Bay at Youngstown State, 2:05 p.m. No. 14 Texas A&M vs. Oklahoma State, 8 p.m. No. 15 Georgetown vs. Providence, 2 p.m. No. 21 Rutgers at Villanova, Noon No. 22 St. Bonaventure vs. Xavier, 1:30 p.m. No. 23 BYU vs. San Diego, 3 p.m. No. 24 DePaul at West Virginia, 4 p.m. Sunday's Games No. 5 Duke at No. 8 Maryland, 3 p.m. No. 6 Miami vs. Florida State, 3:30 p.m. No. 10 Delaware at Drexel, 2 p.m. No. 13 Tennessee at Mississippi, 3 p.m. No. 16 Nebraska vs. Wisconsin, 2 p.m. No. 17 Purdue at Michigan State, 5 p.m. No. 18 Georgia at Florida, 3:30 p.m. No. 20 Georgia Tech vs. Boston College, 2 p.m. No. 25 South Carolina at Alabama, 3 p.m.

T E N N I S ATP World Tour ABN AMRO World Tournament Results Singles Second Round Richard Gasquet (5), France, def. Alex Bogomolov Jr., Russia, 6-3, 6-2. Andreas Seppi, Italy, def. Philipp Kohlschreiber, Germany, 6-4, 6-2. Tomas Berdych (2), Czech Republic, def. Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, 3-0, retired. Juan Martin del Potro (3), Argentina, def. Karol Beck, Slovakia, 6-4, 7-5. Viktor Troicki (7), Serbia, def. Jesse Huta Galung, Netherlands, 7-6 (2), 6-3. Doubles First Round Michael Llodra, France, and Nenad Zimonjic (2), Serbia, def. Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic, and Lukasz Kubot, Poland, 6-3, 3-6, 10-7 tiebreak. Quarterfinals Alex Bogomolov Jr., Russia, and Dick Norman, Belgium, def. Thiemo de Bakker and Robin Haase, Netherlands, 6-7 (2), 6-1, 10-7 tiebreak.

WTA Tour Copa BBVA Colsanitas Results Singles Second Round Alexandra Panova, Russia, def. Gisela Dulko (5), Argentina, 7-5, 6-2. Edina Gallovits-Hall, Romania, def. Marina Erakovic (1), New Zealand, 6-4, 6-4. Karin Knapp, Italy, def. Catalina Castano, Colombia, 6-3, 2-6, 6-2. Paula Ormaechea, Argentina, def. Petra Rampre, Slovenia 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (4). Doubles Quarterfinals Timea Babos, Hungary, and Valeria Savinykh, Russia, def. Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino and Estrella Cabeza Candela, Spain, 6-4, 6-1. Eva Birnerova, Czech Republic, and Alexandra Panova (1), Russia, def. Mailen Auroux and Maria Irigoyen, Argentina, 6-3, 6-4. Mandy Minella, Luxembourg, and Stefanie Voegele, Switzerland, def. Catalina Castano and Mariana Duque-Marino, Colombia, 4-6, 3-6, 11-9 tiebreak. Qatar Total Open Results Singles Third Round Victoria Azarenka (1), Belarus, def. Simona Halep, Romania, 6-3, 6-1. Agenieszka Radwanska (4), Poland, def. Varvara Lepchenko, United States, 7-5, 6-1. Yanina Wickmayer, Belgium, def. Ksenia Pervak, Kazakhstan, 6-4, 6-0. Christina McHale, United States, def. Shahar Peer,

THE TIMES LEADER

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LEAGUES

By ROXY ROXBOROUGH CIRCULAR REPORT: On the NBA board, the Knicks - Hornets circle is for New York forward Carmelo Anthony (questionable) and New Orleans guard Jarrett Jack (questionable). BOXING REPORT: In the WBA super welterweight title fight on May 5 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Floyd Mayweather Jr. is -$650 vs. Miguel Cotto at +$450; in the WBA/IBF welterweight title fight on May 19 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Amir Khan is -$450 vs. Lamont Peterson at +$350; in the WBO welterweight title fight on June 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Manny Pacquiao is -$400 vs. Timothy Bradley at +$300. HARVARD

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8.5

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Underdog Bucks Mavericks

RAPTORS

6.5

Bobcats

Heat

9.5

CAVALIERS

PISTONS

2.5

Kings

THUNDER

Warriors

ROCKETS

5.5

T’Wolves

GRIZZLIES

3.5

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KNICKS

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JAZZ

9.5

Wizards

LAKERS

8.5

Suns

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Points 4

Underdog DARTMOUTH

Israel, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. Monica Niculescu, Romania, def. Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine, 7-6 (5), 6-4. Sam Stosur (3), Australia, def. Petra Cetkovska, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-2. Lucie Safarova, Czech Republic, def. Svetlana Kuznetsova (14), Russia, 7-6 (6), 6-3. Marion Bartoli (5), France, def. Tsvetana Pironkova, Bulgaria, 6-3, 6-3. Doubles Second Round Nuria Llagostera Vives, Spain, and Anastasia Rodionova (5), Australia, def. Anabel Medina Garrigues, Spain, and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, 4-6, 6-4, 11-9 tiebreak. Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond (1), United States, def. Chan Hao-ching, Taiwan, and Rika Fujiwara, Japan, 6-3, 4-6, 10-6 tiebreak. Julia Goerges, Germany, and Zheng Jie (7), China, def. Alla Kudryavtseva, Russia, and Klara Zakopalova, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-2. Klaudia Jans-Ignacik, Poland, and Kristina Mladenovic, France, def. Iveta Benesova and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (8), Czech Republic, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 10-7. Quarterfinals Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears, United States, def. Vera Dushevina, Russia, and Shahar Peer, Israel, 6-0, 7-6 (5).

G O L F PGA European Tour Avantha Masters Leading Scores First Round Alejandro Canizares, Spain .....................32-34—66 Peter Whiteford, Scotland........................35-31—66 Federico Colombo, Italy...........................33-34—67 Jamie Donaldson, Wales.........................34-34—68 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet, France ................35-33—68 Gregory Havret, France ...........................34-34—68 Thongchai Jaidee, Thailand ....................36-32—68 Himmat Rai, India......................................33-35—68 Kiradech Aphibarnrat, Thailand...............34-34—68 Jeev Milkha Singh, India..........................33-36—69 Anirban Lahiri, India..................................37-32—69 Marcus Fraser, Australia..........................33-36—69 Marcel Siem, Germany ............................36-33—69 Oscar Floren, Sweden .............................33-36—69 Scott Jamieson, Scotland ........................34-35—69 Peter Uihlein, United States ....................35-34—69 Andrea Pavan, Italy ..................................33-36—69 Vivek Bhandari, India ...............................33-36—69

Honda LPGA Tour Thailand Scores First Round a-amateur Ai Miyazato.................................................34-33—67 Na Yeon Choi ............................................37-31—68 Anna Nordqvist .........................................35-33—68 Se Ri Pak ...................................................34-34—68 Karrie Webb...............................................36-32—68 Amy Yang ...................................................35-33—68 Christel Boeljon.........................................34-35—69 Numa Gulyanamitta..................................36-33—69 Shanshan Feng .........................................36-34—70 Katie Futcher .............................................35-35—70 Tiffany Joh..................................................38-32—70 Jimin Kang .................................................35-35—70 Brittany Lang..............................................36-34—70 Stacy Lewis ...............................................34-36—70 Brittany Lincicome ....................................35-35—70 Suzann Pettersen .....................................34-36—70 Jiyai Shin....................................................36-34—70 Amanda Blumenherst ...............................36-35—71 Julieta Granada.........................................35-36—71 Maria Hjorth ...............................................36-35—71 Jennifer Johnson ......................................35-36—71 Candie Kung ..............................................35-36—71 Kristy McPherson .....................................36-35—71 Pornanong Phatlum ..................................36-35—71 Jenny Shin .................................................34-37—71 Paula Creamer ..........................................37-35—72 Caroline Hedwall.......................................36-36—72 Amy Hung...................................................36-36—72 I.K. Kim.......................................................35-37—72 Meena Lee.................................................37-35—72 Mika Miyazato............................................37-35—72 Hee Young Park........................................36-36—72 Inbee Park .................................................36-36—72 Nontaya Srisawang ...................................34-38—72 Wendy Ward..............................................36-36—72 Chella Choi ................................................37-36—73 Katherine Hull ............................................37-36—73 Pat Hurst.....................................................37-36—73 a-Ariya Jutanugarn ...................................36-37—73 a-Moriya Jutanugarn ................................36-37—73 Lexi Thompson .........................................38-35—73 Yani Tseng.................................................35-38—73 Natalie Gulbis ............................................38-36—74 Sophie Gustafson .....................................37-37—74 Mina Harigae .............................................37-37—74 Eun-Hee Ji .................................................39-35—74 Cristie Kerr.................................................37-37—74 Song-Hee Kim...........................................37-37—74 Catriona Matthew ......................................36-38—74 Shinobu Moromizato.................................36-38—74 Belen Mozo................................................37-37—74 Dewi Claire Schreefel ..............................38-36—74 Momoko Ueda...........................................34-40—74 Sun Young Yoo .........................................39-35—74 Sandra Gal.................................................37-38—75 Hee-Won Han............................................38-37—75 Mindy Kim ..................................................37-38—75 Paige Mackenzie ......................................35-40—75 Azahara Munoz .........................................37-38—75 Ryann O’Toole ..........................................39-36—75 Morgan Pressel .........................................37-38—75 Michelle Wie ..............................................36-39—75 Vicky Hurst.................................................35-41—76 Hee Kyung Seo .........................................37-39—76 Angela Stanford ........................................37-39—76 Karen Stupples .........................................38-39—77 Laura Davies..............................................39-39—78 Christina Kim .............................................41-37—78 a-Pinrath Loomboonruang .......................41-38—79 Beatriz Recari ............................................40-39—79

B O X I N G Fight Schedule Today At College Park Center, Arlington, Texas (ESPN2), Mike Dallas Jr. vs. Miguel Gonzalez, 10, junior welterweights. At Chumash Casino, Santa Ynez, Calif. (SHO), Thomas Dulorme vs. Aris Ambriz, 10, for the vacant NABF welterweight title; Jonathan Gonzalez vs. Billy Lyell, 10, junior middleweight. Feb. 18 At Brondby, Denmark, Brian Magee vs. Rudy Markussen, 12, for the interim WBA World super middleweight title. At Olympic Hall, Munich, Vitali Klitschko vs. Dereck Chisora, 12, for Klitschko’s WBC heavyweight title. At American Bank Center, Corpus Christi, Texas (SHO), Paul Williams vs. Nobuhiro Ishida, 12, junior middleweights; Tavoris Cloud vs. Gabriel Campillo, 12, for Cloud’s IBF light heavyweight title; Chris Arreola vs. Eric Molina, 10, heavyweights. At Durango, Mexico, Jorge Arce vs. Lorenzo Parra, 12, for Arce’s WBO bantamweight title. Feb. 24 At Dover (Del.) Downs Hotel & Casino (ESPN2), Juan Carlos Burgos vs. Cristobal Cruz, 10, for the WBC Silver super featherweight title; Edgar Santana vs. Manuel Perez, 10, for Santana’s NABA junior welterweight title. At the DoubleTree Hotel, Ontario, Calif., Artemio Reyes vs. Victor Hugo Correa, 10, welterweights. Feb. 25 At Stuttgart, Germany, Alexander Povetkin vs. Marco Huck, 12, for Povetkin’s WBA World heavyweight title. At St. Louis (HBO), Marcos Maidana vs. Devon Alexander, 10, welterweights; Adrien Broner vs. Eloy Perez, 12, for Broner’s WBO junior lightweight title.

21.5

PRINCETON PENN

Brown

Columbia

6.5

VIRGINIA COMM LOYOLAM’MOUNT

Cornell Northern Iowa

6.5

Valparaiso

NHL Favorite

Odds

Underdog

DEVILS

-$135/ +$115

Ducks

Sharks

-$130/ +$110

HURRICANES

RED WINGS

-$165/ +$145

Predators

SABRES

-$125/ +$105

Canadiens

PANTHERS

-$135/ +$115

Capitals

Bruins

-$165/ +$145

JETS

OILERS

-$135/ +$115

Avalanche

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H O C K E Y National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Rangers............... 56 37 14 5 79 158 114 Philadelphia ................ 57 32 18 7 71 189 171 Pittsburgh .................... 57 32 20 5 69 176 150 New Jersey ................. 56 32 20 4 68 158 156 N.Y. Islanders.............. 57 24 25 8 56 135 165 Northeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston.......................... 55 35 18 2 72 188 126 Ottawa .......................... 60 30 22 8 68 179 183 Toronto ........................ 58 29 23 6 64 176 174 Montreal....................... 58 23 25 10 56 155 158 Buffalo.......................... 57 24 27 6 54 139 169 Southeast Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Florida .......................... 56 27 18 11 65 143 158 Washington ................. 56 28 23 5 61 156 160 Winnipeg...................... 58 26 26 6 58 140 164 Tampa Bay................... 57 25 26 6 56 161 194 Carolina ....................... 57 21 25 11 53 147 175 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Detroit .......................... 58 39 17 2 80 185 136 St. Louis....................... 57 35 15 7 77 145 114 Nashville ...................... 57 33 18 6 72 161 150 Chicago........................ 58 30 21 7 67 180 176 Columbus .................... 57 17 34 6 40 133 186 Northwest Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vancouver ................... 57 36 15 6 78 183 140 Calgary ........................ 57 27 22 8 62 139 152 Colorado ...................... 58 28 26 4 60 147 162 Minnesota.................... 56 25 23 8 58 126 146 Edmonton .................... 56 22 28 6 50 150 169 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose ...................... 55 31 17 7 69 163 136 Los Angeles ................ 57 27 19 11 65 124 124 Phoenix........................ 57 27 21 9 63 149 146 Dallas ........................... 56 28 25 3 59 146 160 Anaheim ...................... 57 24 24 9 57 148 165 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Wednesday's Games Boston 4, Montreal 3, SO Anaheim 2, Pittsburgh 1 Ottawa 6, Florida 2 Toronto 4, Edmonton 3, OT Vancouver 3, Colorado 1 Thursday's Games Chicago 4, N.Y. Rangers 2 Philadelphia 7, Buffalo 2 Tampa Bay 6, San Jose 5, OT St. Louis 5, N.Y. Islanders 1 Winnipeg at Minnesota, late Calgary at Dallas, late Phoenix at Los Angeles, late Today's Games Anaheim at New Jersey, 7 p.m. San Jose at Carolina, 7 p.m. Montreal at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m. Washington at Florida, 7:30 p.m. Nashville at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Boston at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. Colorado at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m. Saturday's Games Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. Chicago at Columbus, 1 p.m. Minnesota at St. Louis, 2 p.m. Carolina at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. Washington at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. Toronto at Vancouver, 7 p.m. Dallas at Phoenix, 8 p.m. Calgary at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

American Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA St. John’s .............. 50 32 12 5 1 70 169 142 Manchester ........... 53 28 23 0 2 58 138 146 Worcester.............. 48 23 16 4 5 55 131 126 Portland ................. 51 24 21 3 3 54 144 165 Providence............ 51 23 22 3 3 52 119 141 East Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA Penguins.............. 51 29 15 2 5 65 162 154 Norfolk ................... 52 31 18 1 2 65 182 142 Hershey ................. 50 28 14 4 4 64 180 147 Syracuse ............... 49 20 22 4 3 47 156 160 Binghamton........... 50 20 27 2 1 43 136 161 Northeast Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA Connecticut........... 50 24 16 5 5 58 148 143 Bridgeport ............. 48 25 18 3 2 55 147 137 Albany .................... 49 22 19 5 3 52 127 148 Springfield ............. 50 23 23 2 2 50 144 157 Adirondack............ 49 22 24 2 1 47 132 147 WESTERN CONFERENCE Midwest Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA Charlotte................ 51 29 18 2 2 62 145 136 Chicago ................. 50 28 18 1 3 60 146 129 Peoria .................... 51 27 21 2 1 57 155 143 Milwaukee ............. 49 25 21 2 1 53 137 132 Rockford................ 51 21 25 1 4 47 146 170 North Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA Toronto .................. 51 28 17 4 2 62 151 127 Lake Erie ............... 51 25 22 2 2 54 127 140 Rochester.............. 50 22 19 6 3 53 143 151 Grand Rapids........ 49 20 20 5 4 49 158 163 Hamilton ................ 49 21 23 1 4 47 119 148 West Division GP W L OL SL Pts GF GA Oklahoma City...... 49 32 12 2 3 69 145 104 Houston ................. 51 25 14 3 9 62 140 137 San Antonio .......... 50 27 21 2 0 56 130 139 Abbotsford ............ 49 26 20 3 0 55 115 124 Texas ..................... 50 21 25 2 2 46 148 161 NOTE: Two points are awarded for a win, one point for an overtime or shootout loss. Wednesday's Games Lake Erie 4, Texas 3 Portland 4, Worcester 3 Syracuse 7, Albany 1 Norfolk 4, Penguins 0 Chicago 4, Grand Rapids 3, OT Peoria 1, Rockford 0 Thursday's Games No games scheduled Today's Games Rockford at Toronto, 7 p.m. Springfield at Connecticut, 7 p.m. Manchester at Adirondack, 7 p.m. Hershey at Providence, 7:05 p.m. Penguins at Binghamton, 7:05 p.m. Syracuse at Norfolk, 7:30 p.m. St. John’s at Hamilton, 7:30 p.m. Lake Erie at Rochester, 7:35 p.m. Charlotte at Peoria, 8 p.m. Milwaukee at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. San Antonio at Texas, 8:30 p.m. Houston at Abbotsford, 10 p.m. Saturday's Games St. John’s at Toronto, 3 p.m. Hershey at Manchester, 7 p.m. Adirondack at Bridgeport, 7 p.m. Peoria at Grand Rapids, 7 p.m. Worcester at Connecticut, 7 p.m. Rockford at Hamilton, 7 p.m. Providence at Springfield, 7 p.m. Penguins at Albany, 7 p.m. Portland at Binghamton, 7:05 p.m. Syracuse at Norfolk, 7:15 p.m. Rochester at Lake Erie, 7:30 p.m. Charlotte at Chicago, 8 p.m. San Antonio at Texas, 8 p.m. Milwaukee at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. Houston at Abbotsford, 10 p.m.

The County Line Girls Softball League is an ASA REC League looking for girls, teams or towns/ organizations to join the league comprised presently of girls organizations from Dupont, Taylor and Minooka. League is open to girls ages 7-17 from all surrounding communities looking for a REC league with minimal travel involved. For more information, call Bob at 881-8744 or go to http:// dupontsoftball.clubspaces.com. MEETINGS Checkerboard Inn Golf League will hold an organizational meeting 7 p.m. Monday at the Checkerboard Inn in Trucksville. All members must attend or contact the league. Any questions can be directed to Frank at 675-7532. Five Mountains Umpire Association is holding its mandatory PIAA coaches and umpires rules interpretation meeting 6 p.m. Sunday at the Polish Falcons in Moncanaqua. Heights Packers Booster Club will hold a meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Stanton Lanes meeting room. Jenkins Township Little League will hold its monthly meeting from noon-12:30 p.m. Sunday, March 4, upstairs at the fieldhouse at the field complex. Items to be discussed are 2012 season preparations and golf tournament. All interested parents are urged to attend. Field Preparation Day will be 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday, March 10. All managers and coaches must be present on this day for field preparations for the upcoming season. Luzerne County Girls Softball Organization will meet 7 p.m. Monday at Alexis Tavern in Hanover Township. All executive officers and the board are required to attend. All other league members are welcome. The main topic of discussion will be registrations, number of teams and schedules. Plymouth Shawnee Indians minifootball will hold is regular meeting at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Plymouth Borough Building. Anyone applying for a coaching position should attend. Parents are welcomed. Wyoming Area Softball Parents Association will meet 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Wyoming Area Secondary Center gymnasium lobby. All parents of players in grades 7-12 are urged to attend. Plans for upcoming fundraisers will be discussed at this time. Wyoming Valley West Baseball Booster Club will meet 7 p.m. Monday, Feb, 27, at Murphy’s Pub, Swoyersville. Parents of players are encouraged to attend. The Crestwood High School PTA will be holding a crucial PTA meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 6 p.m. at the high school. The Senior Lock-In will be discussed. Parent involvement is essential if the Lock-In is to take place. It is imperative that all concerned high school parents attend. Membership is $8 and signups will be available in the CHS lobby during conferences on Tuesday, Feb. 21, at the meeting on Wednesday, or by contacting Michele Cronauer at 881-7981. Any questions or concernes, please call Michelle. REGISTRATION/TRYOUTS Ashley Hanover Girls Babe Ruth Softball will be holding sign-ups for this season for all girls ages 6 to 16 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday at Hanover Area Memorial School, 80 W. St Mary’s Road, Lee Park. Cost is $45 per player with discounts given to two or more players. Dupont Softball/T-ball signups will be held at the Dupont field house, 200 Elm St., on the following dates: Sunday from noon to 3 p.m., Monday from 6-9 p.m., Feb. 27-29 from 6-9 p.m. Signups are open to all boys and girls of the Greater Pittston Area and surrounding communities. T-ball is for boys and girls ages 4-7 and is $25 per player with no family discount or fundraiser. Softball is for girls ages 7-17 and is $50 per player, $85 per two players and $110 for three players of the same family (sisters) with no fundraiser. For more information, call Bob Cappelloni at 881-8744. Greater Pittston Senior Legion is reorganizing for the 2012 season. All current and prospective players are asked to call 655-1919 and leave a message, including name and phone number, to begin the registration process. Jenkins Township Little League will hold registration 6:30-8 p.m. Wednesday and 12:30 p.m. March 4 upstairs at the Jenkins Township Fieldhouse at the Little League Field Complex. Fees due at sign up are $65 for Major/Minor Baseball/ Softball, $55 for Coach Pitch, $50 for T-Ball and $75 for Teeners. Additional child cost is $30 with no rebate for Teeners. Please bring a copy of child’s birth certificate and three proofs of residency. A $20 late fee will be assessed for any player signing up March 4. If you can not sign up by one of the registration dates, please let us know so we can make other arrangements. Forms and information can be found at Www.jenkinstwplittleleague.com. Kingston/Forty Fort Little League will hold its final registration for all baseball and softball divisions from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday at the Forty Fort Borough Building (corner of Wyoming Avenue and River Street). A copy of a birth certificate (for all new players) and

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copies of three proofs of residency dated between Feb. 1, 2011 and Jan. 31, 20012, are required. Interested managers and coaches should bring a copy of a driver’s license. Visit www.eteamz.com/kbsi for registration and medical release forms, types of residency documents accepted, fees, and fundraising information. This will be the final registration before a $10 late fee. For any additional questions, call 331-4817 or 714-4035. Plains American Legion Baseball Teams will hold registrations 1-3 p.m. Sunday at the Plains American Legion home on East Carey Street. Players between the ages of 13-19 who reside in Plains, Laflin, Bear Creek, Parsons, Miners Mills, North End, East End, Avoca, Dupont, Jenkins Township and Pittston Township, East of the Pittston Bypass, are eligible to sign up. For more information, call Don at 822-0537 or Jack at 947-7246. Plymouth Little League will be holding signups 1-3 p.m. Saturday and 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Feb.25, at Plymouth Hose Co. No. 1, Gaylord Ave. Registration fees are $35 per player or $50 per family. For more information please contact Mike Spece at 570-328-4612. Greater Pittston Stoners Youth Soccer will hold registrations for spring soccer on Feb. 21, 23 and 29 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Exeter Scout Home, located in the rear of the Exeter Borough Building on the corner of Wyoming Ave. and Lincoln St., Exeter. Cost is $25 if you do not need a uniform and $40 with a uniform. For more information, go to http://stonersoccer.org. West Side Little League will be holding a registration 10 a.m.-noon Saturday at the Courtdale Borough Building on Courtdale Avenue. Girls softball will also be included this year. Fees, ages and fundraising information can be found at www.newwestsidelittleleague.org or by calling Chris at 852-3900. Mountain Legion Baseball (Mountain Top) will be holding registrations 1-3 Sunday and Feb. 27 from 6-8 p.m. in the basement of the Legion Post. For more information, visit www.leaguelineup.com/mountainlegionbaseball. South Wilkes-Barre Little League will be holding sign ups for this season 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday. Sign- ups will be held at two locations – Firwood Church, 130 Old River Road, and at Stanton Bowling Lanes. Any player residing in the Mayflower section of WilkesBarre is now eligible to play for South Wilkes-Barre Little League. Cost is $45 per player and $60 per family for t-ball through Little League and $55 or $80 for family for Junior League. There will also be a $30 deposit for lottery ticket fundraiser. More information is on our website at www.swblittleleague.com. Swoyersville Little League will be holding baseball and softball registrations for ages 5-12, Junior Little League for ages 13-14 and Senior Little League for ages 13-16 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday and March 3, and March 14 from 6:307:30 p.m. at the borough building. Costs are $30 (t-ball, players 4-5) and $50 (players 6-16). Family rate is $10 for each additional child, but does not apply to Junior or Senior Little League. For more information, call Dave at 899-3750. Wyoming Valley Challenger Baseball will hold signups 1-4 p.m. Saturday and on March 3 from 1-4 p.m. at Norm’s Pizza, 257 N. Sherman St., Wilkes-Barre. Please call Judith at 793-9302 with any questions. UPCOMING EVENTS Athletes for Better Education (AFBE) will be hosting a regional basketball tournament in the Hazleton Area on March 24-25. There will be seven different age groups for both boys and girls: 10 and under, 12 and under, 13 and under, 14 and under, 15 and under, 16 and under, 18 and under. Each team will be guaranteed four games. There are a limited number of spots available in each division, so a quick response is advised. The deadline is March 18. For more information or to register, visit www.afbe.org or contact Jason Bieber at 866-906-2323 or e-mail jbieber@afbe.org. A Specialty Baseball Camp will be held on Feb. 26 in the King’s College Scandlon Gymnasium. The program is designed for players in K-12 grade. For additional information, go to www.kingscollegeathletics.com or contact Coach Greeley at baseball@kings.edu or call 592-7797. LIVESTRONG Live Long 5K Run/ Walkcharity event will be held on April 29 at Frances Slocum State Park. Race begins at 11 a.m. Registration is 8:30-10:30 a.m. Email livestrong.livelong5k@gmail.com for details. Wyoming Valley West Spartan Baseball Booster Club baseball clinic for students of the Wyoming Valley West School District ages 8-12 12 will be held Sunday, March 4, at the high school and training facility. Cost is $20 per child and $10 for second child in the same family. Each participant will receive a free t-shirt. To register call 2871978 by Feb. 27.

