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🌱 Duryea gets $60,450 back for Main Street demolition

Duryea, Pennsylvania Patch AM: a 3 min read

Good day Duryea! We're here again with what you need to know today. Grab a cup of coffee and read on. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Duryea gets $60,450 back for Main Street demolition
  • Duryea transactions appear in September property transfer records

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Partly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 60 and low of 46 degrees.
  • Thursday: Cooler with rain, temps: high: 53, low: 37.
  • Friday: Cloudy, showers; colder, with a high of 40 and low of 33 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Luzerne County using blight-demolition funds to reimburse Duryea (citizensvoice.com) — Duryea will recover $60,450 spent demolishing the former Yuhas and Sons Bar after a May fire destroyed the long-vacant Main Street building. County Council unanimously approved the reimbursement Tuesday, making it the first use of Luzerne County's new blight-demolition fund, supported by fees on recorded deeds and mortgages.
   

• Luzerne County property transfers from Sept. 22 through Sept. 24 (timesleader.com) — Three transactions involving Duryea appear in Luzerne County's property transfers for Sept. 22–24, including Mary Jo Long's $145,503 transfer to Lockville Properties LLC. The list also records a $60,000 Duryea transfer and a $50,000 transaction listing both Duryea and Hughestown boroughs.
   

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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