Forty Fort News

Kirby Park in Wilkes Barre will have a new look by the beginning of summer. Over the next few months, city crews plan to give the park a major overhaul.

Side-by-side the women stood, de-eyeing potatoes for the tasty, greasy ethnic treats known as potato pancakes.

One is a longtime member of St. Hedwig's a Catholic church in Edwardsville that her husband's grandparents helped build, a church that in 2007 closed its doors at the order of Diocese of Scranton Bishop Joseph Martino .

Elizabeth "Betsy" Gover, of Dallas, a third-grade teacher at Wyoming Seminary Lower School in Forty Fort, received the prestigious Frances and Louis Maslow Award for excellence in teaching on Wednesday, June 3, during the school's eighth-grade commencement ceremony.

FORTY FORT Billy Jo McDermott, 35, of 140 Summit St., of Edwardsville, was arraigned Friday morning on two misdemeanor counts of DUI and numerous summary traffic citations, including careless and reckless driving, court records show.

Luzerne-Wyoming Counties Mental Health/Mental Retardation Program's Aging/MR Training Team recently hosted a session on 'Alzheimer's and Intellectual Disabilities' at Luzerne County Parks and Recreation, Forty Fort.

BARRE Ronnie Buzinkai read or listened to 598 books in 2008. So it is safe to say she sees the value in the Friends of the Osterhout Free Library's annual book sale.

HKQ Kids Foundation will give away bicycle helmets at Kirby Park event. FORTY FORT Children 12 and under who attend the July Fourth fireworks celebration at Kirby Park in Wilkes-Barre can pick up a gift that will keep them safer while riding their bikes.

FORTY FORT George Taylor took his final ride Tuesday in the back of one of the vehicles he cherished most, a horse-drawn hearse that made its way through Forty Fort and clip-clopped nearly four miles to the shade of an old silver maple tree.

A pursuit involving a stolen vehicle led police on a chase through several municipalities on both sides of Susquehanna River that ended in the area of East Linden Street, Wilkes-Barre, on Tuesday, according to scanner reports.

Tiffany Webb, a sixth-grade student at Appletree/Susquehanna Prep School, Forty Fort, received the Presidential Physical Fitness Award.

Jake Broody took his seat behind the pilot of the U.S. Navy SNJ-5 plane. The aircraft was once used to train pilots for combat in World War II and Broody was an instructor for the Air Force and its version of the plane the AT-6. Joe Scrobola flies the Navy SNJ plane as 92-year-old Jake Broody of Kingston enjoys the ride on his 92nd birthday ...

Police say two men stole items from parked cars and took an idling vehicle. SWOYERSVILLE A man on probation for burglary and theft charges was arrested by police on Friday for his alleged role in stealing items from parked vehicles and driving off in a vehicle belonging to a newspaper carrier.

Students at the Forty Fort Nursery School recently completed a day of learning healthy habits.

Preparing for Ballet Northeast's annual Young Dancers' Repertory performances are Mia Carlson and Katharine Marianacci, seated, and Julie Degnan and Cally Richardson.

A Memorial Day tradition that's spanned decades continued again in the Wyoming Valley.

Memorial Day parades and tributes are playing out all over our area Monday. In the Forty Fort Cemetery a ceremony honored veterans after the annumal Memorial Day parade that starts in Kingston ended.

So far, May has been a pretty good month for freebies and discounted deals. It will end that way, too.

Probability of learning while having fun? Great! BEAR CREEK TWP. Hmmm. Legos, Tinker Toys, Kinex, Magnetix, Erector Sets .

Kingston residents can decide Tuesday to stay the course or find new representation in their mayor's office.