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H.S. GIRLS BASKETBALL

LOCAL ROUNDUP

Patriots defeat Wyoming Area

Spartans use falls to knock off GAR

By JOSH HORTON For The Times Leader

YATESVILLE – The Pittston Area versus Wyoming Area rivalry hit the hardwood Thursday night and the Patriots proved why they will be playing for the regular season championship on Monday as they defeated the Warriors 64-41. “We go into every game with a great deal of respect for our opponent,” Pittston Area coach Kathy Healey said. “Pittston Area, Wyoming Area is a great rivalry and you never know what is going to happen. We were very excited for this game.” Pittston Area will play Wyoming Valley West for the Wyoming Valley Conference Division I title Monday, although the site and time haven’t been set. Pittston Area struggled from the floor early, allowing the Warriors to capture a 5-3 lead in the

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first two minutes of the PITTSTON game. AREA Allie Barber, though, used a combination of good defense WYOMING and even better AREA offense to give the Patriots a 7-5 lead with 4:11 remaining in the first quarter. Barber tied it at 5-5 with a quick steal and an easy lay-in. Kelly Mitchell gave the Patriots the lead when she nailed a jump shot from just inside the free throw stripe. With 2:09 remaining in the first quarter. Mia Hopkins drove the lane and was fouled, but still converted the left handed layup. She went to the line with a chance to convert the traditional threepoint play, but instead missed the free throw, got her own rebound and put it right back up to give

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Pittston Area’s Allie Barber, left, drives to the hoop as Wyoming Area’s Serra Degnan defends on Thursday night.

the Patriots a 13-7 lead. The Patriots only heated up from there as they went into the locker room up 35-18. Hopkins really heated up in the third quarter as she scored 13 points, leading the Patriots to a 45-29 advantage after three quarters. The Warriors had two players in double figures. Serra Degnan led the way with 11 points and Sarah Radzwilka added 10. The Patriots also had two play-

ers in double figures. Hopkins led the team with a double-double, going for 20 points and 15 rebounds. Allie Barber added 13 points, four steals and three assists. Pittston Area 64, Wyoming Area 41 WYOMING AREA (41): Degnan 3 5-7 11, N. Turner 1 0-0 2, Radzwilka 4 0-0 10, Blannett 2 1-2 5, Thornton 1 1-8 3, Bott 1 1-2 4, Coolbaugh 1 0-0 2, F. Turner 1 2-2 4. Totals 14 10-21 41. PITTSTON AREA (64): Balchune 1 0-0 2, Barber 4 5-5 13, Fereck 2 0-0 4, Mitchell 4 0-0 8, Silinskie 0 1-2 1, Rabender 2 1-4 5, O’Neill 3 0-0 6, Hopkins 7 6-11 20, Owens 0 2-2 2, Zanta 0 1-2 1, A. Brady 1 0-0 2. Totals 24 16-26 64. Wyoming Area............................. 9 9 11 12 — 41 Pittston Area ................................ 18 17 10 19 — 64 3-Point Field Goals— WA 3 (Radzwilka 2, Bott)

PLYMOUTH—The Spartans won their home meet against GAR 58-15 as Travis Roper (126), Cody Cordes (145), Brian Dwyer (152) and Tom Smulowitz (182) all picked up wins via fall. Zac Faust and Elijah Gresham notched pins at 220 and 285, respectively, for the Grenadiers. A.J. Luton (113) won via decision.

106 – James Wright (WVW) won by forfeit; 113 – A.J. Luton (GAR) dec Alex Tirko 7-6; 120 – no contest; 126 – Travis Roper (WVW) pinned Devin Reese 1:06; 132 – Nathan Cheek (WVW) won by forfeit; 138 – Derrick Simms (WVW) won by forfeit; 145 – Cody Cordes (WVW) pinned Rashaun Mathis 3:36; 152 – Brian Dwyer (WVW) pinned Rich Sickler 3:07; 160 – Nick Palkovic (WVW) won by forfeit; 170 – Trey Cowman (WVW) maj dec Jamaar Taylor 9-0; 182 – Tom Smulowitz (WVW) pinned Vinnie Phan 5:41; 195 – Ian Moran (WVW) won by forfeit; 220 – Zac Faust (GAR) pinned Brandon Baird 2:35; 285 – Elijah Gresham (GAR) pinned T.J. Evans 3:55 Note: Match started at 120 pounds.

H.S. GIRLS SWIMMING Meyers 131, Nanticoke 43

Cynthia Menges and Eilish

Hoban each touched first in two events to lead Meyers to a win over Nanticoke. Menges took the 200 free with a time of 2:39.06 and the 500 free in 7:16.76. Hoban captured the 200 IM (2:37.09) and the 100 back (1:14.19). For Nanticoke, Sarah Carne won the 50 free (29.05) and Connie Medura placed first in the 100 breast (1:20.20).

200 MEDLEY RELAY – 1. MEY, (Brianna Wallace, Kelly Mahalak, Julia Miller, Eilish Hoban) 2:13.91; 2. NAN; 3. MEY; 200 FREE – 1. MEY, Cynthia Menges 2:39.06; 2. MEY, Sydney Rentch; 3. MEY, Catherin Morocho; 200 IM – 1. MEY, Hoban 2:37.09; 2. NAN, Connie Medura; 3. MEY, Mahalak; 50 FREE – 1. NAN, Sarah Carne 29.05; 2. MEY, Kristen Cease; 3. MEY, Florence Kwok; DIVING – 1. MEY, Amilyn Konopki 159.34; 2. MEY, Hayley Zelinka, 3. MEY, Miller; 100 FLY – 1. MEY, Julia Kerr 1:11.53; 2. MEY, Wallace; 3. MEY, Abby Mercadante; 100 FREE – 1. MEY, Emmalie Langon 1:09.57; 2. NAN, Maddy O’Donohue; 3. MEY, Katie Lenhert; 500 FREE – 1. MEY, Menges 7:16.76; 2. MEY, Alanna Monte; 3. MEY, Cease; 200 FREE RELAY – 1. MEY, (Menges, Allison Berman, Langon, Hoban) 2:03.82; 2. NAN; 3. MEY; 100 BACK – 1. MEY, Hoban 1:14.19; 2. NAN, Carne; 3. MEY, Sabrina Kelly; 100 BREAST – 1. NAN, Medura 1:20.20; 2. MEY, Berman; 3. NAN, Katherine Mash; 400 FREE RELAY – 1. MEY, (Langon, Wallace, Kerr, Mahalak) 4:40.88; 2. MEY; 3. MEY.

NBA ROUNDUP

Pacers end 5-game skid with victory over Nets The Associated Press

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Lake-Lehman’s Emily Leskowsky, center, has the ball stolen by Wyoming Seminary’s Bridget McMullan, No. 33, as McMullan’s teammate Jane Henry looks on during the third quarter in Thursday’s WVC high school girls basketball game in Kingston.

Lake-Lehman clinches D-III second half title The Times Leader staff

KINGSTON – Lake-Lehman used a 30-8 run to lock up the Wyoming Valley Conference Division III second-half crown, downing Wyoming Seminary 48-31 in girls basketball Thursday. Seminary led 13-10 a minute into the second quarter after a baseline drive by Ann Romanowski, but Lehman’s offense clicked after that. Lehman used a 14-6 burst to lead 24-19 at the break, then scored the first 15 points of the second half to put the game away. Twenty of the 30 points in Lehman’s 30-8 run came from the paint against Seminary. Cayle Spencer led the way for Lehman with a career-high 23 points. Spencer is averaging 17.4 points per game in Lehman’s last five contests. Emily Sutton had five straight points in Lehman’s streak of 15 unanswered points to finish with 10. “She’s a very determined young lady,” Lehman coach Charlie Levan said of Spencer. “She’s only a freshman, but the kind of determination she shows is the kind you usually get from an upperclassman. “Emily Sutton really stepped up for us, and our role players got stops when we needed them.” Lehman (7-0, 17-5) will play first-half champion Nanticoke (6-1, 20-2) for the Division III title Monday at 6 p.m. at Holy

S TA N D I N G S Division I Wyo. Valley West Crestwood Hazleton Area x-Pittston Area Coughlin

League 7-0 4-3 4-3 3-4 0-7

Overall 17-5 15-7 8-14 17-5 1-20

Division II x-Holy Redeemer Tunkhannock Dallas Berwick Wyoming Area

League 7-0 4-2 3-3 2-5 0-7

Overall 14-7 15-5 12-7 8-14 5-17

Division III League Overall Lake-Lehman 7-0 17-5 x-Nanticoke 6-1 20-2 Northwest 4-2 13-8 Meyers 4-3 11-11 GAR 3-4 6-15 Wyoming Seminary 2-5 7-13 Hanover Area 1-6 6-15 MMI Prep 0-6 3-18 x -- First-half champion WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15 Nanticoke 76, Hanover Area 36 THURSDAY, FEB. 16 Crestwood 60, Coughlin 15 Meyers 28, GAR 13 Holy Redeemer 46, Berwick 20 Lake-Lehman 48, Wyoming Seminary 31 Pittston Area 64, Wyoming Area 41 Wyoming Valley West 47, Hazleton Area 43 FRIDAY, FEB. 17 MMI Prep at Northwest, 7:15 p.m. Tunkhannock at Dallas, 7:15 p.m.

Redeemer. Both teams will advance to the District 2 playoffs. Seminary (2-5, 7-13) will face GAR on Tuesday for the final WVC berth in the District 2 Class 2A tournament. Both teams have 5-9 overall league records. “We didn’t play hard against GAR on Monday,” Seminary coach Ron Strothers said of an improved effort by his team Thursday against the division champs. “We really had a much

better effort tonight. The first half, we executed our game. In the second half, we got a little sloppy with the ball, we rushed shots and, defensively, we didn’t play as hard.” -- John Medeiros

Lake-Lehman 48, Wyoming Seminary 31 LAKE-LEHMAN (48): Sutliff 1 2-4 5, Sutton 4 2-6 10, Mosier 3 1-3 7, Moosic 0 1-2 1, Leskowsky 0 0-0 0, Mahoney 1 0-1 2, Spencer 9 5-5 23. Totals 18 11-21 48. WYOMING SEMINARY (31): Romanowski 5 1-3 11, Neare 3 0-0 6, Gabriel 0 0-0 0, Karg 0 1-2 1, Williams 2 0-0 4, Davis 0 0-0 0, Henry 3 0-0 6, McMullan 1 1-2 3. Totals 14 3-7 31. Lake-Lehman ................................. 7 17 21 3 — 48 Wyoming Seminary ...................... 11 8 9 3 — 31 3-Point Field Goals— LL 1 (Sutliff); SEM 0

Holy Redeemer 46, Berwick 20 Alexis Lewis finished the game with a team-high 12 points to lead Holy Redeemer to a road victory against Berwick. Sara Altemose hit two three-pointers and totaled eight points. For the Bulldogs, Alexis Steeber netted 12 points.

HOLY REDEEMER (46): Malacari 0 0-1 0, Wignot 0 4-4 4, Makowski 1 1-2 3, Smith 0 0-0 0, Dougherty 1 0-0 2, Claherty 0 0-0 0, Murray 3 0-0 6, Altemose 3 0-0 8, Slavoski 1 0-0 2, Frascella 1 1-1 3, Evans 0 0-0 0, Platko 2 2-5 6, Lewis 4 4-8 12. Totals 16 12-21 46. BERWICK (20): Steeber 3 5-6 12, Davenport 1 0-0 2, Shortlidge 0 0-0 0, Kishbaugh 0 0-0 0, Bridge 2 0-2 4, Palermo 1 0-0 2, Simmons 0 0-0 0, Floryshak 0 0-0 0, Seely 0 0-0 0, Lynn 0 0-0 0, Rinehimer 0 0-0 0, Bailey 0 0-0 0. Totals 7 5-8 20. Holy Redeemer................................ 19 8 11 8 — 46 Berwick.............................................. 6 5 6 3 — 20 3-Point Field Goals— HR 2 (Altemose); BER 1 (Steeber)

Wyoming Valley West 47, Hazleton Area 43 Tara Zdancewicz turned in a 19-point performance to pace Wyoming Valley West in its victory against Hazleton Area. For the Cougars, Alyssa Pfeil tallied 11 points while Becca Zamonas followed with nine.

WYOMING VALLEY WEST (47): Judge 2 2-5

INDIANAPOLIS — Danny Granger delivered when Indiana needed him most Thursday. The Pacers’ leading scorer played through a sprained left ankle to score 32 points and helped struggling Indiana snap a season-worst five-game losing streak by beating struggling New Jersey 93-88. Granger missed Wednesday’s loss at Cleveland and the final three quarters of Tuesday’s loss to Miami because of the injury, and without him, the Pacers just weren’t the same. The biggest questions heading into the Nets game were how long Granger could play on his gimpy ankle and how effective he would be. It didn’t take him long to prove he was just fine. Granger made 10 of 20 shots, 8 of 9 from the freethrow line and grabbed five rebounds in a game the Pacers (18-12) desperately needed to win. Deron Williams scored 29 points and Kris Humphries had 24 points and 10 rebounds to lead New Jersey (8-23), not quite enough to snap a skid

that hit eight straight and is the longest for the franchise since an eight-game skid from Nov. 30-Dec. 14, 2010. The difference Thursday: Granger. He started a 15-0 run in the first half to rally the Pacers early, then made the key shots in a 9-2 fourth-quarter spurt that finally gave Indiana control. Indiana closed it out by making six of its last seven free throws. New Jersey sure didn’t make it easy, though. Humphries controlled the inside early, making his first six shots and scoring 12 points in the first quarter as the Nets built a 29-18 lead. Bulls 89, Celtics 80 CHICAGO — Carlos Boozer and Luol Deng each scored 23 points, and the Chicago Bulls escaped with a victory over the Boston Celtics after blowing a 16-point lead. It was hardly an easy night for the Bulls, but they continued to pile up the wins even though reigning MVP Derrick Rose missed his fourth straight game because of lower back pain.

6, C. Smicherko 0 3-4 3, Reilly 1 1-2 3, K. Smicherko 1 5-6 7, Kane 3 0-1 6, Zdancewicz 6 7-12 19, Hoffman 1 1-2 3. Totals 14 19-32 47. HAZLETON AREA (43): Bono 1 4-4 6, Schoennagle 1 0-0 2, Wolk 1 0-0 2, B. Marchetti 1 0-0 2, Sitch 0 1-3 1, Pfeil 5 0-0 11, Woznicki 1 0-0 2, Baranko 0 0-0 0, Bachman 1 2-5 4, Ciccozzi 0 0-2 0, Carter 1 2-4 4, Zamonas 2 4-4 9, A. Marchetti 0 0-0 0. Totals 14 13-22 43. Wyoming Valley West ................ 10 7 18 12 — 47 Hazleton Area.............................. 9 14 17 3 — 43 3-Point Field Goals— HAZ 2 (Pfeil, Zamonas)

Crestwood 60, Coughlin 15 Sarah Andrews tallied 14 points, including two treys, to lead Crestwood to a win against Coughlin. Amy Jesikiewicz also hit two three-pointers and followed with 10 points. Dannah Hayward and Danielle Georgetti each had six points for Coughlin.

COUGHLIN (15): Hayward 2 0-2 6, Oliver 0 0-0 0, Eaton 0 0-0 0, Flaherty 0 0-0 0, Zigler 0 0-0 0, Sebastian 1 0-0 3, Harper 0 0-0 0, Georgetti 3 0-2 6, Williams 0 0-0 0, Lavery. Totals 6 0-4 15. CRESTWOOD (60): Kendra 0 0-0 0, Andrews 6 0-0 14, Mazzoni 3 0-0 7, Rutkowski 3 0-2 6, Gegaris 3 0-0 7, Cronauer 1 0-0 2, Wojnar 1 0-0 3, Myers 3 1-2 7, Jesikiewicz 4 0-0 10, Hislop 2 0-2 4, Ciavarella 0 0-0 0, O’Brien 0 0-0 0, Muse 0 0-0 0. Totals 26 1-6 60. Coughlin ....................................... 2 0 7 6 — 15 Crestwood .................................... 11 14 16 19 — 60 3-Point Field Goals— COU 3 (Hayward 2, Sebastian); CRE 7 (Andrews 2, Jesikiewicz 2, Mazzoni, Gegaris, Wojnar)

Postponements · The Tunkhannock at Dallas game was postponed Thursday due to weather concerns and rescheduled for 7:15 p.m. today. · The MMI Prep at Northwest game was postponed Thursday and rescheduled for 7:15 p.m. today. Senior Night and Biddy Night will also be held, with youth players invited to participate in games at halftime and after the junior varsity game.

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GAR’s Marena Spence puts up a shot over Meyers’ MacKenzie Winder on Thursday night.

Meyers’ Amy Kowalczyk, who chipped in with seven points, added three more in the fourth before leaving with an injury. Gross and Seabrook provided Continued from Page 1B GAR’s only points in the quarter After a slow third quarter for and finished with seven and six both teams, Meyers finally put points, respectively, for the GAR away over the first three game. Meyers 28, GAR 13 minutes of the fourth quarter. GAR (13): Twyman 0 0-0 0, Domzalski 0 0-0 0, Spence 0 0-0 0, Leco 0 0-0 0, Seabrook 3 0-0 6, The Mohawks kept GAR from Quin. Gross 0 0-2 0, Quie. Gross 2 3-4 7. Totals 5 13. scoring for the first three min- 3-6 MEYERS (28): Martinez 0 2-2 2, DiMaggio 1 1-2 3, 0 0-0 0, Kowalczyk 2 3-4 7, Biggs utes of the quarter and got a per- 3 2-5 8,Quinones Robertson 1 0-2 2, Winder 3 0-2 6. Totals 10 8-17 28. sonal 6-0 scoring run from freshman point guard Salimah Biggs GAR .................................................. 3 2 4 4 — 13 Meyers.............................................. 4 7 4 13 — 28 to take a 21-9 lead. Biggs led the 3-Point Field Goals— GAR 0; MEY 0 Mohawks with eight points.

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LAS VEGAS — Dozens of celebrities from the sports, film and TV realms plan to fete boxing icon Muhammad Ali and raise money for brain research during a tribute in Las Vegas to be aired later on ABC. The Saturday gala to celebrate Ali’s 70th birthday at the MGM Grand on the Las Vegas Strip will double as a fundraiser, with the money going to the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health and the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Ky. Ali turned 70 last month, and had a party honoring him in Kentucky. One of Ali’s daughters, Rasheda Ali, said the gala is another chance for her father to use his celebrity to help others and to further causes he cares about. “Boxing was his introduction to the world, and he took it beyond boxing. He feels boxing was there to get people to notice him,” Rasheda Ali said. “He knows that his purpose was not to be a heavyweight.” The gala is expected to include performances and tributes from Stevie Wonder, David Beckham, Larry King, Quincy Jones and others. It will be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, the site of numerous top prizefights over the past 20 years as Sin City established itself as the world’s capital of boxing. Tickets start at $1,500 a seat. Attendees will dine on food specially prepared by celebrity chefs Wolfgang Puck, Tom Colicchio, Michael Mina and Scott Conant. More expensive seats — up to $100,000 for a “ringside” table of 10 with the promise of sitting with at least one celebrity — will offer a close-up view of what Rasheda Ali says could be an unpredictable party with so many famous faces on the bill. “You’re talking about celebrities and people who really have a huge influence on a lot of people,” she said. “People, around him, they come down to earth.” Ali will attend, but it’s not clear whether he will speak at the event. He’s not scheduled to walk a pre-show red carpet. Larry Ruvo, chairman of Keep Memory Alive, the clinic’s fundraising arm, said Ali deserves every accolade he gets, as he’s become one of the five most recognizable people on the planet. And the money raised this weekend will help fight neurological diseases, a cause that resonates with millions of people personally, as well as with Ali, Ruvo said.

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Wyoming Seminary wrestling coach Scott Green monitors practice as his team prepares for this weekend’s state prep wrestling tournament by practicing with Delaware Valley on Tuesday.

Seminary preps for title By DAVE ROSENGRANT drosengrant@timesleader.com

Prior to 2007, Wyoming Seminary had never won the Pennsylvania Prep Championship. Now the Blue Knights are expected to win every year. They carry a five-year winning streak into Saturday’s event, which will be held outside of Philadelphia at Episcopal Academy in Newtown Square. “It took a lot of work getting the program to the tier that it is. And now, we feel like we should dominate and win the tournament every year,” Seminary coach Scott Green said. “It’s not one of our main goals at the beginning of the year, but also it’s good to keep those other PA prep schools knowing that we’re going to be on top for a long time.” Approximately 34 prep schools from Pennsylvania will be participating in the tournament. Most of the schools are from the Philadelphia area. A sixth straight state title for the Blue Knights would tie Germantown Academy’s state record of six consecutive state championships. In its five-year run, Seminary has never crowned less than five state champions and the most was eight in 2010, which tied Germantown’s record of most state titlists crowned. After this weekend, the team will gear up for a run at the national title next weekend during the National Prep Championships at Lehigh Uni-

New mats to be used for L-L Invitational The Lake-Lehman Invitational will be held this weekend despite reports that the Lake-Lehman wrestling program was hit with a skin infection. The tournament is taking the place of the District 2 junior high tournament, which was cut by the district. According to Lehman junior high coach Jim Rosencrans, the junior high program was never affected. He added that three of the four mats that will be used are brand new from the National Guard. The fourth mat is new to the wrestling program and has not been used this season. There are 16 junior high teams committed to participate in the tourney, which will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday after the 8 a.m. weigh-ins. The finals are expected to kick off between 3 and 4 p.m. There will be medals distributed to the placewinners, and a team champion will also be crowned.

versity. One of the big obstacles at that tournament is national powerhouse Blair Academy, which has won 31 straight national championships and every title since 1981. The Blue Knights have finished second to the Bucs in the last five years. “They’re the measuring stick,” Green said about Blair. “We feel if we make ourselves better that eventually we’re going to catch up.” The Knights have been recognized nationally with three wrestlers heading to Division I schools in 120-pounder Evan Botwin (Duke), 126-pounder Dom Malone (Northwestern) and 220-pounder A.J. Vizcarrondo (West Virginia). They have also been ranked highly by several publications. ESPN Rise, a high school magazine, featured the team in a recent issue. “National rankings are nice and the recognition we got is nice, but winning the national

prep title is the ultimate goal as a team and we have a way to go to get there,” Green noted. Malone is shooting for his fourth straight individual state championship. He is also a defending national champion after finishing as runner-up in 2010 and third in 2009. “It felt good to win (the national title), but now I have a target on my back this year,” Malone said. “But I’m ready for it and I’m looking to go out with a win there.” The rest of the Blue Knights lineup consists of 11 of the following: Danny Boychuck (freshman, 106 pounds), Logan May (senior, 113), Tyler Ponte (sophomore, 120), Tyler Fraley (senior, 132), Jesse Holton (junior, 132), Ty White (sophomore, 138), Sal Diaz (sophomore, 145), Cohl Fulk (senior, 152), Ryan McMullan (sophomore, 160), Eric Morris (junior, 170), Conor Wasson (senior, 182), Matt Doggett (sophomore, 195) and Michael Johnson (freshman, 285).

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Mickelson returns to the top of leaderboard By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer

LOS ANGELES — Four days after his big win at Pebble Beach, Phil Mickelson keeps right on rolling. Mickelson hit driver off the deck from just under 300 yards on the par-5 11th that led to a two-putt birdie, and he ended a gorgeous afternoon Thursday at Riviera by chipping in from 35 feet for birdie. That gave him a 5-under 66 and a one-shot lead in the Northern Trust Open. Dating to the back nine of his second round at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, Mickelson has made birdie or eagle on one-third of the holes he has played. And his streak of consecutive holes without a bogey finally ended at 49 on the par-3 16th. No matter. He looked good with the putter and with his low, penetrating tee shots that he kept below the tree line on a windy day that prevented low scoring. J.B. Holmes, in his fourth tournament since returning from brain surgery in September, played his final six holes without

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Phil Mickelson watches his tee shot on the second hole during the first round of the Northern Trust Open at Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles on Thursday.

a par. His round ended with a 315-yard tee shot — a big drive in the cool air of Los Angeles in February — and an approach to 8 feet for birdie at No. 9, the second-toughest hole at Riviera. That gave him a 4-under 67. He was tied with Hunter Mahan, whose 35-foot birdie at No. 5 sent him on a string of four straight birdies. They all played in the after-

noon, when the wind began to die late in the day. Jonathan Byrd, who faced the chilly, blustery conditions of the morning, had a 68. He was joined by Carl Pettersson. The first round was suspended by darkness with 30 players yet to finish the round, a typical occurrence at this tournament with 144-man field and limited daylight.

