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AT RIGHT: Police arrested 13 suspects in a drug bust on Wednesday morning, including Hugh Parkhurst, 52, of Meshoppen, here with John Kern, left and Trooper Robert Urban. STAFF PHOTO/MIKE RUDOLF

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The Wyoming County Press Examiner keeps readers in the county and adjoining portions of Susquehanna, Bradford, Lackawanna and Luzerne counties up-to-date with local news not found in any other newspaper. Its news coverage as well as public service efforts have merited the Press Examiner numerous state and local awards.

Drug suspects rounded up

BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK - An investigation over the past eight months led to the arrest of more than a dozen people on drug charges in Wyoming County on Wednesday. Two other suspects were arrested later in the week. District Attorney Jeff Mitchell called the suspects...

Posted to WC Examiner News on 02-02-2010
Forkston flood victims demand help

BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner FORKSTON - About two dozen residents crammed into the township supervisors meeting Monday night, wanting to know if they'll get any help to recover from last week's flooding. They also pushed...

Posted to WC Examiner News on 02-02-2010
Taxpayers group needs your help

BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner Ever wanted to ask politicians a pointed question about something that's been bugging you before they're elected ? Well, then, you're just the person the Concerned Wyoming County Taxpayers' Political Action Committee needs. Secretary Kim...

Posted to WC Examiner News on 02-02-2010
County drops East Lemon bridge

BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner TUNKHANNOCK - The Wyoming County Commissioners are scrapping plans to replace a bridge that no one wants anyway. At Tuesday's meeting, the commissioners reported that PennDOT does not want to continue...

Posted to WC Examiner News on 02-02-2010
Treat your valentine to a serenade

BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner Valentine's Day is not far away, and many are looking for the perfect gift. Members of the Endless Mountains Barbershop Chorus are offering Singing Valentines, which are sure to be remembered. A quartet from the chorus is available to go to someone's...

Posted to WC Examiner News on 02-02-2010
At 108, Reynolds likely nation’s oldest scout

BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner As the Boy Scouts of America prepare to celebrate their 100 th birthday on Monday, Feb. 8, not very many people can speak to what scouting was like in its earliest years. Ira Reynolds can. The 108-year...

Posted to WC Examiner News on 02-02-2010
Student at Luzerne portrays Boy Scout of ideal character

Editor's Note: In the spring of 1918, and when Ira Reynolds was just 16, one of the Wilkes-Barre newspapers carried in full a recitation he gave from memory at that year's Luzerne High School commencement about the Boy Scout portrayal of ideal character. The newspaper declared that few addresses...

Posted to WC Examiner News on 02-02-2010
Well incident injures three

BY ROBERT L. BAKER Wyoming County Press Examiner Three persons were injured early Thursday morning after an incident at a gas drilling site in Bradford County. According to Brian Grove of Chesapeake Energy, "equipment failure occurring during completion...

Posted to WC Examiner News on 02-02-2010
Marino announces candidacy

BY ROBERT L. BAKER TUNKHANNOCK - Former U.S. Attorney Tom Marino formally jumped into the Republican race for Congress Wednesday, and stopped by the Wyoming County Press Examiner office Thursday to discuss his platform. Marino, 57, of Lycoming County, is seeking his party's nomination for the 10th...

Posted to WC Examiner News on 02-02-2010
$1M lottery winner in Meshoppen

BY MICHAEL J. RUDOLF Wyoming County Press Examiner A Meshoppen man is the winner of $1 million in the Pennsylvania Lottery. Lottery officials confirmed Tuesday that Bernard Ostrowsky was a big winner with an instant ticket purchased at RJ's Food Mart...

Posted to WC Examiner News on 02-02-2010