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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Shickshinny on the mend

Residents’ spirits high in flooded river town

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A. Mitchell Palmer, a native of Luzerne County, spearheaded 1920 arrests of local men.

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INSIDE A NEWS: Local 3A Nation & World 4A Obituaires 2A, 17A B PEOPLE: Birthdays 11B C SPORTS: Scoreboard 2C Outdoors 18C D BUSINESS: Motley Fool 8D E VIEWS: Editorial 2E Forum 3E F ETC.: Puzzles 2F Books 5F Travel 6F

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1920: Portrait of the U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.

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NBA owners and players reached a tentative agreement early Saturday morning to end the 149-day lockout. After a secret meeting earlier this week, the sides met for more than 15 hours Friday, working to try to save the season. “We’ve reached a tentative understanding that is subject to a variety of approvals and very complex machinations, but we’re optimistic that will all come to pass and that the NBA season will begin Dec. 25,” Commissioner David Stern said. Sports, 1C

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By TOM MOONEY Times Leader Correspondent

SHICKSHINNY – Borough residents might be wondering just who those people in polo shirts wandering through their community are and why they’re passing out fliers. They are the members of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Long Term Community Recovery Team, and they’re here to help the town make a comeback, said team leader Shea Christilaw. Hughes The LTCR team, comprised of municipal planners, is spending the next three months in the borough to help the community shape a new direction as residents and businesses work to recover from Sept. 9 flooding that ravaged nearly all of

For about 40 local men, the evening and early morning of Jan. 2 and 3, 1920 was unforgettable. Over several hours beginning late at night, federal agents -along with Wilkes-Barre police -raided two hotels and numerous private homes in the city, arresting men they proclaimed communist radicals, bent on overthrowing the American gov- “It was ernment. eating its “WilkesBarre is a way into hotbed of these radicals in the homes Pennsylvania,” of the the Sunday InAmerican dependent newspaper re- workmen.’’ ported authorA. Mitchell ities as saying. Palmer Agents also “confiscated a large quantity of soviet literature,” the paper reported, adding that the raids had been meticulously planned far in advance. While many living Americans recall the so-called communist “witch hunt” of the early 1950s, led by U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the 1920 campaign led by a high-ranking U.S. government official who was born in Luzerne County has pretty much faded in-

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Jim Houseknecht says he will reopen his business, J. Angelo’s New York Pizza. He opened the shop three years ago. Houseknecht says he likes Shickshinny and will never leave.

Stories by STEVE MOCARSKY

HICKSHINNY – Why come back? How many times can you start over? They’re reasonable questions to ask residents and business owners in a small town with limited resources that has been flooded out numerous times over the last 40 years, the most devastating event this past September. Clarence Lewis wants to live in a town made special by its sense of community. “You can’t go to Philadelphia, you can’t go to Allentown, you can’t go to Wilkes-Barre as we know it and sit down in the coffee shop and talk to the baker or the people who own it and say, ‘We want a doughnut named Flood Mud.’ … And the next thing you know, everybody is coming in asking for those things. It’s the (sense of) family that’s coming out,” Lewis said. Pizza shop owner Jim Houseknecht likes that the town is small and safe, yet busy enough to support his livelihood. The answers are a little different for everyone, but they follow a common theme – a strong thread that seems to weave through this river town commu-

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Residents get chance to plan redevelopment “WE COULD HAVE a fire that devastates the town. We could have sinkholes open up. For the love of God, we had an earthquake. You have to deal with it. There is no absolute safe place. So why would you not be where you feel you’re the happiest?” Beverly Moore Shickshinny mayor

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Campaign is a big boost to local stores The day was created as a mom-and-pop alternative to Black Friday. By MATT HUGHES mhughes@timesleader.com

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After a day of long lines and big boxes, shoppers in Luzerne County thought small yesterday. Locally-owned businesses took part in Small Business Saturday, a shopping holiday created last year by American Express as a mom-and-pop alternative to Black Friday. Through an online and televi-

sion advertising campaign the credit-card provider encouraged shoppers to buy from local stores. It also purchased advertising space on Facebook for small businesses and offered a $25 credit to cardholders charging $25 or more to an AmEx card at participating stores. The plug seemed to help local retailers, who did a brisk business Saturday. “That’s why we’re here; to support the area,” said shopper Brandy Butler of Courtdale as she shopped with family members at The Blue Hydrangea in Dallas. “We decided we we’re go-

ing to support small businesses today.” Store owner Barbara Eisenhart said she timed a 20-percentoff sale at The Blue Hydrangea to coincide with the shopping holiday. “We try to keep our customers in the Back Mountain if we can,” she said. A large sign outside The Flower Warehouse on Rutter Avenue in Kingston promoted the holiday, encouraging passers-by to shop small Saturday. “A lot of people have come in See SMALL, Page 16A

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Leslie Goleneski, a customer at 3 Sisters Jewelry Store in Kingston, talks about the Small Business Saturday campaign.

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Five hours of fist-pumping rock The “Share The Welt” tour at the Mohegan Sun Arena was supposed to take all night. R E V I E W It was another long night of hard rock and heavy metal at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza on Saturday, but this time it was by design. Unlike Sunday night’s performance by Guns N’ Roses, which never got started until 11:15 p.m. and carried on until the wee hours of Monday morning, Saturday’s “Share The Welt” tour with headliners Five Finger Death Punch and three other bands was supposed to take all night. Instead of having the crowd stand around all evening waiting for something to happen, this show provided almost five hours of hard-hitting, fist-pumping rock. Rains, a quartet from Indiana led by singer Jeff Rains, got things started with a short and spirited set highlighted by its two singles “Liar” and “Look in My Eyes.” Next up was Hatebreed, a quin-

tet from Wallingford, Conn., included crowd-pleasing verwhich has released six albums sions of “Forever in Your Hands,” since 1997, including a pair in “The Last Time” and “The Wait2009. The group featuring vocal- ing One.” Due to an early deadline and a ist Jamey Jasta and the twin-guitar attack of Wayne Lozinak and late start time by the headliners Frank Novinec took the stage to (the band was not scheduled to the strains of Andy Williams’ “It’s hit the stage until 10:30 Saturday The Most Wonderful Time of the night), a review of the performance by Five Finger Year” and proceeded to Death Punch was not pummel the crowd with Rains, Haavailable at press time. its high octane hardcore tebreed, All Five Finger Death metal. The general-admission section of the That Remains Punch was formed in Los Angeles in 2005 arena floor became a gi- and Five Finand released its debut ant mosh pit as the band ger Death album “The Way of the unleashed nuggets such Punch were Fist” in 2007. The as “This Is Now” and “Beon the bill for group’s second album, fore Dishonor.” All That Remains, a the ‘Share the “War is the Answer” from 2009, contained quintet from Springfield, Welt’ tour. four Top 10 hits on the Mass., followed with an Billboard Mainstream intense set of its slightly more melodic metal. The band Rock chart. Its latest album, consisting of vocalist Philip La- “American Capitalist,” was rebonte, guitarists Oli Herbert and leased in October. The record’s Mike Martin, bassist Jeanne Sa- first single, “Under and Over It,” gan and drummer Jason Costa is the band’s first Hot 100 hit, tophas released five albums since ping out at No. 77. The “Share The Welt” tour 2002, and its latest, 2010’s “For We Are Many,” reached No. 10 on moves on to Sayreville, N.J., toPETE G. WILCOX/THE TIMES LEADER night. Country stars Lady Antethe Billboard 200. Highlights of All That Re- bellum will be at the Mohegan The band Hatebreed performs Saturday at the Mohegan Sun Aremains’ performance on Saturday Sun Arena on Dec. 16. na in Wilkes-Barre Township.

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Dolores D. Dorak November 24, 2011 D. Dorak, 83, of Dallas, D olores passed into eternal rest Thurs-

day, November 24, 2011, at the Hospice at St. Luke’s, Wilkes-Barre. Born in Larksville, she was a daughter of the late John and Josephine Gimble Dzurko. She was a member of the All Saints Parish of Plymouth. In past years, she was an active member of the former St. Stephen’s Church, Plymouth, where she had been involved in many church functions. She had been employed by the Wyoming Valley Garment Industry and was a member of the I.L.G.W.U. Dolores enjoyed her family and loved to travel. She also loved to spend time gardening. She excelled as a seamstress and was a master baker. Dolores was preceded in death by her husband, John. Surviving are her brother Thomas Dzurko and his wife, Linda, of Richmond, Va., sister Arline Wallace, of Larksville, and several nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-

nephews. Funeral will be held Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. from the S.J. Grontkowski Funeral Home, 530 W. Main St., Plymouth, followed by Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in All Saints Parish, Plymouth. Entombment will immediately follow in Mount Olivet Mausoleum, Dallas. Friends may call Monday from 5 to 8 p.m. Please visit www.sjgrontkowskifuneralhome.com to submit online condolences to the family.

Bonnie Balent Soroka November 24, 2011 onnie Balent Soroka, 64, of Exeter, passed away at home in the B arms of her husband Thursday, No-

vember 24, 2011 after a long illness. Born in Exeter, Bonnie was the daughter of the late Joseph and Helen Urban Balent. She attended Exeter schools and was employed as a C.N.A. with Silver Care until she became ill. She was a member of St. Monica’s Parish (the former Our Lady of Sorrows), West Wyoming. Bonnie lived to shop and loved going to New York City with her partner in crime, her sister Rebecca, or going to the Bon Ton with her best friend, Millie Mullery. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister Barbara Balent. Surviving are her husband, Benny Soroka, an employee of Pride Health Care, Duryea; sisters, Gloria and Rebecca Balent, Exeter; cousins, Bill and Marilyn Urban, Yorkville, N.Y.; Rosemarie and Frank Greco, Lee’s Summit, Mo. and Charles Urban Jr. and his wife, Irene, Plains Township. The family would like to offer sincere thanks to Hospice Community Care, Kingston, for their care and More Obituaries, Page 17A

POLICE BLOTTER HANOVER TOWNSHIP – At a sobriety checkpoint conducted on South Main Street Friday police arrested Joanne M. Jones, 48, on driving under the influence and summary charges. Police said Jones’ blood alcohol content was found to be .14, above the legal limit for drivers of .08. As a result of the same checkpoint police also cited Darian Twyman, 18, of Wilkes-Barre, on underage drinking charges, and said they will charge Corey Kittle, 18, of Sweet Valley, with possession of a small amount of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia charges, and a 16 year old with possession of drug paraphernalia and underage drinking charges. Police said they also found five drivers with suspended licenses, one expired vehicle registration, six expired inspection stickers and three expired emissions inspection

HAZLETON – Police said they arrested Cristian Placencia, 30, of James Street, on public drunkenness near the intersection of 3rd Street and James Street at 2:15 a.m. Saturday. • Two minivans collided on Church Street Saturday. According to police, at 10:14 a.m. a Dodge Caravan driven by Merari Borrero of Drums collided with the rear end of Chrysler Town and Country driven by Renee Forte of Hazleton, which was stopped in traffic between 1st and 2nd Street. Two juveniles in Borrero’s vehicle were taken by ambulance to Hazleton General Hospital. Borrero complained of pain but said she would seek medical treatment on her own, police said. COVINGTON TWP. - State police Saturday afternoon arrested Robert Weaver, 24, of Susquehanna, on drug charges on Interstate 380 in Lackawanna County.

Maria Biosevas November 20, 2011 Biosevas, 92, died Sunday, M aria November 20, 2011, at the

compassion. A special thank you to Michelle for her loving care. The funeral will be held at 9 a.m. on Monday from the Kizis-Lokuta Funeral Home, 134 Church St., Pittston. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. at St. Monica’s Parish, West Wyoming. Interment will be in St. John the Baptist Slovak Cemetery, Exeter. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Benny would like to thank the Lord for giving him a loving and caring wife that he will love forever.

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Aberjona Nursing Home, Winchester, Mass. Born March 17, 1919, in Charkow, Russia, she was a graduate of the Kaunas School System, Lithuania. Maria graduated with a degree in teaching. In 1945, she worked as a teacher in Munsingen, West Germany, during the resettlement period after World War II. In 1950, she immigrated to the United States with her husband, Valejus, and daughter Jeannette. A loving wife, mother, grand- Maryland, and Dr. Faith Matzoni mother and great-grandmother, Ma- and husband, Dr. Jeff Matzoni, ria lived in New Jersey until the Pennsylvania; and three greatpassing of her husband. Thereupon, grandchildren, Alyssa, Anthony and she moved to Massachusetts to live Kendal. Services will be held Tuesday at closer to her daughter Yasmin. Having left her immediate family 10 a.m. in St. Aloysius Church, Barand home in Lithuania, she reset- ney Street, Wilkes-Barre. Family tled in the United States, raised a will receive friends Tuesday from 9 to 10 a.m. at St. Aloysius Church. family and traveled around the In lieu of flowers, memorial conworld with her husband. tributions may be made to the AlzSurviving are daughters Jaye Jab- heimer’s Association or the SPCA, ers and husband, Bob Jabers, Fox Hill Road, Plains Township. Wilkes-Barre, and Yasmin Whipple, Arrangements are by MamaryMassachusetts; grandchildren, Ja- Durkin Funeral Service, 59 Parrish son Jabers and wife, Kara Jabers, St., Wilkes-Barre.

The Miss Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton pageant returned to Northeastern Pennsylvania for the first time since 1992 Saturday night. Contestants in the Miss WilkesBarre/Scranton, Miss Northeastern Pennsylvania and Miss Luzerne County’s Outstanding Teen competitions performed at the Dallas Middle School. Winners will compete in the Miss Pennsylvania and Miss Pennsylvania Outstanding Teen pageants next May in Pittsburgh. Results were not available at press time.

Weaver was driving a Chevrolet Malibu north on the interstate that was stopped near mile marker 16 for an equipment violation at 2:45 p.m., state police said. Police said they saw signs of criminal activity during the stop. They searched the car and seized 248 packets of heroin, as well as synthetic marijuana and assorted pills, state police said. Police filed numerous charges against Weaver including possession with intent to deliver heroin and possession of heroin .

President Obama makes stop at bookstore, backs small businesses The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has pitched in to help small businesses get into the holiday shopping season. The president took his daughters, Malia and Sasha, along on a shopping run to a bookstore a few blocks from the White House. He says he made the visit because it’s “small business Saturday” and he wanted to support a small business. The retail industry is encouraging shoppers to patronize mom-and-pop businesses on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. It’s a counterpoint to Black Friday and the sales and special deals offered by department stores and other large retailers. The Obamas walked out with a selection of books including “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever” and “Descent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia.”

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OBITUARIES Adams, Sandra Biosevas, Maria Conwell, Gertrude Cramer Jr., Fred Davies, Julian Dorak, Dolores Dymond, Glenn Flynn, Barbara Meulstee, Ida Nelson, Nancy Pac, Dolores Pizzano, Mary Robbins, Lori Silvi, Andrew Soroka, Bonnie Stanish, John Wilde, Mary Page 2A, 17A

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Police ID body from river The woman whose body was found in the Lehigh River was identified as Joann Hagen, 63, of White Haven, state police said. Her body was located in the water along the Lehigh Gorge State Park trail, east of Rockport Road in Carbon County around 11:25 a.m. Friday, state police. Her death is under investigation. Anyone with information about Hagen is asked to contact state police at the Hazleton station at 570 4593890. PLAINS TWP.

Corporal in stable condition The state police corporal injured when his cruiser crashed on state Route 29 in Wyoming County was listed in stable condition Saturday at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center. Cpl. David Judge, 43, of Sweet Valley, was driving to the state police station in Tunkhannock from his home shortly after 7 a.m. when his car slid on a patch of ice, spun around and struck a tree. He was extricated from the wreckage and flown by helicopter to the hospital. PLAINS, GA.

Local artists’ work unveiled The 3-foot-by-6-foot stained-glass window made by local artisans was unveiled Saturday night in the hometown of President Jimmy Carter. Ben Kasmark and Malcolm Kosek of Kasmark & Marshall Inc. of Luzerne delivered and installed the window with the presidential seal at the Plains Historic Inn and Antique Mall on Main Street. Larry and Diane Cook of Cook & Cook Auctions, Plains Township, who are friends of the president and his wife Rosalynn, also traveled to Georgia for the event and raised money for the window to be a part of the Plains Better Hometown program. “It fit like a glove,” said Ruth Sanders, coordinator of the program. “President Carter thought it was incredible.” WILKES-BARRE

Junior League plans gala The Junior League of Wilkes-Barre will present the Holiday With A Heart Winter Gala, a fundraising event to benefit the our local families affected by the September flood, this Friday from 7 to 11 p.m. at St. Maria Goretti Parish Center in Laflin. The cost is $75 per person and includes food, drink and entertainment. “Sweet Pepper and the Long Hots” are providing entertainment starting at 7 p.m. The food is being prepared and served by The Café: An American Bistro. Various raffles and giveaways will he held throughout the night. Tickets can be purchased by calling 570-288-4818. WARRIOR RUN

Council will review budget Warrior Run Borough Council will hold a special meeting on Wednesday at 6 p.m. at the borough building, Front and Hanover streets. The purpose of the meeting will be to review and prepare the 2012 Budget. Residents are encouraged to attend. BUTLER TWP.

Tree lighting is scheduled The Butler Township Recreation Board is sponsoring the annual holiday tree lighting and visit from Santa Claus Dec. 5 from 5 to 7 p.m. with activities scheduled for both the Township Building and adjoining Community Center. The annual tree lighting in front of the township building will take place at 5 p.m. with the Shelhamer family throwing the switch in honor of longtime township supervisor Robert Shelhamer, who passed away Sept. 30. Children will have the chance to have their photos taken with Santa. At the community center. Parents are reminded to bring a camera. Refreshments, crafts and entertainment will be provided. The senior citizens will be accepting Toys for Tots donations. A bin for new, unwrapped toys will be set up inside the Community Center. For more information, contact Rec Board media director John McGran at 570-401-9544.

