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Two people were taken into custody following the shooting outside Chacko s Family Bowling Center in Wilkes-Barre on Wednesday night, but none has yet been charged in connection with the shooting, ....
WILKES-BARRE — November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month and advocates for those suffering with the condition hit the streets Friday to bring some awareness downtown. ....
May 7, 2021 WILKES-BARRE, PA Chacko’s Family Bowling Center, an early recipient of The Barstool Fund, was built during hard times. So when the coronavirus hit and lockdowns swept the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the family-owned business was ready to do whatever it took to survive. What they have, a 38,000-square-foot bowling alley in Wyoming Valley, was built in 1998 after Hurricane Agnes demolished the other facility near the Susquehanna River that started in 1972. Elizabeth and John Chacko Sr., who were 45 and 44 at the time, had just signed the paperwork to start converting the business into their own. To save his business, John Sr. took a boat and went out to the river. He piled sandbags on the building, but the levee broke, and it was still destroyed. The rest of the family was home, and a son with muscular dystrophy and a daughter with lupus were not about to enter a storm. So the Chacko sons, Daniel and John Jr., who were 15 and 17 at the time, were soon d ....
A pedestrian walks by the decades-old softball backstop at Morgan B. Williams Park in Wilkes-Barre on Monday. Wilkes-Barre Mayor George Brown has a deal in place to sell Morgan B. Williams Park at North Wilkes-Barre Boulevard and Scott Street pending the city council s approval. The long-unused property would serve as a manufacturing and retail site. ....
The owners of a family-run Pennsylvania bowling alley react on America s Newsroom to getting assistance from Dave Portnoy s Barstool small business fund. National digital media company The Barstool Sports is making an impact on small-business owners who are struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic through a fund to help keep them afloat. The owner of the Wilkes-Barre, Pa.-based Chacko s Family Bowling Center got a call on Christmas Eve telling them they had been chosen for The Barstool Fund. The fund is a COVID-19 relief effort started by Barstool Sports CEO Dave Portnoy, who has been frequently vocal about the plight of small-business owners during the coronavirus pandemic. ....