🌱 Mountain Top driver injured in crash that killed engaged couple
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- Mountain Top driver injured in crash that killed engaged couple
- Could steam trains return to downtown Wilkes-Barre?
Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Thursday: Cooler with rain, temps: high: 47, low: 35.
- Friday: Colder with showers around, with a high of 38 and low of 33 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Fatal Accident As Car Tried To Enter Rt. 9 From Old Bridge Grand Marquis (patch.com) — A Mountain Top man was seriously injured in a New Jersey crash that killed two passengers, an engaged couple from Wyoming, Pennsylvania. Anthony Pizzo, 32, and Lindsey Clarke, 33, died when the SUV they were riding in collided with another SUV while leaving an Old Bridge banquet hall. The investigation continues. 
• LOOK BACK: Could steam locomotives return to Wilkes-Barre? (timesleader.com) — Plans for Reading and Northern excursions to Jim Thorpe are reviving interest in Wilkes-Barre’s passenger rail history, though a steam return remains uncertain. A 1967 steam excursion carried 900 passengers through Mountain Top’s Penobscot Station to downtown Wilkes-Barre, where crowds gathered to greet it.
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🗞 Nearby News
Nanticoke
- Four years later, Nanticoke still lacks reliable 911 radio coverage, officials say (timesleader.com)
- Newport Township attorney steps aside from data center matters (fox56.com)
- Briefing on Luzerne County bridges scheduled for Tuesday (timesleader.com)
Wilkes-Barre
- Wilkes-Barre/Scranton shutout for first time this season, lose 4-0 to Utica (2822news.com)
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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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