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When young flood victims lose toys, Mountain Top boy steps in to help

A small child, but a huge heart By CAMILLE FIOTI Times Leader Correspondent

Seven-year-old Nicholas Humen of Mountain Top receives a plaque from Gunnery Sgt. Dennis Jones, Marine Wing Support Squadron 472 Det. A. Nicholas donated all the toys he received as birthday gifts to the U.S. Marines Toys for Tots campaign on Saturday at the YMCA in WilkesBarre. Looking on are Navy Medical Corpsman Rafael Castillo, left, and Marine Sgt. Robert Smith. The Marines conduct the toy project annually. Nicholas’ mother says her son wanted to help children when he learned that many had lost their toys in the flood. Click photos, Page 19A.

WILKES-BARRE – Blowing out the candles on his Godzilla birthday cake Saturday, 7-year-old Nicholas Humen, of Mountain Top didn’t mind that he wouldn’t be taking home any of the presents piled on a nearby table. After learning that so many children who were affected by the September flooding lost their toys, Nicholas wanted to help, said his mom, Katina, 38. “We have so many toys already, and with Christmas falling on the heels of his birthday, we thought it would be a good idea,” Katina said in the party room at the YMCA. “He’s a really nice boy and very caring, so when I asked him about it, he was up for it.” Nicholas’ dad, Michael, also 38, said he worried his son would go back on his word when invitations went out a few weeks ago. Twenty-five of Nicholas’ friends from Cub Scouts and school attended the party. “We try to teach our children, ‘the more you give, the more you get,’ ” he said. The couple also has a 5-year-old daughter, Maria. In return for his generosity and kindness, Nicholas was presented a certificate by Navy and Marine volunteers from the Toys for Tots, Wyoming Detachment Branch. “It’s amazing that he would actually donate all of his toys to the Toys for Tots program,” said Navy Medical Corpsman Rafael Castillo. “I hope it’s something he’ll remember—I know I will.”

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Celebrating dance, story Barnes & Noble hosts Ballet Northeast’s “The Nutcracker’’ for shoppers. By GERI GIBBONS Times Leader Correspondent

WILKES-BARRE TWP. – Barnes & Noble’s children’s section at the Arena Hub Plaza was alive on Saturday afternoon with adults and children enjoying a sneak peek of Ballet Northeast’s "The Nutcracker." "It has The been such event was well ata special tended experience throughout the afyear after ternoon as the holiyear.’’ day preMaggie Sullivan sentation Dancer was repeated several times to the delight of the audience. Dancers from the performance also took the opportunity to read “The Nutcracker” to the children assembled, familiarizing them with the basics of the story. See DANCE, Page 9A

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Anna Weiss, left, Sarah O’Hara, Alessandra Oritz, Maggie Sullivan, and Anna Lucas of Ballet Northeast perform a dance from ‘The Nutcracker’ at Barnes & Noble Bookstore at the Arena Hub Saturday. Click photos, Page 19A.

Wyoming borough children give warm welcome to Santa’s arrival with song The borough’s recreation board provided cookies, hot chocolate and candy canes for the children. By CAMILLE FIOTI Times Leader Correspondent

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Santa Claus drops into the borough of Wyoming on Saturday to attend the tree lighting at Butler Street Park. Click photos, Page 19A.

WYOMING – Sirens blared at sundown Saturday as the Santa parade rolled through town. A Martz bus led the parade of fire trucks and ambulances from surrounding municipalities up and down several blocks before stopping at the Butler Street Park for the borough’s sixth annual tree lighting ceremony. The park was in full holiday mode as children sang Christmas carols under illuminated trees. With the help of Mayor Robert Boyer, Santa climbed out of his sleigh and gave high fives to the kids as he made his way into the center of the park. A mass of

children swarmed around Santa as he settled onto a bench in front of the borough tree. With his 5-year-old great-granddaughter Arianna pulling on his arm in a frenzied rush to meet the big guy, Donald Johnson, 78, of Exeter tried to navigate through the crowd. “I didn’t know this was going on,” he said. “I came just to take her to the park.” The borough’s recreation board, which sponsored the event, provided cookies, hot chocolate and candy canes for the children. Proceeds from a basket raffle, as well as donations, help defray the cost of lighting, Boyer said, adding that volunteers are badly needed for the recreation board. “With the weather being so nice, this turnout was larger than normal,” he said.

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Pontiff says all institutions must be held to ‘exacting’ standards in response

Pope: Pedophilia societal scourge By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press

President Barack Obama eats a hot dog as he and first lady Michelle Obama watch the Oregon State versus Towson NCAA college basketball game at Towson University Saturday, in Towson, Md.

make children safer than Pope Benedict,” David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, told The Associated Press in an emailed statement. “The pope would have us believe that this crisis is about sex abuse. It isn’t. It is about covering up sex abuse,” Clohessy said. “And while child sex crimes happen in every institution, in no institution are they ignored or concealed as consistently as in the Catholic church.” The pedophile scandal has exploded in recent decades in the United States, but similar clergy sex abuse revelations have tainted the church in many other AP FILE PHOTO countries, including Mexico, Ireland, and several other European nations, in- Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithcluding Italy. ful as he leaves St. Peter’s Basilica.

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Deaths tied to Craigslist ad

A body found in a shallow grave in northeast Ohio was that of a man missing more than a week who answered a deadly Craigslist ad that police say lured victims into a robbery, a medical examiner said Saturday. Timothy Kern, 47, of Massillon, was last seen Nov. 13 after driving to Akron for a job he called a “good offer but strange.” Kern died of gunshot wounds to the head, the Summit County Medical Examiner’s office said. Kern answered the same ad for a farmhand that authorities say led to the shooting death of Norfolk, Va., resident David Pauley, 51, in a rural area 90 miles south of Akron. A South Carolina man reported answering the ad but managed to escape after being shot Nov. 6. The discovery of Kern’s body Friday near the Rolling Acres shopping mall in Akron came just a few hours before the sheriff in Noble County in southeastern Ohio announced that another body had been found in a shallow grave there. If the two bodies discovered Friday are both linked to Pauley’s case, that would bring to three the number of deaths associated with the phony Craigslist ad. TEHRAN

Iran warns against attack

Iran will target NATO’s missile defense installations in Turkey if the U.S. or Israel attacks the Islamic Republic, a senior commander of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard said Saturday. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, the head of the Guards’ aerospace division, said the warning is part of a new defense strategy to counter what he described as an increase in threats from the U.S. and Israel. Tensions have been rising between Iran and the West since the release of a report earlier this month by the International Atomic Energy Agency that said for the first time that Tehran was suspected of conducting secret experiments whose sole purpose was the development of nuclear arms. CAIRO

Security, protesters clash

Fresh clashes between security forces and Egyptian protesters demanding the military step down broke out Saturday in front of the Cabinet building, leaving one man dead, as violence threatened to overshadow next week’s parliamentary elections. Meanwhile, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the head of the ruling military council that took power after Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February, met separately with opposition leader and Nobel Peace laureate Mohamed ElBaradei and presidential hopeful Amr Moussa, who was the former head of the Arab League. Egyptian state TV reported the meetings but gave no details. CHESTERTOWN, MD.

‘Frosty’ in heated dispute

Who says “Frosty the Snowman” has to be jolly? A man in a “Frosty the Snowman” costume was arrested Saturday during the annual Christmas parade in Chestertown, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. He’s accused of scuffling with police and kicking at a police dog. Sgt. John A. Dolgos tells The Star Democrat of Easton that 52-year-old Kevin Michael Walsh became agitated when a dog-handling officer tried to escort him away from the crowd. Walsh said he was wrongfully arrested. He said an officer hassled him after he made a joke about the police dog’s presence at the parade.

Country blocks supply routes after airstrike allegedly kills 24 Pakistani troops. By SEBASTIAN ABBOT Associated Press

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NASA launches rover to Mars

This was the first launch to Mars in four years, and the first flight of a Martian rover in eight years.

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover lifts off from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Saturday. The rocket will deliver a science laboratory to Mars to study potential habitable environments.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A rover of “monster truck” proportions zoomed toward Mars on an 81⁄2-month, 354 millionmile journey Saturday, the biggest, best equippedroboteversenttoexploreanother planet. NASA’s six-wheeled, one-armed wonder, Curiosity,willreachMarsnextsummerand useitsjackhammerdrill,rock-zappinglaser machine and other devices to search for evidence that Earth’s next-door neighbor might once have been home to the teeniest forms of life. More than13,000 invited guests jammed the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday morning to witness NASA’s first launch to Mars in four years, and the first flight of a Martian rover in eight years.

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Mars fever gripped the crowd. NASA astrobiologist Pan Conrad, whose carbon compound-seeking instrument is on the rover, wore a bright blue, shortsleeve blouse emblazoned with rockets, planets and the words, “Next stop Mars!” She jumped, cheered and snapped pictures as the Atlas V rocket blasted off. So did Los

Alamos National Laboratory’s Roger Wiens, a planetary scientist in charge of Curiosity’s laser blaster, called ChemCam. Surrounded by 50 U.S. and French members of his team, Wiens shouted “Go, Go, Go!” as the rocket soared into a cloudy sky. “It was beautiful,” he later observed, just as NASA declared the launch a full success.

German police and demonstrators clash at nuclear protest By JUERGEN BAETZ Associated Press

BERLIN—Policeusedwatercannonsto disperse about 300 protesters hurling rocks and fireworks during an attempt to disrupt a shipment of nuclear waste in northern Germany on Saturday, officials said. About 50 activists also tried to sabotage therailtracksthatwillbeusedbyatrainthis

weekend to transport the nuclear waste to the storage facility near the northern town of Gorleben, police spokesman Stefan Kuehm-Stoltz said. Several thousand protesters gathered in the town of Dannenberg to hold a peaceful protest rally, police said. Organizers put the figure at 23,000. Northeast of Dannenberg, at least 1,200

people later broke through police ranks and staged a sit-in on rail tracks in an area of dense forest, police said. Organizers said around 2,000 people were blocking the tracks. Several hundred officers were deployed to the scene to carry the protesters away, which was expected to take several hours, police spokesman Martin Ackert said.

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan on Saturday blocked vital supply routes for U.S.-led troops in Afghanistan and demanded Washington vacate a base used by American drones after coalition aircraft allegedly killed 24 Pakistani troops at two posts along a mountainous frontier that serves as a safe haven for militants. The incident was a major blow to American efforts to rebuild an already tattered alliance vital to winding down the 10-year-old A NATO Afghan war. Is- spokesman lamabad called the bloodshed said it was in one of its likely that tribal areas a coalition air“grave infringe- strikes caused ment” of the country’s sover- Pakistani eignty, and it casualties. could make it even more difficult for the U.S. to enlist Pakistan’s help in pushing Afghan insurgents to engage in peace talks. A NATO spokesman said it was likely that coalition airstrikes caused Pakistani casualties, but an investigation was being conducted to determine the details. If confirmed, it would be the deadliest friendly fire incident by NATO against Pakistani troops since the Afghan war began a decade ago. A prolonged closure of Pakistan’s two Afghan border crossings to NATO supplies could cause serious problems for the coalition. The U.S., which is the largest member of the NATO force in Afghanistan, ships more than 30 percent of its non-lethal supplies through Pakistan. The coalition has alternative routes through Central Asia into northern Afghanistan, but they are costlier and less efficient. Pakistan temporarily closed one of its Afghan crossings to NATO supplies last year after U.S. helicopters accidentally killed two Pakistani soldiers. Suspected militants took advantage of the impasse to launch attacks against stranded or rerouted trucks carrying NATO supplies.

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rushed to the hospital with injuries, said police Capt. Syafii JAKARTA, Indonesia — Nafsikin. Search-and-rescue teams were Scores of people — including looking for survivors Sunday af- six of the repair workers — ter a busy bridge collapsed in were missing. central Indonesia, killing at The 770-yard (700-meter) least four people and leaving structure — built to resemble scores missing as a bus, cars the Golden Gate Bridge in San and motorcycles Francisco — crashed into the linked the Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a river below. towns of Sutopo Purwo spokesman for the counTenggarong Nugroho, a try’s disaster management and Samarinspokesman for da in East Kaagency, said the sprawling limantan the country’s disaster manage- concrete bridge on the province. ment agency, said remote island of Borneo It was the sprawling was being repaired when clogged with concrete bridge traffic when on the remote is- Saturday’s accident octhe accident land of Borneo curred. occurred, was being reSyaiful, a witpaired when Satness, told lourday’s accident occurred. cal television station TVOne. Workers were tightening He saw at least one bus and screws and bolts when a steel close to a dozen motorcycles support cable snapped and the plunge into the Mahakam river. bridge, which was less than 10 Several cars were mangled. years old, came smashing “Everyone was screaming,” down. said Syaiful, who like many InFour bodies were pulled from donesians uses only one name. the water, including a 6-month- “Some survivors were swimold baby, and 19 people were ming to the shore in panic.” By NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press

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Township on Friday in preparation for this weekend’s open house. The club opened its doors to the public free of charge to view the 2,000-square-foot HO-scale model train display on Saturday and is open today. Left, Jim Cerulli of the Hudson Model Railroad Club monitors model trains moving around the club’s train layout on Friday. He said there are a few new scenes this year in the display. The hours for the open house are noon to 5 p.m. on the second floor of the Polish American building at 97 Martin St., in the Hudson section of Plains Township. The display will be open during those same hours on Dec. 3, 10, 17 and 18 and into January.

As deadline looms, Occupy LA protesters say they’ll stay By ANDREW DALTON Associated Press

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Green energy jobs wait for vets About 240,000 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are unable to find work. By ANDY BROWNFIELD Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ben Noland served in the U.S. Marine Corps for eight years, then spent 18 months looking for a job. “I’ve probably put my resume in to 300 places in the past year,” the 33-year-old Kenton resident said. “The farthest I’ve ever got was a phone interview.” Noland finally landed a job installing solar panels at Tipping Point Renewable Energy, a Columbus-based solar power company that is hiring only military veterans for its installation crews at a time when unemployment

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Shoppers stop to look at a display while shopping at Dadeland Mall, in Miami. As reports of shoppingrelated violence rolled in this week from Los Angeles to New York, experts say a volatile mix of desperate retailers and cutthroat marketing has hyped the traditional post-Thanksgiving holiday sales to increasingly frenzied levels.

“These are people who should know better and have enough stuff already,” Williams said. “What’s going to be next year, everybody getting Tasered?” Across the country on ThursBy CHRIS HAWLEY day and Friday, there were signs Associated Press that tensions had ratcheted up a NEW YORK — Pepper- notch or two, with violence resprayed customers, smash-and- sulting in several instances. A woman turned herself in to grab looters and bloody scenes in the shopping aisles. How did police after allegedly pepperspraying 20 other customers at a Black Friday devolve into this? As reports of shopping-related Los Angeles-area Walmart on violence rolled in this week from Thursday in what investigators said was an atLos Angeles to tempt to get at a New York, experts “These are people crate of Xbox vidsay a volatile mix of eo game consoles. desperate retailers who should know In Kinston, N.C., a and cutthroat marbetter and have security guard alketing has hyped so pepper-sprayed the traditional post- enough stuff alThanksgiving sales ready. What’s going customers seeking electronics before to increasingly the start of a midfrenzied levels. to be next year, night sale. With stores open- everybody getting In New York, ing earlier, bargaincrowds reportedly obsessed shoppers Tasered?” often are sleep-deTheresa Williams looted a clothing prived and shortMarketing professor at store in Soho. At a near tempered. Arriving Indiana University. Walmart Phoenix, a man in darkness, they alwas bloodied so find themselves while being subvulnerable to savvy dued by police officer on suspiparking-lot muggers. Add in the online-coupon phe- cion of shoplifting a video game. nomenon, which feeds the psy- There was a shooting outside a chological hunger for finding im- store in San Leandro, Calif., shots possible bargains, and you’ve got fired at a mall in Fayetteville, N.C. a recipe for trouble, said Theresa and a stabbing outside a store in Williams, a marketing professor Sacramento, N.Y. “The difference this year is that at Indiana University.

instead of a nice sweater you need a bullet proof vest and goggles,” said Betty Thomas, 52, who was shopping Saturday with her sisters and a niece at Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh, N.C. The wave of violence revived memories of the 2008 Black Friday stampede that killed an employee and put a pregnant woman in the hospital at a Walmart on New York’s Long Island. Walmart spokesman Greg Rossiter said Black Friday 2011 was safe at most of its nearly 4,000 U.S. stores despite “a few unfortunate incidents.” Black Friday — named that because it puts retailers “in the black” — has become more intense as companies compete for customers in a weak economy, said Jacob Jacoby, an expert on consumer behavior at New York University. The idea of luring in customers with a few “doorbuster” deals has long been a staple of the postThanksgiving sales. But now stores are opening earlier, and those deals are getting more extreme, he said. “There’s an awful lot of psychology going on here,” Jacoby said. “There’s the notion of scarcity — when something’s scarce it’s more valued. And a resource that can be very scarce is time: If you don’t get there in time, it’s going to be gone.” There’s also a new factor, Williams said: the rise of coupon

websites like Groupon and LivingSocial, the online equivalents of doorbusters that usually deliver a single, one-day offer with savings of up to 80 percent on museum tickets, photo portraits, yoga classes and the like. The services encourage impulse buying and an obsession with bargains, Williams said, while also getting businesses hooked on quick infusions of customers. “The whole notion of getting a deal, that’s all we’ve seen for the last two years,” Williams said. “It’s about stimulating consumers’ quick reactions. How do we get their attention quickly? How do we create cash flow for today?” To grab customers first, some

stores are opening late on Thanksgiving Day, turning bargain-hunting from an early-morning activity into an all-night slog, said Ed Fox, a marketing professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Midnight shopping puts everyone on edge and also makes shoppers targets for muggers, he said. In fact, robbery appeared to be the motive behind the shooting in San Leandro, about 15 miles east of San Francisco. Police said robbers shot a victim as he was walking to a car with his purchases around 1:45 a.m. on Friday. “There are so many hours now where people are shopping in the darkness that it provides cover for people who are going to try to steal or rob those who are out in

numbers,” Fox said. The violence has prompted some analysts to wonder if the sales are worth it, and what solutions might work. In a New York Times column this week, economist Robert Frank proposed slapping a 6 percent sales tax on purchases between 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving and 6 a.m. on Friday in an attempt to stop the “arms race” of earlier and earlier sales. Small retailers, meanwhile, are pushing so-called Small Business Saturday to woo customers who are turned off by the Black Friday crush. President Barack Obama even joined in, going book shopping on Saturday at a small bookstore a few blocks from the White House.

