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Luzerne lawmaker wants more session days during stalemate

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State Rep. Brenda Pugh is frustrated with the state’s ongoing budget stalemate. While some lawmakers have proposed legislation that would withhold lawmakers’ pay during future deadlocked budgets, Pugh, R-Luzerne, wants to amend the state constitution to take away the legislature’s ...

Ruth M. Smith Center breaks ground on new kitchen building

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=It’s taken more than 20 years, but the Ruth M. Smith Center in Sheffield will soon have a new, commercial grade kitchen. Since 2003 the center’s Kitchen Committee has been saving every penny possible to provide the center with the kitchen they need to properly and conveniently prepare ...

Lawmakers say lack of trust makes it harder to end the shutdown

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A president looking to seize power beyond the executive branch. A Congress controlled by Republican lawmakers unwilling to directly defy him. And a minority party looking for any way to fight back. The dynamic left Washington in a stalemate Thursday — the ninth day of ...

Paintings rehung in courtroom, exterior courthouse work begins

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As one project nears an end in the Warren County Courthouse, another is starting. Portraits of several of Warren County's president judges that have been on display in the Main Courtroom at the Warren County Courthouse have been returned and rehung after a careful cleaning and restoration. ...

Correction

Corrections

Jack Chapman was one of the players recognized during Wednesday’s Senior Night for the Warren boys soccer team at War Memorial Field. Chapman’s name was inadvertently left out of a story on Page B1 in Thursday’s Times Observer.

Suicide walk brings awareness, time to remember

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Family and friends last week joined a a Suicide Awareness and Memorial Walk to honor the life of Seth Edwards and remember the joy he brought to those around him. Born Nov. 19, 1998, he was the beloved son of David and Dawn Edwards and older brother to Trent Edwards. He was born in ...