Mountain Top News

Church's credit card stolen, used State police in Hazleton are investigating a credit card theft from a Hazle Township church.

Mountaintop on the Move has some projects under way intended to unite the communities and citizens of the area.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] share this Dunmore Route 309 Mountain Top area. Black ice reported northbound between Broadway Tavern and Joe Palooka Mountain.

Font size: [A] [A] [A] Move over Sleeping Beauty, there's a new Princess in town! The Wendolowski family of Mountain Top recently vacationed at Walt Disney World in Florida, where Haley Rae Wendolowski, 3 months, earned her princess ears.

Crestwood's School Board met on November 12th for their regular meeting, during which they welcomed two new board members, bid farewell to two of their fellow board members and a member of the custodian staff.

A long-time Mountain Top volunteer firefighter lost his home to a fire on the morning of Friday, November 27th.

Dave Scherbenco / The Citizens' Voice Herb Godfrey, center, stands by The Salvation Army Red Kettle outside Boscov's in Wilkes-Barre with city firefighters Damian Lendacky, left, and Rick Powell.

A former employee at a Mountain Top glass factory charged with secretly entering the company and downloading child pornography in July was captured earlier this week on charges including more than 1,400 counts of pornography involving juveniles.

A former Catawissa-area man caught downloading child pornography at a Luzerne County business also had hundreds of the illegal images in his one-time home here, police say.

Over coffee, bacon and hash brown potatoes, some Mountain Top community leaders recently gathered to update each other on the progress of various local groups and plan for a vision of what Mountain Top can be in the future.

Reverberations from this year's state budget stalemate are still being felt in food pantries throughout the region as they adapt to the needs of people laid off during the recession, but most feel confident they're keeping their heads above water."One of the problems that I'm having with the food bank is that we rely on Pennsylvania state food," ...

Jamie Pesotine / Times-Shamrock Officials at Baker Hughes in the Crestwood Industrial Park say the radioactive materials they hope to store at the site are a little smaller than a Tylenol capsule.

Four Back Mountain residents were recently named Health Care Heroes for 2009 by The Times Leader.

Fairview Township Board of Supervisors Chairman Harry Zearfoss announced that there has been additional vandalism at Fairview Township Park, involving graffiti painted on buildings.

At the November General Meeting of the Wright Township Board of Supervisors, Board Chairman Daniel N. Frascella, Sr., announced the awarding of the contracts for the Wright Township Park Phase II Expansion Project.

KINGSTON: The Kingston Senior Citizen Center, 680 Wyoming Ave., will host a representative from the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute at 10:45 a.m. today for a presentation on breast cancer.

The Mountain Top family joined other families Friday morning during the 16th annual Luzerne County Children and Youth Adoption Day at Temple B'Nai B'rith. R.J., an energetic brown-haired 2 year old, came to live with Joanie and Al as a 3-month-old when he was placed in foster care.

A man is now behind bars in Luzerne County charged with nearly hitting a firefighter with his car and fleeing from police.

BARRE Luzerne County Housing Authority member William Maguire pleaded guilty Thursday to accepting $1,400 from a contractor to reimburse himself for a trip he took in January to Sanibel Island, Fla., for housing authority business.

Gina Nevenglosky challenges the incumbent for the Luzerne County post. WILKES-BARRE Luzerne County Register of Wills Dottie "Stanky" Stankovic says she has the experience in recording and preserving all wills admitted to probate.