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hard work in putting the performance together. Standing outside handing out fliers for the event, Ferrell greeted customers of Barnes & Noble with a smile. Dressed for his part as the father in the production in a suit and hat, and standing next to a sleigh, Ferrell embodied the spirit of the season. Ferrell also said the Ballet Northeast’s presentation will be the only full presentation in the area and will showcase Nikolai Morschakov, a native of Russia and a graduate of the Russian

State Choreographic Academy in Saratov. Ferrell said he feels the area is fortunate to have such talent available. Maggie Sullivan, 18, dancing the role of Clara in the production, also shared her enthusiasm about the production and the experience of the ballet itself. Sullivan, who has been studying dance since the age of 3, remembers attending the event with her family for many years. "It has been such a special experience year after year," said

Sullivan, who plans to study dance education after her 2012 graduation from Holy Redeemer High School in Wilkes-Barre. When asked the youngest dancer of the production, Sullivan replied "3." When asked the oldest dancer of the production, Sullivan smiles broadly and said, "85." Her mother, Maria Sullivan, said she believes the event draws the community together in a true show of holiday spirit.

"The Nutcracker," will be presented at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center at Wilkes University on Dec 16 at 7:30 p.m. Dec 17 at 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Dec 18 at 2 p.m. Tickets are also available for attendance by area school students on Dec. 15 and 16 at 9:30 a.m. Ticket prices are $20 for adults and $15 for children. More information about this event and Ballet Northeast is available at www.balletnortheast.org.

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attending the ballet as youngsters and were happy to provide the holiday experience to area youths. The performance celebrates both the dance and the season. The production is geared to all ages and puts forth a positive message. Members and volunteers of the ballet said they wanted to share that spirit with the community, encouraging others to engage culturally. Glen Ferrell, saying that he was "just a volunteer," was lauded by those assembled for his

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vation and re-branding he views as crucial to establishing the Golden Nugget’s own identity in Atlantic City. “Every single inch is being touched,” he said. “The building is By WAYNE PARRY going to look brand new when it’s Associated Press finished. If you took someone ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The who hadn’t been in there since thousands of “Trump” references last year, blindfolded them and are gone from hotel doors, corri- led them into the building now, dors and the sides of the building, they won’t know where they are.” The casino’s motto quickly bealong with the hundreds of thousands (maybe even millions?) of came “Out with the old, in with tiny interlocked “T”s that dom- the Gold.” With its aging brick exterior and uninspiring instituinated the carpeting. One of the first orders of busi- tional design, Trump Marina had ness for the new owners of long been derided as looking like a hospital since shortTrump Marina Hotel ly after it opened in Casino when they “Every single 1985 as Trump’s Casbought it in May was tle. First to go were the to strip the Trump inch is being giant “Trump Marina” name and all remain- touched. The signs bolted to the ing remnants from the premises. That building is go- sides of the building. The weathered brick was the easy part. ing to look was painted gold, and Now comes the brand new golden banners were much harder task of unfurled at the main establishing their when it’s finentrance. own brand for the caished.” Inside, the casino resino now known as Tilman Fertitta mains a whirl of conthe Golden Nugget Owner of Landry’s struction activity. On a Atlantic City. HousRestaurants recent visit, workers ton-based Landry’s had several areas corRestaurants bought doned off as they built the casino-hotel for $38 million — about a tenth of new attractions, rewired electriwhat former owners Trump En- cal fixtures and reconfigured cortertainment Resorts nearly got ridors. The main entrance was for it just two years earlier. But buried behind construction vehithat sale fell through and Atlantic cles, cones and barrels. “Let’s call it a work in proCity casino values collapsed as gress,” said Karen Hudek of Monthe economy headed south. Tilman Fertitta, the billionaire roe, Conn., who spent a recent owner of Landry’s — which also weekend there. “There’s a lot goowns Golden Nuggets in Las Ve- ing on.” She was pleased with her acgas and Lauglin, Nev. — got busy right away on a $150 million reno- commodations.

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Guests line up to redeem comps inside the Golden Nugget Atlantic City in Atlantic City, N.J. in September. The casino’s new owners are transforming it from the former Trump Marina Hotel Casino.

“The rooms were clean and they came in punctually to clean them every day,” she said. “I read some bad reviews of this place on the Internet, so I’m going to go home and correct that.” Yet she’s not sure she’d go back, at least right away. “There’s a lot of other places on the Boardwalk I’d want to go to first,” she said. Willie Williams of Atlanta also enjoyed his first trip to the Golden Nugget. “So far it’s really good,” he said. “The rooms are real nice. They’re

doing a lot here.” Fertitta agrees. “It’s definitely a construction zone, but we try very hard not to interfere with the guests,” he said. “A lot of people like the excitement when you’re building.” What’s not building, at least so far, is the Golden Nugget’s casino revenue. In October, the casino took in just over $9 million, a decline of 28.3 percent from Oct. 2010. It averaged less than $300,000 a day, compared with over $400,000 a year ago. For the first 10 months of this

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to history. Nationwide on that one night, nearly 5,000 people alleged to be dangerous communists, many of them immigrants from eastern European countries, were rounded up with the aim of determining if they should be jailed or deported – once they were convicted. The government official in charge of those January 1920 raids was the attorney general of the United States, A. Mitchell Palmer, a native of Luzerne County and who cut his political teeth in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Historical movie In the new movie “J. Edgar,” the story of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, actor Geoff Pierson plays Palmer. In his days as head of the Justice Department, Palmer was an early mentor of Hoover, who would later become famous in his own right as a crime fighter and a pursuer of real or suspected radicals. Alexander Mitchell Palmer, according to numerous sources, was born at Moosehead, Dennison Township, Luzerne County. He grew up and attended school in Stroudsburg, Monroe County, receiving a degree from Swarthmore College, near Philadelphia, and beginning the practice of law in Stroudsburg. Becoming active in the Democratic Party, he won election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1908, holding the seat until he relinquished it in 1912. He impressed party leaders so much that at the Democratic Convention that year he rejected a bid to run for president himself, instead throwing his support to Woodrow Wilson. His reward was an offer to become secretary of war, but he declined it and returned to Stroudsburg and his law practice. He ran for a U.S. Senate seat in 1914 but lost. In 1917, as the United States entered World War I, President Wilson named Palmer his Alien Property Custodian, in which capacity he took over, administered and sold German property in America. Two years later, Wilson named him attorney general, the chief law enforcement officer in the nation.

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tending into the the “Red Scare.” The Numerous people morning hours, fed1917 Bolshevik Revo- were taken into eral agents swooped lution in Russia and down on suspected the creation of a so- custody at a North meeting places of cialist state there Washington Street sparked fears of so- hotel, and at anoth- radicals in about 40 cities of various sizcialist uprisings in er hotel on East es, mostly in the other countries. Many Americans Market Street, both Northeast, arresting thousands of people were looking with in Wilkes-Barre. believed to be comfear at the strong tide munist radicals. of immigration, parNumerous people were taken ticularly from eastern European nations. Their concern was that into custody at a North Washingthe newcomers might include ton Street hotel, and at another dangerous radicals and revolu- hotel on East Market Street, both tionaries and that, with the bless- in Wilkes-Barre. “Meetings were in progress in ing of socialists abroad, they would try to destabilize the both places,” agents told the InAmerican government and over- dependent. City police officers throw capitalism and Christiani- fluent in foreign languages accompanied the raiders as interty. Palmer, taking over his new preters. Then the agents moved post in March, moved quickly on to the homes of additional susand made it clear that his priority pects, arresting the occupants. Newcomers of eastern Europewould be fighting radicals. One of his early acts was to create the an descent were the main targets. “radical division” within the Jus- The federal authorities told retice Department, naming the ag- porters the Communist Party in gressive 24-year-old J. Edgar Chicago had issued four official organizational charters for the Hoover to head it. Some arrests under Palmer’s Wilkes-Barre area’s Russian, Poldirection were made in Novem- ish, Ukrainian and Lithuanian imRed Scare ber 1919. But on Jan. 2, 1920, the migrants. The Communist Party, By that time, America had en- action was strong and sweeping. authorities said, “has a memberStarting that evening and ex- ship of nearly 4,000 spread tered an era that historians call

through Wyoming Valley.” Such raids should have been no surprise to anyone who had read Palmer’s 1920 publication, “The Case against the Reds,” where in colorful prose he outlined his beliefs and said only quick and drastic action would save America from destruction. Wrote Palmer, “Like a prairiefire, the blaze of revolution was sweeping over every American institution of law and order a year ago. It was eating its way into the homes of the American workmen, its sharp tongues of revolutionary heat were licking the altars of the churches, leaping into the belfry of the school bell, crawling into the sacred corners of American homes, seeking to replace marriage vows with libertine laws, burning up the foundations of society.” Arrest and deport The best remedy, he concluded, was “arrest and prompt deportation.” The 40 people arrested in the Wilkes-Barre area were taken to the Luzerne County prison for Sunday morning hearings, where a federal immigration officer checked on their legal status. Those found “guilty” were to be

year, the Golden Nugget is dead last in casino revenue in Atlantic City. Its $106.1 million take is down 15.4 percent from the same period last year. Yet Fertitta is unfazed, saying he is focused on increasing overall profitability by controlling expenses, particularly by refusing to join an expensive arms race with larger casinos to throw costly promotional spending at prospective customers. “We don’t buy business,” he said. He alluded to a promotion used earlier in the year by Reshipped to the immigration facility at Ellis Island, New York, with the goal of putting them on ships dubbed by federal authorities “anarchist arks” and sent back to their home countries in Europe. Palmer’s aggressive style soon drew criticism almost as soon as he took over the attorney general post. Many people in his own party were shocked that a liberal Democrat and ally of the idealist President Wilson would virtually ignore civil liberties with midnight raids and arrests. Union leaders, who supported the Democrats, complained their members were being targeted by the party they’d thought was their ally. In mid-1919, Palmer’s home in Washington, D.C., was bombed, though he was not injured. While the Red Scare would continue for some time, Palmer left the attorney general’s office in March 1920, just 366 days after taking the job. He evidently had another goal. Three months later at the Democratic National Convention he sought his party’s presidential nomination. Although he ran strong in early balloting, on the 38th ballot the Democrats finally chose James M. Cox, who would go on to lose to Republican Warren G. Harding in November. Palmer did not run for office again. But he remained in Washington and continued to participate in Democratic politics, helping to write the party platforms for 1932 and 1936, with Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt winning both times. He died in 1936. He’s buried at a cemetery in Stroudsburg. Appointee to icon Palmer’s young employee J. Edgar Hoover would go on to head the new Federal Bureau of Investigation and have an even larger career. He became an iconic figure for the bureau’s crime fighting during the era of prohibition (1920-33), and succeeding presidents allowed him to remain in the post. So powerful and popular a figure was Hoover, in fact, that President Lyndon B. Johnson in the

sorts Casino Hotel, which is also struggling to build its business volumes. “I can go give rooms away for 20 dollars, but that has never been my philosophy,” Fertitta said. “When we bought the Golden Nugget Las Vegas in 2005, I took the revenue down and the (earnings) up,” he said. “Some of the business we’ve lost is business where they (Trump Entertainment Resorts) just gave them too much. We just don’t do that. Last summer they lost $3 million; this summer we made $2.5 million. That’s a pretty nice swing.” The casino had a gross operating profit of $2.1 million for July, August and September, compared with just $247,000 for the same period last year when Trump owned it. The rebranding returns the Golden Nugget name to Atlantic City, although in a different building unrelated to the original Golden Nugget, which operated from 1980 to 1987 in what is now ACH, the former Atlantic City Hilton. A big part of the new Golden Nugget’s renovation included adding new restaurants including the Chart House (one of several around the country that the parent company owns), and Vic & Anthony’s steakhouse. Italian and sushi restaurants are coming soon. The Golden Nugget recently hosted shows by Motley Crue singer Vince Neil and comic Kathleen Madigan. It hosted a best festival on its outdoor deck, and a Beatles tribute band, “1964,” is coming in December. 1960s even waived federal retirement rules for him. Though Hoover’s popular image was that of an intrepid battler against crime and subversion, his FBI was criticized in the turbulent 1960s for investigating seemingly innocuous people such as entertainers and athletes for suspected radicalism. Hoover died, still in office, in 1972. With his death, the Justice Department’s last connection to the turbulent days of A. Mitchell Palmer and the Red Scare of19191920 was gone. AP PHOTO

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Christmas-themed locomotive rolls into Scranton as part of campaign to help others. By STEVEN FONDO Times Leader Correspondent

SCRANTON – The holiday train rolled into Scranton’s Steamtown National Historical Site on Saturday evening emblazoned with colors of green, gold and red and heralding the 2011 Christmas Season. The ChristThe Canadian mas-themed locomotive is Pacific food part of Canadrive will dian Pacific feature an Railroad’s annual holiday interactive campaign to program raise money called Decoand supply to rate & Dofill empty cupboards across nate. the United States and Canada this holiday season. According to the railroad’s website, "since the program’s inception back in 1999, more than $5.6 million and over 2.45 million pounds of food has been collected in Canada and the United States." The 2011 holiday train embarked from the New York-Canadian border on Friday evening with a schedule to visit 140 cities along CPR’s circuit before culminating in Minnesota in mid-December. A sister holiday train will also be making the rounds of cities throughout Canada. "The train’s going to make its

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annual stop here between 5:45 and 6:15 and present the United Neighborhood Centers of Northeast Pennsylvania with a check for $1,000," said Steamtown spokesman Mark Brennan. "It’s a popular event for us each year." For 2011, the Canadian Pacific food drive will feature an interactive program called Decorate & Donate which is designed as a "fun and educational way for schools and families to help feed (the underprivileged) their communities." According to Brennan, this year’s train features popular country singing stars Willy Porter and Sydney Grigg entertaining the crowds with holiday classics and carol sing-alongs from a festive, open-airstage aboard the train a more elaborate lighting scheme, synchronized lighting

scheme. "Look at that thing. It’s larger than life," stated Carmine Vasillo of Moscow, who came with his two excited children. "This is our second year and it’s definitely worth the trip." Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus made a command appearance at the Steamtown whistle-stop, much to the delight of the adoring fans and spread the Yuletide spirit with small gifts and trinkets for the crowds. "Does Santa really live on that train," one inquisitive toddler asked her mother, as the train slowly pulled away. Following the stop in Scranton, the Holiday Train would be making a much-anticipated stop atop the famous viaduct in Nicholson, Pennsylvania as part of that town’s "Trains and Trees" holiday kick-off celebration.

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Maurice Cerasaro Jr., right, of Larksville, is followed by William Jenkins of Larksville and Raymond Lenahan of Forty Fort as they enter St. Peter’s Cathedral in Scranton along with four other men for permanent ordination as deacons by Bishop Joseph C. Bambera, Saturday morning. At right, the bishop speaks during the ordination of the seven men.

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Owner Yuki Spencer talks about the Small Business Saturday campaign at Yuki’s Clothing and Accessories in Kingston.

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and without provocation said we’re here to support small businesses today,” owner Lisa Benkowski said. “So it definitely worked as a campaign.” Benkowski added the extra business was especially helpful because a down economy has hurt flower sales in recent years. An American Express sticker promoted the holiday on the door of Yuki’s Clothing and Accessories in United Penn Plaza, Kingston. The holiday coincided with the store’s biannual sale, something owner Yuki Spencer said always brings in customers, but Spencer added she still thinks Small Business

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the town’s homes and all but one of its 28 businesses. Shickshinny and Athens, Bradford County, are the only two Pennsylvania communities marked by FEMA to receive long-term recovery assistance following a five-point plan called Heart-and-Soul Community Planning. “It’s finding out what makes Shickshinny special and using those things and places … to plan for the future,” Christilaw said. “We don’t want to lose what gives Shickshinny its character. We want to make sure those special places are preserved and those values are carried through even in the face of change, because things are going to change,” she explained at a recent “story circle” meeting at First United Methodist Church. Christilaw said the team will help create a long-term recovery plan. Many voices The process should include everyone: council, business owners and residents. A committee of community members

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Saturday gave the store a boost. “It’s busier than last year for sure, so maybe it has something to do with it,” she said. Next door at 3 Sisters boutique, co-owner Cathy Duffy said she promoted the holiday on the store’s Facebook page and that she wholeheartedly supports the campaign because it represents what her store is all about. 3 Sisters specializes in jewelry and gifts made by hand in the United States and focuses on providing top-notch customer service, Duffy said, something that sets her store apart from national chains. “We encourage not just our own business but small businesses themselves, because we’re really the backbone of our town,” Duffy said. “When you look at what some businesses give back to the community ver-

sus what the big boxes say they do it doesn’t compare.” Jill Gryskevicz, a former 3 Sisters employee who now lives in Philadelphia, said she planned to shop at several local shops while she is in town for the holiday weekend. “Giving back to small businesses is important,” she said.

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1. Capture the Past: Determining what about Shickshinny needs to be preserved, currently and into December. 2. Envision the Future: Community Visioning Meeting and formation of working groups, December. 3. Design Your Town: Community Design Workshop, January. 4. Create Your Plan: Working groups meet and flesh out the feasibility of proposed projects, January and into February. 5. Make it Reality: Doing the work to bring the resulting long-term recovery plan to fruition, March 2012 and into the next 10 years.