Mickelson is coming off an 8under 64 in the final round at Pebble Beach, where he rallied from a six-shot deficit — and beat playing partner Tiger Woods by 11 shots — to change the outlook on his West Coast Swing. Riviera is his final tournament before the tour moves to Florida, and even on a different golf course, not much has changed. He holed a 30-foot birdie putt on the long par-3 fourth hole, and then really got going on the back nine. After a tough pitch to 12 feet that led to birdie on the 10th, Mickelson had 297 yards to the hole on the 11th and decided to hit driver, a shot he had not tried in months. It came off perfectly and climbed onto the front edge of the green, making Mickelson the only player to have an eagle putt on the 587-yard hole, which played right into the wind. The pin was all the way back, away from a large hump in the putting surface, which gave Mickelson the green light. His eagle putt from 60 feet died next to the hole.

run him in 14 Sprint Cup series races this season. For now, at least, he doesn’t have a full-time Nationwide Series ride either. “It’s OK,” Bayne said at Thursday’s media day at Daytona International Speedway. “We’re just making the best of what we’ve got right now and it’s tough to do that when you only have a few races. For me, I’m running about the same schedule I ran in Cup last year. It’s kind of one a month with the 21 car, but in Nationwide I had hoped to run a full season this year and run for a championship. Obviously, as a young guy you want to have championships under your belt and full seasons.” The Feb. 26 Daytona 500 is on Bayne’s limited schedule, but he doesn’t have one of the starting spots guaranteed to the top 35 teams in points from last season. He says they don’t plan on trying to buy a guaranteed spot from another team — so he’ll have earn a spot in Sunday’s qualifying or Thursday’s qualifying races. Bayne doesn’t have a full-time ride in the Nationwide series, either. Roush Fenway Racing plans to run him in the first three races of the season, hoping to attract potential sponsors with good results and run more races. “I still haven’t spent a whole full season with one team yet in Nationwide, and I think that would be great to have that opportunity,” Bayne said. “But, right now, we’re going to run the first three races and kind of see where we stand, work on sponsorship deals. It just shows how tough it is right now. Here we are at Roush Fenway Racing with great things to offer and it’s still tough for us, so we’re working really hard at that.” Bayne certainly hoped his Daytona 500 win would catapult him

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into a full-time ride right away, but he’s remaining patient for now. “It’s almost like being a part of the family there,” Bayne said of the Wood Brothers team. “I think for this point in my career the Wood Brothers is the best place for me to be. If we could run fulltime, that would be better, but I enjoy that family and just the support that they give me.” NASCAR veteran Michael Waltrip sees Bayne’s struggle to secure a full-time ride is another sign of a sluggish economy. “It’s not just NASCAR, it’s how difficult things are today,” Waltrip said. “Trevor’s a sharp young man, very well-spoken, goodlooking kid and got a great heart. Can drive the heck out of the car and just didn’t get the opportunity, hasn’t had the opportunity to do it full time yet.” But trying to refine his driving skills while running a limited schedule wasn’t the only challenge Bayne faced last year. He missed several weeks after being diagnosed with a mystery ailment that turned out to be Lyme disease. Sitting out those races, Bayne said, made him realize “how much you appreciate being here.” Bayne says he’s feeling fine now, good enough to take a mission trip to Kenya in the offseason. “What’s wild about people in Kenya is like no matter who are, if you’re from out of town or an American and you show up on their front porch, they’re pulling out chairs and trying to give you food at their little mud huts,” Bayne said. “They’re incredible people, so I would tell anybody they should go check it out because, to me, it was humbling. These people don’t have hardly anything and here they are, their kids are so happy. They’ve got their bellies sticking out because they’re malnourished and stuff, but they’re the most pumped kids in the world to be alive.”

successor in the backcourt – freshman Jourdon Wilson – transition into a role as the Colonels’ usual point guard. DeRojas himself was a four-year starter for Wilkes and is a unique position to dispense advice. “Chris does a lot of talking with him. He spends a lot of time with him,” Rickrode said early in the season as Wilson was beginning to settle in. “Two different players, but they relate to each other well. I think there’s a respect there. Jourdon has a respect for Chris. And that’s great.” Across town at King’s, freshmanKeytonWinder(Meyers)has been one of a handful of underclassmen to see significant minutes this year for the Monarchs. Winder started 11 games at forward for King’s in the middle of the season and has averaged 20 minutes per game as a rookie. Heading into Saturday’s finale at Wilkes, Winder ranks third on the team in scoring (9.2 ppg) and second in rebounding (4.3 rpg). “With any young player, you go from thinking to just playing,” King’s coach J.P. Andrejko said. “And (midway through the year) he started just playing, and playing with more confidence.” Sophomore guard Joe Caffrey (Coughlin) will be a candidate for more time next season with the graduationofstartingpointguard Kyle Stackhouse. UpatMisericordia,Eichhorstis a conference player of the year candidate for the first-place Cougars. The senior forward ranks in the top 10 in the league in scoring (17.7 ppg, 3rd), rebounding (7.4 rpg, 8th), shooting percentage (.532, 4th), assists (2.9 apg, 7th) and free throw percentage (.877, 2nd). Supporting him off the bench is

a pair of Nanticoke grads in junior guard Sean Bieski and freshman forward Cael Evans. “The bench has been a work in progress, largely because of youth,” Cougars coach Trevor Woodruffsaid.“Thefirsttwoguys we bring off (Evans and guard Joe Busacca) are freshmen. Sean is starting to get into shape and his play will get better the more and more he plays. “So the bench now has been good as it has been all year. We’re going to need it if we’re going to do anything down the stretch in the playoffs.” On the women’s side, King’s has risen to prominence this season thanks to an ensemble cast. But no one has been on the court more than junior guard Katlin Michaels (Berwick), who is the only player on a deep roster to average more than 30 minutes per game. Michaels has started 23 of 24 games for the Lady Monarchs, sitting only on senior day. She chips in 9.4 points and 5.1 rebounds per game and her 120 assists put her one off of the conference lead. She has also played an important role in the team’s aggressive defense. Junior guard Kyley Henry (Crestwood) has appeared in 11 games off the bench for King’s. In a transition year, first-year Wilkes coach Chris Heery has reliedheavilyonguardsMeganKazmerski and Amanda Pawlowski, who were teammates for one season at Holy Redeemer after the merger and have now played together at Wilkes for three seasons. The two juniors have started all 24 games for the Lady Colonels. Kazmerski averages 11.8 points and 5.7 rebounds per game, while Pawlowski leads the team in assists. Rounding things out is Misericordia sophomore guard Lauren Smicherko (Pittston Area), who has been one of the first two players off the bench for the Cougars.

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VALABIK SURGERY D Boris Valabik, who hasn’t played since Dec. 27 since suffering a hand injury, will need surgery that will effectively end his season. The 6-foot-7, 255-pound defenseman signed with the Penguins last summer, but was limited by injuries. He appeared in only three games, going scoreless with a minus-4 rating and seven penalty minutes.

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Green, Appling pace Spartans 50-41. She hit a pretty 3-pointer from the top of the key a few minutes later to cross the 2,000-point milestone and give the Blue Hens a 59-48 lead. The 6-foot-5 junior scored 14 straight points to help keep Hofstra (17-8, 9-5) from getting any closer than six the rest of the way. Candice Bellocchio and Katelyn Loper scored 21 points each to lead the Pride. Loper returned after missing the last two games because of a concussion.

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EAST LANSING, Mich. — Draymond Green had 20 points and 10 rebounds, Keith Appling scored 20 points and No. 7 Michigan State beat No. 15 Wisconsin 69-55 on Thursday night to move back into a first-place tie with No. 6 Ohio State. The Spartans (21-5, 10-3 Big Ten) have won four straight — the longest active streak in the conference — and six of their last seven games. The Badgers (19-7, 8-5) had won seven of their last eight, including their previous four road games, after opening the Big Ten season with three straight losses. Appling’s three-point play with 5:24 left in the first half capped a 14-0 run that gave Michigan State a 22-12 lead. The Spartans led 31-19 at halftime and built a 53-33 lead midway through the second half. Penn St. 69, Iowa 64 STATE COLLEGE — Tim Frazier scored 18 points and Penn State withstood a 3-point shooting barrage in the second half by Iowa’s Matt Gatens to hold on for a victory. Trailing 66-63 with 49 seconds left, Iowa’s Melsahn Basabe missed two foul shots and Jon Graham was fouled at the other end for Penn State (12-15, 4-10 Big Ten). The redshirt freshman forward hit two free throws for a five-point lead, spurring a silent Jordan Center crowd into raucous cheers. Basabe missed another foul shot with 7 seconds left and Cammeron Woodyard went 1 of 2 from the line to seal the win. Gatens hit 5 of 7 from behind the 3-point arc in the second half. He scored 11 straight for Iowa (13-13, 5-8) at one point to help narrow a 16-point deficit to two with 2:40 left. Gatens finished with a game-high 21 points. Florida St. 48, Virginia Tech 47 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Michael Snaer’s 3-pointer with 2.6 seconds left boosted No. 20 Florida State to a victory over Virginia Tech, keeping the Seminoles in a first-place tie in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Snaer, who had made only 3 of his 10 previous shots, hit the game-winner from nearly the identical spot he produced similar heroics in Florida State’s 76-73 win at Duke on Jan. 21. Ian Miller led Florida State (18-7, 9-2) with 11 points and Snaer had nine to help the Seminoles rally from a 15-point deficit early in the second half. Erick Green led Virginia Tech (14-12, 3-8) with 18 points and was nearly fouled as he launched a last-second desperation shot that bounced off the rim as the buzzer sounded. WOMEN’S ROUNDUP Penn State 74, Purdue 63. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Maggie Lucas scored 28 points and No. 12 Penn State maintained its Big Ten lead by defeat-

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ing No. 17 Purdue. It was the fifth straight win for the Lady Lions (21-5, 11-3), who have two home games remaining — against No. 9 Ohio State, which trails Penn State by a half-game, and Minnesota — before the Big Ten tournament begins March 1 in Indianapolis. Lucas scored 20 of her points in the second half, when Penn State pulled away from a 35-33 halftime lead. Mia Nickson had 12 points and nine rebounds for the Lady Lions. Alex Bentley and Zhaque Gray added 10 points apiece. Guyton had 12 points to lead Purdue (19-7, 9-4), which has lost four of its last five following an 11-game winning streak. Chantel Poston had a game-high 12 rebounds for the Boilermakers. Alabama 77, Kentucky 75 TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Jasmine Robinson scored 17 points and Alabama held off a big rally for a victory over No. 7 Kentucky. The Tide (12-15, 2-11 Southeastern Conference) had most of a 23-point lead wiped out in the second half before handing the league-leading Wildcats (21-5, 10-3) their third straight defeat. Alabama hadn’t beaten a ranked team since a 70-59 win over No. 24 BYU on Dec. 21, 2002. A’dia Mathies kept this one in question with 26 points for Kentucky, including a 3-pointer with 1 second left. Mathies drained a quick 3 and Bria Goss scored on a drive to make it 74-70 with 35 seconds to go. Shafontaye Myers dribbled around for some 20 seconds against Kentucky’s full-court pressure before heaving a long pass to a streaking Meghan Perkins for the game-sealing

layup. Maryland 73, Virginia 56 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Tianna Hawkins scored a careerhigh 26 points and grabbed 14 rebounds, and No. 8 Maryland took charge early in a victory over Virginia. Hawkins missed just once in 13 shot attempts as the Terrapins (22-4, 9-4 Atlantic Coast Conference) rebounded from Sunday’s 76-74 home loss to No. 6 Miami. Maryland led by six in that game with 6 minutes remaining, but allowed the Hurricanes to come back and sweep the season series.

Green Bay 90, Cleveland State 59 CLEVELAND — Julie Wojta scored 23 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and dished out five assists as No. 11 Green Bay beat Cleveland State. Lydia Bauer had 16 points, Adrian Ritchie 14 and Megan Lukan 12 for Green Bay (22-1, 12-1 Horizon League) which shot 47 percent (31 of 66) as a team. Wojta grabbed eight offensive rebounds as the Phoenix scored 18 second-chance points and outscored Cleveland State 42-26 in the paint. Miami 73, N.C. State 61 RALEIGH, N.C. — Riquna Williams scored 17 of her 24 points in the first half to help No. 6 Miami beat North Carolina State. Shawnice Wilson added career highs with 17 points and 17 rebounds for the Hurricanes (23-3, 12-1 Atlantic Coast Conference), who remain a game back of firstplace Duke in the league race.

Georgia Tech 67, Wake Forest 52 WINSTON SALEM, N.C. — Dawnn Maye had 23 points and Tyaunna Marshall tallied a double-double to lead No. 20 Georgia Tech over Wake Forest. Sasha Goodlett chipped in 16 points, Metra Walthour 10 and Ohio St. 75, Indiana 54 Marshall had 14 points and 10 COLUMBUS, Ohio — Tayler boards in the Yellow Jackets Hill scored 27 points and No. 9 sixth win in their last seven. Ohio State never trailed in handGeorgia Tech (19-7, 9-4 Atlaning Indiana its 13th straight loss, tic Coast Conference) led by as even with the Buckeyes playing many as 11 in the second half, without Big Ten scoring leader despite making just 9 of 32 from Samantha Prahalis. the field in the first half. In the Prahalis, averaging 21. 8 points second half, the Yellow Jackets in the conference, was battling shot 55.2 percent (16 of 29), the flu. She was on the bench at including a stretch of five the outset but then went to the straight points by Maye to make locker room. it 43-27 with 15:51 to play. Amber Stokes added 14 points Georgia 61, South Carolina 59. and a career-high seven assists, with Kalpana Beach matching a COLUMBIA, S.C. — Anne career high with 13 points. Marie Armstrong sank two foul shots with 5 seconds left, lifting Delaware 89, Hofstra 79 No. 18 Georgia to a win over No. HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Elena 25 South Carolina. Delle Donne had a season-high The Lady Bulldogs (20-6, 9-4 42 points, including the 2,000th Southeastern Conference) led of her career, 14 rebounds and six 59-55 with 1:07 left, but the blocks to help No. 10 Delaware Gamecocks weren’t done yet. beat Hofstra. Both La’Keisha Sutton and Iesia Delaware (23-1, 14-0 Colonial Walker went 2 of 2 at the foul Athletic Association) used a 15-2 line, pulling South Carolina run spanning halftime to take (19-7, 8-5) even at 59-all with 12 control of the game. Delle seconds left. Georgia got the ball Donne, who leads the nation in back and South Carolina’s Sanscoring at 28 points a game, had cheon White committed the foul, nine points during the burst — sending Armstrong to the charincluding a tough bank shot that ity stripe for what would be the capped the spree and made it game-winning foul shots.

Tournament streaming will come with a price By RACHEL COHEN AP Sports Writer

NEW YORK — Some fans will no longer be able to watch every NCAA men’s basketball tournament game online for free. The model for streaming March Madness will change this year, Turner, CBS and the NCAA announced Thursday. Games aired on CBS will still be free through the network’s website. Most, but not all, viewers who get TBS, TNT and truTV on their cable or satellite systems will be able to watch games aired on those channels online at no cost. Fans can also pay $3.99 to see every game on multiple platforms — online, mobile and tablet. About 77 million households will be able to watch the Turner channels for free online through a process called authentication. That’s out of the 100 million that

get TBS and TNT, which are available in around 87 percent of American homes with televisions. The way fans watch March Madness on TV changed drastically last season with the start of CBS and Turner’s 14-year, $10.8 billion deal with the NCAA. Instead of CBS showing regional coverage and switching among games, each contest aired nationally in its entirety on one of the four networks. The shift was a hit: Viewership was up 14 percent for the tournament’s opening weekend. As for the previous five years, fans could also see every game for free online. They watched 13.7 million hours of streaming video online and through mobile devices, a 17 percent increase from 2010. Turner Sports senior vice president Matthew Hong said the company considered using au-

thentication last year but wanted to wait until people adjusted to the new TV setup. Another factor was that the system was available to far fewer subscribers a year ago; he hopes that by 2013, all customers who get the Turner networks through their providers will be able to authenticate. The “TV Everywhere” model has become popular with many networks as a way to allow viewers to watch programs on multiple devices while encouraging them to stick with cable and satellite providers. But authentication — proving you subscribe to a provider that offers the service — does require an extra step from past years for fans trying to access NCAA tournament games. Turner is working to make the process easier, such as linking it to customers’ Facebook logins. Some fans with the ability to authenticate may just decide it’s

easier to pay the $3.99, Hong acknowledged. “Obviously, a lot of thought and market research went into that price point,” he said. “We wanted to make it a fair price and for people to get value at that price. Obviously, we didn’t want to make it too high, but we didn’t want to make it too low; we want to incent authentication.” March Madness on Demand was launched by CBS and the NCAA in 2003 and required a subscription, with an average price of $15, for the first three years. In 2006, it converted to a free, ad-supported service. The new product will be known as March Madness Live and still include ads. There was initially a charge for watching games on an iPhone, which became free for just last year. The app will be available on Android phones for the first time during this season’s tournament.

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Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Erik Gustafsson reacts after his goal in the second period of an NHL game against the Buffalo Sabres Thursday in Philadelphia.

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PHILADELPHIA — Wayne Simmonds scored two goals after he was hit in the face in warmups and Max Talbot also scored twice , leading the Philadelphia Flyers to a 7-2 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Thursday night. Erik Gustafsson scored his first career NHL goal as part of a four-goal second period for the Flyers. That surge bailed out goalie Ilya Bryzgalov, who allowed two goals in the first. Jakub Voracek and Scott Hartnell added goals in the third for the Flyers to turn this one into a rout. Claude Giroux had five assists. Simmonds was hit in warmups and joined the bench minutes into the first period. He wore a full face shield for protection. Simmonds, who already has a career high in goals, scored consecutive goals in the second for a 3-2 lead. Sabres goalie Jhonas Enroth was yanked after allowing three straight goals. Ryan Miller allowed one to Gustafsson, giving the Flyers four goals on their first 10 shots of the period. Blackhawks 4, Rangers 2 NEW YORK — Jonathan Toews scored on a penalty shot to start Chicago’s four-goal first period against New York backup Martin Biron, and the Blackhawks emphatically snapped a nine-game losing streak with a victory over the Eastern Conference-leading Rangers. Toews kicked off the spree just over a minute in, defenseman Nick Leddy doubled the lead 1:03 later, and Patrick Sharp and Marian Hossa added goals to make it 4-0 before 10 minutes had elapsed. Corey Crawford kept things mostly intact the rest of the way, stopping 22 shots to help the Blackhawks earn their first win since they topped Florida on Jan. 20. Toews and Hossa both added assists in the first period, and defenseman Brent Seabrook set up two goals for the Blackhawks, who scored over three goals in a game only once during their losing streak (08-1). Chicago, which had 22 shots, was 0-6-1 during the first seven games of a nine-game trip that ends Saturday at Columbus. Marc Staal and Carl Hagelin scored for New York. Lightning 6, Sharks 5 TAMPA, Fla. — Martin St.

Louis scored his second goal of the game 4:27 into overtime, Steven Stamkos had two goals and two assists in his 300th NHL game, and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the San Jose Sharks. St. Louis got the winner from close range off a pass from Victor Hedman. Stamkos has 158 goals and 298 points overall. Teddy Purcell and Steve Downie had the other Tampa Bay goals. The Pacific Division-leading Sharks got goals from Logan Couture, Michal Handzus, Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Colin White and Tommy Wingels, who got San Jose even at 5 during a 2-on-1 with 5:10 remaining in the third. Stamkos made it 4-4 on his league-leading 39th goal from the slot 2:44 into the third. St. Louis gave the Lightning a 5-4 lead when his shot from along the goal-line went off a San Jose defender and past goalie Antti Niemi.

Blues 5, Islanders 1 ST. LOUIS — Andy McDonald scored his first goal of the season, and T.J. Oshie had goal and an assist in the St. Louis Blues’ victory over the New York Islanders. Kevin Shattenkirk, Jason Arnott and David Perron also scored, and Alex Pietrangelo had three assists to help the Blues move within three points of NHL-leading Detroit with 77 points. Brian Elliott made 26 saves, allowing only Frans Nielsen’s goal. Jets 4, Wild 3 ST. PAUL, Minn. — Evander Kane had two goals in regulation and the winner in the fourth round of a shootout, lifting the Winnipeg Jets to a victory over the Minnesota Wild. Wild goalie Niklas Backstrom stopped two of the first three shots he saw in the shootout, but he fell to 3-5 this season and 15-29 in his career in those situations. The Wild ended their streak of four regulation losses in a row, but they fell to 5-17-5 in their last 27 games. Kane has four goals in five games for the Jets since returning from injury and 21 for the season. He upstaged Devin Setoguchi, who had his first two-goal game for the Wild, who scored on their first shot of each period.

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Chicago Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford (50) stops a shot on goal by the New York Rangers’ Marian Gaborik during the first period of an NHL game Thursday in New York.

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immediately recognizable. “His nickname ‘The Kid’ captured how Gary approached life,” the Mets said in a statement. “He did everything with enthusiasm and with gusto on and off the field. His smile was infectious. ... He was a Hall of Famer in everything he did.” Carter played nearly two decades with the Mets, Montreal, San Francisco and the Los Angeles Dodgers. He led the Expos to their only playoff berth and was the first player enshrined in Cooperstown wearing an Expos cap. “Gary was one of the happiest guys in the world every day,” Mets teammate Mookie Wilson once said. Carter was known as much for his effervescent personality as his talents. He earned his nickname as an eager teen in his first major league camp and the label stuck for the rest of his career, and beyond. “An exuberant on-field general with a signature smile who was known for clutch hitting and rock-solid defense over 19 seasons,” reads his Hall plaque. He was especially pumped during the biggest moment of his career. The powerful Mets were down to their last chance in the ‘86 Series when Carter stepped up with two outs. No one was on base and New York was trailing Boston 5-3 in the bottom of the 10th inning in Game 6. Carter said he had just one thought in mind: “I wasn’t going to make the last out of the World Series.” True to his word, he delivered a clean single to left field off Red Sox reliever Calvin Schiraldi. Kevin Mitchell followed with a single and when Ray Knight also singled, Carter scampered home from second base. As Carter crossed the plate, he clapped his hands, pointed at Wilson on deck and clapped again. Moments later, Bill Buckner’s error scored Knight for an amazing 6-5 win. Carter rushed from the dugout to join the celebration at home plate, catcher’s gear already on.

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Multi-year agreements take some players out of the bartering process for raises. By RONALD BLUM AP Sports Writer

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Montreal Expos catcher Gary Carter is mobbed by admiring fans at camera day prior to a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Montreal in 1983. Carter died on Thursday.

Overshadowed by the rally was the fact that Carter had tied the game with a sacrifice fly in the eighth. Then in Game 7, Carter drove in the tying run in the sixth inning, and the Mets went on to win their most recent championship. Carter homered twice over the Green Monster at Fenway Park in Game 4 and totaled nine RBIs in that Series. Since then, only two players have gotten more in a World Series (Mike Napoli for Texas in 2011 and Sandy Alomar Jr. for Cleveland in 1997 each had 10). Overall, Carter hit .262 with 324 home runs and 1,225 RBIs with the Expos, Mets, San Francisco and the Los Angeles Dodgers. He set the major league record for putouts by a catcher, a testament to his durability despite nine knee operations. “Driven by a remarkable enthusiasm for the game, Gary Carter became one of the elite catchers of all-time,” Commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement. “Like all baseball fans, I will always remember his leadership for the ‘86 Mets and his pivotal role in one of the greatest World Series ever played.” Carter twice was the MVP of the All-Star game. He won the award in 1981 by homering twice

in baseball’s first game after a players’ strike that lasted two months. He remains the lone player to have a two-homer performance in an All-Star game and a World Series game. He set the NL record for games caught, but spent his first full season in the majors primarily as Montreal’s right fielder. His first All-Star appearance came that year, in 1975, as a defensive replacement in left field for Pete Rose. Carter was recognized, too, for his contributions off the field when he was honored with the Roberto Clemente Award. He hit his first major league homer in September 1974 off future Hall of Famer Steve Carlton as a 20-year-old rookie — Carter homered 11 times against the ace lefty, his top victim. Carter spent his first 11 years with the Expos and was part of a solid core that put them into the 1981 playoffs. They beat the defending champion Philadelphia Phillies in a new first round created after the strike split the season into two halves, but lost to the Dodgers in the NL championship series. A perennial fan favorite, Carter returned to Montreal in 1992 for one final season. His last swing was a memorable one — he hit an

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RBI double in the seventh inning at Olympic Stadium, left for a pinch-runner to a huge ovation from the home crowd and walked away after that 1-0 win over the Cubs. Carter was elected to the Hall in 2003 on his sixth try. He had joked that he wanted his Cooperstown cap to be a half-and-halfer, split between the Expos and Mets. The Hall makes the ultimate call on the logo. Carter pleased Canadian fans by delivering part of his induction speech in French. Born and raised in California, he took a Berlitz course to help him learn the language after the Expos drafted him. The Expos traded him to the Mets after the 1984 season for Hubie Brooks, Mike Fitzgerald, Herm Winningham and Floyd Youmans. Carter turned out to be one of the last missing pieces on a New York team that already had the likes of Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden and Keith Hernandez. Carter stayed in baseball after his playing days ended. He became a broadcaster for the Florida Marlins, coached and managed for the Mets in the minors, managed two independent minor league teams and coached in college.

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NEW YORK -- CSX Corp.’s projected 40 percent gain this year in deliveries of fracking sand used for natural gas drilling may blunt a decline in coal shipments, the biggest commodity business for North American railroads. Sand shipments matching the forecast would be the second annual gain of that magnitude for CSX, which is hauling fewer coal carloads as some utilities switch fuel sources to take advantage of

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a 60 percent slide in natural gas prices since early 2010. Sand is used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the technology now unlocking previously unavailable gas supplies in shale deposits such as the Marcellus formation in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Moving sand, pipe and other drilling equipment gives carriers such as CSX, the largest U.S. eastern railroad, new cargo as coal customers scale back. Shale gas is “contributing mightily to all these stories about the end of the age of

coal,” said Tony Hatch, an independent railroad analyst in New York. “The very same things that are affecting this change in coal are helping grow other things.” Moving fracking sand into the Marcellus shale region, which stretches from New York to Tennessee, is “a great growth opportunity for us,” CSX Chief Executive Officer Michael Ward said in an interview last month. His company’s fracking-sand carloads grew over 40 percent to more than 12,000 in 2011.

Housing starts show modest rise By DEREK KRAVITZ AP Real Estate Writer

WASHINGTON — Construction of single-family homes cooled slightly in January after surging in the final month last year. But a rise in permits suggests builders are growing more confident that more buyers are ready to come off the sidelines. The Commerce Department said Thursday that construction work began on 508,000 single-family homes last month. That’s a 1 percent drop from December and the first decline in four months. A big rise in volatile apartment construction helped offset the decline in single-family homes. Still, December figures were revised up strongly to show builders started 513,000 single-family homes — a 12 percent gain from November. And building permits, a gauge of future construction, rose 0.7 percent. The majority of those permits were for single-family homes. It can take 12 months for a builder to obtain a permit and construct a single-family home. Single-family home construction rose in each of the final three months of last year, bringing the pace of those starts to the highest level since April 2010. The modest but steady gains helped boost confidence among builders after the worst year for single-family home construction on record. Many builders are seeing more people express interest in buying a home, leading them to believe 2012 could be a turn-around year for the market. Mortgage rates have never been cheaper. And home sales started to rise at the end of last year.

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Sears laid off 100 workers at its headquarters outside of Chicago on Thursday, two months after the company got a hefty tax credit for dropping a threat to move its headquarters out of state. Sears Holding Corp. spokesman Chris Brathwaite said the job cuts do not violate the terms of a $150 million tax credit for Sears approved by the Illinois legislature in December after the company threatened to move its headquarters out of Illinois.

China growth to slow

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China may set its lowest annual growth target in eight years as authorities place less emphasis on the pace of expansion and the global economy remains weak, the chief economist at the government-run State Information Center said Thursday. Premier Wen Jiabao may announce a 7 percent or 7.5 percent target for economic growth this year. The last time China set a growth target below 8 percent was in 2004.

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engineering. Late Wednesday, GM said it would freeze its U.S. pension plan for longtime white-collar workers and give all salaried employees annual bonuses but not pay raises. That’s good news for the U.S. government, which still owns 26.5 percent of the company and needs the stock price to rise significantly before it can recoup all the bailout money. Still, problems emerged for GM late last year. Its fourth-quarter profit fell 8 percent and missed Wall Street expectations.

tion in 2009 to cut its bloated costs. The company earned a huge profit even though U.S. car and truck sales were near a historic low of 12.8 million. In 2012, GM expects to increase its revenue as global sales grow and it charges more for models. Its ongoing effort to cut costs and take advantage of its global presence are also paying off. In the fourth quarter, costs fell by $500 million. It saved $100 million by cutting some of the dozens of advertising agencies and media managers it uses. It also saved $100 million by centralizing

Name

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10-YR T-NOTE 1.98%

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Name

Last Chg %YTD

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Name

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Last Chg %YTD

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CMYK PAGE 10B

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012

THE TIMES LEADER

www.timesleader.com

NATIONAL FORECAST Partly sunny

37° 21°

WEDNESDAY Sun, a shower

43° 22°

Syracuse 40/29

Wilkes-Barre 45/28 New York City 52/30 Reading 48/28

Yesterday Average Record High Record Low

Heating Degree Days*

Yesterday Month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date

37/29 37/21 74 in 1954 -5 in 1963 32 513 3487 4291 4172

*Index of fuel consumption, how far the day’s mean temperature was below 65 degrees.

Yesterday Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date

Sun and Moon

Sunrise 6:56a 6:55a Moonrise Today 3:48a Tomorrow 4:34a

Today Tomorrow

The Finger Lakes

Highs: 35-42. Lows: 26-30. Skies will be sunny to partly cloudy today and partly cloudy overnight.

