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Mayor Brown continues to grow a collaborative effort between leaders in Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania. Author: Chelsea Strub Updated: 5:10 PM EDT June 4, 2021
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. Once again, Wilkes-Barre Mayor George Brown welcomes other mayors from across Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania into city hall for a Meeting of the Mayors.
This is something Brown started in the beginning of the pandemic in an effort to pull resources during a difficult time. We helped each other out during the pandemic, explained Brown. Someone needed masks, or they needed some. We have a health department. The city has one of only 10 in the state. If someone called us from another city saying mayor, What should we do here? Hank Radulski and the health department was there to help them.
Communities throughout the Wyoming Valley are preparing to observe Memorial Day 2021 on Monday, a time set aside to honor all of the men and women who died while serving
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U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Lehigh Valley, left and Luzerne County District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce discuss the senator’s ‘Thin Blue Line Act’ during a press conference at the Wilkes-Barre City Police Department headquarters Thursday. The legislation would make the murder of a federal law enforcement officer a factor for a jury to consider before imposing the death penalty. Toomey said he will reintroduce the bill next week.
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WILKES-BARRE Conceding a slim chance of passage, U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey said he will once again push for his “Thin Blue Line Act” to harshly punish criminals charged with killing law enforcement officers and first responders in the line of duty.
Wilkes-Barre Mayor George Brown and city officials celebrated the reopening of the Strauss Lane bridge in the cityâs Goose Island neighborhood on Monday. The bridge was closed in summer 2018 after an inspection determined there was significant undermining of the creek bed beneath the bridge abutments. City council awarded the $311,000 construction contract to Minichi Construction of Avoca on Oct. 22, 2020 and work began Nov. 18, 2020. A $250,000 Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Multimodal Grant will cover the bulk of the project cost. The remainder will be paid from the cityâs liquid fuels account, which received nearly $1.2 million in state funding last year for road and bridge projects.