– residents, business owners, senior citizens, students – and a few Luzerne County representatives to help steer the process, she said. The Rev. Terry Hughes, pastor of the First United Methodist and a steering committee member, said the process is an opportunity “to paint the picture of Shickshinny the way you envision it.” “One person says I think Shickshinny should look like this, another person says it should look like that. When you put all of them together, what are the things that are in common? These are the things that we need for Shickshinny for it to feel like home,” Hughes said. At the story circle, Pat Hartman said the park behind Curry Donuts is special to her. “It’s really nice for parents and kids; it’s somewhere safe. I love seeing the families there. It does give you a sense of

community,” she said. Curry Donuts employee Jacqueline Evanitus said she misses seeing and talking with children who stopped in while waiting for the school bus as well as shopping in the local stores and seeing everyone she knows on a regular basis. She wants that to return. Looking back, then ahead Beauty shop owner Helen Siesko said she remembered the 1960s when Shickshinny was “a really busy place, and

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I’d like to see that again.” Specifically, she misses a place called Dot & Jim’s, where “we used to all gather and have sodas and cheeseburgers and dance and play pool … and just walking the streets and feeling safe” on busy sidewalks. Christilaw said the team will be knocking on doors to get input from at least 100 residents before moving on to the second step, a visioning meeting on Dec. 8 at Northwest

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THE TIMES LEADER www.timesleader.com GERTRUDE WILLIAMS CONWELL, 97, of Nuangola, formerly a resident of South Wilkes-Barre, passed away Friday evening, November 25, 2011, at her residence. Funeral arrangements are pending from Jacobs Funeral Service, 47 Old River Road, WilkesBarre. FRED (BUDDY) VAN CRAMER JR., of Duryea, passed away Saturday, November 26, 2011, at CMC Hospital in Scranton. Funeral arrangements are pending from the Bernard J. Piontek Funeral Home Inc., 204 Main St., Duryea. BARBARA A. FLYNN, 69, of Warner Street, Plains Township, died Friday, November 25, 2011, at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Funeral arrangements are pending from the Yeosock Funeral Home, 40 S. Main St., Plains Township. IDA MAE MEULSTEE, 79, passed away Friday evening, November 25, 2011, in the Hospice Community Care Inpatient Unit, Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre. Arrangements are pending from the Metcalfe and Shaver Funeral Home Inc., 504 Wyoming Ave., Wyoming. DOLORES PAC of Swoyersville passed away Friday, November 25, 2011 at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. in Holy Name/St. Mary’s Church, Shoemaker Street, Swoyersville. Family and friends may call Tuesday from 9 a.m. until time of service at the Lehman-Gregory Funeral Home Inc., 281 Chapel St., Swoyersville. MARY D. WILDE, 63, of WilkesBarre, passed away Saturday morning, November 26, 2011, at Hospice Community Care Inpatient Unit at Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre. Funeral arrangements are pending and will be announced from the Bednarski & Thomas Funeral Home, 27 Park Ave., Wilkes-Barre.

Nancy Langdon Nelson October 23, 2011

ancy Langdon Nelson, of Aurora, N.Y. and formerly of New Jersey, died Sunday, October 23, 2011. She was 79 years old. Born and raised in New Jersey, she received a B.A. in Biology, with honors in the BETABETABETA Society, from Hood College, Md. She earned an M.A. in early childhood education from Columbia University Teacher’s College in the city of New York. She taught elementary school in New Jersey for a number of years before starting a family. Later, she helped to establish The Community Nursery/Day Care, now called the Community School, with other early childhood educators in Nutley, N.J., and taught there until her retirement. She attended Vincent Methodist Church in Nutley, and was secretary for a planning board there for a number of years. She was a member and one time president of P.E.O. Foundation Chapter Q of Montclair, member of the American Association of University Women Nutley branch and the Hood College Alumni Association. She was also a member of the Friday Afternoon Club of Nutley and the Speartown Quilters of Montclair. In addition to teaching, she enjoyed preparing special meals and baked goods, home decorating and quilting. “The servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach and patient.” 2 Timothy 2:24. She will be remembered for her quiet reserve. Nancy moved to Aurora, N.Y., in 2002 and enjoyed the rural setting as well as continued membership with the P.E.O. Foundation, activities at the United Ministry Church of Aurora, and other local organizations. She was predeceased by her parents; Bronwen P. Langdon in 1987 and Oliver W. Langdon in 1967. Mrs. Nelson’s parents were from the Wilkes-Barre area originally, and she spent many childhood summers at her father’s homestead there. Her maternal grandmother, Mrs. M. Blodwen Pugh, was a well known choral conductor. Her great-grandfather Rees was a poet and active with the Congregational Church. She is survived by her husband, Arthur B. Nelson of Aurora, a daughter, Nancy A. Nelson of Cayuga. Calling hours will be held on Monday, November 28, 2011, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Shakelton Funeral Home, Main Street, Aurora, with a service to follow at 7 p.m. A committal service will be on Tuesday, November 29, 2001 at 1 p.m. at Hanover Cemetery in Hanover Township. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Hood College, Attention: Jane Moore, 401 Rosemont Avenue, Frederick, MD 21701-8575, in memory of Nancy Langdon Nelson, Class of 1957.

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ndrew M. “Andy” Silvi, 64, a resident of Kingston, passed away peacefully early Friday morning, November 25, 2011 at Mountain City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Hazle Township, following a lengthy illness. His loving wife is Kathleen M. Bohn Silvi. Together, Andy and Kathy celebrated their 17th wedding anniversary March 19, 2011. Born December 18, 1946, in Kingston, Andrew was a son of the late Andrew D. and Ruth A. Sandow Silvi. Andy was raised in Swoyersville and was a graduate of the former In addition to his wife, Kathy, AnSwoyersville High School. He later went on to further his education at dy is survived by his daughter AnPenn State University, Wilkes-Barre drea Suhamski and her husband, Bernard, of White Haven; his stepCampus. Prior to his retirement, Andy was children, Michael VanTuyl, of Barryemployed for 22 years as an inspec- ville, N.Y., Michele Burke and her tor for Air Products, Hanover Town- husband, Christopher, of Stewart Manor, N.Y., Melissa Monico, of ship. A man of great faith, Andy was a Shavertown, and Karen Cheskiemember of the Salvation Army witz and her husband Albert, of DalCorps, Wilkes-Barre, where he for- las; his grandchildren, Emily and merly served as a Sunday school Ryan Burke, Samantha Monico, Griffin Stone and Travis Cheskieteacher. witz. Andy was a member of the CoalRelatives and friends are reville Masonic Lodge No. 474, Sugar spectfully invited to attend the fuNotch, F & A.M. District 12 of Pennneral service Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. sylvania. at the Salvation Army Citadel, 17 S. In 1992, Andy was initiated into Pennsylvania Ave., Wilkes-Barre, the Queen Esther Chapter 163, Or- with Captain Doug Richwine offider of the Eastern Star, Middle- ciating. Interment will follow in the town, N.Y. He served as Worthy Pa- Denison Cemetery, Swoyersville. tron of that Chapter in1994. Then in Family and friends may call Mon1995, Andy became a dual member day from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. of the Order of the Eastern Star at the Wroblewski Funeral Home when he joined the Plymouth Chap- Inc., 1442 Wyoming Ave., Forty ter 345, with whom he served as Fort, and also Tuesday from 9:30 Worthy Patron in 2001- 2002. He a.m. until the time of the funeral serwas also a past Worthy Patron of vice at the Salvation Army Citadel. Wilkes-Barre Chapter 90. The members of the Coalville Active within his community, An- Masonic Lodge No. 474 will condy was a member of the Maltby Vol- duct a Masonic Service at 7 p.m. unteer Fire Co., Swoyersville, with Monday and the members of the whom he served as assistant chief Wilkes-Barre Chapter 90, Order of for 10 years. He also held member- the Eastern Star No. 90 will conduct ship with the Swoyersville Ambu- a service at 7:30 p.m. Monday. lance Company and Swoyersville Memorial contributions may be Volunteer Fire Company, No. 1. made in Andy’s memory to the SalAdditionally, Andy was a coach vation Army Food Pantry, P.O. Box for the Swoyersville Girls Softball 1271, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18703 or to Team in his earlier years. the Wilkes-Barre Chapter 90 Order Andy will forever be remembered of the Eastern Star, 8 Dauphin St., for his inspiring personality and the Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702. way he lived his life to the fullest. He For additional information or to will be deeply missed by those who send the family of Mr. Andrew M. knew and loved him. Silvi an online message of condoAndrew was preceded in death by lence, you may visit the funeral his infant sister, Evelyn, and his par- home website at www.wroblewskifuneralhome.com. ents.

Sandra A. (Kochanski) Adams November 25, 2011 A. (Kochanski) Adams, S andra wife of Robert A. Adams, of

Sweet Valley, passed away Friday, November 25, 2011 as the result of an automobile accident. Sandy was born January 1, 1961, in Kingston, to Rose and the late Joseph Kochanski. She graduated from Wyoming Valley West High School in1978 and Luzerne County Community College as a registered nurse. Sandy and Bob were married on September 14, 1984. Together they have their daughter, Rachel, who resides in Corpus Christi, Texas, with her husband, Tony. Sandy worked as a RN for Geisinger Medical Group for 15 years and was most recently employed as a pharmacy technician at CVS/Caremark. Sandy enjoyed her flower beds and crafting as well as looking after her pets and cooking for her family. Being a wife and mother gave her the most joy in her life. She was at her happiest spending time with Rachel and her best friend and husband, Bob. She was preceded in death by her father, Joseph. Surviving, in addition to her hus-

band and daughter, are her mother, Rose Kochanski, of Edwardsville, sister Nancy Mallis and family of Harrisburg, and many in-laws, nieces, nephews, and friends. She will be greatly missed and loved forever. A memorial service will be held Tuesday at 8 p.m. from the Curtis L. Swanson Funeral Home Inc., corner of routes 29 and 118, Pikes Creek, with the Rev. Raymond D. Purdy Jr., pastor of the Living Word Baptist Church, Fairmount Township, officiating. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. prior to the service Tuesday. Online condolences may be made at www.clswansonfuneralhome.com.

Julian Walsh Davies November 23, 2011

ulian Walsh Davies, two days old, died Wednesday, November 23, 2011, at home. Born November 21, 2011, at Pinnacle Health Harrisburg Hospital, he was a son of Mathew P. and Christine Walsh Davies. He was preceded in death by his paternal grandmother, Julia A. (Prince) Davies and his maternal grandfather, Dr. James Patrick Walsh. In addition to his mother and father, he is survived by his sister, Celia Katherine Walsh, at home, his paternal grandfather, Frank J. (Buzz) Davies, of Sea Girt, N.J., his cial meaning to you. In lieu of flowers, Julian’s parents maternal grandparents, Alice (Walsh) and John Baran, of Wilkes- ask that family and friends make Barre, seven uncles, six aunts, 14 memorial contributions to the Neocousins, and a large loving extended natal Intensive Care Unit at Pinnacle Health Harrisburg Hospital. A family, including his two dogs. Julian will be cremated and laid fund has been established in Julian’s name. Please mail checks to Pinnato rest with whichever one of his cle Health Harrisburg Hospital, NIparents joins him first. CU, 111 S. Front St., Harrisburg, PA Because so many family mem17101. Note “Julian Walsh Davies bers traveled long distances to meet Fund” in the memo line. Julian, no formal services will be The incredibly kind and dedicatheld. Instead, Christine and Matt ed staff in the NICU gave Julian a ask that their loved ones take time level of care that we would like to to celebrate Julian’s life and memo- make possible for other families. In ry Monday, December 19, which addition, their Herculean efforts alwas his due date. Whether individu- lowed Julian to be in his home when als choose to attend a church ser- he passed away. vice, bring supplies to a food bank, For more information or to send or take their children to the park, messages of condolence, please visplease find a way that will hold spe- it www.parthemore.com.

ohn F. Stanish, 64, of WilkesBarre, died Thursday morning, November 24, 2011, at Geisinger Wyoming Valley. Born in Wilkes-Barre, March 30, 1947, he was a son of the late John J. and Doreen I. Worboys Stanish. He was a 1965 graduate of G.A.R. John was a veteran of the Vietnam War, serving in Germany. On August 22, 1980, he married Marsha Stricker, who survives. He was employed as an electronics worker at the Tobyhanna Army Depot. He was formerly employed by the RCA Corporation in Mountain Top. John was a member of the Episcopal Church of Ss. Clement & Peter. He was a hunter and a fisherman and an avid outdoorsman. In addition to his wife Marsha, John is survived by son John, Wilkes-Barre; three daughters, Lisa and her husband, Mark Phillips, Nanticoke, Liz Hossage, WilkesBarre, and Jessica Stanish, WilkesBarre; four grandchildren, Josh and Justin Phillips and Doreen and Andy Hossage; two great-grandchildren, Emma and Dylan Phillips; and a brother-in-law, Robert Stricker. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 12:15 p.m. from the Kniffen O’Malley Funeral Home Inc., 465 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre.

Lori A. Robbins November 24, 2011 ori A. Robbins, 48, of MounL tain Top, entered into eternal rest Thursday, November 24,

The Funeral Liturgy will be held at 12:30 p.m. from the Episcopal Church of Ss. Clement & Peter, 165 Hanover St., Wikes-Barre, with Father William S. Marshall Jr. officiating. Family and friends may call at the funeral home Tuesday from 6 to 9 p.m. and Wednesday from 11 a.m. until time of service. Interment will be in Oak Lawn Cemetery, Hanover Township. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to St. Clement and St. Peter Episcopal Church, 70 Lockhart St., Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702. To send John’s family online words of comfort and friendship, please visit the funeral home website at www.bestlifetributes.com .

2011, at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center. Born in Batavia, N.Y., she was a daughter of Lois (Green) James and the late Walter Hilger. Lori was a proud parent who loved her family. She enjoyed life and people and cherished doing crafts and laughing. She was the proud owner and operator of Uniforms 4 U in Norwich, N.Y. She is survived, in addition to her mother, by her husband, Walter, children, Christopher, Ashley and Stephanie, her brother Larry Allen and his wife, Janet, Potsdam, N.Y., sister Lisa Sweeney and her husband, John, Branchville, N.J., and several nieces, nephews and cousins. All are invited to attend the memorial service Monday at 7 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 316 S. Mountain Blvd., Mountain Top, with Pastor Michele Kaufman officiating. Relatives and friends are invited to call at the church Monday from 4 p.m. until the time of the service. McCune Funeral Home has been entrusted with the arrangements. View obituaries online at www.mccunefuneralserviceinc.com.

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ber 22, 2011, in Highland Manor, Exeter, surrounded by her family. Born in Pittston, December 8, 1921, she was a daughter of the late Pasquale and Alice Loungo Pizzano. She was a graduate of Pittston High School, class of 1939. She has been employed for the Pittston Area School District as a cafeteria aide at the former Lincoln Elementary School. She had worked at the former Maxon Defense Plant, in the local garment industry for Lori Dress Company, and for the Foster Grandparents Program. She was a life member of St. Joseph Marello Parish at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Pittston. Mary enjoyed being with her family and friends. She also liked going to town, playing the lottery, and card games with her friends. She was a kind and loving person to those who were part of her life. She will be sadly missed by all. She was preceded in death by her brother Carmen Pizzano and infant brother Raymond Pizzano, sister Elizabeth O’Reilly, and nephew Robert O’Reilly. Mary is survived by her sister Vera Lussi, Shavertown; sister-in-law Mary Pizzano, Exeter; nieces and nephews, Donna Timko, Bernadine Lello, Gail Lussi, James O’Reilly, Dennis O’Reilly, Barry Pizzano, Carmen Pizzano, Richard Pizzano and Mary Ann Pizzano-Walker, as

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well as several great-nieces, greatnephews, great-great-nieces and great-great-nephews. Funeral services will be held Monday at 9 a.m. from the funeral home at 251 William St., Pittston, with a Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. in St. Joseph Marello Parish at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Pittston. The family will receive friends and relatives at the funeral home from 8:15 a.m. until the time of service. Memorial donations may be made at the Care and Concern Clinic or the Food Pantry at 35 William Street, Pittston, PA 18640 or to St. Joseph Marello Parish at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, William Street, Pittston. Interment will be in Dennison Cemetery, Swoyersville. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the Peter J. Adonizio Funeral Home. Online condolences may be made at www.peterjadoniziofuneralhome.com.

FUNERALS BERNEK – Dolores, memorial services noon Tuesday in the Kresge Funeral Home, Route 209, Brodheadsville. BYRON – Sister Aidan, transferal to Mercy Center Monday followed by a wake service and viewing 2 to 4 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Mercy Center Chapel followed by interment at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre. CASTELLI – Marie, funeral services 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Earl W. Lohman Funeral Home, Inc., 14 W. Green St., Nanticoke. Friends may call Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. CAVALARI – Frances, funeral services 9 a.m. Monday in Kiesinger Funeral Services Inc., 255 McAlpine St., Duryea. Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. at Queen of the Apostles Church, Avoca. Friends may call 5 to 8 p.m. today. DECKER – Tony, funeral 9:15 a.m. Monday in the S.J. Grontkowski Funeral Home, 530 West Main Street, Plymouth. Mass at 10 a.m. in St. Anthony Maronite Church, Wilkes-Barre. Friends may call 5 to 8 p.m. today. FINK – Margaret, funeral 10 a.m. Monday in the Desiderio Funeral Home Inc., 679 Carey Ave., Hanover Township. Friends may call 2 to 4 p.m. today. HENNIGHAN – Arline, Celebration of Arline’s Life 10 a.m. Monday in McLaughlin’s, 142 South Washington Street, Wilkes-Barre. Friends may call 9 to 10 a.m. HOYT – Lee, memorial service to celebrate Lee’s life 4 p.m. today in the Nulton Funeral Home Inc., SR 309, Beaumont. Friends may call 3 p.m. until the time of service. JOHNSON – Odessa, graveside services 11 a.m. Tuesday at the

Maple Hill Cemetery Chapel. KING – John, funeral services 9:30 a.m. Monday in the SheldonKukuchka Funeral Home Inc., 73 W. Tioga St., Tunkhannock. Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. at the Church of the Nativity BVM, Tunkhannock. Friends may call at the funeral home 6 to 9 p.m. today. KORNOVA – Francis, funeral services 10:30 a.m. Monday in the Bednarski & Thomas Funeral Home, 27 Park Avenue, WilkesBarre. Mass of Christian Burial at 11 a.m. in St. Robert Bellarmine Parish at St. Aloysius Church. Friends may call 4 to 6 p.m. today at the funeral home. MORRIS – Mirella, funeral services 1:30 p.m. Monday in the Thomas P. Kearney Funeral Home Inc., 517 North Main Street, Old Forge. Mass of Christian Burial at 2 p.m. at Divine Mercy Church, Scranton. Friends may call 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the funeral home. SOROKA – Bonnie, funeral 9 a.m. Monday in the Kizis-Lokuta Funeral Home, 134 Church St., Pittston. Mass of Christian Burial at 9:30 a.m. at St. Monica’s Parish, West Wyoming. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. TIRONZELLI – Ethel, funeral 12:30 p.m. Monday in the Graziano Funeral Home Inc., Pittston Township. Mass of Christian Burial 1 p.m. at St. Joseph’s Morello Parish at Our Lady of Mount Carmel R.C. Church. Friends may call 2 to 5 p.m. today at the funeral home. TOMCHAK – Danielle, memorial service 12:30 p.m. Dec. 3 in the Nat & Gawlas Funeral Home, 89 Park Avenue, Wilkes-Barre. Friends may call from noon until the time of the service.