Brandywine Valley

Highs: 49-53. Lows: 27-33. Look for abundant sunshine today and mostly clear skies tonight. Atlantic City 55/32

Precipitation

39/17

Delmarva/Ocean City

Highs: 53-56. Lows: 31-38. Clouds will decrease today, then expect clear skies tonight.

0.11” 0.31” 1.20” 2.21” 3.57” Sunset 5:39p 5:41p Moonset 1:28p 2:34p

Susquehanna Stage Wilkes-Barre 3.18 Towanda 2.08 Lehigh Bethlehem NA Delaware Port Jervis 3.27 New

Feb. 21

First

Chg. Fld. Stg -0.10 22.0 NA 21.0 NA

16.0

18.0

Full

Last

Weather Central, LP For more weather information go to:

www.timesleader.com National Weather Service

607-729-1597

53/28 65/48 56/46

58/39

68/54 33/21

81/71

82/69 38/27

City

Yesterday

Anchorage Atlanta Baltimore Boston Buffalo Charlotte Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Las Vegas Los Angeles Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis

27/23/.00 61/51/.20 45/35/.12 44/35/.00 43/29/.05 53/44/.08 46/35/.02 46/40/.07 55/42/.00 36/17/.00 43/35/.14 80/71/.00 69/55/.00 46/42/.11 59/44/.00 70/41/.00 80/67/.00 45/36/.00 40/24/.00

City

Yesterday

Amsterdam Baghdad Beijing Berlin Buenos Aires Dublin Frankfurt Hong Kong Jerusalem London

45/39/.00 68/48/.00 37/18/.00 39/30/.00 90/72/.00 50/45/.00 45/36/.00 66/59/.00 57/46/.14 52/37/.00

Today Tomorrow 33/21/c 65/48/pc 54/37/s 49/31/sh 35/30/pc 65/41/pc 50/33/pc 40/33/pc 56/46/c 39/17/pc 40/29/pc 82/69/s 68/54/t 48/34/s 64/46/s 69/50/s 81/71/pc 42/29/c 38/19/c

31/22/sn 58/39/sh 54/34/pc 45/29/pc 38/26/rs 54/41/sh 39/27/pc 41/28/rs 54/37/sh 44/23/s 38/25/sn 81/69/s 64/42/t 45/26/pc 64/47/pc 61/50/pc 83/75/pc 35/24/pc 33/18/s

ALMANAC Recorded at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Int’l Airport River Levels, from 12 p.m. yesterday.

52/30 55/34

69/50

The Jersey Shore

Philadelphia 53/33

Temperatures

60/50

Highs: 43-47. Lows: 24-28. Becoming mostly sunny and breezy today. Skies will be mainly clear overnight.

Poughkeepsie 49/25

40/29

38/19

50/33

45° 30°

Highs: 50-55. Lows: 32-35. Look for decreasing clouds and breezy conditions today. Mostly clear overnight.

Pottsville 44/28

Harrisburg 46/31

43/25

The Poconos

Albany 43/26

Towanda 43/26

State College 41/26

51/42

TODAY’S SUMMARY

Binghamton 41/26

Scranton 44/28

THURSDAY Rain and snow

45° 30°

REGIONAL FORECAST Today’s high/ Tonight’s low

38° 32°

43° 28°

TUESDAY Partly sunny

MONDAY Sunny

SUNDAY Cloudy, some sun

SATURDAY Sun, snow shower later

Feb. 29 March 8 March 14

City

Yesterday

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WORLD CITIES

Today Tomorrow 46/39/c 65/43/pc 30/17/s 37/34/rs 91/79/t 53/34/sh 38/36/rs 68/58/pc 53/42/sh 55/35/c

47/32/sh 61/41/sh 35/23/s 39/27/sh 88/70/t 45/31/sh 42/30/sh 65/56/pc 44/36/rs 53/33/sh

City

Yesterday

Mexico City Montreal Moscow Paris Rio de Janeiro Riyadh Rome San Juan Tokyo Warsaw

72/52/.00 39/34/.00 19/3/.00 46/43/.00 90/70/.00 88/61/.00 55/34/.00 82/72/.05 41/36/.00 23/5/.00

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ESTATE NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that Letters Testamentary have been issued by the Register of Wills Office in and for Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, on October 26, 2011, in the Estate of Florence G. Delmonico, de-ceased, late of Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, who died on March 14, 2009. All those having claims or who are indebted to said Estate are to make the same known to Michele Delmonico, c/o Thomas M. Marsilio, Esquire, to the address below. Thomas M. Marsilio, Esquire MARSILIO LAW OFFICES 15 Darling Street Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702-2510 (570) 824-9949

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SUZUKI ‘06 SWIFT RENO 4 cylinder. Automatic. 4 door. $4,800 (570) 709-5677 (570) 819-3140

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ACURA `06 TL 4 Door 3.2 VTEC 6

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ACURA 06 TSX Leather. Moonroof. $9,880

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A6 station wagon. 143k miles. 3rd row seating. $2,800 or best offer. Call 570-861-0202

BUICK ‘01 PARK AVE

66k original miles, rebuilt tranny in 12/11, great condition. Green with gray interior. fully loaded. $6200 OBO 570-824-9614

CADILLAC ‘06 STS

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CHEVROLET ‘06 CORVETTE CONVERTIBLE

Silver beauty, 1 Owner, Museum quality. 5,900 miles, 6 speed. All possible options including Navigation, Power top. New, paid $62,000 Must sell REDUCED! $39,500 FIRM 570-299-9370

CHEVY `97 ASTROVAN

Beautiful, 4 door. Power steering & brakes. 8 cylinder. Excellent condition. $3,000. Negotiable. 570-762-3504

GEO `93 PRIZM 91,000 miles. Looks & runs like new. $2,300 or best offer, please call 570-702-6023

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CHEVY 08 IMPALA LTZ

Metallic gray, sunroof, leather, Bose Satellite with CD radio, heated seats, traction control, fully loaded. Remote Start. 50k miles. $16,995 or trade. (570) 639-5329

CHEVY ‘09 IMPALA LTZ, Grey, leather,

heated seats, sunroof. Bluetooth, AM/FM, CD, Bose speakers. 35,000 miles. 18 mo. warranty remaining. $17,000 OBO After 4pm call 570-430-3041

CHEVY ‘95 ASTRO

MARK III CONVERSION VAN. Hightop. 93K. 7 passenger. TV/VCP/Stereo. Loaded. Great condition. $3,495 (570) 574-2199

CHEVY`10 CAMARO

SS2. Fully load, V8, jewel red with white stripes on hood & trunk, list price is $34,500, Selling for $29,900. Call 570-406-1974

CHRYSLER `06 300 4 door sedan in per-

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CHRYSLER ‘04 SEBRING CONVERTIBLE

Silver, 2nd owner clean title. Very clean inside & outside. Auto, Power mirrors, windows. CD player, cruise, central console heated power mirrors. 69,000 miles. $5500. 570-991-5558

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‘11 HYUNDAI ELANTRA 3950 miles. Factory Warranty. New Condition. $17,599 ‘10 Dodge Nitro SE 21k alloys, cruise, tint, factory warranty $18,799 ‘10 DODGE CARAVAN SXT 32K. SilverBlack. Power slides. Factory warranty. $16,699 ‘09 J EEP L IBERY LIMITED Power sunroof. Only 18K. Factory Warranty. $19,399 ‘09 DODGE CALIBER SXT 2.0 Automatic, 24k Factory Warranty! $11,599 ‘08 CHEVY IMPALA LS Only 18K! One Owner - Estate Sale. Factory Warranty. $11,999 ‘08 SUBARU Special Edition 42K. 5 speed. AWD. Factory warranty. $12,699 ‘08 CHEVY IMPALA LS 4 door, only 37K! 5 Yr. 100K factory warranty $11,199 ‘05 HONDA CRV EX One owner. Just traded. 65K. $12,799 ‘06 FORD FREESTAR Rear air, 62k $8099 ‘01 LINCOLN TOWN CAR Executive 74K $5,599 TITLE TAGS FULL NOTARY SERVICE 6 M ONTH WARRANTY

DODGE `90 CARAVAN Blue. 181k miles. 3rd

row seating. All power accessories. Lots of new parts. $800 or best offer.

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DODGE ‘08 AVENGER

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560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

HONDA `07 ACCORD

V6 EXL. 77K miles. 1 owner with maintenance records. Slate blue with leather interior. Sunroof. Asking $12,500. Call 570-239-2556

HONDA ‘04

Civic LX Sedan PRICE REDUCTION

Fully loaded, gas stingy 4 cylinder, 1.7 liter engine, well maintained, very good condition, driven less than 10.1 k miles per year. $7995 570-855-0095

HONDA 08 ACCORD 15K miles. Auto.

Excellent condition! $15,999 WARRANTY MAFFEI AUTO SALES 570-288-6227

VOLKSWAGEN ‘00 BEETLE 2.0 automatic, air 67k miles $6400. 570-466-0999

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MERCURY 2008 GRAND MARQUIS LS 23,000 original

288-8995

miles, all power, leather interior. NADA book value $17,975. Priced for quick sale to settle estate. $15,950, or best offer. Car is in mint condition. 570-735-4760 570-954-1257

1518 8th Street Carverton, PA Near Francis Slocum St. Park

Grey, Mint condition. 35K miles. New, allseason tires. Sirius radio. 2 sets of mats, including cargo mats. $18,400. Call 570-822-3494 or 570-498-0977

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HYUNDAI ‘00 ACCENT 4 cylinder. 5 speed. Sharp economy car! $2,995 Call For Details! 570-696-4377

HYUNDAI 04 ELANTRA

Only 52K miles, cruise, power windows & locks. $8,880

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HYUNDAI ‘06 ELANTRA Tan, 4 door,

clean title, 4 cylinder, auto, 115k miles. Power windows, & keyless entry, CD player, cruise, central console heated power mirrors. $4200 570-991-5558

JAGUAR `00 S TYPE 4 door sedan. Like

new condition. Brilliant blue exterior with beige hides. Car is fully equipped with navigation system, V-8, automatic, climate control AC, alarm system, AM/FM 6 disc CD, garage door opener. 42,000 original miles. $9,000 Call (570) 288-6009

LEXUS `01 ES 300 80,000 miles,

excellent condition, all options. Recently serviced. New tires. $9,300. 570-388-6669

LINCOLN ‘05 TOWN CAR 39K miles. Looks & runs perfect! $13,500 WARRANTY MAFFEI AUTO SALES 570-288-6227

NISSAN `08 XTERRA

Town Car Limited

MAZDA ‘02 626LX

Sedan, auto, power windows & locks, CD, 4 cylinder. 122,000 miles. Good on gas. $3,000. 570-472-2634

brand new condition. Relocating. Must Sell! 1,700 miles. $22,000 570-406-0976

OLDSMOBILE `97 CUTLASS SUPREME Museum kept, never

driven, last Cutlass off the GM line. Crimson red with black leather interior. Every available option including sunroof. Perfect condition. 300 original miles. $21,900 or best offer. Call 570-650-0278

Motorcycle for sale? Let them see it here in the Classifieds! 570-829-7130

PONTIAC `04 VIBE

White. New manual transmission & clutch. Front wheel drive. 165k highway miles. Great on gas. Good condition, runs well. $3,000 or best offer 570-331-4777

PONTIAC 08 VIBE

Low miles. AWD. $12,750

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

PORSCHE `85 944

Low mileage, 110,000 miles, 5 speed, 2 door, antilock brakes, air conditioning, power windows, power mirrors, AM/FM radio, CD changer, leather interior, rear defroster, tinted windows, custom wheels, $8,000. (570) 817-1803

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FORD ‘76 THUNDERBIRD

All original $12,000

MERCEDES ‘76 450 SL $24,000

MERCEDES ‘29

Kit Car $9,000 (570) 655-4884 hell-of-adeal.com

CHEVY ’77 CORVETTE Red & red, all

original. No hits, restoration. Rides and looks new. Exceptionally clean. A/c, pb, ps, pw, 51K $14,900 OBO 570-563-5056

CHEVY`75 CAMARO

350 V8. Original owner. Automatic transmission. Rare tuxedo silver / black vinyl top with black naugahyde interior. Never damaged. $6,000. Call 570-489-6937

FORD `52 COUNTRY SEDAN CUSTOM LINE

STATION WAGON V8, automatic, 8 passenger, 3rd seat, good condition, 2nd owner. REDUCED TO $6,500. 570-579-3517 570-455-6589

To place your ad Call Toll Free 1-800-427-8649 Good interior & exterior. Runs great! New tires. Many new parts. Moving, Must Sell. $1,300 or best offer 570-362-3626 Ask for Lee

MERCEDES-BENZ `73 450SL with Convertible

removable hard top, power windows, AM /FM radio with cassette player, CD player, automatic, 4 new tires. Champagne exterior; Italian red leather interior inside. Garage kept, excellent condition. $28,000. Call 825-6272

Auto. 4 Cylinder. $12,880

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FORD `90 TRUCK

17’ box. Excellent running condition. Very Clean. $4,300. Call 570-287-1246

350 V8, Auto. 75,000 miles on current engine. 12' wood bed, body, tires, interior good. Excellent running condition. New generator, starter, battery. Just tuned and inspected. $6,900. Call 570-656-1080

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DAELIM 2006

150 CCs. 4,700 miles. 70 MPG. New battery & tires. $1,500; negotiable. Call 570-288-1246 or 570-328-6897

HARLEY 2011 HERITAGE SOFTTAIL Black. 1,800 miles.

ABS brakes. Security System Package. $16,000 firm. SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY 570-704-6023

HARLEY DAVIDSON `03 NIGHTTRAIN New rear tire. Very good condition. 23K miles. $8,500. Call 570-510-1429

HARLEY DAVIDSON ‘01 Electra Glide, Ultra Classic, many chrome accessories, 13k miles, Metallic Emerald Green. Garage kept, like new condition. Includes Harley cover. $12,900 570-718-6769 570-709-4937

HARLEY DAVIDSON ‘03 Dyna Wide Glide

Excellent condition garage kept! Golden Anniversary - silver/black. New Tires. Extras. 19,000 miles. Must Sell! $10,000. 570-639-2539

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HARLEY DAVIDSON

‘08 FLHTCU. Ultra classic, mint condition. white & black pearls. 6,500 miles. Reduced to $17,500 Call Bill 570-262-7627

HONDA ‘84 XL200R

8,000 original miles, excellent condition. $1,000. 570-379-3713

MOTO GUZZI `03

1,100 cc. 1,900 miles. Full dress. Shaft driven. Garage kept. Excellent condition. $6000. Health Problems. Call 570-654-7863

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TOYOTA ‘09 COROLLA S

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

6 cylinder automatic. 52k original miles. Florida car. $1500. 570-899-1896

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Newly inspected, good condition. Dealer price $7500. Asking $5500. 570-574-6880

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new. Sun roof, CD loader, all power. 98,000 miles, $2,950. OBO 570-702-6023

$49,000

NISSAN `12 ROGUE SV Pearl white,

MERCURY `79 ZEPHYR

VOLVO `95 940 ‘98 SIERRA 3500 STATION WAGON GMC 4WD Stake Side, Looks and runs like

CHEVY ‘30 HOTROD COUPE

LINCOLN 06

Fully loaded. 50,000 miles, Triple coated Pearlized White. Showroom condition. $14,900. (570) 814-4926 (570) 654-2596

speed. Air, power windows/locks, CD/cassette, Keyless entry, sunroof, new battery. Car drives and has current PA inspection. Slight rust on corner of passenger door. Clutch slips on hard acceleration. This is why its thousands less than Blue Book value. $6,500 OBO. Make an offer! Call 570-592-1629

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FORD FIESTA NEW

Automatic, Air, Pwr. Mirrors, Tilt Wheel, Pwr. Door Locks, CD, Remote Keyless Entry, Advance Trac with Electronic Stability Control, Side Curtains

FORD FIESTA SE

Auto., Air, CD, Pwr. Mirrors, Advanced Trac with Electronic Stability Control, Cruise, PDL, Side Curtains, Keyless Entry w/Keypad, 15” Alum. Wheels, Tilt Wheel

24 Mos.

FORD REBATE................500 OFF LEASE REBATE........500 FORD REGIONAL DISCOUNT OFF MSRP......70 COCCIA DISCOUNT OFF MSRP......76

FORD REBATE................500 OFF LEASE REBATE........500

*Tax and tags extra. Security deposit waived. All factory rebates applied **Lease payments based on 24 month lease 21,000 allowable miles. First months payment, $595 Bank Fee, and $2,500 down payment (cash or trade) due at delivery. Sale ends 2/29/12.

ALL NEW FORD FOCUS SE

ALL NEW FORD FOCUS

Remote Keyless Entry, Pwr. Door Locks, Anti-Theft Sys., Side Curtain Air Bags, Side Impact Air Bags, CD, Air, Message Center, MyKey

Auto., CD, Anti-Theft Sys., Side Curtain Air Bags, PL, PW, 16” Steel Wheels, Tilt Wheel, Instrument Cluster, Message Center, Keyless Entry, AC, Pwr. Side Mirrors, Fog Lamps, MyKey

FORD REBATE..................500 FORD BONUS REBATE.......500 FMCC REBATE.................500 OFF LEASE REBATE...........500 COCCIA DISCOUNT OFF MSRP.....891

Auto., CD, Alum. Wheels, Tilt Wheel, PW, PL, Safety Pkg., 1st & 2nd Air Curtains, Anti-Theft Sys., Sirius Satellite Radio, Side Impact Air Bags, Keyless Entry, Message Center, Pwr. Seat,

FORD REBATE.............1,500 FORD BONUS REBATE.......500 FMCC REBATE................500 OFF LEASE REBATE.....1,250 FORD REGIONAL DISCOUNT OFF MSRP.....445 COCCIA DISCOUNT OFF MSRP.......871

FORD REBATE.............1,000 FORD BONUS REBATE.....500 FMCC REBATE..............500 OFF LEASE REBATE........500 COCCIA DISCOUNT OFF MSRP. . .486

Auto., CD, Alum. Wheels, Tilt, PW, PL, Pwr. Seat, Safety Pkg., Side Impact Air Bags, 1st & 2nd Air Curtains, Anti-Theft Sys., Sirius Satellite Radio, Keyless Entry w/Keypad, Message Center,

FORD REBATE..............1,500 FORD BONUS REBATE.......500 FMCC REBATE................500 OFF LEASE REBATE.....1,250 FORD REGIONAL DISCOUNT OFF MSRP...1,445 COCCIA DISCOUNT OFF MSRP. . . .1,186

24 Mos. *Tax and tags extra. Security deposit waived. All factory rebates applied **Lease payments based on 24 month lease 21,000 allowable miles. First months payment, $595 Bank Fee, and $2,500 down payment (cash or trade) due at delivery. Sale ends 2/29/12.

XLT, Safety Canopy, Side Impact Safety Pkg., Pwr. Driver’s Seat, Auto., PW, PDL, CD, Air, Fog Lamps, Privacy Glass, Roof Rack, 16” Alum. Wheels, Sirius Satellite Radio, Keyless Entry, Rear Cargo Convenience Pkg.,

FORD REBATE.............2,000 FORD BONUS REBATE.......500 OFF LEASE REBATE.....1,250 FORD REGIONAL DISCOUNT OFF MSRP......195 COCCIA DISCOUNT OFF MSRP. . .786

*Tax and tags extra. Security Deposit waived. All factory rebates applied **Lease payments based on 24 month lease 21,000 allowable miles. First months payment, $595 Bank Fee, and $2,500 down payment (cash or trade) due at delivery. See salesperson for details. All payments subject to credit approval by the primary lending source, Tier 0 rate. Special APR financing cannot be combined with Ford cash rebate. “BUY FOR” prices are based on 72 month at $18.30 per month per $1000 financed with $2,500 down (cash or trade). Photos of vehicles are for illustration purposes only. Coccia Ford is not responsible for any typographical errors. No Security Deposit Necessary. See dealer for details. Sale ends

CALL NOW 823-8888 1-800-817-FORD Overlooking Mohegan Sun 577 East Main St., Plains

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Motorcycles

451

Trucks/ SUVs/Vans

CHEVY ‘99utility, BLAZER4 HSoft ARLEY DAVIDSON ‘80 Sport riding FLH. King of the Highway! Mint original antique show winner. Factory spot lights, wide white tires, biggest Harley built. Only 28,000 original miles! Never needs inspection, permanent registration. $7,995 OBO 570-905-9348

POLARIS ‘00 VICTORY CRUISER 14,000 miles,

92 V-twin, 1507 cc, extras $6000. 570-883-9047

YAMAHA ‘97 ROYALSTAR 1300

12,000 miles. With windshield. Runs excellent. Many extras including gunfighter seat, leather bags, extra pipes. New tires & battery. Asking $4,000 firm. (570) 814-1548

442 RVs & Campers

FLAGSTAFF `08 CLASSIC NOW BACK IN PA.

Super Lite Fifth Wheel. LCD/DVD flat screen TV, fireplace, heated mattress, ceiling fan, Hide-a-Bed sofa, outside speakers & grill, 2 sliders, aluminum wheels, , awning, microwave oven, tinted safety glass windows, fridge & many accessories & options. Excellent condition, $22,500. 570-868-6986

FOREST RIVER ‘10 SURVEYOR 234T 24’ Travel trailer.

Sleeps 7, two queen beds, tinted windows, 17’ awning, fridge, microwave, oven/range, sofa bed, water heater. A/C, one slide out, smoke free, only $14,995. 570-868-6426

SUNLINE SOLARIS `91 25’ travel trailer A/C.

Bunk beds. New fridge & hot water heater. Excellent condition. $3,900. 570-466-4995

451

Trucks/ SUVs/Vans

door, four wheel drive, ABS, new inspection. $4200. 570-709-1467

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CHEVY `99 SILVERADO

Auto. V6 Vortec. Standard cab. 8’ bed with liner. Dark Blue. 98,400 miles. $4,999 or best offer 570-823-8196

1518 8th Street Carverton, PA Near Francis Slocum St. Park

CHEVY ‘03 SILVERADO

1518 8th Street Carverton, PA Near Francis Slocum St. Park

CHEVY 99 SILVERADO 4X4 Auto. V8. Bargain

price! $3,995 Call For Details! 570-696-4377

CHRYSLER `02 TOWN & COUNTRY

Luxury people mover! 87,300 well maintained miles. This like-new van has third row seating, power side & rear doors. Economical V6 drivetrain and all available options. Priced for quick sale $6,295. Generous trade-in allowances will be given on this top-of-the-line vehicle. Call Fran 570-466-2771 Scranton

1518 8th Street Carverton, PA Near Francis Slocum St. Park

CHRYSLER ‘02 TOWN & COUNTRY V6. Like new!

$4,995 Call For Details! 570-696-4377

DODGE 07 CALIBER

R/T. AWD. Alloys. $14,880

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

59,000 miles, 4 door, 3 row seats, V6, all power options, moon roof, video screen $12,999. 570-690-3995 or 570-287-0031

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1518 8th Street Carverton, PA Near Francis Slocum St. Park

FORD ‘02 F150 Extra Cab. 6

Cylinder, 5 speed. Air. 2WD. $4,995 Call For Details! 570-696-4377

FORD ‘06 ESCAPE XLT

1518 8th Street Carverton, PA Near Francis Slocum St. Park

4x4. Sunroof. Like new. $6,995 Call For Details! 570-696-4377

2WD. Extra cab. Highway miles. Like new! $6,995 Call For Details! 570-696-4377

4WD, Auto, Alloys $15,990

Moonroof. Alloys. 1 Owner. $18,880

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

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miles. Extra Sharp! $18,995 WARRANTY MAFFEI AUTO SALES 570-288-6227

AWD. 1 owner. $16,900

Trucks/ SUVs/Vans

SUZUKI `07 XL-7 56,000 miles,

automatic, all-wheel drive, 4 door, air conditioning, all power, CD player, leather interior, tinted windows, custom wheels, $13,000 Call 570-829-8753 Before 5:00 p.m.

TOYOTA 02 TACOMA 4WD. SR5. TRD. V-6. $10,880

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

HYUNDAI ‘06 SANTE FE LTD

Leather. Moonroof. One owner. $11,990

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

JEEP `03 Rare. LIBERTY5 SPORT.

speed. 23 MPG. 102K highway miles. Silver with black interior. Immaculate condition, inside and out. Garage kept. No rust, maintenance records included. 4wd, all power. $6,900 or best offer, trades will be considered. Call 570-575-0518

JEEP 02 GRAND CHEROKEE LAREDO

6 cylinder 4 WD, air conditioning power windows, door locks, cruise, dual air bags, tilt wheel, AM/FM/CD. keyless remote. 130k miles. $5400. 570-954-3390

JEEP 04 GRAND CHEROKEE LAREDO 4x4. Auto. 6 cylinder. $8,995 WARRANTY MAFFEI AUTO SALES 570-288-6227

JEEP ‘06 WRANGLER Only 29K miles! $15,880

FORD `04 EXPLORER Eddie Bauer Edition

1518 8th Street Carverton, PA Near Francis Slocum St. Park

CHEVY ‘10 EQUINOX LT

HONDA 08 CRV AWD. Auto. 34K

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TOYOTA ‘04 4 RUNNER Moonroof, alloys, 4 WD $16,900

4x4. Extra clean. Local new truck trade! $5,995 Call For Details! 570-696-4377

CHEVY ‘05 SILVERADO

Trucks/ SUVs/Vans

HONDA ‘09 CRV LX

CADILLAC `99 ESCALADE FORD `04 EXPLORER 97k miles. Black Eddie Bauer Edition with beige leather

interior. 22” rims. Runs great. $8,500 Call 570-861-0202

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FORD ‘06 F150

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

MERCURY `03 MOUNTAINEER

AWD. Third row seating. Economical 6 cylinder automatic. Fully loaded with all available options. 93k pampered miles. Garage kept. Safety / emissions inspected and ready to go. Sale priced at $8,995. Trade-ins accepted. Tag & title processing available with purchase. Call Fran for an appointment to see this outstanding SUV. 570-466-2771 Scranton

MERCURY ‘03 MOUNTAINEER LUXURY EDITION

Red & silver, One owner, garage kept, well maintained. Loaded with too many options to list! 68,000 miles. Asking $9,000. 570-239-8389

NISSAN ‘04 FRONTIER XE King Cab,

87,000 miles, 4 cyl, auto, good on gas, in good condition. $6,000 570-466-5921

NISSAN 09 ROGUE SL Leather. Moonroof. Alloys. $18,880

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

TOYOTA 06 4 RUNNER Moonroof. Alloys. CD Player. $16,900

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

TOYOTA ‘07 YARIS

GREAT MPG’S, AUTO, CD $7995

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

457 Wanted to Buy Auto WANTED

Good Used Cars & Trucks. Highest Prices Paid!!! Call V&G Anytime 574-1275

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506 Administrative/ Clerical

Administrative Assistant

Highly successful business in the Wilkes-Barre Area with immediate need for an experienced administrative assistant. Data entry, preparing reports & correspondence, recording meeting notes, etc. Strong understanding of Excel a must. -Competitive Salary -401k -Paid Vacation -Health Care Send resume to collette@gocolours. com Deadline 2/24

509 560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

GMC `05 SAVANA 1500 Cargo Van.

