Back Mountain News

Back Mountain Memorial Library event, which starts tonight, counts on its dedicated volunteers.

For the 24th year, the Dallas Lions Club has presented $500 to the Back Mountain Memorial Library to purchase large-print books, audio tapes and CD's for the visually impaired.

Only then could the highlight of the evening begin most probably the biggest fireworks display of the Fourth of July weekend in Luzerne County.

Dallas resident Nancy Dingman routinely bought "cheap" chairs for about 50 cents the first night of the Back Mountain Memorial Library Auction in the early 1970s so she and her husband, Bob, had somewhere to sit during the event.

Television weather forecasters probably can't save the final night of the auction from being rained out as it was last year.

Thirteen-year-old Noah Sunday-Lefkowitz, a claymation animator with one of his characters, holds a presentation at the Back Mountain Memorial Library.

Mary T. Kolessar, Dean of Wyoming Seminary Middle School, has announced the Back Mountain students named to the Academic High Honor Roll and Academic Honor Roll for the third trimester of the 2008-2009 academic year.

Suit: Fee singles out properties in floodplain, ignores higher-elevation properties generating storm runoff.

Couple arrested in Plymouth burglary now face similar charges in Back Mountain. KINGSTON TWP.

Kathy Liljequist of GeoComm informed council Wednesday evening that field crews have finished collecting data in the borough for the E-911 standardized addressing project.

The Back Mountain Bloomers Garden Club will hold 12 seminars and demonstrations by some of the region's most recognized master gardeners, arborists and landscapers during the organization's 2009 "Tour of Back Mountain Gardens" on Saturday, June 27.

Sunday was an important day for a church community in Luzerne County's Back Mountain.

Newly formed Back Mountain Community Partnership hopes to secure more grant money.

PLYMOUTH TWP. Firefighters kept refilling a swimming pool for water Tuesday to battle a blaze that gutted a residence in a secluded area that has no hydrants.

Dallas United Methodist Church members will observe Father's Day at a place Jesus might visit if he were alive today.

A mural of the American flag painted by Son Yang on a wall at the Back Mountain Car Wash in Shavertown gets a second look from 3-year-old Joseph Sowga, of Shavertown.

When Steve and Carol Finelli moved into their 200-year-old farmhouse in Dallas Township 10 years ago, they had no idea the overgrown backyard contained a rock garden.

Dr. Marie Noel Keller, RSM , will discuss "Saint Paul: A Man of Grace and Grit" at a special program sponsored by the Back Mountain Ecumenical Ministerium at 6 p.m. Sunday at Dallas United Methodist Church.

A Classic Car, Truck and Motorcycle Show was held to benefit the Alzheimers Association Memory Walk at the Back Mountain Bowl in Dallas Saturday.

Scouts Michael Santora, left, Justin Butsavage, center, and Jacob Serafin from Dallas Cub Scout Pack 281 salute and carry their flags during Memorial Day services at the Woodlawn Cemetery.