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vember 21, 2011, at the home of his daughter in Long Valley, N.J. Mr. Dymond was born in Orange, Pa., and resided proudly for 86 years in the family home in West Pittston before moving in with his daughter at age 92. He retired after 30 years of service as an electrician with the Pennsylvania Power and Light Company. Mr. Dymond was an avid golfer at Irem Temple Country Club and was a Shriner with the Masons. He loved to garden, canning most of his produce until age 92 and giving most of the items to his family. He made wine from his own grapes in his arbor and was very active in the West Pittston Methodist Church. Mr. Dymond is survived by his daughter Kay Dymond and her husband, Barry Drake, of Long Valley, with whom he came to live at age 92; a son, Ernest Dymond of Las Vegas and four grandchildren, Zack and his wife, Kristin Dymond Drake, Kira Dymond Drake, Corey Tierney and Cassay and Carly Dymond. Private funeral services were held under the direction of the Scala Memorial Home, 124 High St., Hackettstown, N.J. 07840. Mr. Dymond was a wonderful father, grandfather and friend to all who were fortunate enough to know him. More Obituaries, Page 2A

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nity, reinforcing it to withstand a disaster that inflicted millions of dollars in damage to nearly all of the town’s 430 housing units and all but one of its 28 businesses and might otherwise have torn it apart. The mayor of the borough of 838 residents seems to have a good grasp on what makes the town special and worth saving as well as why so many of her constituents wish to remain and are determined to see it thrive once again. “We could have a fire that devastates the town. We could have sinkholes open up. For the love of God, we had an earthquake. You have to deal with it. There is no absolute safe place. So why would you not be where you feel you’re the happiest?” Mayor Beverly Moore said in a recent interview. “I love this town. Everybody here knows just about everybody else. You know the people in the stores. It’s a great little place. It’s like a little secret. Just the traffic alone here could support our businesses,” she said. Learning from history The recent flood? She labels it an inconvenience. “We’ve been through flooding before. Did we have a good flood plan? Absolutely. Did this last flood screw it up for me? Yup. “But we go out as soon as we hear from (the emergency management agency), everybody starts moving their stuff, we don’t have anything hysterical going on. They all know they have to move it. You know at that point the chances are you’re going to have to replace your flooring, some of your walls,” Moore said. She said it wouldn’t be feasible to raise up every home and business eight feet so they’re out of the flood zone. “And at the same time, I don’t think my town should become a ghost town because of it.” Moore said Shickshinny will prepare a flood plan based on the most recent flooding that likely will address an even higher crest than the record 42.6 feet the Susquehanna River reached on Sept. 9. She said the recent flood has been a learning experience and some things would be done differently. If a river crest of more than 34 feet were predicted, she would advise all residents and business owners to move their belongings and goods higher than they have in the past. But because of the levees and the ever-increasing runoff from development upstream, Moore doesn’t see the flood threat leveling off unless something more is done.

“We need to start looking at ways to address the runoff problem,” she said. ‘I like my life here’ Houseknecht, who opened JAngelo’s New York Pizza at the corner of Main and Union streets – the center of the downtown – three years ago, also loves the town and is rebuilding the shop to better withstand flooding. “It’s too small a town to really turn to a ghetto like Williamsport or Hazleton. All the big trouble drives right through it,” the 50year-old Mocanaqua resident said while taking a break from remodeling work in the shop. “I like my life here. I’ll never be a quitter.” Bonnie Shane, Houseknecht’s landlady and owner of The Upstairs Gallery frame shop located above the pizza place, said she’s DON CAREY/THE TIMES LEADER heartened by a team of long-term recovery specialists from the Fed- Theda Belles explains why she reopened Shickshinny Floral and Gifts – the town’s only flower shop – last week. While she’s ready to eral Emergency Management retire, she’s still paying down a mortgage on the 24-year-old business. Agency working to assist with a just have to commit to it,” she comeback. “You come back and you come said. “We’re celebrating our sesback prepared to deal with these quicentennial. We’ve been here problems the best you can if it this long, there’s no reason it happens again. We have a major should end now.” Town residents have similar intersection, we have great natural resources here, we’re a hub for feelings. Lewis said he “grew up on the this area, for our children, our olMonongahela” River in western der people,” Shane, 55, said. As for a government buyout, Pennsylvania and moved to Shickshinny after his wife she hadn’t considered it. “I’ve put too much into this learned about it on the Internet business, into this building. It’s a because they wanted to live historical building, and it’s lived somewhere safer that was still a through a lot of floods. It’s seen so river town. “We came up and we much and it did not have looked at it and it the damage that our in- “I cannot looked beautiful. It was surance wouldn’t cover, so I only see going believe the in a bowl (surrounded ahead,” Shane said. attitude of by) mountains. We came into the town and people in Options limited we’re sheltered. What is it, 11 miles to a Burger But many people in ShickshinKing, 13 miles to a town don’t have much ny, their McDonald’s? When choice. “We own our build- can-do at- you’re raising children, that’s very important ings. Relocating is too ex- titude.” because (a trip to those pensive, and it’s either a total loss or we’d be stuck Clarence Lewis restaurants) is not Resident treated as an everyday DON CAREY/THE TIMES LEADER with a property we can’t thing,” Lewis said. sell if we left it,” she said. Bonnie Shane discusses flood insurance payouts with her tenant, Jim Houseknecht, while he takes Theda Belles, who a break from remodeling work inside his pizza business on Monday in Shickshinny. owns Shickshinny Floral and ‘Mayberry effect’ Secretary of the state “The Mayberry effect is here. Gifts, said the town needs a flowDepartment of Communier shop, but the only reason she Our children grow up slower ty and Economic Develreopened is because she has a here. And the people here are difopment C. Alan Walker, mortgage on the shop to pay off. ferent because they’re open, state Sen. Lisa Baker and The 64-year-old said she’s they’re honest. They want to state Rep. Karen Boback know how they can help a neighflood-weary and ready for retiretalk with Jessica Demko ment. “As soon as I can get a bor,” he said. at her gift shop, Country But that sense of community buyer, I’m out of here,” she said, Joy, earlier in November noting that she did not have flood still amazes him. when the officials toured “Six weeks ago, we were eyeinsurance because previous the flood-ravaged town. balls into water. I cannot believe floods never reached her shop. Demko was painting her Jessica Demko and her hus- the attitude of people in Shickbusiness in an effort to band, Andy, have owned Country shinny, their can-do attitude. It’s reopen. Residents of the Joy, a gift shop on Main Street, not about can-do, it’s will-do. And area are being asked to for the past five years and were the ones who packed up and ran, help plan for the commuprepared for the high water be- they weren’t the heart of this nity’s future. cause they had flood insurance. town. The heart of this town is AIMEE DILGER/THE TIMES LEADER “I think we all know that we’re the people who are still wiping in a flood zone here, and there’s the mud off their windows, who no surprise about that,” Jessica are still trying to wait out their in- going today. We celebrate the fact glad that we found it. … What we and you share some of the hurt, surance people so they can get that someone got a cabinet in or a went through was even greater because when you share with Demko, 38, said. refrigerator. We celebrate that.” than (the 1972 flooding of Trop- somebody you know cares, it “Knowing that it could hap- going,” he said. Lewis said it’s the neighborly “That’s what makes Shickshin- ical Storm) Agnes. But we’re still doesn’t hurt so much. It’s the pen, you prepare as much as you can. You get insurance and you support that “keeps Shickshinny ny alive and it’s what makes me here,” Lewis said. “When you talk ointment that keeps us healing.”

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Hazamoon Lisa Cahill is a former New York City police officer and now owns and operates a vintage clothing and alteration shop in Luzerne.

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othing about her life has been easy. • Making a way for herself, being a female New York City police officer, living through Sept. 11, 2001 and now, being a small business owner in a tough economy … those are just a few of the challenges that Hazamoon Lisa Cahill has overcome. • Cahill, 40, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and she was named “Hazamoon” after her mother, which means “change just when needed.” Her parents came to America from India and her family is from Punjabi descent.

Cahill’s “needed change” might have been moving to Luzerne in 2009. She now owns Hazamoon Creations on Union Street, where she creates vintage clothing from tablecloths, scarves, bed sheets and anything else she finds. She also alters all types of clothing and will create clothing for her customers with their choice of pattern and material. Prior to owning her own business, Cahill loved her job as a police officer in New York City. She was af-

filiated with the NYPD from 1991 to 2004 and worked in Police Plaza, where she monitored everyone who entered the building for contraband. “Very few people liked that post because it was a very confrontational post to have because you’re dealing with all sorts of people,” Cahill said. “I loved it. It was busy and it helped me to master my job.” At the NYPD, in a preSee HAZAMOON, Page 8B

Tuesdays with Laurel & Hardy By SUSAN KING Los Angeles Times

CULVER CITY, Calif. — They meet every Tuesday afternoon at the famous Culver Hotel in Culver City, seated at a center table in the restaurant, engaged in lively, loud luncheon conversation. They are members of the Sons of the Desert, the international Laurel and Hardy appreciation society, and a more devoted group is hard to find. The name derives from the 1933 comedy starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. They play friends with domineering wives who hope to attend a convention of their fraternal organization, called Sons of the Desert. The film society has “tents” all over the world, including several in California, with the Way Out West tent in Hollywood. A recent Sons gathering was particularly ebullient. The group was thrilled about

"There is no question in my mind that Laurel and Hardy comes closest to representing the average American as he bumbles along in life. Despite all the messes they get into, they still stick up for one another and love each other. This warmth brings us close to them like no other comedians."

Mike Nemith Sons of the Desert member

the recent release of “Laurel & Hardy: The Essential Collection” DVD set that contains 58 comedy shorts and features starring the gangly Englishman Laurel and the portly Hardy that they made for producer Hal Roach from 1929 through 1940. Among the highlights are “Sons of the Desert,” 1937’s “Way Out West,” 1938’s “Block-Heads” and 1932’s Academy Award-winning short “The Music Box,” in which the boys try to deliver a piano up a

massive flight of stairs. “The reason we meet here is that the Hal Roach Studios were right down the block,” offered Richard W. Bann, author of such film history books as “The Little RasMCT PHOTO cals: The Life and Times of Our Gang,” which he penned with Leonard Maltin. Jim MacGeorge shows his Stan Lau“We meet here because we can’t meet rel impersonation as Laurel and Harthere for lunch. They tore the studio down dy fans meet for lunch at the Culver See HARDY, Page 8B

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he little engine chug-chugs around a never-ending loop, pulling along rail cars full of coal, logs, milk cans, oil and assorted freight. Occasionally its route is varied by someone throwing a tiny switch. But it always ends up back in the same spot, right in front of you, all set to go out on its travels again later today or tomorrow. I’m a fan of scale-model railroad layouts under the Christmas tree, or anywhere else for that matter. I don’t have one myself, because you can’t buy one that would satisfy me and I don’t (ahem) have the electrical and carpentry and other skills necessary to build one. So I content myself with visiting public displays every December. My family had a really nice layout about 60 years ago. My dad was a true craftsman. Built on a white base to simulate snow, the little town surrounded by the circle of rail track had sidewalks made from strips of wood painted to look like concrete and oldtime streetlights that lit up in the dark. In one corner was a mountain, made from papier mache over a metal frame, properly rugged looking of course, with a tunnel through which the train could pass. But the nicest part of the whole operation, I believed, was the buildings. Scorning the popular “Plasticville” snap-together structures as an abomination, my father spent months at his basement work table, constructing homes, a drugstore, a church and everything else his tiny town could need — from scratch. I can see him now working with balsa wood and stiff cardboard, meticulously inserting cellophane panels in windows and hanging signs out over sidewalks with microscopic cords designed to look like chain. The people and automobiles in the streets were about the only items he bought pre-made. Even the bare, brown trees were actually tiny twigs he’d plucked off the bushes in our back yard and trimmed with a razor blade to look like maples and oaks awaiting spring. My favorite building in the whole town was the movie theater. Of course it had a projecting marquee announcing that “Stars in My Crown,” a 1950 Joel McCrea flick, was being shown inside — all in tiny black letters cut from an edition of The Times Leader newspaper. More remarkable, though, were the cellophane-encased posters on the front of the theater. They contained scenes from the movie, cut from small newspaper ads. Even their frames were painted to look like brass. It was the kind of town where almost anyone — even today — would want to live. And maybe that’s why Christmas displays are still with us. As the darkness of winter closes in and we are thrown more upon our own resources, they give us a brief entry into a kind of world we’d like to sink into. Of course we know that world never really existed (even in 1950). But they offer a chance for us to think “If only I could …” Our wintry fantasizing is, of course, the reason why you’ll never see a Christmas display featuring boarded-up storefronts scarred with graffiti and with mysterious-looking little plastic figures trading money for tiny packages in the alleyways. We already see that, too much of it, in fact. So, since I can’t cut a piece of balsa wood without ending up in the emergency room, and you can’t buy a 1950 town in a box, that’s why I go out to see Christmas train layouts. All aboooooard! Tom Mooney is a Times Leader columnist. Reach him at tmooney2@ptd.net.

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Pulaski Scholarship awarded to King’s student

Sem students receive Lower School scholarships

The Pulaski Scholarship Committee of Northeastern Pennsylvania held its second annual Scholarship Ball on Oct. 22 at the Genetti Hotel and Conference Center, Wilkes-Barre. The ball was held in October to celebrate Polish-American Heritage Month. The purpose of the ball is to help a worthy student of Polish decent in a local college or university. The winner of this year’s scholarship was William Borysewicz, Nanticoke, a second-year student at King’s College, where he is studying theology and sociology. Borysewicz received his award from chairperson Dolly Kubasko and read his winning essay, ‘What My Polish Heritage Means to Me.’ The Ray Suda Orchestra provided the entertainment. Members of the Scholarship Committee with the award winner, from left: Rose Carlin, publicity; Kubasko; Borysewicz; and Pat and Tom Osisek, sponsors and patrons. Also a member of the committee was Helen Kowalick, co-chairperson.

Three area students at Wyoming Seminary have received Lower School Merit Scholarships for the 2011-12 school year. The recipients are Garrett Gagliardi, seventh grade, Wilkes-Barre; Satyasaran Sreeharikesan, eighth grade, Wilkes-Barre; and Ethan Tost, fifth grade, Scranton. The award was established to encourage promising fifth- through eighth-grade students to attend the Lower School. Recipients were chosen on the basis of a competitive exam. Each award recipient receives half-tuition, merit-based scholarships. The 2012-13 Lower School Merit Scholarship exam will be given Feb. 4, 2012, in Forty Fort. For information on how to apply, call Katie Callahan, director of lower school admission, at 718-6611. Scholarship winners, from left, first row, are Sreeharikesan, Gagliardi and Tost. Second row: William Davis, interim dean of middle school; Callahan; and Heidi Sims, associate director of admission.

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Fairview second-graders perform Native American tale Second-grade students at Fairview Elementary recently performed the play ‘The Strongest One,’ a Native American tale in which Little Red Ant learns about being strong. With the help of teachers Mark Krokos and James Zabiegalski, students narrated and used shadow puppetry to stream a live performance to the first-grade classrooms using the latest technology available at the school. Some of the participating students, from left, are Mason Fanelli, Joseph Otero, William Everett, Angelo Passante, Hailey Borsuk and Reyna LaVariega.

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MMI students join Andrew J. Stofan Chapter of the National Honor Society Thirty-three students were recently inducted into the Andrew J. Stofan Chapter of the National Honor Society at MMI Preparatory School. Motivational speaker Jimmy Collins was the keynote speaker for the induction ceremony. Chapter officers gave presentations on the criteria of the National Honor Society for its membership. Membership in the National Honor Society recognizes students for their accomplishments and also challenges them to develop further through active involvement in school activities and community service. Inductees, officers and others taking part in the ceremony included, first row, from left: Brianna Nocchi, Kristen Purcell, Farrah Qadri, Alexis Haupt, Roderick Cook, Marianne Virnelson, Antonia Diener, Stephanie Pudish and Paige Darrow. Second row: Kaitlyn Sitch, Alexis Williams, Cassandra Bluth, Hannah Lesitsky, Emily Alvear, Devan McCarrie, Sara Lucas, Devon Sherwood, Sarah Jamack and Eleni Moustardas. Third row: Kate Lengel, faculty member and co-adviser of the National Honor Society; Anthony James Alfieri; Druva Kansara; Robert Rosemelia; Joseph Yamulla; Charles Karchner; Jeffrey Careyva; Patrick Driscoll; Alexander Drusda; and Robert James Kupsho. Fourth row: Mitchell Muir; Alec Andes; Christopher Musselman; Samuel Scalleat; Corey Sisock; Elijah Dove; Jonathan DeJesus; Roger Knittle; Alexander Haber; Collins; and Thomas G. Hood, president, MMI.