AWD. V8 automatic. A/C. New brakes & tires. Very clean. $10,750. Call 570-474-6028

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Harry’s U Pull It

AS ALWAYS ****HIGHEST PRICES***** PAID FOR YOUR UNWANTED VEHICLES!!! DRIVE IN PRICES Call for Details (570) 459-9901 Vehicles must be COMPLETE !!

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RANGE ROVER ‘07 SPORT

Supercharged 59,000 miles, fully loaded. Impeccable service record. $36,000 570-283-1130

SUBARU `03 BAJA Sport Utility 4 door

pickup. 68K. AWD. 4 cylinder. 2.5 Litre engine. 165hp. Bedliner & cover. Premium Sound. $10,700. Call 570-474-9321 or 570-690-4877

SUZUKI `03 XL-7

85K. 4x4. Auto. Nice, clean interior. Runs good. New battery & brakes. All power. CD. $6,800 570-762-8034 570-696-5444

Building/ Construction/ Skilled Trades

Entry Level Construction Laborer

Two person crew, no experience necessary, company will train. The work is outdoor, fastpaced, very physical and will require the applicant to be out of town for eight day intervals followed by six days off. Applicants must have a valid PA drivers license and clean driving record. Starting wage is negotiable but will be no less than $14.00 per hour plus incentive pay with family health, dental and 401k. APPLY AT R.K. HYDRO-VAC, INC., 1075 OAK ST PITTSTON, PA 18640 E-MAIL RESUME TO TCHARNEY@ RKHYDROVACPA.COM OR CALL 800-2377474 MONDAY TO FRIDAY, 8:30 TO 4:30 E.O.E. AND MANDATORY DRUG TESTING.

518 Customer Support/Client Care

527 Food Services/ Hospitality

CSR Do you have

NOW HIRING! All Shifts.

internet or modem knowledge? RFM is looking for someone with the ability to prioritize and organize requests. Self motivated individual with a dedicated sense of follow through. Call center or help desk experience is necessary. Must have computer knowledge & possess good people skills. Competitive starting rate. Pleasant office environment. Must be dependable. Call 1-888-514-8883 for details, ask for Stephanie. Fax resume to: 570-517-5003

522

Education/ Training

CHILDCARE TEACHERS

NEEDED EXPERIENCE PRE FERRED. FULL TIME & PART TIME. DALLAS, AND WILKES-BARRE MOUNTAIN TOP LOCATIONS. 570-905-3322

Shopping for a new apartment? Classified lets you compare costs without hassle or worry! Get moving with classified! THE PITTSTON AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT is seeking applicants for the following position:

HEAD GIRLS SOFTBALL COACH

All interested parties are to submit a letter of interest, Act 34 and Act 151 Clearances & FBI Fingerprinting to: Mr. George B. Cosgrove, Superintendent Pittston Area School District, 5 Stout St. Pittston, Pa 18640 Deadline for Submission: February 23, 2012

VICE-PRINCIPAL of S.T.E.M. Magnet School Hazleton Area School District

The Hazleton Area School District is seeking qualified applicants for the position of VicePrincipal of the S.T.E.M. The position is an administration and organizational position responsible for school organization and management. It requires researching and integrating S.T.E.M. education. It includes instructional design/delivery and support of the S.T.E.M. curriculum. Additionally the development and extensions of school, higher education, and business partnerships in S.T.E.M. areas are essential components of this position. Interested applicants should submit a letter of application, resume, PA Teaching application, copy of certificate, Act 24, 34, 114, and 151 clearances, 3 letters of recommendation from educators and 1 letter of recommendation from someone from outside the field of education to Dr. Francis X. Antonelli, Acting Superintendent, Hazleton Area School District, 1515 West 23rd Street, Hazleton, PA 18202 by 4:00 PM on Friday, February 24, 2012. The Hazleton Area School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

527 Food Services/ Hospitality

Premier Private Club in the Hazleton Area is seeking a

BANQUET MANAGER for a fast paced environment where high quality and presentation are first priority. Competitive salary and benefits provided. Minimum of two years experience required. Please call 570-788-1112 ext. 118 or vccchefs@ptd.net to set up an interview.

All Positions. Apply Within.

542

Logistics/ Transportation

O/O'S & CO FLATBED DRIVERS

SIGN ON BONUS Hazleton/ Scranton, PA

Kidder Street

533

Installation/ Maintenance/ Repair

DATA/ PHONE /SOUND

Our Client is hiring experienced technicians to install phones, fiber optics, data and sound systems. Customers include hospitals, schools, churches and businesses. Must interpret blueprints, troubleshoot wiring and read schematics. Will use hand tools, laptop, and climb ladders. Full time 8am4:30pm. Must have clean driving record. Contact Harvis 570-542-5330 with questions or send resume to: jobs.harvis@ gmail.com

INVISIBLE FENCE INSTALLERFence” “Invisible

technology keeps dogs safer. Training is provided to operate ditch witch and install underground wire and components. Full time physical job. Must have good math skills, clean driving record and be courteous. Must pass physical & drug test. Call or email Brian at Harvis Interview Service for application or questions: 542-5330 or ifnepa. jobs@gmail.com

HVAC/R

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Visit our website for job postings.

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NOW HIRING! Café Associates Alignment Specialist Inspection Bay Tech Tire Technician Tractor Mechanic Located in Pittston, PA Apply online at www.primeinc.com

Growing dedicated account needs Drivers Now! SIGN ON BONUS: $1,000 after 3 months & $1,000 after 6 months for Owner Operators & company drivers. Driver Home Locations: Hazleton, PA, or surrounding Area. Miles per Week Target is 2,275. Runs will go into North east locations. $1.15 all dispatched miles plus fuel surcharge for ALL Dispatch/ Round Trip Miles at $1.50 Peg, paid at $.01 per $.06 increments. Truck must be able to pass a DOT inspection. Plate provided with weekly settlements and fuel card. Also needing up to 10 Company Drivers. Excellent Benefits! .45cents a mile, with tarp pay. Flatbed freight experience required. Class A CDL drivers with 2 years of experience. Feel free to contact Kevin McGrath 608-207-5006 or Jan Hunt 608-364-9716 visit our web site www.blackhawk transport.com GREAT PAY, REGULAR/SCHEDULED HOME TIME & A GREAT/ FRIENDLY/ PROFESSIONAL STAFF TO WORK WITH!

PIONEER AGGREGATES, INC. Experienced

Tri-Axle Drivers

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TRACTOR-TRAILER DRIVERS Home 48 hours EVERY Week

538

Janitorial/ Cleaning

Berwick AreaPart Time Cleaner

General office cleaning. 13 hours/ 5 days a week. 8pm-10:30pm. $9.25/hour to start. Apply online at: www. sovereigncs.com EOE and Drug Free Workplace

542

Logistics/ Transportation

FORKLIFT

Immediate openings for 1st shift forklift operators. Must have at least 2 years forklift/box clamp/order picking and a valid driver’s license to apply: TEAM EMPLOYER SOLUTIONS 20 REYNOLDS ST. KINGSTON, PA 18704 570-714-5955

OIL TRUCK DRIVER Greater Hazleton

Area. Class B License. Tanker Hazmat Required. Steady Work. Good Driving Record. Insurance, Vacation and Holiday Pay. Wargo Coal & Oil (570) 929-2843

Hiring company drivers and Owner-Operators to run out of Hazleton Pa. Home 48 hours weekly, run NY to NC. Pickup & delivery, drop & hook, and terminal-to-terminal runs. Full company benefit package. Company $1,250 gross weekly, Owner-operator $2,350+ after fuel take home weekly. HOUFF TRANSFER is well known for outstanding customer service, safety, and reliability. Requires 5+ years experience, Hazmat, safe driving record. OwnerOperator equipment less than 5 years old. Info Ed Miller @ 877-234-9233 or 540-234-9233. Apply www.houff.com

548 Medical/Health

DENTAL RECEPTIONIST

Full Time. Day and Evening Hours. Benefits. Prior Dental Office Experience preferred.

DENTAL HYGIENIST:

Part Time. Tuesday 3-8, Thursday 3-7 Email, Fax, Send resume to Carpenter Dental, 1086 Wyoming Ave., Forty Fort, 18704. Carpenter Dental@hotmail.com Fax 570-714-5184. Lakeside Nursing Center is looking for: CNA Part Time 3p- 11p & 11p-7a Apply in person 245 Old Lake Rd Dallas Pa 18612 (570) 639-1885 E.O.E

Part Time LPN Positions

Looking for caring & compassionate people for Alzheimer’s Personal Care Facility. Reliable applicants need only apply. No phone calls please. Apply within.

KEYSTONE GARDEN ESTATES

100 NARROWS RD ROUTE 11 LARKSVILLE

548 Medical/Health

573

Warehouse

Warehouse Associate

RURAL HEALTH CORPORATION OF NORTHEASTERN PA

PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT/ NURSE PRACTITIONER FULL TIME

A full time position is available at the Shickshinny Health Center, Shickshinny, PA. Please go to www.rhcnepa.com, click on: employment opportunities, then job openings. EOE M/F/V/H AA

RN SUPERVISOR LPN3 -11 P T

FULL TIME 3PM-11PM

RAPIDLY GROWING COMPANY IN NEED OF FULL TIME WAREHOUSE ASSOCIATE. COMPLETE BENEFITS PACKAGE PLEASE SEND RESUME TO store015@ gocolours.com DEADLINE 2/24/12 FORKLIFT EXPERIENCE A PLUS.

600 FINANCIAL 610

Business Opportunities

630 Money To Loan “We can erase your bad credit 100% GUARANTEED.” Attorneys for the Federal Trade Commission say they’ve never seen a legitimate credit repair operation. No one can legally remove accurate and timely information from your credit report. It’s a process that starts with you and involves time and a conscious effort to pay your debts. Learn about managing credit and debt at ftc. gov/credit. A message from The Times Leader and the FTC.

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LPNs & CNAs PER DIEM

Apply in person to: MOUNTAIN TOP SENIOR CARE AND REHABILITATION CENTER 185 S. MOUNTAIN BLVD. MOUNTAIN TOP, PA 18707 (570) 474-6377

554

Production/ Operations

TOOLMAKER

Full time 2nd shift position. Ability to use all shop tools and machines, experience in setup and operating CNC equipment a plus. Job requires working to close tolerances and from prints. Excellent salary and benefits package. Submit resume to: MICHAEL HOLCOMB, DIAMOND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, P. O. BOX 4174 WYOMING, PA 18644

566

Sales/Retail/ Business Development

OUTSIDE SALES PERSON WANTED FOR

Local Franchised Automotive Business.

Well established local chain store with over 30 years of market presence is seeking an outside sales person. Part or full time flex hours maybe available. Applicants must have their own car, a valid drivers license and prior sales experience. Pay will commensurate with experience for the right individual. Position is perfect for the working mom, college students, business majors or sales professionals looking for extra income. Call Bill or Neil at Cottman Transmission, 181 Market S, Kingston 570-287-3148

SALESPERSON Expanding commercial disposal company seeks motivated sales rep to call on existing customers and develop new commercial accounts. Experience required. Salary with complete benefit package. Please send resume to: Attn: Jack, 500 N Poplar St, Berwick PA 18603

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BEAUTY OR NAIL SALON/ BARBERSHOP

TURN KEY OPERATION

Client List available. Excellent Condition $18,500 Serious Inquiries Only Please respond to Box 2940 Times Leader, 15 N. Main Street Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711

INVEST IN YOURSELF WITH JAN – PRO Quote from current Franchisee, “I started with a small investment & I have grown my business over 600%. It definitely changed my life and I would recommend Jan-Pro.” * Guaranteed Clients * Steady Income * Insurance & Bonding * Training & Ongoing Support * Low Start Up Costs * Accounts available throughout WilkesBarre & Scranton

Education/ Training

Antiques & Collectibles

$ ANTIQUES BUYING $

Old Toys, model kits, Bikes, dolls, guns, Mining Items, trains & Musical Instruments, Hess. 474-9544

570-824-5774

ad call...829-7130 PEDAL CAR 1980s era black Copenhagen AJ Foyt Indy pedal car and red 1980s era Marlboro pedal Indy car $200 for both. 696-3988

710

Appliances

APPLIANCE PA RT S E T C .

Used appliances. Parts for all brands. 223 George Ave. Wilkes-Barre 570-820-8162 FREEZER 13 cu. ft. upright. Good working condition & seals. FREE. 570-542-5102

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LIQUOR LICENSE

and equipment for sale. Luzerne Co. By appointment only 570-824-3223

Collect cash, not dust! Clean out your basement, garage or attic and call the Classified department today at 570829-7130! LIQUOR LICENSE FOR SALE. Luzerne County. $23,000. 570-574-7363

GENE’S RECONDITIONED APPLIANCES 60 Day Warranty Monday-Friday 8:00PM-5:00PM Saturday 8:00AM-11:00AM Gateway Shopping Center Kingston, PA

(570) 819-1966

545

Marketing/ Product

545

Marketing/ Product

MARKETING DIRECTOR First Columbia Bank & Trust Co., a strong, independent community bank headquartered in Bloomsburg PA, seeks Marketing Director to research, conceptualize, create and implement marketing programs to promote bank’s products, services and image. BS/BA in Marketing or related field with 3 yrs experience required. Duties include market research, product pricing and development, advertising, promotional activities, corporate communications, events. Qualified individuals may submit, in confidence, a letter of interest, resume, and salary expectations to: Search Committee First Columbia Bank & Trust Co. PO Box 240, Bloomsburg PA 17815 EEO/AAP Employer

554

Production/ Operations

554

Production/ Operations

Immediate openings for part-time work in Dallas and Laflin

SECURITY OFFICERS

522

708

TAX REFUND COMING? To place your

569 Security/ Protective Services Join Vector Security Patrol and become a name on a winning team. We have career opportunities for Security Officers and those wishing to begin a career in the security field with openings for Part Time hours in Wilkes-Barre and Noxen. Previous security experience a plus. EOE 800-682-4722

700 MERCHANDISE

Local manufacturing plant Up to 22.5 hours per week Flexible shifts and days Shifts pay $10.15/$10.40/$10.46 per hour Must be a minimum of 18 years of age

Employment applications can be obtained at:

Offset Paperback Mfrs., Inc. 2211 Memorial Hwy. Dallas, PA 18612 522

Education/ Training

522

Education/ Training

LUZERNE COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE POSITION OPENING Luzerne County Community College invites applications for the following position:

Dean of Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment For additional information on this position or to apply please visit our web site at (www.luzerne.edu/jobs) by Friday, March 9, 2012. No phone inquires please. Candidates representing all aspects of diversity are encouraged to apply. Equal Opportunity Employer John T Sedlak, Dean of Human Resources

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JENNAIRE BBQ GRILL includes rotisserie, gas. Like new. Paid $700 asking $250. OBO. 570-331-3564 Why Spend Hundreds on New or Used Appliances? Most problems with your appliances are usually simple and inexpensive to fix! Save your hard earned money, Let us take a look at it first! 30 years in the business. East Main Appliances 570-735-8271 Nanticoke

712

Baby Items

CRADLE & SWING: baby girl purple fisher Price purchased at Babies R Us. paid $169. asking $75. Excellent condition. 570-301-3484 or 570-631-6635

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Clothing

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Furniture & Accessories

FURNISH FOR LESS

* NELSON * * FURNITURE * * WAREHOUSE * Recliners from $299 Lift Chairs from $699 New and Used Living Room Dinettes, Bedroom 210 Division St Kingston Call 570-288-3607 HOOSIER CABINET Antique with flour bin & pull-out baking table. Must pick up. $650.570-970-3576

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HUTCH 2 piece hutch $100. Large end table $75. 2 piece old bedroom set $350. each old mirrors included. 570-200-5311 LOVE SEAT green striped $60. 570-675-3890

MATTRESS SALE

CLOTHING boys name brand jeans sizes 7 reg, 8 reg, 10 slim $5 each Childern’s Place winter coat 5/6 $20 Columbia winter coat 8 $25 570823-4432 aft 4pm

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COAT

ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT

KENNETH COLE Beige, size 6, hardly worn. $75. 570-855-5385 JACKET, leather, black, small new $50. Dolce Gabbana handbag $200. 654-4440

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Exercise Equipment

AEROBIC CROSS TRAINING SYSTEM, Weslo, 30+ exercises, 150 lb weight stack, weight dowling system, 300 lbs resistance. 3 person capacity. Paid $600. sell $50. cash. 675-3890 ELLIPTICAL/STAIR STEPPER excellent condition, barely used. $200.00 Call 570-332-4869 TREADMILL Cadence 2300, excellent condition . $200 Exercise Bike stationary. $ 60 570-735-2081 TREADMILL: Proform 495Pi excellent condition. $200. 570-654-8117

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Furniture & Accessories

A BRAND NEW P-TOP QUEEN MATTRESS SET!! Still in plastic!! $150!! MUST SELL!! Call Steve @ 280-9628!! BED FRAME, queen, tubular steel head & foot board, $200. Black wicker chair $25. SHELVING, metal, 4 shelves, $5. (570) 654-4440 BED solid pine sleigh bed & matching chest of drawers, cream colored with floral design, great for a girls room, excellent condition/never $900. 212-0948

BEDROOM SET

5 piece with King size bed complete. Excellent condition! Broyhill Attic Heirloms 5 piece bedroom set. Solid oak. Beautiful full dresser with mirror + additional dresser + 2 nights stands + king size oak bedframe & headboard + USA Olympic quality. Paid $7k+ for this beautiful integrated bedroom set. Moving to Philadelphia in small apartment or would bring with me! $1,200 for the entire set. 570.855.2751 BEDROOM SET: 6 pc. Dresser, mirror, door chest, 2 night stands and headboard that is good for full, queen or king size. Must see great shape. $450 570-814-5477 BOSTON ROCKER with design, beautiful paid $1300 asking $300. Lazy Boy recliner, brown leather $200, never used, selling to make room. 570-822-5391

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Twin sets: $159 Full sets: $179 Queen sets: $199 All New American Made 570-288-1898

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ROCKER, wood/tapestry, $75. RECLINER, Burgundy velour cloth, $125. SOFA, chair, ottoman, 3 tables, great for den. Wood and cloth, all in excellent condition. $450. Call after 6 PM 570-675-5046 SOFA & LOVESEAT, leather, 3 1/2 years old, excellent condition paid $2100 sell for $600. Two glass end tables, like new $120. 570-301-4102

746 Garage Sales/ Estate Sales/ Flea Markets

HOMEMADE SOUP & BAKE SALE Pilgrim Congrega-

tional Church 172 Center Ave Plymouth Sat., February 18 10am - 3pm 15 Varieties of soups & sandwiches. Welsh Cookies. Breads and other baked goods. Eat in or take out. Free parking - Corner W. Shawnee & Gardner Street. Church phone 570-779-1451

HUNLOCK CREEK MOVING SALE 23 Jones Rd. Hunlock Creek (Lake Silkworth) 477-6011 Saturday Feb. 18th 9am til 4pm

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DINING ROOM SET 10 piece Antique Bernhardt, good condition. $950 OBO. 570-542-5102

129 Orchard Street Fri, Feb. 17th, 9-2 Sat., Feb 18th, 9-12 Couch, love seat, gas stove & lots more

796 Wanted to Buy Merchandise

570-735-1487 WE PAY THE MOST IN CASH

746 Garage Sales/ Estate Sales/ Flea Markets

WEST WYOMING FLEA MARKET 6th Street

OPEN SPACE YEAR ROUND AVAILABLE INSIDE & OUT ACRES OF PARKING

OUTSIDE SPACES - $10 Saturday 10am-2pm Sunday 8am-4pm

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DIRECTIONS: off Scott St. in Miners Mills Section ENTIRE CONTENTS OF HOUSE including nice dining room table & chairs, Thomasville bedroom set & other bedroom furniture, nice glassware & porcelain, Franciscan dinnerware, kitchenware, lots of porcelain collector dolls, decorator items, lamps, linens, ladies clothing and much more. CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED! SALE BY COOK & COOK ESTATE LIQUIDATORS www.cookandcookestateliquidators.com

WILKES-BARRE RUMMAGE SALE BABA’S KITCHEN INDIVIDUAL VENDORS

Corner of N. River & W. Chestnut Sts. North Wilkes-Barre, near General Hospital Sat., Feb. 18th, 9-2 Upstairs Hall: Church Rummage Sale including clothes, books, glassware, household items, home decor & more. Downstairs Hall: Baba’s Kitchen, featuring our homemade pierogies, individual vendors with various items.

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649 Meadowland Avenue Saturday, 9am-4pm Contents of finer home to include King Mahogany Bedroom Suite with Twin Beds, Pa House Dining Hutch and Server, Sofa, Side Chairs, Victorian Chairs, Duckloe Desk, New Leather Reclining Lift Chair, Hide-a-Bed, Sewing Machine, Rugs, Small Tables, M.T. Tables, TV’s, Pictures, Lamps, Roseville, Waterford Crystal, Lenox, Beleek, Fenton, Oriental Items, Cut Glass, Staffordshire, Oreck Sweeper, Candlesticks, Clocks, Needlepoint, Clothing, Hats, Purses, loads of Costume Jewelry & Much More!

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Machinery & Equipment

WOODSHOP DUST collection system. Grizzly 2hp dust collector. Homemade chip separator. Some pipng (plastic) blast gates, etc. Multiple tool controller. Circuit breaker. see and pick up in Mtn Top. $200.. OBO (570)474-6088

758 Miscellaneous WANTED ALL JUNK CARS & TRUCKS

HEAVY EQUIPMENT DUMPTRUCKS BULLDOZERS BACKHOES

Highest Prices Paid!!! FREE REMOVAL Call Vito & Ginos Anytime 288-8995

ANGELS set of 2 Syrocco for wall $20. Beautiful 2 piece wall planter by Syrocco, top half has a spout bottom can be filled with flowers or greenery $25. Deluxe all-inone paper cutter/ dispenser 1 complete welded frame, regular blade, light gray includes paper/ dispenser (Bulman Products) $35. Hearing impaired (Opentech miracle phone), feel your caller voice, visual ringer flashes when there is an incoming call, instructional video also included $20. Sears 36” TV display technology: C RT (tube), $65. 570-288-8689

758 Miscellaneous CANES & walking sticks, new batch. Variety of 30+ available. Made from slippery maple trees. $4-$5 each. Over 200 Christmas & household items. Includes, Christmas trees, ornaments, flowers, vases, baskets, lamps, candle lights, Samsonite belt massager, 4 pieces of luggage. all for$60. 735-2081 DINNERWARE 64 piece $35. Black carpet 60”x*0” $20. White lace 50 yards 8” straight piece with 3” gather riffle $40. Wedding bows, white lace 24 for $12. Farberware coffee urn 12 to 55 cups, need stem $25. 570-654-4440

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The Times Leader will accept ads for used private party merchandise only for items totaling $1,000 or less. All items must be priced and state how many of each item. Your name address, email and phone number must be included. No ads for ticket sales accepted. Pet ads accepted if FREE ad must state FREE. One Submission per month per household. You may place your ad online at timesleader.com, or email to classifieds@ timesleader.com or fax to 570-831-7312 or mail to Classified Free Ads: 15 N. Main Street, WilkesBarre, PA. Sorry no phone calls. HELMET Fly Venom ATV/BMX /motorcycle helmet unisex adult xl, pink/black, like brand new, only used once. $60 Christmas casserole dish ceramic casserole dish, holly berry design, like new $10 Tampa Bay Buccaneers clock NFL clock, like new. $15. 570-235-6053 LIGHTS 2 tungsten lights with bar doors, & tripod stands, extra bulbs 2 umbrella’s, 1 tripod, 1 light meter with case, clamp gaffe tape, never opened, reflector (silver, white, gold) back drop stand, never opened still in box It extends to a height of 8 ft. 6”, collapses to 4’. & telescopic cross bar can extend to 10’ W weighs only 14 lbs. Most of the equipment is from B&H, & Amazon.com. $325 for all. email if interested at Kari.Shinko 3@gmail.com. LP’s 130+ albums & records from the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s sell all for $50. 570-675-3890

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Televisions/ Accessories

TV 15.5 very slim flat screen hi definition LCD, remote, beautiful picture, original box paid $109. sell for $65. 570-258-0568 or 570-406-4523 TV Sony Trinitron 36” tube with flat front. HD ready. V. good condition. $30.

