Back Mountain News

The township will give more money next year to several area organizations. REBECCA BRIA rbria@timesleader.com KINGSTON TWP.

Misericordia University has donated high-tech safety shields for use by the Dallas and Dallas Township police departments to help protect them as they respond to incidents involving gunfire.

Camp Orchard Hill kitchen volunteers, from left, Lisa Stull, Tori Titus, Rebecca Stull, Stephanie Sheridan and Alayne Rogers are hoping more volunteers will come out to help in December when the camp hosts homeless men from the program V.I.S.I.O.N. As guest services director at Camp Orchard Hill, a Christian camp in Franklin Township, Stull got ...

Voters are going to the polls Tuesday across the area. This is the first general election since two former Luzerne County judges were charged in a corruption scandal with taking money in exchange for sending young people to juvenile detention centers.

Christine Hamill grooms her rough collie Michael as she gets him ready for the 71st All Breed Dog Show and Obedience Trial at the Bloomsburg Fair Grounds.

John Peruso, left, and Mike Terlesky work on editing a video of area veterans with the help of visiting professor Dan Kimbrough.

The Dallas Education Association sponsored a food drive to benefit the Back Mountain Food Bank and the St.

The Meadows Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Dallas, is collecting gently-used coats, gifts for the Toys for Tots program, and non-perishable food items for the Back Mountain Food Pantry.

Results from a recent survey show the majority of Dallas Township residents feel emergency services and response times in the township are good.

Back Mountain Wine Festival offers sampling of Pennsylvania's finest. If you're warming up with a glass of vino spicy and mulled, perhaps at the Back Mountain Wine Festival on Saturday, you might pause a moment to appreciate the harvesters who picked grapes last weekend amid raw winds, cold rain and wet snow.

In its attempt to find funding for a master plan and feasibility study to create an interconnected trail system throughout the Wyoming Valley, the Pennsylvania Environmental Council is seeking letters of support from local municipalities.

Skip Sensbach has conducted his annual effort to aid the Back Mountain Food Pantry.

A pair of jeans and sneakers may signal comfort, but in the Lake-Lehman School District they mean much more.

The Dallas Kiwanis Club will host a Halloween party and parade on Oct. 25. The parade begins at noon at the former Dallas Elementary School and concludes at the firehouse on the corner of Church and West Center streets where the party, refreshments and prizes will be presented.

LEHMAN TWP., Oct 13, 2009 -- Lake-Lehman officials hope more cyber charter school students opt to use a new program affiliated with the district, which would help reduce its more than $350,000 annual cyber charter tuition bill.

Wyoming Seminary recently awarded Upper School Merit Scholarships to three freshman students from the Back Mountain.

Things are coming up lilies for Rosemary Hozempa. The Back Mountain native is one of 11 finalists in a national contest to select the 2010 Easter Seal lily designs.

Lauren Wiley, director for the American Diabetes Association of Northeastern Pennsylvania, says because so many of the participants in the annual event are from the Back Mountain, the organization decided to move the walk to Dallas this year.

Ghosts, goblins and creatures of the night are making their way to the Back Mountain this Halloween season.

BARRE Around 9 on a late September night, five friends are still fishing at the River Common park.