HONOR ROLLS Greater Nanticoke Area Educational Center The Greater Nanticoke Area Educational Center recently announced the Honor Roll for the first quarter. Grade 6: Honors with Distinction: Sarah Adkins, Megan Banas, Morgan Bienkowski, Kaitlyn Bigos, Miranda Bohn, Emily Brzozowski, Kaitlyn Butczynski, Carlos Castillo, Nadia Cobb, Brian Dougherty, Emily Ehrensperger, Joylynne Frie, Sabrina Holevinski, Codi Hornlein, Dawson Hughes, Douglas Hunter,

Brandon Karavitch, Cassidy Moore, Brandon Murtha, Joseph O’Hara, Matthew Piontkowski, Caven Pollick, Kasey Radginski, Lisa Radziak, Kassandra Rinker, Alexander Rusin, Kristopher Rynklewicz, Emily Scott, Michae Skamarakus, Evan Stecco, Christopher Thomas, Devin Thomas, Samantha Waichulis, Ryan Whittaker, Taylor Zabrenski and Tyler Zaremba. High Honors: Rebecca Bavitz, Corbyn Bogart, Courtney Capie, Ian Dougherty, Madalyn Gomelko, Madelyn Grilz, Savanna Gwynn, Calvin Herring, Colin Higgs, Olivia Kivler, Rebecca Levandowski, Lynsey Maciejaszek, David Mash, Lauren McHenry, Aaron Miller, Elizabeth Moore, Megan Murphy, Marissa Oncay, Justin Ostopick, Brianna Ottensman, Hunter Peterson, Nathan

Proleika, Ashlee Przywara, Ethan Rinehamer, Dante Rodriquez, Kimberly Rodriquez, Lindsey Rowles, Kristofer Seiwell, Justin Shybloski, Emily Spencer, Kyle Stratton, Katrina Thomas, Mark Walters, Matthew Wrubel and Hunter Yale. Honors: Zackerri Ali, Cameron Balliet, Arnolt Balz, Damon Beckhorn, Tracy Booker, Hunter Canfield, Marcus Dalmas, Markaya Draper, Bradley Duda, Casey Evans, Angel Figlerski, Branton Frie, John Guszak, Michelle Guziak, Ryan Helmecki, Catherine Hindmarsh, Matthew Iorio, Madison Kukucka, Derek Kurkoski, Morgan Matthews, David McDonald, Gabriella Montalvo, Faith Moyer, Brandon Murphy, Alyssa Newell, Brian Reakes, Sarah Reed, Karah Repasky, Kendra Ryan, Abigail

Savage, Selena Schmidt, Kyle Scortichini, Dominick Smith, Nicholas Snyder, Avery Valaitis, Ahyssa Vitkauskas and Carl Zawadski. Grade 7: Honors with Distinction: Evie Allport, Meghan Armstrong, Kayla Auferio, Morgan Briggs, Michaela Buckley, Lauren Cann, Zachary Cardone, Justin Casey, Matthew Daniels, Courtney Day, Alec Divers, Miranda Dunn, Emily Eckhart, Jessica Eckrote, Savanna Kalinowski, Riley Klepadlo, Breaunna Koernig, Aaron Kreitzer, Janine Levandowski, Bradley Markowski, Tyler Mayo, Danielle O’Connor, Samantha Panagakos, Kyle Pokrinchak, Halyey Rakowski, Leandra Ramos, Colin Sulcoski, Tyler Thomas and Justin Wolfe. High Honors: Destiny Allabaugh, Joshua Baranowski,

Family Service Association of Wyoming Valley (FSAWV) recently accepted a donation from local artist Leigh Pawling for its third annual Pauly Freidman Family Walk/Run held at Misericordia University in Dallas. The grand prize was awarded on behalf of Pawling for the event that is held annually to help raise funds for Help Line, a program of FSAWV. The race is named in memory of Pauly Friedman, past president and life member of the FSAWV Board of Directors and Trustees and founder of the Friends Committee for the agency. All money raised goes toward the operation of Help Line. Pawling is a Pennsylvania Rostered Artist and an adjunct professor at Keystone College in LaPlume. She has worked exclusively as an artist for the past 12 years showing in numerous solo and group shows. Her works are shown at her gallery space in Kingston as well as Marquis Art and Frame in Wilkes-Barre and Scranton and Kennedy Gallery and Pure Art in Grand Cayman. Her most recent honors include the 2010 Recipient of a Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts Grant and the 2011 Best of Show ‘Family Ties’ new Visions Gallery in Scranton. She is a past merit scholarship recipient of the Art Students League in New York City. Members of the FSAWV Pauly Friedman Walk/Run Committee, from left: Pauline Carmody; Ruth Kemmerer, director of resource development, FSAWV; John Maday; Pawling; Michael Zimmerman, executive director, FSAWV; Toni Cisowski; and Carmela Yanora.

Taylor Brown, Jacob Bukofski, Nicholas Bukofski, Luke Butczynski, Dustin Detrick, Eleanor Duggins, Corey Goss, Taylor Goss, Kaci Grabowski, Andrea Grey, Dominic Hanlon, Elizabeth Kanjorski, Trishia Kinney, Jennifer Knell, Brandon Knorowski, Megan Kocher, Brian Kotz, Courtney Mazonis, Brittany McGraw, Paige Mislitski, Elizabeth Mulhern, Mariana Orellana, Adrianna Roberts, Kaitlyn Russell, Jacob Shatley, Alexis Simpson, Justin Skoniecki, John Walp, Dylan White, Lindsay Wiaterowski and Richard Wiaterowski. Honors: Sarah Benscoter, Brytney Cervantes, Tatiana DeJesus, Christian Fritz, Eric Grodzicki, Kerry Gruber, Matthew Jurta, Samantha Labenski, Lindsey Laity, Jenna Lipowski,

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Lake-Noxen Elementary School Lake-Noxen Elementary School recently announced the Honor Roll for sixth-grade students for the first marking period. Honor Roll: Kyra Apaliski, Evan Butcofski, Lacey Carey, Jade Fry, Gabrielle Gabriesheski, Mikayla Kidd, Nathan Labar, Halli Moyer, Michael Nastasiak, Kiana Price, Isabel Radel, David Sorber and Kyrah Yurko.

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NAMES AND FACES Dr. Linda Miller, the 2011-2012 Penn State University Humanities Laureate, recently visited the Penn State Wilkes-Barre campus. Miller is a professor of English at Penn State Abington, where she has Miller taught American literature since 1984, earning teaching awards including the Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2004. Miller publishes in all areas of American studies and her specialty is in early twentieth-century American literature and art. As the university’s Humanities Laureate, Miller travels between the Penn State campuses giving presentations to both academic and community groups. At Penn State Wilkes-Barre, Miller spoke on “Ernest Hemingway’s Nick Adams Stories Uncovered in Our Time.” Through dramatic readings and discussion, Miller led a group comprised of humanities students in discovering the emotional dimensions of Hemingway’s earliest stories. Following her presentation, Miller attended a professional networking mixer with the Penn State Wilkes-Barre English majors. She also took a campus tour, met with faculty and staff for a roundtable discussion on “Humanities as a Retention Tool,” and ended her evening with an English faculty dinner. Walter Mitchell, area business owner and mayor of Bear Creek Village, has been elected president of District 4 of the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL). Mitchell will preside over the affairs of nearly 7,000 duplicate bridge players from eight

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local units in Southern New York State, Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware. Holding the Mitchell rank of Bronze Life Master, Mitchell is also serving his second two-year term as president of Unit 120 in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The ACBL promotes and regulates duplicate bridge throughout North America and hosts three national tournaments annually. One of which is scheduled for July, 2012, in Philadelphia. District 4 sponsors four, week-long tournaments each year and supports team and pairs competitions to select district representatives to national tournaments. Mitchell was elected by the District 4 Board of Directors meeting in Lancaster earlier this month. He owns and operates Mitchell Financial Group, WilkesBarre. Isabel Hou, a student from Clarks Summit, was recently honored as one of the brightest young students in the nation at a statewide awards ceremony for gifted children sponsored by The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY). The Center honored Hou, a participant in the 2011 CTY Talent Search, for her exceptional performance on a rigorous, above-grade-level test given to academically talented second- through eighth-grade students. Hou, a fourth-grade student at Wyoming Seminary Lower School, was one of more than 50,000 students worldwide who participated in this year’s

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CTY Talent Search. Only 25 to 30 percent of students who participated earned an invitation to a CTY’s Awards Ceremony where they are individually honored for their academic performance and potential. Five local students were recently honored as University Scholars at Susquehanna University. To be named a University Scholar, students must have earned a cumulative grade point average of 3.75 in full-time study for the past two semesters or equivalent credit hours of part-time study. Local scholars are: Timothy Accurso, Glen Lyon, a 2009 graduate of Greater Nanticoke High School, is a junior majoring in music education and the son of Daniel and Linda Accurso. Tierney Ayers, Tunkhannock, a 2008 graduate of Tunkhannock Area High School, is a senior majoring in music education and the daughter of Kevin and Karin Ayers. Tiffany Becker, Nanticoke, a 2008 graduate of Greater Nanticoke Area High School, is a senior majoring in biology and the daughter of Michael and Georgina Becker. Sarah Gzemski, Mountain Top, a 2009 graduate of Crestwood High School, is a junior majoring in creative writing and secondary education and the daughter of Elizabeth and James Gzemski. Karen Stewart, Hazleton, a 2010 graduate of Hazleton Area High School, is a sophomore and the daughter of Dale and Regina Stewart and the late Analee Arnold Stewart.

First Liberty supports Scranton Diocese with education donation First Liberty Bank and Trust recently donated $62,500 to the Scranton Diocese in support of Catholic education. The bank has contributed $395,000 to the diocese as a designated scholarship organization through the Educational Improvement Tax Credit program since 2006. At the check presentation, from left: Robert P. Matley, president, Pennsylvania Banking Division, First Liberty Bank and Trust, and Jason W. Morrison, Diocesan Secretary of Development.

MEETINGS Dec. 8 AVOCA: The Lackawanna and Wyoming Valley Railway Historical Society, 7:30 p.m. in the meeting room of The Iron Skillet Restaurant. Program will be “Members Choice,” where members show slides of area railroads and trolleys. There is no admission fee and anyone interested is invited.

Schuyler kindergarteners are Junior Achievers Mrs. Widman’s kindergarten class at Schuyler Avenue Elementary School recently completed the Junior Achievement ‘Ourselves’ program which was taught by Junior Achievement volunteer Amanda Yakus, senior sales manager at Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriot, Wilkes-Barre. Students learned the importance of working, earning and saving through hands-on activities. Anyone interested in becoming a Junior Achievement in-classroom volunteer can contact Rianna Carlisle, 570-602-3600 or at rcarlisle@janepa.org. Some of the participants, from left, first row, are Jessica Golden, Lee Gryskavicz and Alissa Laudenslager. Second row: Lucas Brown, Sierra Brunson, Julian Everitt and Naviah Labar. Third row: Montana Conden, Raegan Czyzycki, Leo Tarreto, Kiersten Rinehimer and Isaac Yakushin. Fourth row: Yakus.

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Marymount High School, Class of 1960, recently held a late summer get-together at the Catholic War Veterans Grove in Ashley. Several out-of-town classmates attended. At the picnic, from left, first row, are Mary Ann Kulmaczewski Balchunes, Ann Kordoski Wielgopolski, Annamae Borum Coveleski, Michaelene Peck Cannon, Marianne Wilpiszewski Strong, Jeri Zalewski Basarab and Mooneen Levan Bielecki. Second row: Alice Iwanowski Kwiatkowski, Catherine Trinisewski Dougherty, Christine Poris Wilk, Jeanne Heck Triani, Ken Krushin, Henrietta Tomczak Wisdo, Joe Boris and Henry Ostrowski. Third row: Walter Grodzki, Ray Iwanowski, John Zarenski, Frank Kowalski, Charlotte Kitler and Henry Trochimowicz.

St. John the Evangelist High School Class of 1968 is planning an anniversary reunion. The second planning meeting will be at 6 p.m. Jan. 14, 2012, at Tony’s Wine Cellar, Pittston. All classmates are welcome to help finalize plans for the reunion. Classmates at the first planning meeting, from left, first row, are Alice Bender Raber, Rosemary Terrana Dessoye, Anne Delmonte Bradbury, Carmella Alu Obst, Rosaria Aquilina Baldino and Joanne Duzen Dahms. Second row: Pat Mullins, Louie Manganiello, John Milewski, Mary Theresa Kern Reynolds, Mary Margaret Boyce Loftus, Mike Markowski and Ray Bernardi.

LCCC dental assistant students raise money for Operation Smile Members of the Student American Dental Assistant Association (SADAA) at Luzerne County Community College recently made a donation to Operation Smile. The dental assisting class of 2011 raised $1,200 which will make it possible for children to receive operations to correct their cleft lips/palates. Participants, from left, first row: Kelly Kuczynski, Bloomsburg; Dezerae Sowersby, Treverton; Renae Novitski, Kingston; Yenny Custodio, Hazleton; Kyna Markowski, Berwick; Lauren Castelli, Archbald; Kaitlyn Hankinson, Mountain Top; Yanoris Jimenez, Hazleton; Megan Bidlack, Towanda; and Meranda Defazio, Landsford. Second row: Donna Lepkoski, professor, dental assisting; Sashell Pottorff, Bloomsburg; Jessica Brennan, Pottsville; Alina Doma, Wilkes-Barre; Janelle Loomis, Mansfield; Cortney Travelpiece, Beach Haven; Adrienne Maurer, Bloomsburg; Kathy Olivieri, Hazleton; Sherri D’Agostino, Moscow; and Jeanne Farrell, instructor, dental assisting.

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hristine Anne Kazmierski and Bartkovsky, Grove Evelock, Bibak Matthew John Dragon, both of C Philadelphia, along with their families, rica Theresa Evelock and Miaul Bartkovsky Jr. and Ashley are pleased to announce their engagechael Joseph Bibak, together Grove, together with their famE P ment and approaching marriage. with their families, announce their ilies, announce their engagement and

The Meekers eorge and Mary Anne Meeker, Plymouth, celebrated their 50th G wedding anniversary Nov. 25, 2011.

They were married Nov. 25,1961, in St. Mary’s Church (now All Saints Parish), Plymouth, in a double-ring ceremony. The bride was given in marriage by her brother, the late Thomas J. Supchak. Maid of honor was Rita J. Supchak Rinehimer, sister of the bride. Arlene Krukowski, friend of the bride, was a bridesmaid. Flower girl was Claire Kruszewski Vassia. Michael Coffee was the best man. Groomsmen were Raymond Krukowski and John Rinehimer. Mrs. Meeker is the former Mary Anne Supchak, daughter of the late Anthony and Helen Supchak, Plymouth. She is a retired clinic nurse. Mr. Meeker is the son of the late Donald D. and Frances Meeker, Forty Fort and Dallas. He retired as owner of Meeker’s Mobil Service, Forty Fort. The couple has four children, Richard E., Corona Del Mar, Calif.; Anthony, deceased 2009; Dawn Marie Chace, Yorktown, Va.; and Rodney D., Manassas, Va. They have four grandchildren, Samantha and Nathaniel Meeker and Skylar and Sydney Chace. A family gathering was held in Virginia over the Thanksgiving holiday.

The bride-to-be is the daughter of James and Gale Kazmierski, Hunlock Creek. She is the granddaughter of Carl and Margaretta Hartman, Shickshinny, and the late Alfance and Rita Kazmierski, Glen Lyon. Christine is the sister of Angela Hall. The prospective groom is the son of Matthew and Deborah Dragon, Harveys Lake. He is the grandson of Peter and Gertrude Dragon, Harveys Lake. Matthew is the brother of Adrienne and Hunter Dragon. Christine and Matthew are 2005 graduates of Lake-Lehman High School, Lehman. Christine is a 2009 graduate of the University of Rhode Island, where she played Division I field hockey and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration. Christine is employed at TicketLeap, where she is a senior account executive. Matthew is a 2010 graduate of The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Division I wrestler and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in economics with a concentration in marketing. Matthew is employed at Solve Media, where he is a business development executive. The couple will exchange vows on Aug. 4, 2012, at Our Lady of Victory Church, Harveys Lake.

upcoming wedding. Ashley is the daughter of Debbie DiMarco Grove, Antes Fort, and Eric Grove, Lock Haven. She is the granddaughter of Joyce DiMarco and the late Anthony DiMarco, Williamsport, and Lois and Paul Grove, Jersey Shore. Paul is the son of Janice and Paul Bartkovsky, Dickson City. He is the grandson of the late Gertrude Bartkovsky and Frank Bartkovsky, Dickson City, and John Roche and the late Joan Roche, Dickson City. Miss Grove is a 2002 graduate of Jersey Shore Area High School. She earned a Bachelor of the Arts degree in history from King’s College in 2006 and is pursuing a Master of Education degree in reading. She will graduate in December of 2011. She is employed by Fell Charter School, Carbondale, as a middle school social studies and language arts teacher. Mr. Bartkovsky is a 2006 graduate of Bishop O’Hara High School. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education from Marywood University in 2011. He is employed by Friendship House, Scranton, as a therapeutic staff support worker. The couple will exchange vows in July of 2012 at St. Mary’s Visitation Church.

engagement and approaching marriage. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Mary Ann Spagnuolo, Kingston, Pa.; the late Preston Evelock, Plymouth Township, Pa.; and the step-daughter of Mark Spagnuolo, Kingston, Pa. She is the granddaughter of Russell and Ruth Ball, Sebring, Fla.; Michael Kormos, Annapolis, Md.; and the late Rose Kormos, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Erica is a graduate of Greater Nanticoke Area High School. She earned a bachelor of music degree in vocal performance from The Hartt Conservatory of Music, Theater and Dance at the University of Hartford, Hartford, Conn. The prospective groom is the son of Mary Louise Bibak, Throop, Pa., and the late Michael Bibak, Throop, Pa. Michael is a graduate of Bishop O’Hara High School. He earned bachelor’s degrees in business management and finance from the University of Scranton, Scranton, Pa. Erica and Michael will exchange vows on Oct. 13, 2012, at the Peckville Assembly of God Church, Blakley, Pa., with a reception to follow at the Country Club of Scranton, Clarks Summit, Pa.

nounce their engagement and approaching marriage. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Bernadette George and the late Arthur George, Kingston. She is the granddaughter of the late Anthony and Alma Golomb, Nanticoke, and the late James and Marie George, WilkesBarre. Amy earned a bachelor’s degree in advertising/public relations from Penn State University in 2003 and her master’s degree in organizational management specializing in marketing from Misericordia University in 2008. She is employed as the manager of client projects and administration at the John Dawe Consulting Group and as a fitness consultant at Odyssey Fitness. The prospective groom is the son of William and Marilyn Feldman, Shavertown. He is the grandson of the late Marshall and Dorothy Feldman and Evelyn Gross and the late Michael Gross. Drew earned a bachelor’s degree in criminology/psychology from Wilkes University in 2009. He is employed by Evergreen Behavior Intervention for Children and is also an assistant wrestling coach for Wyoming Valley West High School. The couple will exchange vows on June 16, 2012, at the Inn at Pocono Manor and plan to honeymoon at Secret St. James Montego Bay in Jamaica. The happy couple resides in Trucksville with their black Labrador, Stella.