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Tools

CHAINSAW Ryobi 20” cut with carrying case, used once, sell $165. 570-878-2849 MECHANICS TOOL CHESTS Craftsman one 5’ double decker, 1 single roll chest, great condition. asking $185. for both 831-5510

786 Toys & Games CHILD’S MAT almost new purchased at Best Buy on 12-11-12 for $21. have receipt sell $12. 570-258-0568 or 570-406-4523 RADIO FLYER itemsLiberty Horse $125. Rocket $40. First scooter $20. Wagon $50. Butterscotch the horse , fabric saddle included. $125. All in very good condition. 570-855-8966

796 Wanted to Buy Merchandise HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR YOUR UNWANTED GOLD! We Will Come to Your Location 1-800-822-6253 570-885-2766

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Highest Prices Paid!! FREE

MOVIE POSTERS: genuine $15. Classical 33 records $3. each. 5 drawer side ti side $350. 570-280-2472 NOOK COLOR in box. Used approximate 1 hour. $150 firm. Call 823-5943 RAILROAD JACK $35. Railroad spikes .25 cents each. 570-696-1036 SWIFTER wet jet mop $8. 2 - Xbox live 3 months $20.00 or $21.00 if mailed. 868-6018

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Feb. 16: $1,713.00 Visit us at WilkesBarreGold.com Or email us at wilkesbarregold@ yahoo.com

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TIRES (2) all season tires, 225-55-17, like new $50 each. 570-690-2721

800 PETS & ANIMALS

TIRES. Studded snow (2) Traction King plus/10 ply. 245-75-16-M&S. Lightly used. $149. 570-333-4827

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Restaurant Equipment

GRILL: 24” electric table top. 208 phase. Made by Anvil. $400. 570-542-7532

776 Sporting Goods COBRA S-9 irons, steel, reg 6-7-8-9W $100. firm. Vintage Yonex woods graphite head shafts 1-3-5 $60. Slazenger cart/bag slotted $25. 570-829-4016

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BOXER PUPPIES

3 male & 1 female purebred puppies. No papers. Shots & dewormed. Tails docked & dew claws removed. $600 each. 570-885-3431

DOBERMAN PUPPIES

3 males left. Black & rust. Ready to go! $500 each. 570-542-7532 DOGS FREE 2 boston terriers. 1 male, 1 female, 3 years & 1 1/2 years old. 570-825-5659 or 570-793-3905

POMERANIAN PUPPIES Male. $500 570-250-9690

POMERANIANS

AKC, 8 weeks, 2 females. Shots & wormed. Vet checked. Home Raised. $500. 570-864-2643

30 Costello Circle Fine Line construction. 4 bedroom 2.5 bath Colonial. Great floor plan, master bedroom, walk in closet. 2 car garage, fenced in yard. 2 driveways, above ground pool For additional info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3162 $248,500 Call Lu-Ann 570-602-9280

AVOCA

314 Packer St. Remodeled 3 bedroom with 2 baths, master bedroom and laundry on 1st floor. New siding and shingles. New kitchen. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3174 $99,900 Call Tom 570-262-7716

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3 bedroom, 1 bath 2 story in good location. Fenced yard with 2 car detached garage. Large attic for storage. Gas heat. $79,900 Call Ruth Smith 570-696-1195 or 570-696-5411

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824-4172, 9-9 only CHIHUAHUA 9 year old female free to good home. Not good with kids/other dogs. Owner was elderly man who passed away. 570-902-5330

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Delightfully pleasant. This home has been totally remodeled, a great buy for your money. New modern kitchen with all appliances, living room and dining room have new hardwood floors. Nice size 3 bedrooms. 1 car garage. Be sure to see these values. MLS 11-2890 $65,000 Call Theresa Eileen R. Melone Real estate 570-821-7022

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BEAR CREEK

Meadow Run Road Enjoy the exclusive privacy of this 61 acre, 3 bedroom, 2 bath home with vaulted ceilings and open floor plan. Elegant formal living room, large airy family room and dining room and gorgeous 3 season room opening to large deck with hot tub. Modern eat in kitchen with island, gas fireplace, upstairs and wood burning stove downstairs. This stunning property boasts a relaxing pond and walking trail. Sit back and savor the view MLS 11-3462 $443,900 Sandy Rovinski Ext. 26 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

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DALLAS OAK HILL

620 Meadows Enjoy the comforts & amenities of living at Newberry Estate - tennis, golf & swimming are yours to enjoy & relax. Spacious condo at a great price. Possibilities for 3rd bedroom and bath on lower level. Pets welcome at Meadows. MLS#12-18 $ 149,900 Call Geri 570-696-0888

3 bedroom ranch. Remodeled kitchen. Added family room. Master bedroom with 1/2 bath. Beautiful oak floor. 3 season room. Deck & shed. Garage. 114476. 100x150 lot. $154,900. Call Besecker Realty 570-675-3611

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8 Lackawanna Ave Central Location. 45 bedroom bi-level. Gas heat. 2 baths. Oversized 2 car garage. Corner lot. MLS 11-4372 $140,000 Besecker Realty 570-675-3611 DALLAS

Charming 4 bedroom, 3 bath home situated on 1 1/4 acre on a private setting. Close to schools and shopping. Living room with beautiful stone fireplace and built ins. Hardwood floors throughout. Master suite on 1st floor. Kitchen has cherry cabinets with tile floors. Screened porch. Detached 2 car garage. $335,000 For appointment 570-690-0752 DALLAS Newberry Estates

BACK MOUNTAIN

Beautiful 5 bedroom, 2.2 baths & FANTASTIC “Great Room” with built in bar, private brick patio, hot tub & grills! 4 car garage with loft + attached 2 car garage. Situated on over 6 acres of privacy overlooking Francis Slocum with a great view of the lake! Lots of extras & the kitchen is out of this world! MLS#12-475 $599,000 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

This country estate features 30 acres of prime land with a pretty home, ultra modern kitchen, 2 full modern baths, bright family room, den, living room & 3 good sized bedrooms. Property has open fields & wooded land, stream, several fieldstone walls & lots of road frontage. Equipment and rights included. $489,000.

133 Frangorma Dr Bright & open floor plan. 6 year old 2 story. 9' ceiling 1st floor. Custom kitchen with stainless steel appliances. Family Room with 14' ceiling & fireplace. Convenient Back Mt. location. MLS# 12-127 $344,000 Call Geri 570-696-0888

BACK MOUNTAIN Centermorland

529 SR 292 E For sale by owner Move-in ready. Well maintained. 3 - 4 bedrooms. 1 ¾ bath. Appliances included. 2.87 acres with mountain view. For more info & photos go to: ForSaleByOwner.com Search homes in Tunkhannock. $275,000. For appointment, call: 570-310-1552

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6650 Bear Creek Blvd Well maintained custom built 2 story nestled on 2 private acres with circular driveway - Large kitchen with center island, master bedroom with 2 walk-in closets, family room with fireplace, custom built wine cellar. A MUST SEE! MLS#11-4136 $299,900 Call Geri 570-696-0888

Charming 2 bedroom Cape Cod in Franklin Township. L-shaped living room with hardwood floors, eat in kitchen & private driveway. $119,900 MLS#11-3255 Call Joe moore 570-288-1401

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SHIH TZU PUPPIES

Poms, Yorkies, Maltese, Husky, Rotties, Golden, Dachshund, Poodle, Chihuahua, Labs & Shitzus. 570-453-6900 570-389-7877

TANNING BED, Full Size Excellent Condition. $1,000 570-332-4869.

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MATERIAL assorted, 2 boxes for crafts/ quilting, small pieces $5. 6 Rogers silver plated grapefruit spoons $10. 4 piece silver plated coffee set includes serving tray $25. 570-675-0920 MILK CAN & lid, painted black has decal, $30. Kaz cool moisture humidifier with air cleaning filter, 20-24 hour operation, $12. Beautiful hand made 25” Raggedy Ann & Andy doll, hand made clothes with embroided faces, sold in set $75.HP FAX-900 a stand alone plainpaper inkjet facsimile (fax) machine $15. Canon CB-2LV battery charger for the Canon NB-4L LiIon also comes with the Canon NB-4L LiIon battery for Canon SD1400IS, SD940IS, SD960IS and Other Select Canon digital cameras $20. 650-8710

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1360 Lower Demunds Rd. A grand entrance leads you to this stunning Craftsman style home on 11+ acres complete with pond, stream & rolling meadows. This dramatic home is in pristine condition. The 2 story great room with stone fireplace & warm wood walls is one of the focal points of this home. Offers modern kitchen/baths, formal dining room & family room. Recently built 3 car garage with guest quarters above is a plus. You’ll spend many hours on the large wrap around porch this Fall, Spring & Summer overlooking your estate. Rarely does a home like this come on the market. MLS# 11-1741. $499,000 Call Barbara Metcalf 570-696-0883

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“Fantastic” country home on 2.5 acres on a very private road with a 32’ x 48’ barn and 2 car & 1 car detached garages. Very charming home with a family room & fireplace, and a library or office. The barn was used for horses a few years ago and, with proper zoning, may be used as such again. MLS# 12-468 $289,000 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

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Wonderful neighborhood, 4 bedroom, 10 year old home has it all!. Extra room on first floor, great for mother in law suite or rec room. Modern oak kitchen, living room, central air, in ground pool, fenced yard, attached 2 car garage. Great home! For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com 11-3732. $239,900 Call Nancy Bohn 570-237-0752

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56 Wyoming Ave Well maintained 4 bed, 2 bath home located on large .85 acre lot. Features open floor plan, heated 3 season room with hot tub, 1st floor laundry, 2 car garage and much more. 11-3641 Motivated Seller! $179,500 Call Jim Banos COLDWELL BANKER RUNDLE REAL ESTATE 570-991-1883 DALLAS

3 bedroom brick Cape Cod, with 2 baths, on a corner lot near Dallas Schools, with easy access to shopping. MLS# 12-12 $125,000 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

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DALLAS 138 White Birch Ln Charming two story on nice lot features, living room, dining room with hardwoods, modern Oak kitchen, first floor family room, 4 large bedrooms, 2 full & 2 half baths. Deck overlooking level rear yard. 2 car garage. Gas heat, Central air. (11-3115) $310,000 Call Kevin Smith 570-696-5422

Condo with architect designed interior on 3 floors. Large, well equipped tiled kitchen with separate breakfast room, den with fireplace-brick & granite hearth. Open floor plan in living/dining area. 3 or 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths. Lower level has den or 4th bedroom with family room & bath. Recently sided; attached 2-car garage, walk-out lower level, decks on 1st & 2nd floor; pets accepted (must be approved by condo association). Country Club amenities included & private pool for Meadows residents. MLS 12-203 $269,000 Maribeth Jones 570-696-6565

NEWBERRY ESTATE ORCHARD EAST Two bedroom condo, 2nd floor. Living/dining room combination. 1,200 square feet of easy living. Two balconies, one car garage nearby. Security system, cedar closet, use of in ground pool. $109,000 MLS#11-4031 Call Joe Moore 570-288-1401

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619 Foote Ave. Fabulous Ranch home with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, ultra modern kitchen with granite counters, heated tile floor and stainless appliances. Dining room has Brazilian cherry floors, huge yard, garage and large yard. Partially finished lower level. If you’re looking for a Ranch, don’t miss this one. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com. MLS 11-4079 $159,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

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Cute 2 story, 2 bedroom 1 bath home. $15,000 570-780-0324 570-947-3575

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548 Green St. Are you renting?? The monthly mortgage on this house could be under $500 for qualified buyers. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, 1st floor laundry. Off street parking, deep lot, low taxes. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3983 $64,900 Call Tom 570-262-7716

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38 Huckleberry Ln Blueberry Hills 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, family room with fireplace, 2 car garage, large yard. Master bath with separate jetted tub, kitchen with stainless steel appliances and island, lighted deck. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com. MLS 11-3071 $315,000 Call Colleen 570-237-0415

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Nice income property conveniently located. Property has many upgrades including all new replacement windows, very well maintained. All units occupied, separate utilities. For more info and photos visit:www.atlas realtyinc.com 11-3283. $89,900 Call Nancy Bohn 570-237-0752

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263 Lawrence St Recently updated, this 4 bedroom home offers modern kitchen with Oak cabinets, 2 baths, deck with a beautiful view of the Valley, fenced in yard and finished lower level. All appliances included. A must see. MLS#11-4434 $ 92,000 Call Christina @ (570) 714-9235

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274 Hillside Ave. PRICED TO SELL. THIS HOME IS A MUST SEE. Great starter home in move in condition. Newer 1/2 bath off kitchen & replacement windows installed. MLS11-560. $52,000 Roger Nenni EXT. 32 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

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2 unit duplex, 2nd floor tenant occupied, 1st floor unoccupied, great rental potential. Separate entrances to units, one gas furnace, new electrical with separate meters for each unit. The 1st floor apartment when rented out generated $550 per month. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com 11-4247. $52,000 Call Nancy Bohn 570-237-0752

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44 Orchard St. 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath single, modern kitchen with appliances, sunroom, hardwood floors on 1st and 2nd floor. Gas heat, large yard, OSP. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-1866 $137,999 Call Lu-Ann 570-602-9280

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908 Primrose Court Move right into this newer 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath Townhome with many upgrades including hardwood floors throughout and tiled bathrooms. Lovely oak cabinets in the kitchen, central air, fenced in yard, nice quiet neighborhood. MLS 11-2446 $123,000 Call Don Crossin 570-288-0770 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-287-0770

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Nice size four bedroom home with some hardwood floors, large eat in kitchen with breakfast bar. 2 car garage & partially fenced yard. Close to everything! $92,900 MLS# 11-1977 Call Christine Kutz 570-332-8832 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

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Great multi-family home. Fully rented double block offers large updated rooms, 3 bedrooms each side. Nice location. MLS 114390 $129,900 Call/text for Details. Donna Cain 570-947-3824

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128 JEAN ST. Nice bi-level home on quiet street. Updated exterior. Large family room, extra deep lot. 2 car garage, enclosed rear porch and covered patio. For more information and photos visit: www. atlasrealtyinc.com MLS 11-2850 $179,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

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Signature Properties HANOVER TWP. 10 Lyndwood Ave

3 Bedroom 1.5 bath ranch with new windows hardwood floors finished basement 2 car garage and a finished basement. MLS 11-3610 $154,900 Call Pat Guesto 570-793-4055 CENTURY 21 SIGNATURE PROPERTIES 570-675-5100

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27 Spring St Great home. Great location. Great condition. Great Price. MLS#11-4370 $54,900 Call Al Clemonts 570-371-9381

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476 Wyoming St. Nice 3 bedroom single home. Gas heat. COnvenient location. To settle estate. Reduced to $34,900 Call Jim for details

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KINGSTON 68 Bennett St

94 Ferry Road Nice vinyl sided 2 story situated on a great corner fenced lot in Hanover Twp. 2 bedrooms, 2 modern baths, additional finished space in basement for 2 more bedrooms or office/ playrooms. Attached 2 car garage connected by a 9x20 breezeway which could be a great entertaining area! Above ground pool, gas fireplace, gas heat, newer roof and “All Dri” system installed in basement. MLS #11626. $119,900 Mark R. Mason 570-331-0982 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

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2032 ROUTE 92 Great Ranch home surrounded by nature with view of the river and extra lot on the river. Large living room and kitchen remodeled and ready to move in. Full unfinished basement, off street parking. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 12-79 $78,900 Call Colleen 570-237-0415

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189 Rock St. Spacious home with 4 bedrooms and large rooms. Nice old woodwork, staircase, etc. Extra lot for parking off Kenley St. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3404 $99,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

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29 Landon Ave N Striking curb appeal! Beautiful interior including a gas fireplace, hardwood floors, modern kitchen, all new carpeting on the second floor, extra large recently remodeled main bath, serene back patio and spacious yard. MLS#11-3075 $144,900 Call Mary Price 570-696-5418 570-472-1395

Kingston

3 bedroom bi-level with two modern, full baths & one 3/4 bath. Living room with fireplace and skylights, built in china cabinets in dining room. Lower level family room with fireplace and wet bar. Large foyer with fireplace. MLS#11-3064 $289,500 Call Joe Moore 570-288-1401

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Completely remodeled, spacious 4-5 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath home with tons of original character. Desirable Kingston neighborhood. Hardwoods throughout, 2 zone central air, 2 gas fireplaces, finished basement, new vinyl fence. Crown molding, ample storage, many built-ins. A must see! $275,000 Call for appointment 570-417-6059

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This charming 3 story has plenty of potential and is within 1 block of Wyoming Ave. Put in your own finishing touches. Priced to sell! MLS 12-48 $ 34,900 Ann Marie Chopick 570-760-6769

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573 Carverton Rd Privacy & serenity! This 40 acre estate features living room with fireplace & hardwood floor; family room with vaulted ceiling & fireplace; 1st floor master bedroom & bath with jetted tub & stall shower; panelled den; dining room with stone floor & skylight; 3 additional bedrooms & 2 baths. Central Air, 3 outbuildings. $725,000. MLS 11-4056 Call Nancy Judd Joe Moore 570-288-1401

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Located within 1 block of elementary school & neighborhood park this spacious 4 bedrooms offers 1450 sq. ft of living space with 1.75 baths, walk up attic, and partially finished basement. Extras include gas fireplace, an inground pool with fenced yard, new gas furnace & more. 11-823 Ann Marie Chopick 570-760-6769

Large charmer had been extensively renovated in the last few years. Tons of closets, walk-up attic & a lower level bonus recreation room. Great location, just a short walk to Kirby Park. MLS 11-3386 $129,000 Call Betty at Century 21 Smith Hourigan Group 570-287-1196 ext 3559 or 570-714-6127

Well maintained one owner home located near schools & shopping. Home features 4 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, eat-in kitchen, living room, dining room & foyer, with ductless air conditioning on the first floor. 2-car detached garage and basement ready to be finished. All appliances are included along with the first floor laundry. MLS#11-97 $129,000 Everett Davis (570) 417-8733

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Nestled on just under an acre just minutes from 81S this colonial offers 2194 sq. ft. of living area plus a finished basement. Enjoy summer your evenings on the wrap around porch or take a quick dip in the above ground pool with tier deck. The covered pavilion is ideal for picnics or gatherings And when the winter winds blow cuddle in front of the gas fireplace and enjoy a quiet night. MLS 11-2260 Priced to Sell, $185,900 Ann Marie Chopick 570-760-6769

New Listing. Totally remodeled 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath. Spectacular kitchen w/tile radiant heat floor, center island, appliances. Beautiful cabinets and counters. 1st floor mudroom/laundry. Master bedroom w/double lighted closets, modern bath w/jacuzzi tub and shower. 4 zone gas heat + AC/heat pump. New roof, siding, windows, flooring, fencing. Walk up attic, full partially finished basement. Off street parking. MLS 12-333 $99,900 ANTONIK & ASSOCIATES 570-735-7494 Patricia Lunski, X304 (C) 570-814-6671

13 Fordham Road Totally remodeled custom brick ranch in Oakwood Park. This home features an open floor plan with hardwood floors, 2 fireplaces, kitchen, formal living & dining rooms, family room, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths, office with private entrance, laundry room on first floor, tons of closets and storage areas, walk-up attic, great finished basement with fireplace, builtin grill, in-ground pool, cabana with half bath, an oversized 2-car garage & a security system. Renovations include new: windows, gas furnace, central air, electrical service, hardwood floors, Berber carpeting, freshly painted, updated bathrooms & much, much, more. Laflin Road to Fordham Road, on right. $399,700 Call Donna 570-613-9080

LAFLIN

210 Beechwood Dr Rare brick & vinyl tri-level featuring 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, family room with fireplace, rear patio, sprinkler system, alarm system & central air. MLS#11-2819 $199,000 CALL DONNA 570-613-9080

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Lovely cedar shingle sided home on large corner lot in a great development. 4 bedroom, 2 1/2 baths, 1st floor family room, finished lower level. Hardwood floors throughout, huge living room & family room. 1st floor laundry room & office, gas heat, nice deck, above ground pool, 2 car garage. 11-3497 $295,000 Call Nancy Answini 570-237-5999 JOSEPH P. GILROY REAL ESTATE 570-288-1444

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Lovely, nearly completed, renovated Victorian farmhouse sits high on 7.81 acres featuring panoramic pastoral views, high ceilings, original woodwork, gutted, rewired, insulated & sheetrocked, newer roof, vinyl siding, kitchen and baths. Gas rights negotiable. Lots of potential with TLC. Elk Lake $119,900 MLS# 11-525 Call 570-696-2468

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(570) 288-6654 MOUNTAINTOP 15 EMERSON DRIVE GLENMAURA Beautiful brickfaced 4 bedroom Colonial. Spacious, open floor plan. Tile floors, fireplace, two car garage. MLS# 12-295 $350,000 Call Stacey Lauer 570-262-1158

MOSCOW 331 Gudz Road

RARE OPPORTUNITY! This one you can’t match for overall charm, utilization and value. The beautifully carpeted, gas fireplace living room makes you want to sit down and relax. The dining room opens to a Florida room with a gas fireplace. There is a modern kitchen and 2 modern bathrooms. Three spacious bedrooms on the second floor with a walkup attic. Completely finished basement with wet bar! The home features many upgrades including windows, roof, landscaping and driveway. Also a one car detached garage and gazebo. Great Kingston location with low taxes and located near school and shopping. MLS#11-4552 $172,900 Everett Davis (570) 417-8733

VACANT LAND 333 OAKMONT LANE 1.15 acre, level lot, #254, on cul-de-sac, in Laurel Lakes. Underground electric, phone & cable. Ready for your new home in 2012! MLS# 11-4465 $39,900 Call Christine Kane 570-714-9231

Five bedroom Contemporary has a vaulted ceiling in living room with fireplace. Hardwood floors in dining & living rooms. 1st floor master bedroom with walk in closet. Lower level family room. Deck, garage, separate laundry. $257,500 MLS#12-170 Call Joe Moore 570-288-1401

NOXEN Private country living, with easy access to interstate. Relax and enjoy this comfortable A-Frame home. Jacuzzi, large deck & gorgeous pond. Great for entertaining inside and out. For more photos and info visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3285 $249,900 Call Nancy Bohn 570-237-0752

MOUNTAIN TOP

33 Valley View Drive 3 Bedroom, 1.5 Bath, 2 car garage, new roof & hot water heater, above ground heated pool, finished basement. $210,000 Contact Melissa at 570-430-8263

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NANITCOKE

3 bedroom, 1 bath. Nice opportunity for a starter home or investment property. Needs work, but columns, moldings, and leaded glass windows are intact. MLS #12-133 $42,000 CALL CHRISTINE KUTZ 570-332-8832 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

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PRICED TO SELL Brick ranch with large living room, 3 bedrooms, sun room, deck, full basement, sheds and garage on 0.54 acres in Noxen. $135,000. Jeannie Brady ERA BRADY ASSOCIATES 570-836-3848 PITTSON

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NEW, NEW LISTING

Attractive Bi-level with 2 bedrooms and room for another. 2 full baths, gas forced air heat, ventless gas fireplace & sauna. Move in condition, $123,000 MLS 12-193 Barbara Young Call 570-466-6940

COLDWELL BANKER RUNDLE REAL ESTATE 570-474-2340 Ext. 55

PITTSTON

238 S. Main St. Ten room home with 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 car garage, great driveway, central air, large yard. A must see home! For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 12-477 $139,900 Call Tom 570-262-7716

PITTSTON

A lot of house for the money. Corner home with lots of space. 9 rooms, 2 1/2 baths, a bonus room of 42’ x 24’. This home is conveniently located near major highways, airport and shopping. Two car detached garage and nice yard. $75,500 MLS# 10-4350 Call Michael Nocera

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NEW PRICE 8 rooms, 4 bedrooms & bath, eat-in kitchen, formal dining room, new windows, gas heat. MLS # 11-4369 $74,500 Call Donna 570-613-9080

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MOUNTAIN TOP

Very comfortable 2 bedroom home in move in condition. Great sun room, large yard, 1 car garage. Deeded lake access. Reduced $119,000 Call Kathie MLS # 11-2899

803 Aspen Drive Brand new carpet in lower level family room! Hardwood on 1st floor dining room, living room, bedrooms & hall! Large rear deck. Master bedroom opens to deck! Private rear yard! Basement door opens to garage. MLS #11-2282 $192,000 Jim Graham at 570-715-9323

182 Robert Street Nice single or duplex. Gas heat. Detached garage. This home is “high and dry”, and available for immediate occupancy. Call Jim for details. Affordable @ $104,900 TOWNE & COUNTRY R.E. 570-735-8932 570-542-5708 NANTICOKE

LARKSVILLE MOUNTAIN TOP

10 E. Second St. Property in nice neighborhood. Includes 4 room apartment over garage. MLS 12-253 $79,000 Charles J. Prohaska EXT 35 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-287-0770

LUZERNE

Greystone Manor. Ten year old home with attached apartment. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. Kitchen, living room, dining room & den. Apartment has 1 bedroom, bath, living room, dining room, private entrance. 3 car garage, front porch, large decks. Total 2,840 square feet. On cul-de-sac. Call BOB RUNDLE for appointment.

COLDWELL BANKER RUNDLE REAL ESTATE 570-474-2340, Ext. 11

330 Charles St. Very nice 2 bedroom home in move in condition with updated kitchen and baths. Nice yard with shed and potential off street parking. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3525 $59,900 Call Colleen 570-237-0415

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10 Garfield St. Looking for a Ranch??? Check out this double wide with attached 2 car garage on a permanent foundation. Large master bedroom suite with large living room, family room with fireplace, 2 full baths, laundry room, formal dining room, vaulted ceilings throughout and MORE! For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 10-2463 $89,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

31 Tedrick St. Very nice 3 bedroom with 1 bath. This house was loved and you can tell. Come see for yourself, super clean home with nice curb appeal. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3544 Reduced to $79,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

414 Grove Street E Remodeled 2 story with new oil furnace, windows, electric kitchen, bath, door, flooring, paint. OSP. Seller will pay 1st year property tax. MLS#11-2760 $85,500 Call Al Clemonts 570-371-9381

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East Noble Street Nice two family on the east side. Gas heat. Detached 2 car garage. Affordable @ $69,500. Call Jim for details TOWNE & COUNTRY R.E. CO. 570-735-8932 570-542-5708

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$105,900

This 2 story, 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath home is in the desired location of Jenkins Township. Sellers were in process of updating the home so a little TLC can go a long way. Nice yard. Motivated sellers. MLS 11-2191 $89,900 Call Karen Coldwell Banker Rundle Real Estate 570-474-2340

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5 Raymond Drive Practically new 8 year old Bi-level with 4 bedrooms, 1 and 3/4 baths, garage, fenced yard, private dead end street. For more info and photos visit: www. atlasrealtyinc.com MLS 11-3422 $175,000 Call Colleen 570-237-0415

Great duplex on nice street. Many upgrades including modern kitchens and baths, plus ceiling fans. Both units occupied,separate utilities. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com 11-3284. $74,900 Call Nancy Bohn 570-237-0752

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168 Mill St. Large 3 bedroom home with 2 full baths. 7 rooms on nice lot with above ground pool. 1 car garage. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3894 $82,000 Tom Salvaggio 570-262-7716

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95 William St. 1/2 double home with more square footage than most single family homes. 4 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, ultra modern kitchen and remodeled baths. Super clean. For more information and photos visit www.atlas realtyinc. com MLS 11-2120 $54,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

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459 Broad St. 3 bedroom 1 bath attractive home in great location, hardwood floors 100x144 lot asking $109,900 570.970.0650 jtdproperties.com

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Farm/Property Manager A family-owned farm, timber and recreation property is in search of a Farm/Property Manger. The business operations include hay farming, firewood production and delivery, and some timbering. Property management includes road maintenance, snow plowing, trespasser enforcement, brush hogging, lawn mowing, etc.

We Offer: • Salary & Commission • Benefits • 401k Plan • 5 Day Work Week • Huge New & Used Inventory

The position offers competitive salary, benefits and on-premises housing.

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10 Norman St. Brick 2 story home with 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, large family room with fireplace. Lower level rec room, large driveway for plenty of parking. Just off the by-pass with easy access to all major highways. For more info and photos visit: www. atlasrealtyinc.com. MLS 11-2887 $164,900 Call Colleen 570-237-0415

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Valley Chevrolet is seeking individuals who are self-starters, team-oriented and driven. (No experience necessary)

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Marketing Manager The economy may be slowing, but GWC Warranty is growing! GWC, a nationwide leader in vehicle service contracts, is seeking a Marketing Manager for our brand new Wilkes-Barre executive office. The ideal candidate will possess an analytical mind, an eagerness to manage a variety of projects and the ability to drive those projects to completion. Typical projects would include: Strategic differentiation, market segmentation, gathering voice of the customer data, market-specific growth strategies and brand messaging. This job is MBA-level work but may also be perfect for the high-performing individual who has experience overseeing process development and execution of strategic, corporate initiatives. Candidates must possess a bachelor’s degree and have strong working knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Project & PowerPoint in particular). Additional knowledge of other database & operating platforms is a plus. GWC Warranty offers a competitive salary & comprehensive benefits package including medical and 401k.

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Starting rate of $10.50 - $13.50 per hour, depending on experience. Driving records & background checks are required for all applicants. Possessing a valid PA School Bus Driver’s License and CDL a plus. Please submit a district application found on the employment page of the district website, letter of interest, resume, copies of driving record, driver’s license, current Act 34, 114 and 151 clearances, letters of recommendation and other supporting documentation to:

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41 Bank Street Very nice 3 bedroom, 1 bath home situated on a large lot on a quiet street with off street parking. Move-in condition. Don't miss this one! MLS #11-4055 REDUCED! $64,500 Call Debra at 570-714-9251

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DALLAS SCHOOL DISTRICT - EOE www.dallassd.com

545 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath. Luxury 1,950 sq ft end unit Townhome in sought after River Ridge. Gas heat, A/C, Hardwood & wall to wall. Marble tile master bath with jetted tub & separate shower. $189,500 Call 570-285-5119

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Mr. Grant Palfey, Business Manager, Dallas School District, PO Box 2000, Dallas, PA 18612 by deadline of February 29, 2012

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38 Frothingham St. Four square home with loads of potential and needs updating but is priced to reflect its condition. Nice neighborhood. Check it out. For more info and photos visit: www. atlasrealtyinc.com MLS 11-3403 $59,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

1610 Westminster Road. DRASTIC PRICE REDUCTION Paradise found! Your own personal retreat, small pond in front of yard, private setting only minutes from everything. Log cabin chalet with 3 bedrooms, loft, stone fireplace, hardwood floors. Detached garage with bonus room. Lots to see. Watch the snow fall in your own “cabin in the woods.” For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com. MLS 11-319 $279,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

Franklin Security Bank, a local independent community bank, is seeking a Deposit Operations Clerk at our Wilkes-Barre location. Duties include reconciling general ledger accounts, processing Federal Reserve daily returns, processing Internet banking and debit card requests, monitoring supply room inventory and ordering supplies, and providing backup for mail service. Candidates must have a high school diploma or equivalent, good communication skills, ability to follow directions, strong organizational skills, and proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel and Word. Banking industry/systems experience preferred. For consideration, please submit a resume to Franklin Security Bank, Human Resources, 1065 Highway 315, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702 or email to hr@franklinsecuritybank.net. EOE

Benscoter Avenue, Gray Road, Main Road, Sweet Valley Road, Broadway Road

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Production Manager Area manufacturer is accepting applications for Production Manager. This position reports directly to the V.P. of Operations and oversees a multi department production facility. Candidates will have several years experience in the manufacturing of products in a fast pace manufacturing environment. Motivating employees and developing on floor work flow strategy and methodology is the core of this position. Daily interaction and problem solving with several departments in operations. The successful candidate has 5 years experience in management; self motivated, able to work in a fast paced environment, has the ability to multitask; is highly organized; knowledge of lean manufacturing and six sigma are a plus but not required. Experience working in a manufacturing/assembly facility preferred.

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Well maintained double block on quiet street, great neighborhood. Perfect home for you with one side paying most of your mortgage, or would make a good investment, with separate utilities & great rents. Vinyl replacement windows, vinyl aluminum siding, walk up large attic from one side, lower front & rear porches, with two rear upper enclosed porches. $119,900 Call Ronnie 570-262-4838

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74 W. Carey St. Affordable home with 1 bedroom, large living room, stackable washer & dryer, eat in kitchen. Yard with shed. Low taxes. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-4068

$34,900 Call Colleen

570-237-0415

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4 Genoa Lane There is much attention to detail in this magnificent 2 story, 4 bedroom, 2 full bath all brick home on double corner lot. Large family room with brick fireplace, all oak kitchen with breakfast area, master suite, solid oak staircase to name a few. MLS #11-3268 $525,000 Jay A. Crossin Ext. 23 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-07770

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63 Clarks Lane 3 story Townhome with 2 bedrooms, 3 baths, plenty of storage with 2 car built in garage. Modern kitchen and baths, large room sizes and deck. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com. MLS 11-4567 $144,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

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Beautiful setting in a fabulous location. Well maintained 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath home sits on a full beautiful acre of land. 3 car garage with a breezeway, first floor master bedroom suite and a great porch to sit and relax on all while enjoying your new serene surroundings. This is a MUST SEE! 12-392 $225,000 Call Tony Wasco 570-855-2424 Trademark Realtor Group 570-613-9090

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74 Mack Street Modern 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 baths with a 1 car garage and fenced yard. Combination living room/ dinning room with hardwood floors. Modern kitchen with Corian counter tops and tiled backsplash. Modern tiled bath. First floor bonus family rooms. New carpeting throughout. Finished lower level with 1/2 bath. Shed included. MLS 11-4241 Reduced $109,900 Call Darren Snyder Marilyn K Snyder Real Estate 570-825-2468

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1 Willow St. Attractive bi-level on corner lot with private fenced in yard. 3-4 bedrooms and 1.5 baths. Finished lower level, office and laundry room MLS 11-2674 $99,900 Jay A. Crossin Ext. 23 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770 PLYMOUTH

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234 UNION ST Previously a double block converted into one very roomy, totally remodeled single family home. New carpeting & flooring throughout. 2 updated full baths, one in master suite. Nicely level fenced yard with very large deck & patio fort entertaining. Zoned commercial. $131,900 MLS 11-3575 Barbara Young Call 570-466-6940

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Well maintained raised ranch in Midway Manor. Good size level yard with shed. Large sunroom/laundry addition. Lower level family room with wood stove. MLS #11-4178 $163,700 Call Christrine Kutz 570-332-8832 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950 SHAVERTOWN

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If you’re looking for country living with peace and quiet and beautiful mountain views, this is the home for you! Only minutes from town, featuring large eatin kitchen, formal dining room & living room, all with hardwood floors. There are three bedrooms and a laundry in addition to two full baths. Master bath skylight. Gas heat. Central Air. $300 lot rent/month and that includes water, sewer and garbage removal. MLS#10-4421 $65,000 EVERETT DAVIS 417-8733

SHAVERTOWN

* NEW LISTING! * Great space in this 2-story coveted Dallas neighborhood! Lots of oak on 1st floor, door, moldings, kitchen, beams; finished basement, 3-season room, bonus room on 2nd floor with computer nook. 4 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 2 half baths, office on 1st floor, dual heat/air units. MLS#11-4064 $349,900 Maribeth Jones 570-696-6565

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1128 Bethel Hill Rd

A dollhouse in historic Patterson Grove Campground with country charm. Many recent updates. Cute as can be. Patterson Grove on web www.patterson grove.com 11-4376 $27,000 Call Betty at Century 21 Smith Hourigan Group 570-287-1196 ext 3559 or 570-714-6127 SHICKSHINNY

1195 Sutton Road Attractive, wellmaintained saltbox on 2 private acres boasts fireplaces in living room, family room & master bedroom. Formal dining room. Large Florida room with skylights & wet bar. Oak kitchen opens to family room. 4 bedrooms & 3 1/2 baths. Finished lower level. Carriage barn PRICE REDUCED $425,000 MLS# 10-3394 Call Joe Moore 570-288-1401

120 Barber St. Nice Ranch home, great neighborhood. MLS 11-3365 $109,000 Call David Krolikowski 570-288-0770 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

408 Cragle Hill Rd. This is a very well kept Ranch home on 6 acres, central air, rear patio and 1 car garage. This is a 3 parcel listing. MLS 11-4273 $157,900 Jackie Roman 570-288-0770 Ext. 39 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

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120 Barber Street Nice ranch home! Great neighborhood. MLS#11-3365 $109,000 (570) 885-6731 (570) 288-0770

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20 Maple Drive REDUCED! An immaculate 4 bedroom split level situated on a .37 acre manicured lot in a quiet neighborhood. Features include a Florida room with wet bar & breakfast area, spacious eat-in kitchen with sliders to deck/ patio, formal living room, dining room, family room, central a/c, & 2 car garage. Many amenities. Don't miss this one! MLS #11-1374 $ 219,000 Call Debra at 570-714-9251

SWOYERSVILLE

51-53 Milbre St Nice home. A tenant would help pay the mortgage or use as an investment property or convert to a single family. Great location, worth your consideration. Full attic, walk out basement by bilco doors. Bathrooms are on the first floor. MLS 12-298 $99,500 Call Betty at Century 21 Smith Hourigan Group 570-287-1196 ext 3559 or 570-714-6127 SWOYERSVILLE

60 Watkins St Home features 4 bedrooms, a master bedroom on 1st floor with large walk in closet, ceiling fans, screened porch, sunroom and workshop. New 200 amp service, interior paint & laundry area in basement. MLS#12-128 $105,000 Call Al Clemonts 570-371-9381

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“New Listing”! 3 bedrooms, 1 bath home on double lot. One car garage, two 3 season porches, security system & attic just insulated. MLS #12-31 $90,000. Call Christine Kutz 570-332-8832 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

71 George Ave. Nice house with lots of potential. Priced right. Great for handy young couple. Close to just about everything. Out of flood zone. MLS 12-195 $76,000 Call Roger Nenni EXT 32 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770 WEST PITTSTON

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3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, Cathedral ceilings, hardwood floors, gas heat, Central Air, master bath with whirlpool tub & shower, lovely landscaped fenced yard, 1 car garage. Great Location. MLS#11-3533 Call Nancy Palumbo 570-714-9240

611 Dennison St., High & Dry! Lovely three bedroom, two bath bi-level offers plenty of closet space, tiled kitchen & lower level floors, security system and very economical gas heat. Lower level has family room, laundry area and office or fourth bedroom. This home was NOT FLOODED! MLS#12-8 $144,500 Karen Bernardi 283-9100 x31

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52 Barber Street Beautifully remodeled 3 bedroom, 1 bath home in the heart of the town. With new carpets, paint, windows, doors and a modern kitchen and bath. Sale includes all appliances: refrigerator, stove, dishwasher, washer and dryer. Nice yard and superb neighborhood. Priced to sell at $89,900 or $433.00 per month (bank rate; 30 years, 4.25%, 20% down). Owner also willing to finance 100% of transaction with a qualified cosigner Call Bob at 570-654-1490

SWOYERSVILLE

OUT OF FLOOD ZONE Estate. Nice brick front ranch home on a corner lot. 1 car attached garage, circle driveway, central air. 2 bedrooms, 1 full bath with 2 showers, Full basement with brand new water proofing system that includes a warranty. Great location. MLS 11-2127 $108,500 Call/text for Details. Donna Cain 570-947-3824

SWOYERSVILLE

Meticulous twostory home with double lot and 2-car garage. Eat-in kitchen with laundry area; first floor tiled full bath, nicely carpeted living/dining rooms; three bedrooms on second floor, gas heat, recently roofed, great starter home for you. Move in and enjoy not paying rent. MLS#11-3400 REDUCED TO $99,000 Maribeth Jones 570-696-6565

950 Center St. Unique property. Well maintained - 2 story 10 year old set on 3.56 acres. Privacy galore, pole barn 30x56 heated for storage of equipment, cars or boats. A must see property. GEO Thermal Heating System.Only 10 minutes from interstate 81 & 15 minutes to turnpike. MLS#11-3617 $249,900 Call Geri 570-696-0888

WAPWALLOPEN 359 Pond Hill Mountain Road

4 bedroom home features a great yard with over 2 acres of property. Situated across from a playground. Needs some TLC but come take a look, you wouldn’t want to miss out. There is a pond at the far end of the property that is used by all surrounding neighbors. This is an estate and is being sold as is. No sellers property disclosure. Will entertain offers in order to settle estate. MLS 11-962 $64,900 Call Karen Coldwell Banker Rundle Real Estate 570-474-2340 WEST HAZLETON

100 Warren St 16,000 sq. ft. commercial building with warehouse / offices. Great location. 1 block west of Route 93. Approximately 3 miles from 80/81 intersection. Many possibilities for this property storage lockers; flea market; game/ entertainment center; laundromat; auto garage. $119,000 Call Karen at Century 21 Select Group - Hazleton 570-582-4938

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TRUCKSVILLE

Well maintained 3 bedroom, 2 bath double wide in nice neighborhood. Many updates. Landscaped & fenced yard with pool, large deck & koi pond! $99,700 MLS#11-2253 Call Christine Kutz 570-332-8832 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

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220 Linden St. Large 2 story home with 3 bedrooms, 1 3/4 baths. Detached garage, inground pool. Home needs work on the fi rst floor, 2nd is i n very good conditi on. Kitchen cabinets ready to be reinstalled. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com. MLS 12-78 $69,900 Call Tom 570-262-7716

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313 Race St. This home needs someone to rebuild the former finished basement and 1st floor. Being sold as is. 2nd floor is move in ready. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 12-255 $39,900 Call Tom 570-262-7716

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18 Atlantic Ave. Large 2 story home with 2 baths, attached garage. Being sold as-is. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-4475 $49,900 Call Tom 570-262-7716

WEST WYOMING

550 Johnson St. Nicely landscaped corner lot surrounds this brick front Colonial in desirable neighborhood. This home features a spacious eat in kitchen, 4 bedrooms, 4 baths including Master bedroom with master bath. 1st floor laundry and finished lower level. Enjoy entertaining under the covered patio with hot tub, rear deck for BBQ’s and an above ground pool. Economical gas heat only $1224 per yr. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 12-157 $254,860 Call Michele Reap 570-905-2336

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438 Tripp St

Completely remodeled home with everything new. New kitchen, baths, bedrooms, tile floors, hardwoods, granite countertops, all new stainless steel appliances, refrigerator, stove, microwave, dishwasher, free standing shower, tub for two, huge deck, large yard, excellent neighborhood $154,900 (30 year loan @ 4.5% with 5% down; $7,750 down, $785/month) 100% OWNER FINANCING AVAILABLE Call Bob at 570-654-1490

Why pay rent when you can own this 1/2 double? 3 bedrooms. Eat in kitchen. New roof installed 12/11. $49,900 MLS# 10-2780 Call Michael Nocera

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WHY PAY RENT? Nice half double with eat in kitchen, nice yard, shed and off street parking. $49,900 MLS # 11-1910 Call Michael Nocera

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1400 North Washington St Nice 2 story in need of some TLC with low taxes, near the casino. Roof is 5 years young. Newer water heater (installed '09), replacement windows throughout, 100 AMP electric, tiled bath, wall-towall carpeting entire 1st floor. $49,900. 11-4455. CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

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116 Amber Lane Very nice Bi-level home with newer laminate floors, vaulted ceiling, 2 large bedrooms. Finished lower level with 1/2 bath and laundry room. Large family room built in garage, and wood pellet stove. No sign, alarm system. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com. MLS 11-3290 $89,900 Call Colleen 570-237-0415

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260 Brown Street Move right into this 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath in very good condition with modern kitchen and bathrooms and a 3 season sunroom off of the kitchen. MLS 11-4244 $64,900 Call Darren Snyder Marilyn K Snyder Real Estate 570-825-2468 WILKES-BARRE

298 Lehigh Street Lovely 2 story with new roof, furnace, water heater, new cabinets and appliances. Whole house newly insulated. Nice deck and fenced-in yard. Call Chris at 570-8850900 for additional info or to tour. MLS 11-4505 $82,000 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

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Nice home located on a quiet street. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath well kept & ready for new owner. MLS 12-73. $55,000. Call/text for Details. Donna Cain 570-947-3824

Move right into this spacious 3 bedroom with 2 full baths. 4th & 5th bedrooms are possible in the finished attic. Hardwood floors under carpet. basement is partially finished. $37,500. MLS 12-494 Call Al Clemonts 570-371-9381

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Parsons Section 32 Wilson St No need for flood or mine subsidence insurance. 2 story, 3 bedroom, 1 bath home in a safe, quiet neighborhood. Aluminum siding. Corner, 105’x50’ lot. Fenced in yard. Appraised at $57,000. Serious inquiries only. Call 570-826-1458 for appointment WILKES-BARRE Pine Ridge Estates

Just on the market this 2 story offers a modern kitchen, formal dining room, 1st floor laundry plus 2/3 bedrooms On 2nd floor. Affordably priced at $ 27,900.00 MLS 12-50 Ann Marie Chopick 570-760-6769

Nicely maintained in move-in condition! Hardwood floors in living room, dining room & family room. 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths. Security system, central air, gas heat! Nice room sizes! Call Jim Graham at 570-715-9323

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Come take a look at this value. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. Sit back & relax on the rear deck of your new home. MLS 1275. $42,500. Call/ text for Details. Donna Cain 570-947-3824

AVOCA

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Large, stately brick home in Historic District. Large eat-in kitchen, dining room 2 fireplaces, 5 full baths & 2 half baths. Huge master with office. Large 3rd floor bedroom. 2 story attic. Custom woodwork & hardwood floors. Leaded glass, large closets with built-ins. Needs some updates. With large income apt. with separate entrance. Call for appointment. ASKING $300,000 Call 570-706-5917 WILKES-BARRE

Lot 39 Mayock St. 9' ceilings throughout 1st floor, granite countertops in kitchen. Very bright. 1st floor master bedroom & bath. Not yet assessed. End unit. Modular construction. MLS #10-3180 $179,500 Jim Graham at 570-715-9323

60 Kulp St. 3-4 bedroom, 2 story home with well kept hardwood floors throughout. Private driveway with parking for 2 cards and nearly all replacement windows. MLS 11-2897 $59,900 Jay A. Crossin Ext. 23 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

WILKES-BARRE

Nice 3 bedroom, 1 bath home, with 3 season porch and detached 1 car garage. Good starter home in well established neighborhood. Family owned for many years. MLS#11-4464 $65,000 CALL CHRISTINE KUTZ 570-332-8832 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

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25 St. Mary’s St. 3,443 sq. ft. masonry commercial building with warehouse/office and 2 apartments with separate electric and heat. Perfect for contractors or anyone with storage needs. For more information and photos log onto www.atlas realtyinc.com. Reduced to $89,000 MLS #10-3872 Call Charlie 570-829-6200 VM 101

BEAR CREEK Price reduced to $43,000, below market value! Modern kitchen & bath, enclosed rear patio. Nice, clean and well maintained; family room can be converted to a 3rd bedroom. Just move right in! MLS#11-3652 $43,000 Louise Laine 570-283-9100 x20

WILKES-BARRE

Cozy (2) unit home with parking for (3) vehicles. Enclosed rear fenced-in yard, shed, washer & dryer, refrigerator included. Nice clean units! Home can be converted back to a single family home. MLS#11-4047 $49,900 Louise Laine 570-283-9100 x20

WYOMING

1702 W. Eighth St. 1 story Ranch with 100x200 lot, paved driveway, new energy star replacement windows. Excellent starter home. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com. MLS 11-2912 NEW PRICE $84, 500 Fred Mecadon 570-817-5792

WYOMING 40 Fifth st

Very nice 2 family, one side move in the other rented separate utilities, 6 rooms each side plus 1/2 bath upstairs each side. Wonderful neighborhood plus short walking distance to Wyoming Avenue. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com 11-4027. $124,900 Call Nancy Bohn 570-237-0752

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414 Front St. Move right into this modern office building featuring 4 offices, receptionist office, large conference room, modern kitchen, storage room, full basement, central air, handicap access. 2 car garage and 5 additional off street parking spaces. This property is also available for lease. Lease price is $675/mo + $675 security deposit. Tenant pays all utilities. Sells for $89,900 Call John Polifka 570-704-6846 5 Mountains Realty 42 N. Main St. Shickshinny, PA 570-542-2141

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Well maintained 2 story home with a finished lower level and a gas fireplace. New carpets and a walk-up attic, great for storage. $65,000 MLS# 11-4529 Call Michael Nocera

1334 Main St. 1 story, 2,600 sq. ft. commePrcial building, masonry construction with offices and warehousing. Central air, alarm system and parking. Great for contractors or anyone with office/storage needs. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com. MLS 11-3156 $84,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

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3 bedroom, 2 story, with brick & stucco siding. Beautiful hardwood floors. Semi-modern kitchen. Finished basement with fireplace. Covered back porch. Priced to sell. $79,900. MLS 11-2987 Besecker Realty 570-675-3611

JENKINS TWP.

1255 Laurel Run Rd. Bear Creek Twp., large commercial garage/warehouse on 1.214 acres with additional 2 acre parcel. 2 water wells. 2 newer underground fuel tanks. May require zoning approval. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 12-208 $179,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

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This very nice 2 story, 3 bedroom, 1 bath home has a large eat in kitchen for family gatherings. A great walk up attic for storage and the home is in move-in condition. MLS 11-1612 $63,900 Call Karen Coldwell Banker Rundle Real Estate 570-474-2340

Nice home, great price. 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, wood floors, off street parking, Approx 1312sq ft. Currently rented out for $550 monthly, no lease. Keep it as an investment or make this your new home. MLS 11-3207 $46,000 Call/text for Details. Donna Cain 570-947-3824

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$42,900 272 Stanton Street 7 rooms, 3 bedrooms, eat-in kitchen, 1 1/2 baths. Laundry room with washer & dryer, eat in kitchen includes refrigerator, stove, & dishwasher, built in A/C unit, fenced in yard, security system. MLS #11-4532 GO TO THE TOP... CALL JANE KOPP JANE KOPP REAL ESTATE 570-288-7481

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12 Reid st. Spacious Bi-level home in semi-private location with private back yard. 3 season room. Gas fireplace in lower level family room. 4 bedrooms, garage. For more informtion and photos visit wwww.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 10-4740 $149,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200 VM 101

EDWARDSVILLE

89-91 Hillside Ave. Out of the flood plain this double has potential. Newer roof & some windows have been replaced. Property includes a large extra lot. Square ft. approximate. MLS 11-3463 $67,000 Roger Nenni EXT. 32 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

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Three large offices along with a reception area with builtin secretarial/paralegal work stations; a large conference room with built-in bookshelves, kitchenette and bathroom. Lower level has 7 offices, 2 bathrooms, plenty of storage. HIGHLY visible location, off-street parking. Why rent office space? Use part of building & rent space- share expenses and build equity. MLS#11-995 REDUCED TO $399,000 Judy Rice 570-714-9230 Call Tracy Zarola 570-696-0723

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64-66 Dorrance St. 3 units, off street parking with some updated Carpets and paint. $1500/ month income from long time tenants. W/d hookups on site. MLS 11-3517 $109,900 Call Jay A. Crossin Ext. 23 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

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Lawrence St. Nice 3 unit property. Lots of off street parking and bonus 2 car garage. All units are rented. Great income with low maintenance. $139,900 MLS# 10-2675 Call Karen Coldwell Banker Rundle Real Estate 570-474-2340 FORTY FORT

1012 Wyoming Ave. SUPER LOCATION Needs work. Priced to sell. Great for your small business or offices. Very high traffic count. Property is being sold IN AS IS CONDITION. Inspections for buyers information only. Property needs rehab. MLS 11-4267 $84,900 Roger Nenni 570-288-0770 Ext. 32 Crossin Real Estate 570-288-0770

33 Market St. Commercial/residential property featuring Ranch home with 3 bedrooms, newly remodeled bathroom, in good condition. Commercial opportunity for office in attached building. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3450 Reduced $159,000 Call Tom 570-262-7716

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423 E. Church St. Great 2 family in move in condition on both sides, Separate utilities, 6 rooms each. 3 car detached garage in super neighborhood. Walking distance to college. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-1608 $123,000 Call Tom 570-262-7716

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Four-bay garage with attached 725SF office, also large garage now used for storage. Presently being used as auto sales, repair and storage. Property has security fence and exterior lighting. One acre lot. MLS # 10-2413 $215,000 Louise Laine 570-283-9100 x20

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379-381 Sixth St. Perfect first home for you with one side paying most of your mortgage. Would also make a nice investment with all separate utilities and nice rents. Large fenced yard, priced to sell. Don’t wait too long. Call today to schedule a tour. MLS 11-1453 REDUCED!! $84,900 Mark R. Mason 570-331-0982 CROSS REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

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406-408 Front St. 4,400 SF commercial building with storefront and living space on the 2nd floor. This building can be used for commercial applications or convert it into a double block. Property being sold “AS IS”. MLS 11-4271 $40,000 John Polifka 570-704-6846 Five Mountains Realty 570-542-2141

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166 Vine St. Nice PPthree family home in good location, fully occupied. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 12-220 $49,900 Call Tom 570-262-7716

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Rear 49 James St. Two 2 bedroom apartments, fully rented with separate utilities on a quiet street. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 12-219 $39,900 Call Tom 570-262-7716

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Very clean, landscaped, well managed multi-tenant professional office with excellent access to highway system. Attractive base rate. Just off Laird Street near Woodlands Inn. Contact Griff Keefer 570-574-0421

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285 Wyoming Ave. First floor currently used as a shop, could be offices, etc. Prime location, corner lot, full basement. 2nd floor is 3 bedroom apartment plus 3 car garage and parking for 6 cars. For more information and photos go to www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS #10-4339 $169,900 Call Charlie VM 101

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38 Wedgewood Dr. Laurelbrook Estates Lot featuring 3.22 acres with great privacy on cul-desac. Has been perc tested and has underground utilities. 4 miles to PA Turnpike entrance. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 12-114 $64,900 Call Tom 570-262-7716

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IN THE HEART OF WILKES-BARRE

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WILKES-BARRE 1

FULLY FURNISHED BEDROOM APARTMENT

Â&#x160;Short or long term Â&#x160;Excellent Neighborhood Â&#x160;Private Tenant Parking Â&#x160;$600 includes all utilities. No pets. 570-822-9697

WILKES-BARRE

FULLY FURNISHED 1 BEDROOM APARTMENT

Â&#x160;Short or long term Â&#x160;Excellent Neighborhood Â&#x160;Private Tenant Parking Â&#x160;$600 includes all utilities. No pets. 570-822-9697

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MARTIN D. POPKY APARTMENTS

61 E. Northampton St. Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701 â&#x20AC;˘ Affordable Senior Apartments â&#x20AC;˘ Income Eligibility Required â&#x20AC;˘ Utilities Included! â&#x20AC;˘ Low cable rates; â&#x20AC;˘ New appliances; â&#x20AC;˘ Laundry on site; â&#x20AC;˘ Activities! â&#x20AC;˘Curbside Public Transportation

Please call 570-825-8594 D/TTY 800-654-5984

Apartments/ Unfurnished

ASHLEY

Available Now 1st floor, 2 bedroom. Off street parking. Washer dryer hookup. Appliances. Bus stop at the door. Water Included.$575 + utilities & security. No pets. TRADEMARK REALTY GROUP 570-954-1992

Immediate Occupancy!!