Healey, Weitz atrick D. Healey Jr. and Marissa Weitz, both of Pittston, along P with their families, are pleased to

announce their engagement and upcoming nuptials. The bride-to-be is the daughter of Mr. Frederick M. Weitz Sr. and Mrs. Lisa Weitz, Pittston. She is the sister of Mr. Frederick M. Weitz Jr., also of Pittston. The prospective groom is the son of Mr. Patrick D. Healey Sr. and Mrs. Joan Healey, Pittston. He is the brother of Mr. Sean Healey, Wayne. A fall of 2012 wedding is planned.

Lauren M. Hoffman baptized

West Side Central Catholic reunites for 50th anniversary celebration West Side Central Catholic High School Class of 1961 held its 50th anniversary reunion on Sept. 4 at the Best Western East Mountain Inn & Suites. An ice breaker took place on Sept. 3 at the East Mountain Inn & Suites. A Mass was celebrated prior to the reunion dinner by fellow classmate the Rev. John Young in memory of 28 deceased classmates. Classmates in attendance, from left, first row, are Jean Romanoski Meckalavage, Joan Romanoski Coniglio, Dorothy Chismer Karavis, Frank Hourigan, Marcia Centini Barbose, Pat Gallagher Smaka, Bernard Evanko, Eugene Santarelli, Margaret Yankalunas, Frances Bernosky Kauffman and Andrew Husovsky. Second row: Richard Morris, Joseph Gibbons, Nancy Dougherty Weideranders, Marilyn Caprione Heffron, John Heffron, Mary Ann Powers Speece, Murray Speece, Andrew Chipego and Andrew Stuka. Third row: Thomas Bednarek, Patricia Gareis Kiernan, Eileen Cummings, Mary Yavorski Bednarek, Claire Moran, Mary Joan Corcoran Martin, Sally Thomas Weiner, William Monk and Beverly Noon McGlynn. Fourth row: Joseph Buzitsky, the Rev. John Young, Robert Posatko, Dorothy Karalunas Krapf, John Kopicki, Walter Noyalis, James Davis and William Fisher.

auren Mikela Hoffman, daughter BIRTHS of Edward and Sandra Hoffman, L Shavertown, was baptized on Oct. 23, 2011, at St. Frances Cabrini Church, Wyoming, by the Rev. Vincent Dang. Lauren was born on May 8, 2011, at Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown. Her godparents are Lisa Klein, a close family friend, and Michael Cawley, uncle. Lauren is the granddaughter of Shirley Malta, Wilkes-Barre; George Cawley, Forty Fort; and Edward and Ann Hoffman, Plains Township. A reception was held in Lauren’s honor at her home after the ceremony.

Smeding, Kelly and Dennis, Hanover Township, a daughter, Nov. 2.

Sanchez, Patricia and Justin Bowen, Shavertown, a son, Nov. 6.

Samanas, Allison and Richard, Dallas, a son, Nov. 1 1.

Murtaugh, Kate and Michael McAndrew, Pittston, a daughter, Nov. 2.

Mace, Lauren and Brett, Plains Township, a daughter, Nov. 8.

Caleb, Amanda and Christopher, Dallas, twin son and daughter, Nov. 1 1.

Amaya, Marlene and William Galeana, Scranton, a son, Nov. 3.

Snyder, Nichole and Ain Welmon, New Milford, a daughter, Nov. 8.

Delaney, Erin and Aaron, Nanticoke, a son, Nov. 1 1.

McIntosh, Brittany and Brandan Devens, Dallas, a son, Nov. 1.

Geklinski, Cheryl and Robert Zielinski, Sugar Notch, a son, Nov. 3.

Stout, SherriLee and Eric Williams, Trucksville, a son, Nov. 8.

Redhead, Brooke and Russell III, Hanover Township, a daughter, Nov. 14.

Lombardo, Tiffany and Charles, White Haven, a son, Nov. 1.

Healey, Tanya and John, Olyphant, a daughter, Nov. 3.

Ferrari, Deborah and Fernando Guerra, Scranton, a daughter, Nov. 8.

Martin, Alyson and Daniel, Trucksville, a son, Nov. 14.

Kanney, Nichole and Wallace, Hanover Township, a daughter, Nov. 1.

Gluc, Colleen and John Domyan, Mountain Top, a daughter, Nov. 4.

Coley, Melissa and Chad Warren, Kingston, a daughter, Nov. 8.

Rando, Ashley and Christopher Miller, Albrightsville, a daughter, Nov. 14.

Paulino, Brittany and Willy, Wilkes-Barre, a daughter, Nov. 1.

Lynn, Christy and Joseph Mastantuono, Luzerne, a son, Nov. 4.

Smith, Krista and Jeff, Long Pond, a daughter, Nov. 9.

Hanson, Marsha and Corry, Wilkes-Barre, a son, Nov. 14.

Arias, Esther and Elvin Polanco, Hazleton, a daughter, Nov. 1.

Vavrek, Lucy and Andrew Jr., Dallas, a daughter, Nov. 5.

Miller, Amanda and Michael Porreca, Hazleton, a son, Nov. 9.

Dawson, Larissa and Corey, Nanticoke, a son, Nov. 14.

Gallagher, Kelly and Joseph, Plains Township, a daughter, Nov. 2.

Lotfipour, Rebekah and Mohammad, Swoyersville, a son, Nov. 5.

Barron, Melissa and Nick Belles, Jermyn, a daughter, Nov. 10.

Symons, Amy and Eric Hospodar, Edwardsville, a son, Nov. 14.

Kocher, Stephanie and Joseph Wilk Jr., Wilkes-Barre, a son, Nov. 2.

Huertero, Maribel and Hugo, Wilkes-Barre, twin sons, Nov. 5.

Thomas, Amber and Ross O’Gorman, Plymouth, a son, Nov. 1 1.

Kerin, Bonnie and Jason Bawiec, Laurel Run, a daughter, Nov. 14.

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risten Ann Nallon and Philip George Masiello were united in K the sacrament of marriage on Sat-

rancesca M. Stuppino and Rilizabeth Fasciana and Joseph chard F. Butcofski were united in Daley were united in marriage on F E marriage on June 18, 2011, in Our June 25, 2011, at Sacred Heart of

urday, July 23, 2011, at Our Lady Queen of Peace Church, Brodheadsville, by the Rev. Sean G. Carpenter. The bride is the daughter of Francis and Karen Nallon, Kingston. She is the granddaughter of Francis and Rosemary Nallon and Mildred Tuzinski, all of Larksville, and the late Lewis Lampman. The groom is the son of Richard and Catherine Masiello. He is the grandson of Joan Hedges and Charles Hedges and the late Philip and Accursia Masiello, all of Manhattan. The bride was escorted down the aisle and given in marriage by her father. She chose her friend, Rebecca Rupell, as her maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Angela Masiello, sister of the groom, and Alyssa Bolonte, college friend and sorority sister of the bride. Flower girl was Lexi Koukouras, cousin of the groom. The groom chose his long-time friend, Christopher Lloyd, as his best man. Groomsmen were Thomas Nallon, brother of the bride, and Aron Goscilo, long-time friend of the groom. Ring bearer was D.J. Koukouras, cousin of the groom. Scriptural readings were given by Alyssa Bolonte, bridesmaid and friend of bride, and Rebecca Rupell, maid of honor. Offertory gifts were presented by the bride and groom. Music was performed by Lindsey Blundetto, organist, and vocal selections by Kristine Rommel, soloist. Christine Attanasio, violinist and long-time friend of the bride, also provided selections and accompaniment. The bride was honored with a bridal shower hosted by the mothers of the bride and groom at Sierra View Clubhouse, Effort. A rehearsal dinner was hosted by the parents of the groom at Mike’s Pizzeria, Effort. An evening cocktail hour and reception were held at A Touch of Class at the Palace, Wilkes-Barre. Music and lighting was provided by Mike Walton Productions. The bride is 2003 graduate of Wyoming Valley West High School and earned an associate’s degree in early childhood education from Luzerne County Community College in 2005. She graduated in 2009 from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science degree in speech language pathology. She is employed by Sallie Mae in Wilkes-Barre. The groom is a 1999 graduate of Pleasant Valley High School and earned an associate’s degree in education from North Hampton Community College in 2001. He graduated in 2004 from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s degree in health and physical education. He completed his master’s degree in educational leadership from Wilkes University in 2011. He is employed by Pleasant Valley School District as a health and physical education teacher. The couple honeymooned on a cruise to the Caribbean. They reside in Wind Gap.

Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church, Harveys Lake. The Rev. Daniel Toomey celebrated the double-ring ceremony at 1 p.m. Charles Unice and Helen Neylon were the soloists accompanied by Diane Wojciechowski and Lynn Hurst, violinists; Ron Sthmoyer, trumpet; and Helen Neylon, organist. The bride is the daughter of GraceMarie Dattilo Stuppino, Dallas, and Francesco Stuppino, Dalton. She is the granddaughter of the late Patrick and Josephine Dattilo, Old Forge, and Mary Stuppino and the late Joseph Stuppino, Plains Township. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Butcofski, Shavertown. He is the grandson of the late Alex and Helen Butcofski, Kingston, and the late Rev. George and Audrey Wood, Calhoun, Ga. The bride was escorted down the aisle by her father, and given away by her parents. She wore an original Mia Solano gown with Swarovski crystal crown and veil. She chose her best friend, Susan Yudiski, as her maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Ann Rood, cousin of the bride, and longtime friends Desiree Dymond, Noelle Altavilla, Erica Altavilla, Nikki Callahan, Tina Riviello, Tennille Bocchiaro, Santina Guiliano and Erica Michaliga. Junior bridesmaids were Erin and Ryan Storey, nieces of the groom. Flower girl was Alex Storey, niece of the groom. The groom chose his best friend, Aaron Gingo, as best man. Groomsmen were John Butcofski, brother of the groom; Joseph Stuppino, brother of the bride; and longtime friends Corey Cherup, Ross Gdovin, Patrick O’Neill, Matthew Williams, Norman Sallit, Frank Valvano and Albert Brzezinski. Ring bearers were Cody Rood, cousin of the bride, and Mitchell Onzik, special little man of the bride. Scripture readings were given by Sharon Stanski, godmother and aunt of the bride; Pamela Storey, sister of the groom; and Ann Rood, cousin of the bride. Offertory gifts were given by Patrick Dattilo, godfather and uncle of the bride, and Mark Storey, brother-in-law of the groom. An evening cocktail and garden reception hosted by the bride’s parents was held at beloved friends of the bride’s family, Charlene and Thomas Onzik’s Estate, Shavertown. The bride and groom were honored with a fall engagement party hosted by the bride’s parents at Cuz’s Catering, Exeter. The bride was honored with a bridal shower given by the mothers of the bride and groom at Fox Hill Country Club, Exeter. Parents of the groom hosted a rehearsal dinner at Leggio’s, Dallas. The couple honeymooned to the Excellence Playa Mujeres, Cancun, Mexico. They reside in Shavertown.

Fasciana, Daley Jesus Church, Dupont. The bride is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Guy M. Fasciana, Pittston Township. She is the granddaughter of Michael and Helen Fasciana, Pittston, and John and Dolores Miller, Pittston Township. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Daley, Pittston Township. He is the grandson of the late Frank and Theresa Daley and the late Joseph and Helen Mullen. The bride, escorted down the aisle by her father, chose her sister, Melissa Fasciana, as her maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Amanda Fasciana, Elise Miller and Jessica Clarke, all cousins of the bride, and Christina Collins and Sarah Carmody, both best friends for years. The groom chose his brother, Kevin Daley, as his best man. Groomsmen were Mark Mullen, cousin of the groom; Michael Fasciana, brother of the bride; Matt Powers, friend of the groom; and Greg Semon and J.J. Clarke, both cousins of the bride. Dr. Kellyann Daley Schuh, cousin of the groom, and Mary Catherine Rouse, aunt of the bride, gave Scripture readings. Offertory gifts were presented by Gerald Daley, godfather of the groom, and Dr. and Mrs. James Clarke, godparents of the bride. A bridal shower was hosted by the mothers of the bride and groom at Fox Hill Country Club, Exeter. A rehearsal dinner was hosted by parents of the groom at Amadeo’s, Moosic. An evening reception, hosted by the parents of the bride, was held at the Hilton, Scranton. The couple honeymooned to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. They reside in Pittston Township.

The Smoloks

r. and Mrs. William Smolok, Jacksonville, Fla., formerly of Plymouth and Shavertown, Pa., observed their 50th wedding anniversary on Nov. 23. They were married Nov. 23, 1961, Thanksgiving Day, in St. Mary’s Nativity Church, Plymouth, by the late Monsignor John Podkul. Their attendants were Michaline McLoud, Anna Mae Venetz, Gerald Bush and Joseph Federowicz. Donna Evans Piegaro was flower girl. The couple are the parents of a daughter, Pamela Johnson, and sonin-law, Lyndon, of Jacksonville, Fla. Mr. Smolok is retired from Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania. He is the son of the late Gregory and Catherine Smolok. Mrs. Smolok is the daughter of the late Michael and Bridget Cmiel. The couple celebrated their anniversary early with a vacation to Bermuda. Their daughter and son-in-law also surprised them with a trip to Quebec, Canada.

The Keeners r. and Mrs. Robert Keener celebrated their 65th wedding M anniversary on Saturday, Nov. 26,

2011. The couple was married on Nov. 26, 1946, in St. Therese’s Church, Old River Road, WilkesBarre, by the Rev. Charles Gallagher. Their attendants were Betty Schimmelbush and the late Donald Schimmelbush. Mrs. Keener is the former Helen

elisa Steighner and Allan Yashinski were united in the sacrament M Purcell, Gibney of marriage Saturday, May 14, 2011, at St. Fidelis Catholic Church, Butler, lizabeth Mary Purcell and Dr. Pa., by Deacon John Ziegler. Geoffrey Thomas Gibney were E The bride is the daughter of David married Sunday, Sept. 4, in New and Pamela Steighner, Butler. She is the granddaughter of Cardie Coleman, Butler; the late William Coleman; and the late Herbert and Edith Steighner. The groom is the son of Margaret Yashinski, Luzerne, and the late Robert Yashinski Sr. He is the grandson of Elizabeth Ziegler, Plymouth; the late Roman Ziegler; and the late Leonard and Ida Yashinski. The bride chose her friends, Jenna Hayes as her maid of honor and Amanda Harmon and Erica Staehling as bridesmaids. The flower girl was Brea Kelley, cousin of the bride. The groom chose his friends, Sean Walski as his best man and Keith Zielen and Dan Heuer as his groomsmen. The ushers were Robert Yashinski Jr. and Michael Yashinski, brothers of the groom. The ring bearer was Julian Young, nephew of the groom. Readings were given by Robert Yashinski Jr., Michael Yashinski and Kate Young, siblings of the groom. The bride is a 2003 graduate of Butler Senior High School and earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Bucknell University in 2007. She is pursuing her Ph.D. in materials science and engineering at Penn State and working as a graduate research assistant. The groom is a 2003 graduate of Bishop O’Reilly High School. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Bucknell University in 2007. He is pursuing his Ph.D. in mathematics at Penn State and working as a graduate teaching assistant. The couple honeymooned in Jamaica. They reside in State College.

The Wengryns r. and Mrs. John M. Wengryn, Alden, Newport Township, celeM brated their 50th wedding anniver-

sary on Nov. 23, 2011. The couple was married on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 23, 1961, in St. Nicholas Church, Glen Lyon, by the Rev. Bohdan Olesh. Their attendants were Marjorie Reakes Rinehimer, Carol Novak Krushefski, Brian Pesino and the late Stanley Bodek. Their union has been blessed with three children, Michele Kollar and husband, Dave, Mountain Top; Deborah Bensel and fiancé, Jim Guerlian, Mt. Laurel, N.J.; and Dr. John M. Jr. and wife, Cynthia, Pemaroke, Mass. They also have eight grandchildren, Stefan and Stacey Medura; Nicole and Ryan Bensel; and Erin, Alex, Jack and Adam Wengryn. Mrs. Wengryn is the former Colette Sokoloski, daughter of the late Ted and Sabina Sokoloski. Mr. Wengryn is the son of the late John and Helen Wengryn. Colette is a retired licensed practical nurse and is a partner with John in their business, Grumpo’s Warehouse in Wilkes-Barre.

The Macierowskis

Wandell, Wilkes-Barre, the daughter of the late Catherine and William Wandell. Mr. Keener is the son the son of the late Bessy and Morgan Keener, Kingston. The couple are the parents of two daughters, Kathy, Wilkes-Barre, and Maureen Roper, Sweet Valley, the wife of Paul Roper. They have one grandson, Bobby Roper, who is the light of their life.

Haven, Conn. The Rev. Joseph Allen, O.P., officiated at the Church of Saint Mary. The wedding ceremony was followed by a reception at the New Haven Lawn Club. Mrs. Gibney, 33, is a legal editor for Vendome Group, LLC, the New York-based legal and health care publishing company. She graduated from Villanova University and earned a law degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Purcell, West Pittston, Pa. Dr. Gibney, 33, is an oncologist at Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Fla. He graduated cum laude from Tufts University; earned a medical degree from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine; and completed a fellowship in hematology and medical oncology from Yale-New Haven Medical Center. He is a son of Gloria Gibney, Old Saybrook, Conn., and Thomas Gibney, Guilford, Conn. Dr. and Mrs. Gibney met in Boston while he was an internal medicine resident at Boston Medical Center and she was an editor at Quinlan Publishing Company. They reside in Tampa, Fla.

r. and Mrs. Frank Macierowski observed their 70th wedM ding anniversary on Nov. 24.

after 37 years of federal service. The couple has one daughter, Judy, Hanover Township, and a They were married in St. Mary’s son, Robert, Bear Creek, who is Church of the Maternity by the married to the former Barbara Rev. John Lipski. Rinard. Mrs. Macierowski is the forThey have three grandsons mer Mary Podlesny. She retired and two granddaughters and from the garment industry. one grandson who is deceased. Mr. Macierowski retired from They also have three greatTobyhanna Army Depot as a grandsons and seven greatbudget and accounting analyst granddaughters.