ASHLEY

Available Now 2nd floor, 2 bedroom. Off street parking. Washer dryer hookup. Appliances. Bus stop at the door. Water Included.$575 + utilities & security. No pets. TRADEMARK REALTY GROUP 570-954-1992

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Commercial Properties

AVOCA

Two 1 bedroom, 2nd floor apartments. Refrigerator & stove, washer/ dryer hookup, offstreet parking, no pets. $475 & 450/per month. Water & sewer paid, security & references required. 570-457-5251

BACK MOUNTAIN

Cozy 1 bedroom. Heat & Appliances. $475/ month. 570-574-2588

DALLAS

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Dallas, Pa. MEADOWS APARTMENTS 220 Lake St. Housing for the elderly & mobility impaired; all utilities included. Federally subsidized program. Extremely low income persons encouraged to apply. Income less than $12,400. 570-675-6936, 8 am-4 pm, Mon-Fri. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE

DUPONT 1 bedroom, off-

street parking, no pets. $450/month. Heat paid. 1 month security. Call 570-655-2306

DUPONT 2nd floor, 2 bed-

rooms, w/w carpeting, fridge, stove. Hot water, heat, sewer included. No pets, no smoking. $600/mo. + security 570-655-5196

DURYEA

Updated 1 bedroom apartment & den, neutral pottery barn colors, open-plan living, dining & kitchen area, all appliances, hardwood floors, parking. $655. 570-451-1982

EXETER

4 large rooms, 2nd floor. 1 block from the Avenue. Range, fridge, heat/hot water furnished. Very clean. Quiet neighborhood. W/w, w/d hookup, attic and rear porch $675/mo + security 570-574-1276 (C) 570-288-4860

FORTY FORT

For seniors age 62+ or disabled according to social security guidelines

Commercial Properties

AVOCA

2nd floor modern 2 bedroom, fridge, stove, w/d, heat and garbage incl. Off street parking. No pets $575/mo. lease and security. 570-479-1203

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NOW LEASING!

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ASHLEY

We Care about the place you call home, & we want you to care about it too!! 2 & 3 bedrooms, reserved parking. Short block to bus stop. $650 & 725 rent includes heat/ water/sewer & trash. Application, references, background check, smoke free, pet free, lease + security. Call Terry 570-824-1022

2nd floor. 2 bedroom, living room & kitchen. Laundry room. Tenant pays utilities. First, last, & security. $570/mo. 570-956-7571

KINGSTON

Regions Best Address

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2 bedroom. Vinyl siding, shingled roof. Clean. NEEDS NO WORK. Minutes from I81 & Turnpike. Excellent Condition. $19,900. 570-851-6128 or 610-767-9456

570-822-2711

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2 & 3 BR Townhomes

EAST MOUNTAIN APARTMENTS

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ASHLEY PARK Double wide home. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths. 3 season deck & carport, new appliances, many upgrades, near Rts 81, 309 & Hanover Industrial Park $54,500. Serious Calls Only. (570) 826-0887

Apartments/ Unfurnished

Wilkeswood Apartments 156 X 110 X 150 X 45 1 & 2 BR

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TUNKHANNOCK

Approximately 4 acres. Perk Tested & Surveyed. Well above flood level. Mountain View. Clear land. $45,000. Bill 570-665-9054

Apartments/ Unfurnished

ASHLEY

LAFLIN Lot#9 Pinewood Dr

Wyoming Co, NY Bennington Twp. Cotton Hill Rd. ASKING $32,000 1-814-392-6548

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SHAVERTOWN LAND

Harford Ave. 4 buildable residential lots for sale individually or take all 4! Buyer to confirm water and sewer with zoning officer. Directions: R. on E. Franklin, R. on Lawn to L. on Harford. $22,500 per lot Mark Mason 570-331-0982 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

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Commercial Properties

1st floor, 2 bedroom, gas heat, nice kitchen & bath, new flooring, optional garage. Washer/ dryer included $685/month. Call after 6 p.m. 570-220-6533

FORTY FORT 2nd floor, 2 bed-

room, 1 1/2 baths, large living & dining room. Eat-in kitchen with washer/dryer hookup. Kitchen appliances included + AC units. Enclosed porch. Cable + internet also included. Off street parking. No smoking, no pets. $850 + security & utilities. Available March 1. Call 570-762-3031

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Commercial Properties

OFFICENTERS - Pierce St., Kingston

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Apartments/ Unfurnished

FORTY FORT 51 Dana Street

2 bedroom, 1st floor. Heat & 1 car garage. $650/month, 1st & security required. Application & credit check 570-885-5146

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For Rental Information Call:

1-570-287-1161

Apartments/ Unfurnished

KINGSTON

Newly renovated. 3 bedroom. Wall to wall carpet. Screened in porch. Off street parking. Fridge, stove, washer & dryer included. Sewer, lawn maintenance & snow removal also included. $750 + utilities. Call (570) 807-7204 LEAVE MESSAGE

KINGSTON PRIME LOCATION

1st floor, 5 rooms, 2 bedrooms, 2 porches. Range, fridge, w/d, basement, yard, off street parking. $650/mo plus utilities, lease & security. Garage & extra parking $40. 570-417-7659

2nd floor, spacious, well maintained, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, in convenient nice neighborhood. Large living/dining area, large eat in kitchen with w/d hookup. Front porch, screened back porch. Great closet/storage space,w/w carpeting, central air, off street parking. $900/month plus utilities. Call 570510-4778 from 9am-5pm for an appointment.

SPACIOUS 1/2 DOUBLES 3 bedrooms, back yard. Separate utilities. No pets. Background & security. $750/month. 570-242-8380

FORTY FORT

KINGSTON

BEAUTY EFFICIENT 1 bedroom, fireplace, courtyard parking, appliances, professionally managed. LEASE/ EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION/ NO PETS/ SMOKING $465+ utilities

AMERICA REALTY

288-1422

FORTY FORT

Wyoming Ave. Single level rear house (directly behind owners), approximately 1100 sq ft. 1 car off street parking, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, plenty of storage, quiet place, washer /dryer/fridge/stove, no pets or smoking, owner pays water, $600/mo + security deposit. 570-592-7921

HUDSON 2 bedrooms, 1 bath,

refrigerator & stove, washer/dryer hookup, full basement, no pets. $625/month, water & sewer paid, security. 570-829-5378

JENKINS TWP.

3rd floor, 1 bedroom. All utilities included. Refrigerator & stove. No pets. Available now. $600 month. Call 570-362-0942

KINGSTON

109 N. Thomas Ave Efficiency with separate kitchen. Modern. Heat, garbage & hot water included. $475, lease, security. 570-474-5023

KINGSTON 40 Pierce Street

1st floor. 2 bedroom. Heat, hot and cold water, trash included. $725/mo. Cats considered. Call (570) 474-5023

KINGSTON

705 Nandy Drive Modern, clean 2 bedroom, all appliances, central air, & off-street parking, No pets / NonSmoking $660/ month + utilities 570-696-3915

KINGSTON Awsome 2 bedroom

apartments! New appliances, washer/dryer on site, garage parking, no pets. 2nd floor $925 & 1st floor $1,075. Heat, water, & sewer included. Call 570-417-2049 KINGSTON

CLEAN -FRESH PAINT

New carpet 1st & 2nd floor. Bathroom renovated, 3 bedrooms, spacious living room, nice kitchen, laundry room with washer/ dryer hook-up. $795 /month + utilities + security. No pets/ smoking. Credit & background check. 908.246.9434

KINGSTON

E.Light, WALNUT ST. bright, 3rd

floor, 2 bedrooms, carpeted, security system. Garage. Extra storage & cable TV included. Laundry facilities. Heat & hot water furnished. Fine neighborhood. Convenient to bus & stores. No pets. References. Security. Lease. No smokers please. $715. 570-287-0900

KINGSTON

Professional OfďŹ ce Rentals

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Near Kirby Park, attractive 1st floor, 2 bedroom duplex. 1.5 baths, washer/ dryer, refrigerator, range, dishwasher. Basement, off street parking, large covered porch. No pets. References & credit check. Includes gas heat, sewer & water. $650 + electric. Call 570-474-5892

KINGSTON

Third Avenue. 2nd floor. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, eat in kitchen, dining room, living room, washer/dryer hookup. $525/ month, + utilities & 1 month security. Call 570-654-0817

KINGSTON

Wyoming Avenue 2nd floor, 1 bedroom, appliances, laundry room. $410 + electric. Security & references. 570-696-1600

LARKSVILLE

3 bedroom, 1 bath. $725, with discount. All new hardwood floors and tile. New cabinets/bathroom. Dishwasher, garbage disposal. Washer/dryer hook-up. Off street parking. Facebook us at BOVO Rentals 570-328-9984

LUZERNE

1 bedroom, wall to wall, off-street parking, coin laundry, water, sewer & garbage included. $495/ month + security & lease. HUD accepted. Call 570-687-6216 or 570-954-0727

LUZERNE Clean and spacious

1st floor. 2 bedrooms, off street parking, w/d hookup. Plenty of storage. Incl. stove, fridge, sewer and garbage. $650/mo plus security and references. No pets 570-466-4176 570-388-6468

LUZERNEground Modern,

floor, one bedroom apt. Includes heat, & hot water.$660. 570-817-8169

MOOSIC 4 rooms. 2nd floor.

Heat, water & sewer included. $695 + security & references. Call 570-457-7854

MOUNTAIN TOP

1 Bedroom apartments for elderly, disabled. Rents based on 30% of ADJ gross income. Handicap Accessible. Equal Housing Opportunity. TTY711 or 570-474-5010 This institution is an equal opportunity provider & employer.

MOUNTAIN TOP

1 bedroom with full kitchen. Remodeled recently, first floor, ample parking. Hot water, sewer & garbage included. On Rt 309 - close to all amenities! No pets. Non smoking. $560/month + security & references. 570-239-3827

NANTICOKE

2nd floor, 1 bedroom, washer/dryer hookup, off street parking. No pets. $450/month, heat, water, & hot water incl. 570-855-3958 leave message.

NANTICOKES 603 H ANOVER

2nd floor, 1 bedroom. No pets. $500 + security, utilities & lease. Photos available. 570-542-5330

NANTICOKE

East State Street 1 & 2 bedroom apartments. Modern kitchen & bathrooms. All appliances. Ample storage. Some utilities included. $475 & $585 per month. Call (570) 239-2741

NANTICOKE

Nice clean 1 bedroom. Heat, hot water, garbage fee included. Stove, fridge, air-conditioning, washer/dryer availability. Security. $525 per month Call (570) 736-3125

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NANTICOKE

Very clean, nice, 2 bedroom. Water, sewer, stove, fridge, Garbage collection fee included. W/d availability. Large rooms. Security, $545/mo. 570-736-3125 NUANGOLA

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WEST WYOMING

429 West 8th Street New 2 bedroom with off street parking, private patio, washer/dryer, stove included. No pets. $575/mos + security Sewer & garbage included other utilities by tenant. 570-760-0458

WILKES-BARRE

Adorable year round lake cabin available for 1 year lease. 854 sq.ft. with 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. Also features 10x25 screened porch, off street parking & appliances. Lake access. Security deposit required. $700/month + utilities. Call Pam Mcgovern 570-474-6307 or 570-715-7749

SMITH HOURIGAN GROUP

PITTSTON 2nd floor, 2 bed-

rooms, 1 bathroom, refrigerator & stove provided, washer/ dryer hookup, pets negotiable. $525/ month, water and sewer paid, security and lease required. Call after 4pm. 570-237-6277

PITTSTON

2nd floor. 1 bedroom, private entrance, newly painted, w/w carpeting, washer/ dryer hookup, off street parking. Water & sewer included. No Pets No Smoking! $425 + security. 570-883-9384

PITTSTON APARTMENT

2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, living room, kitchen, refrigerator & stove provided, off-street parking, no pets/ smoke free. $500/month+ utilities, security and lease required. 570-237-0190 PLAINS 1st floor. Modern 2 bedroom. Kitchen with appliances. All new carpet. Convenient location. No smoking. No pets. $550 + utilities. 570-714-9234

PLYMOUTH

2 bedroom apt. Heat, water, stove & fridge included. Near bus stop. $600/month No smoking or pets. Credit and background check, security & references required. Call (570) 592-2902

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PLYMOUTH

2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom,washer/dryer hook-up, enclosed porch, off-street parking, $475 per month + security & utilities. Call 570-821-9881

PLYMOUTH

Center Avenue Efficiency. 1st floor, heat, hot water, refrigerator & range included. $395/ month + security & references. No pets 570-779-2257 PLYMOUTH Large 1 bedroom apartment. Newly painted. Includes heat, water, sewer, fridge & range. $500 + security. Call Bernie 888-244-2714

SHAVERTOWN 2 bedroom, private

setting with pond. 1.5 baths. Ultra modern kitchen with appliances, dishwasher & microwave included. Plenty of closet & storage. Washer/dryer hook up. Private drive. $1,100/month. Water, sewer & garbage included. Security deposit required. Call 570-760-2362

WEST PITTSTON

2 bedroom. 2nd floor. $500 plus utilities 570-299-5471 West Pittston, Pa. GARDEN VILLAGE APARTMENTS 221 Fremont St. Housing for the elderly & mobility impaired; all utilities included. Federally subsidized program. Extremely low income persons encouraged to apply. Income less than $12,400. 570-655-6555, 8 am-4 pm, Monday-Friday. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE

WEST WYOMING

2nd floor, 1 bedroom apartment. All appliances. Washer/ dryer. Off street parking. No pets. $525 + utilities, security & references. Call 570-954-2972

Mayflower Crossing Apartments 570.822.3968 2, 3 & 4 Bedrooms - Light & bright open floor plans - All major appliances included - Pets welcome* - Close to everything - 24 hour emergency maintenance - Short term leases available

Call TODAY For AVAILABILITY!! www.mayflower crossing.com

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Apartments/ Unfurnished

WILKES-BARRE Short Term OK! Studio near Wilkes. Furniture available. Lease till June or August. $450. All utilities included. 570-826-1934 WILKES-BARRE Â&#x160;1 bedroom water included Â&#x160;2 bedroom water included Â&#x160;2 bedroom single family Â&#x160;6 bedroom large half double HANOVER Â&#x160;2 bedroom NANTICOKE Â&#x160;2 bedroom large, water included PITTSTON Â&#x160;Large 1 bedroom water included KINGSTON Â&#x160;3 Bedroom Half Double LUZERNE Â&#x160;2 bedroom water included OLD FORGE Â&#x160;2 bedroom water included McDermott & McDermott Real Estate Inc. Property Management 570-821-1650 (direct line) Mon-Fri. 8-7pm Sat. 8-noon

Certain Restrictions Apply*

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Commercial Properties

OFFICE SPACE PLAINS

Total space 30,000 sf. Build to suit. Perfect for Doctors suite, day care, etc. High visibility. Lots of parking. Rent starting $10/sf. MLS 11-4200 Call Nancy or Holly JOSEPH P. GILROY REAL ESTATE 570-288-1444

PITTSTON COOPERS CO-OP

Lease Space Available, Light manufacturing, warehouse, office, includes all utilities with free parking. I will save you money!

PITTSTON

Main St. 1350 sq. ft. building. Formerly an appliance store. $750/mo. 570-654-1243

PLAINS

WILKES-BARRE WILKES-BARRE/NORTH Quiet neighborhood. Apartment near /SOUTH 1st floor, 1 bedroom, Mohegan Sun, Mall refrigerator & stove provided, washer/ dryer hookup, offstreet parking. Heat included. $525/ month, + security. Call 570-718-0331

WILKES-BARRE

72 W. River St.

Spacious 1st floor, 1 bedroom in an Historic Colonial house. Next to Barre Hall on Wilkes Campus. Hardwood floors. Washer & dryer. Off street parking. $675 + security.

& Arena. 1 bedroom, living room, kitchen & bath. Recently remodeled. New Stove, washer, dryer & fridge. included. Heat, hot water, sewer & recycling fees included. Off street parking. $600 /mo. + security. References, credit & background checks required. Call 570-861-2264

WYOMING

1 bedroom 2nd floor at $625/month. Off street parking. Non smoking. No pets. Bonus walk up attic with tons of storage. Heat, water, garbage, sewer included. 1 month security, credit check & references. 1 year lease. Please call Donna 570-613-9080

570-991-1619

WILKES-BARRE

102 Westminster St 3 bedroom. $650 + security. Section 8 welcome. Call 570-287-1349 or 570-817-1605

WILKES-BARRE

264 Academy St 1.5 bedrooms, newly renovated building. Washer & dryer available. $600/per month includes heat, hot water and parking. 570-328-9896 570-855-4744

WILKES-BARRE APARTMENTS FOR RENT!

425 S. FRANKLIN ST. For lease. Available immediately, washer/dryer on premises, no pets. We have studio & 1 bedroom apts. On site parking. Fridge & stove provided. 24/7 security camera presence and all doors electronically locked. Studio $450. 1 bedroom $550. Water & sewer paid. One month/security deposit. Call 570-793-6377 or 570-208-9301 after 9:00 a.m. to schedule an appointment. Or email shlomo_voola @yahoo.com wilkesliving.com

WILKES-BARRE â&#x20AC;&#x153;GENERAL HOSPITALâ&#x20AC;? WALK

Close to Cross valley. Marvelous, clean, 2nd floor, 1 bedroom, tiled bath, appliances, courtyard parking. LEASE/NO PETS/ SMOKING/ EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION $465 + utilities.

AMERICA REALTY 288-1422 WILKES-BARRE

LAFAYETTE GARDENS

SAVE MONEY THIS YEAR! 113 Edison St. Quiet neighborhood. 2 bedroom apartments available for immediate occupancy. Heat & hot water included. $625 Call Aileen at 570-822-7944

WILKES-BARRE

Modern, 1st floor apartment. 2 bedroom, 1.5 baths, offstreet parking. No pets, no smokers. Security & credit/ background check required. $550/ month + utilities. 570-881-4078

WYOMING

BLANDINA APARTMENTS Deluxe 1 & 2 bedroom. Wall to wall carpet. Some utilities by tenant. No pets. Non-smoking. Elderly community. Quiet, safe. Off street parking. Call 570-693-2850

WYOMING

Large 2 bedroom, 1st floor, lease, security, section 8 accepted. Handicap accessible, $695 + electric. All other utilities included. 570-687-6216 or 570-954-0727

WYOMING

Updated 1 bedroom. New Wall to wall carpet. Appliances furnished. Coin op laundry. $550. Heat, water & sewer included. Call 570-687-6216 or 570-954-0727

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Commercial Properties

Center City WB

FREE HIGH SPEED INTERNET! Why pay extra for

internet? Our new leases include a FREE high speed connection! Affordable modern office space at the Luzerne Bank Building on Public Square. Rents include internet, heat, central air, utilities, trash removal, and nightly cleaning all without a sneaky CAM charge. Parking available at the intermodal garage via our covered bridge. 300SF to 5000SF available. We can remodel to suit. Brokers protected. Call Jeff Pyros at 570-822-8577

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DOLPHIN PLAZA

Rte. 315 3800 SF, will divide Office / Retail Call 570-829-1206

GARAGES

1200 sq. ft. garage zoned for commercial $400 per month. ALSO 1200 SQ.FT. WITH LIFT $700 MONTH (570) 814-8876

LUZERNE

125 Main Street Office or Retail Space available with over 2,000 sq. ft. plus attached garage. High traffic area. $650/ month + utilities. Call 570-331-3600

AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY 1,500 SQ.FT. 1350 River Road Excellent location for small business or office. Will remodel to suit tenant. Call 570-760-3714 or 570-237-5664

RETAIL BUILDING

WILKES-BARRE TWP 12,000 sf. Route 309. Exit 165 off I81. 570-823-1719

Job Seekers are looking here! Where's your ad? 570-829-7130 and ask for an employment specialist

315 PLAZA 1750 sf former Physician Office. OFFICE/RETAIL 570-829-1206

WAREHOUSE/LIGHT MANUFACTURING OFFICE SPACE PITTSTON Main St.

12,000 sq. ft. building in downtown location. Warehouse with light manufacturing. Building with some office space. Entire building for lease or will sub-divide. MLS #10-1074 Call Charlie 570-829-6200 VM 101

WILKES-BARRE

RETAIL LEASE Available

Immediately. High traffic volume & great visibility on Wilkes-Barre Blvd. 1900 sq. ft., in Wilkes Plaza, with plenty of parking. $2,000 / monthly. Call Terry Eckert LEWITH & FREEMAN 570-760-6007

WYOMING

72â&#x20AC;&#x2122; x 200â&#x20AC;&#x2122; VACANT COMMERCIAL LOT 233 Wyoming Ave, Rt. 11 (1/4 mile from proposed Walmart) For Sale or lease. $96,000. 570-388-6669

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Garages

PLAINS

1 1/2 car garage. $125 month 570-714-9234

WEST PITTSTON

4 locking garages/ storage units for rent. 9â&#x20AC;&#x2122;x11â&#x20AC;&#x2122;. $55/ month. No electric. Call 570-357-1138

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Half Doubles

ALDEN / NANTICOKE

3 Bedrooms. Gas Heat. Hookups. Parking. Large yard. No Pets. $545 + utilities Security $300 570-824-8786

FORTY FORT

26 Oak Street 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, all appliances provided, washer/ dryer hookup, garage parking, fenced yard, pets OK, $795/month, plus utilities. Call 570-415-5555

HANOVER TWP.

$650/month, 2 bedroom, 1 bath, living dining room & eat in kitchen. Appliances, washer/dryer hook up. Off street parking. Water, sewer & recyclables included. Security, references & credit check. No pets. 570-824-3223

HANOVER TWP.

TIMES LEADER www.timesleader.com 950

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KINGSTON

ONE MONTH FREE 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, refrigerator, stove & dishwasher, washer/dryer on premises, front & rear porches, full basement & attic. Offstreet parking, no pets, totally remodeled. $1,000/month, + utilities, security & lease. Call 570-824-7598

PLAINS

2 bedroom, modern quiet, w/w, w/d hookup, gas heat. $475. No pets. Security & lease. 570-332-1216 570-592-1328

953 Houses for Rent

HARVEYS LAKE

3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, large living room, dining room family room, kitchen with appliances, washer / dryer hookup. New w/w carpet & freshly painted. Large yard & screened porch. Water, sewer, garbage & snow plowing included. No pets. Non smoking. Security deposit, references & credit check required. $1,100/per month + utilities. 570-709-6678

HARVEY’S LAKE

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Live on the lake this summer in a 2 bedroom lake house! Living room with wood fireplace and dining room overlooking lake. No smokers. References, credit check 1 year lease. $1200 month. 570-696-5417

NEW LUXURY DUPLEX This beautiful, completely renovated 2 bedroom luxury apartment could be yours! All new high end amenities include: hardwood floors, gorgeous maple kitchen cabinets with granite countertops & stainless steel appliances. Spacious great room with gas fireplace. Stacked washer/dryer. All new tile bath. Large screened-in porch. Many large, convenient closets. Central Air. New gas heating system. Huge attic for storage. “Must See!” $850 + utilities, lease & security. NO PETS. Call for appointment. 570-793-6294

LARKSVILLE Conveniently locat-

PLAINS

PLYMOUTH 3 bedroom, 1 bath. Located on Academy St. New paint, carpet & windows. $700 + utilities & security. Small pet OK with extra security. Off street parking . Call 570-760-6410

ed. Spacious 4 bedroom single. Gas heat. Off street parking. Lease, no pets. Security. Call Ann Marie Chopick 570-760-6769

570-288-6654

NANTICOKE

Desirable Lexington Village Nanticoke, PA Many ranch style homes. 2 bedrooms 2 Free Months With A 2 Year Lease $900 + electric only

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Collect cash, not dust! Clean out your basement, garage or attic and call the Classified department today at 570829-7130! NANTICOKE RENTAL-SINGLE FAMILY HOME

porch, yard. $750 monthly. available march 1st. (516) 507-9403 or 516-582-9719

953 Houses for Rent

BACK MOUNTAIN Private, 3 bedroom

ranch, patio, porch, appliances, work shop. $830 + utilities & security. Call 570-522-0084 DALLAS

GREENBRIAR Well maintained ranch style condo features living room with cathedral ceiling, oak kitchen, dining room with vaulted ceiling, 2 bedrooms and 2 3/4 baths, master bedroom with walk in closet. HOA fees included. $1,000 per month + utilities. MLS#11-4063. Call Kevin Smith 570-696-5422

SMITH HOURIGAN 570-696-1195

DRUMS SAND SPRINGS

Golf Community Townhouse. Modern kitchen, 3 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, 2 stall garage. 3 minutes to interstates 81 & 80. $1350 + utilities. Call 570-582-4575

HARVEYS LAKE

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, all appliances, hardwood floors, washer/dryer on premises, single car attached garage. No pets. $925/month + security. Water, sewer & garbage paid. Call 570-855-2687

SWOYERSVILLE

Renovated 2 bedroom mobile home with central air, new carpeting, modern kitchen with all appliances, nice neighborhood, fenced yard and off street parking. No pets. Security & lease. $495 + all utilities. 570-690-3086

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WILKES-BARRE

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Great neighborhood, 3 bedrooms, modern kitchen & bath. Wall to wall carpet. $625 + security & utilities. Call 570-856-3700

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bedroom, 1.5 bath, behind VA hospital in Summit Place. Kitchen appliances, parking. $800/mo + utilities. Call Annie 570-497-6060

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BARNESVILLE 1st floor efficiency and bigger, all utilities. $100/mo 570-929-1444

122 Willow St.

Very clean and comfortable ½ double for rent. Large, level fenced yard. Quiet neighborhood. Rental application, verification of employment / income & credit check required. Tenant is responsible for all utilities except sewer. Call today for your private showing MLS 12-426 $550/ month plus security deposit Mary Ellen Belchick 696-6566 Walter Belchick 606-2600 ext. 301

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202 East Union St., Very spacious single family home for rent. 3/4 bedrooms, kitchen with breakfast room, dining room, living room, 3-season porch. Range, refrigerator, dishwasher, washer & dryer provided. Note: there is no yard and garage is for owner’s use only. No pets of any kind. No smoking. Applicant to provide proof of income and is responsible for cost of credit check. MLS#12-357 $600 per month plus security deposit. Tenant is responsible for all utilities except sewer. Mary Ellen Belchick 696-6566 Walter Belchick 696-2600 ext. 301

PITTSTON 3 bedrooms, 1 bath,

off-street parking, no pets, total gas, includes cable & garbage. All appliances included. $700 + utilities & $700 security. Call 570-709-9765

PITTSTON Completely reno-

vated 3 bedrooms, stove provided, washer/dryer hookup, off-street parking, no pets. Background check. $695/month, + utilities, security required. Call 570-479-0302

PITTSTON TWP. Single family ranch

home. 3 bedrooms. Quiet area, large deck, private driveway. $750/month + security & utilities. 570-883-7220

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Building & Remodeling

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Chimney Service

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Concrete & Masonry

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Carpet Cleaning

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SWOYERSVILLE 124 Perrin St

SWOYERSVILLE Completely remodeled Large 2 story, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, single family home including refrigerator, stove, dishwasher & disposal. Gas heat, nice yard, good neighborhood,. Off street parking. Shed. No pets. $995 / month. 570-479-6722

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Dry Wall

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Handyman Services

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Hauling & Trucking

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Hanging & finishing, design ceilings and painting. Free estimates. Licensed & Insured. 328-1230

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Electrical

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SLEBODA ELECTRIC Master electrician Licensed & Insured Service Changes & Replacements. Generator Installs. 868-4469

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CASTAWAY HAULING JUNK REMOVAL

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Removal of Wood, Trash and Debris. Same Day Service.

570-826-1883

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1162 Landscaping/ Garden TREE REMOVAL Stump grinding, Hazard tree removal, Grading, Drainage, Lot clearing, Stone/ Soil delivery. Insured. Reasonable Rates 570-574-1862

1189 Miscellaneous Service

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Painting & Wallpaper

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Roofing & Siding

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Snow Removal

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