Tigue, Galat r. and Mrs. Millard Galat Jr., M Nanticoke, are pleased to announce the engagement and up-

coming marriage of their daughter, Elizabeth Marie Galat, to Christopher Aaron Tigue, Dunmore. Christopher is the son of Ms. Ann Marie Tigue, Dunmore, and Mr. David Tigue, Scranton. Elizabeth is a 2004 graduate of Bishop Hoban High School. She graduated from King’s College in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in elementary education and a certification in special education. She will earn a Master of Science degree in special education from Misericordia University in December 2011. She is employed as a special education teacher for Luzerne Intermediate Unit 18. Christopher is a 1994 graduate of Bishop O’Hara High School. He graduated from Marywood University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education and a minor in special education. He earned a Master of Science degree in educational leadership from Marywood University in 2006. He is employed as the principal of Monsignor McHugh Elementary School, Cresco. The couple will exchange vows at St. Peter’s Cathedral, Scranton, on June 23, 2012.

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in 1963.” Bann hands over a copy of the menu from the studio’s Our Gang Cafe — the Our Gang comedies were another Roach franchise — from the1930s where one could get a caviar appetizer for 30 cents. “It was right in front of the studio,” said Bann. “It was open to the public, and Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy would eat there with the public.” Sitting across from Bann at the table is John Duff, who said he first fell in love with Laurel and Hardy as a boy of 5 when he would get up early on Saturday mornings to watch them on TV. “I made a promise to myself that one day I would have a library of their films. I started collecting 16mm films, and over the years I have got the DVDs.” Like Duff, Mike Nemeth’s affection for the pair dates to TV in the 1950s. “They are the warmest, the best,” he said. “There is no question in my mind that Laurel and Hardy comes closest to representing the average American as he bumbles along in life,” Nemeth said. “Despite all the messes they get into, they still stick up for one another and love each other. This warmth brings us close to them like no other comedians.” “I think that’s one of the reasons why people took to them so much, because they were eternal optimists,” said Randy Skretvedt, author of “Laurel and Hardy: The Magic Behind the Movies.” “There is a scene in the Laurel and Hardy movie ‘Block-Heads” where Ollie comes to visit Stan in the old soldiers home after not see-

ing him for 20 years,” related Skretvedt. “They make small talk, but the undercurrent of the scene is basically ‘I love you and miss you.” What other comedy team would do a scene like that?” Former child star Johnny Crawford of “The Rifleman” fame actually met Laurel before his death in 1965. “I was doing an interview for some local TV show and also being interviewed was Babe London,” recalled Crawford. London had appeared in the 1931 Laurel and Hardy short “Our Wife.” “She talked about her past with Laurel and Hardy. We became friends, and I was determined to get to meet Stan Laurel,” Crawford said. “One day we arranged a time to go to his apartment in Santa Monica. He was a wonderful, gracious host, very sweet.” Veteran comic Jim MacGeorge not only knew Laurel, he also played him in a series of commercials more than 40 years ago with Chuck McCann as Hardy and also on the 1966 Laurel and Hardy cartoon series, which featured Larry Harmon as the voice of Hardy. Scratching his head like Laurel, MacGeorge gets a perplexed grin on his face and suddenly transforms into the comic actor. MacGeorge recalled that he had gotten Laurel’s phone number from his agent. Standing outside his apartment, MacGeorge wondered if he should call Laurel. “I said to myself, ‘Do it.’” Not only was Laurel pleased to hear from a fan, he asked him to come to lunch the following week. “So I used to go there and visit him. I would knock on the door, and he would open it. He would say, ‘How are you, lad?’ He called everyone lad. I said, ‘How are you? He said, ‘My life is over. Come on in.’ He said the same thing every time.”

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Opening a vintage clothing and alteration shop in Luzerne , was a way for Hazamoon Lisa Cahill to pass on her mother’s legacy.

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dominantly male setting, Cahill, who stands at about 5 feet tall, said she had a tough road ahead because she was a woman. Some other male cops had reservations about a petite Indian female cop, but Cahill was confident. “I knew what I was doing,” she said. She loves this country because of the opportunity and success she had. “No, this country is not perfect, but we are the best country out there,” Cahill said. “Where else can a little, Indian female become a figure of authority as a police officer?” Cahill’s love for America makes Sept. 11, 2001 a difficult day to remember because there were so many lives lost. “I tried to reason with myself and tell myself that it was their time to go,” she said, teary-eyed. She was working on that day and witnessed the tragedy that struck our nation. After work every day, she was part of the recovery clean-up, the Bucket Brigade, and she met with many families who lost their loved ones in the attacks. That tragic day propelled her into action. She knew that there were other things besides her life

as a New York City police officer. She wanted people to be aware of her mother, who passed away. Opening her own shop and dedicating her vintage creations seemed like a great way to pass on her mother’s legacy. “I would like to be like her,” Cahill said. “She was such a good, good person.” Everything she creates in her shop is for her mother. “The atmosphere (in my shop) is a very positive one and it influences me to create,” she said. The theme of her shop is that no two clothing items are alike because her mother was very unique. “The label on the clothing, yes, it’s my name, but it is because of my mom. This is my mother’s clothing line.” Upon entering her shop, there are items of clothing hanging from the ceiling and walls. Cahill sells vintage jewelry and purses, as well. There are pictures of her mother and photos of Cahill as a police officer. There’s a collection of newspaper clippings and photographs dedicated to 9/11. Cahill’s message to every American: “Never forget.”

Lake-Lehman Marching Band places at Tournament of Bands The Lake-Lehman High School Marching Band recently competed at the Tournament of Bands Atlantic Coast Championships in Hershey. They performed their show titled ‘Reactions’ in Group I competition against 30 bands from nine other states. Their performance finished on the silver level in eighth place, with a final score of 90.65. The Marching Knights finished their season in the top ten of their group. This year’s staff includes Alexander Higgins, band director; David Gambal, assistant band director; Patrick Stanley, visual instructor; Kat McDonald, woodwind instructor; Lauren Balsamo, color guard instructor; and Pete ReHill, drill designer. Senior members are Chris Gerlin, tenors; Zach Titus, clarinet; and Nina Jones, drum major. Band members, from left, first row, are Lila Szabo, Nina Jones and Deanna Szabo. Second row: Zack Zaleskas, Andrew Leahy, Jared Kepner, Megan Osiecki, Jess Long, Nicole Lockard, Joey Chaga, Blaise Waligan and Rebecca Osiecki. Third row: Ben Attanasio, Jessica Geiger, Robert Hamilton, John Hospodar, Zach Titus, Carolyn Price, Lauren MacMullen and Luke Hummel. Fourth row: Chris Gerlin, Jakob Karlowicz, Corey Kinney, Matthew Miller, Tim Marchakitus, James Cihocki and Nicole Ford.

HONOR ROLL MMI Preparatory School Thomas G. Hood, president, MMI Preparatory School, recently announced the names of students who achieved Honor Roll status during the fall 201 1 quarter. Grade 12: Caroline Bandurska, Maria Boosalis, Paul Brasavage, Briana Cole, Mark Cole, Roderick Cook, Antonia Diener, Brittany Fisher, Tyler Fulton, John Gera, James Gliem, Paul Gronski, Megan Kost, Michael Macarevich, Balaganesh Natarajan, Vanessa Novinger, Christian Parsons, Samuel Scalleat, Corey Sisock, Claudio Sokarda, Alyssa Triano, Ryan Twardzik, Annika Wessel. Grade 1 1: Ashley Acri, Anthony Alfieri, Maurina DiSabella, John

Driscoll, Sean Ducaji-Reap, Brianna Dzurishin, Katlyn Frey, Sandrine Gibbons, Trebor Hall, Alexis Haupt, Laurel JackettiFunk, Megan Klein, Cindi Landmesser, Gabriella Lobitz, Casey McCoy, Rebecca Noga, Anjni Patel, David Polashenski, Beau Samonte, Derya Sari, Justin Sheen, Devon Sherwood, Marianne Virnelson, Gregory Yannes, Kirsten Young, Matthew Yurish. Grade 10: Emily Alvear, Alec Andes, Cassandra Bluth, Jeffrey Careyva, Maria Carrato, Paige Darrow, Jonathan DeJesus, Elijah Dove, Patrick Driscoll, Alexander Drusda, Alexander Haber, Sarah Jamack, Druva Kansara, Charles Karchner, Roger Knittle, Robert Kupsho, Hannah Lesitsky, Sara Lucas, Devan McCarrie, Eleni Moustardas, Stephanie Pudish, Kristen Purcell, Robert Rosamelia, Mariah Serra, Hayle Shearer,

Kaitlyn Sitch, Alexis Williams, Joseph Yamulla. Grade 9: Gabriellia Becker, Emily Bogansky, Chiara DeMelfi, Kelsy Donaldson, Llewellyn Dryfoos, Keegan Farrell, Collin Finkel, Annika Fisk, Hayden Francis, Collin Frey, James Gabrielle, Tristan Gibbons, Robert Graaf, Soprina Guarneri, Sam Harman, Eric Kabitzke, Haylee Kirschner, Madison Luchi, Eleanor Maduro, Katelyn McGuire, Emily Morrison, Alexandra Novinger, Alessandra Ortiz, Jesse Plaksa, Syed Qadri, Cory Rogers, Medina Saeed, Emily Seratch, Claire Sheen, Christopher Snyder, Rachel Stanziola, Joseph Synoski, Aria Wight, Avery Williams. Grade 8: William Bower, Mikayla Dove, Brendan Drusda, Brian Galbiati, Andrew Haber, Terrance Jankouskas, Victoria Kline, Joseph Marushin, Sarah Moyer, Taylor Peluso, Jay Solgama,

Luke Yamulla. Grade 7: Ali Aijaz, Sereina Brenhofer, Niklas Byriel, Dana Carrato, Sarah Delese, Gabriella DeMelfi, Evan Dryfoos, Katie Eschenbach, Ryan Eschenbach, Sukanya Kansara, Sarah Klush, Joey Kress, Megan Marchetti, Kyle McGuire, Dillon Merenich, Olivia Minzola, Joshua Narrow, Quentin Novinger, Keenan Overa, Kisan Patel, Lois Polashenski, Erin Sari, Samuel Sessock, Dylan Slusser, Evan Spear, Ryan Touey, Kyle Williams, Nicholas Young. Grade 6: Lauren Babinetz, Lauryn Banyas, David Caldwell, Kyle Falatko, Anna Haber, Aaron Harman, Tara Hohn, Gunner Jankouskas, Joshua KaladaKania, Sydney Karpowich, Chava Kornblatt, Caitlyn Kline, Talia Logerfo, John Malay, Hunter O’Clair, Abigail Ortiz, Madison Perchak, Julia Snyder, Victoria Wisniewski, Stephanie Zellner.

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Students earn AP Scholar recognition May, 2011, and Pugazhendhi will graduate in May, 2012. Thirteen Seminary students qualified for the AP Scholar with Distinction award by earning an average grade of at least 3.5 on all AP Exams taken and grades of 3 or higher on five or more of these exams. Students who graduated in May, 2011 are: Lauren Anthony, Kingston; Lina Bader, Mountain Top; John Cartwright, Moosic; Jared Gollhardt, Dallas; Cicely Hazell, Georgetown, Texas; Meghan Hourigan, Mountain Top; Annabelle Jones, Homer, N.Y.; Sarah Knaggs, Mercersburg; McLucas;

Carly Sokach, West Pittston; and Mary Thede, Dallas. Current seniors who earned this distinction as juniors are Pugazhendhi and Amy Shick, Mountain Top. Ten students qualified for the AP Scholar with Honor award by earning an average grade of at least 3.25 on AP exams taken and grades of 3 or higher on four or more of those exams. Students who graduated in May, 2011 are: Hope Charney, Forty Fort; Richard Church, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; James Curtis, Dallas; Kelsey Gosselin, Old Forge; Caroline Meuser, Shavertown; Danielle Sekel, Harding; and Jessica Swoboda, Hanover Township. Current seniors who earned this distinc-

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VERONA, N.J. — Retirement communities may have their perks, but Beryl O’Connor says it would be tough to match the birthday surprise she got in her own backyard when she turned 80 this year. She was tending her garden when two little girls from next door — “my buddies,” she calls them — brought her a strawberry shortcake. It underscored why she wants to stay put in the house that she and her husband, who died 18 years ago, purchased in the late 1970s. “I couldn’t just be around old people — that’s not my lifestyle,” she said. “I’d go out of my mind.” Physically spry and socially active, O’Connor in many respects is the embodiment of “aging in place,” growing old in one’s own longtime home and remaining engaged in the community rather than moving to a retirement facility. According to surveys, aging in place is the overwhelming preference of Americans older than 50. But doing it successfully requires both good fortune and support services — things that O’Connor’s pleasant hometown of Verona has become increasingly capable of providing. About 10 miles northwest of Newark, Verona has roughly 13,300 residents nestled into less than 3 square miles. There’s a transportation network that takes older people on shopping trips and to medical appointments, and the town is benefiting from a $100,000 federal grant to put in place an aging-in-place program called Verona LIVE. Administrated by United Jewish Communities of MetroWest New Jersey, the program strives to educate older people about available services to help them address problems and stay active in the community. Its partners include the health and police departments, the rescue squad, the public and public schools, and religious groups. Among the support services are a home maintenance program with free safety checks and minor home repairs, access to a social worker and job counselor, a walking club and other social activities. In one program, a group of middle-school girls provided one-on-one computer training to about 20 older adults. Social worker Connie Pifher, Verona’s health coordinator, said a crucial part of the overall initiative is educating older people to plan ahead realistically and constantly reassess their prospects for successfully aging in place. “There are some people who just can do it, especially if they have family support,” said Pifher, “And then you run into people who think they can do it, yet really can’t. You need to start educating people before a crisis hits.” There’s no question that aging in place has broad appeal. According to an Associated PressLifeGoesStrong.com poll conducted in October, 52 percent of baby boomers said they were unlikely to move someplace new in retirement. In a 2005 survey by AARP, 89 percent of people age 50 and older said they would prefer to remain in their home indefinitely as they age. That yearning, coupled with a widespread dread of going to a nursing home, has led to a nationwide surge of programs aimed at helping people stay in their neighborhoods longer. Verona LIVE is a version of one such concept: the Naturally Occurring Retirement Community, or NORC. That can be either a specific housing complex or a larger neighborhood in which many of the residents have aged in place over a long period of time and need a range of support services in order to continue living in their homes. Verona is an apt setting. Roughly 20 percent of its residents are older than 65, compared with 13 percent for New Jersey as a whole. Another notable initiative is the “village” concept. Members of these nonprofit entities can access specialized programs and

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services, such as transportation to stores, home health care, or help with household chores, as well as a network of social activities with other members. About 65 village organizations have formed in the U.S. in recent years, offering varying services and charging membership fees that generally range between $500 and $700 a year. One of the potential problems for people hoping to age in place is that their homes may not be senior-friendly. “It becomes a challenge because we live in Peter Pan houses, designed for people who never grow old,” said Susan Bo-

sak, a social scientist who is overseeing a program to boost intergenerational engagement in Tulsa, Okla. Many older people live in homes that are 40 or more years old, abounding with narrow interior doorways, hard-to-reach kitchen cupboards and potentially hazardous bathroom fixtures. “If you’re a boomer person, with money to remodel, think about making your house more user-friendly, not just more beautiful, for when you have your knee replacement or a chronic condition,” said Nancy Thompson of AARP. “We’re talking smart, convenient. It doesn’t

have to look institutional or utilitarian.” To promote this outlook, AARP has teamed up with the National Association of Home Builders to create a designation for certified aging in place specialists trained in designing and modifying residences for the elderly. Several thousand builders, contractors, remodelers and architects have been certified. Building or remodeling homes can include such details as touchless faucets, trim kitchen drawers instead of cupboards, grab bars and nonslip floors in the bathrooms. Arizona’s Pima County, along

with a few other local governments, has gone a step further, passing an ordinance requiring that all new homes in the unincorporated areas around Tucson offer a basic level of accessibility. They must have at least one entrance with no steps. Minimum heights and widths are set so that light switches can be easily reached and doorways are passable in a wheelchair. For now, Beryl O’Connor’s two-story, four-bedroom Cape Cod house, built in the 1940s, poses no physical challenges for her. Her own bedroom is on the ground floor, and she recently had a safety bar installed in her bathtub, so she thinks prospects are good for staying put over the long term. Plus, she’s got company at home — a 26-year-old granddaughter lives upstairs and commutes to a job in New York — and many friends around town, where she has a busy schedule of club meetings, group lunches, card games and occasional bus trips to casinos. “You’ve got to socialize,” she says. “There are things out there to do — you’ve got to look for them.” Ira and Roseanne Bornstein, who live a few blocks from O’Connor, also think their longtime home can accommodate them suitably for many years to come. There’s a room on the ground floor they could convert to a bedroom, and space upstairs to house a live-in aide if one were needed. “It’s a modest home, but it’s always worked for us,” said Rosanne Bornstein, 63, who was a school counselor and teacher for 25 years. “We’re very strong in wanting to stay here.”

Her 69-year-old husband, a retired pharmacist, said they worry that the economics of relocating might result in a smaller residence, and crimp their ability to entertain and host out-of-town guests. “People are younger and healthier when they retire,” he said. “If you plan right, you can have a lot of time to enjoy it.” Connie Pifher, the town social worker, engages with aging-inplace issues as part of her job, and also on a personal level as she nears retirement at 64. Divorced, with two grown sons, she used to be determined to stay on in her four-bedroom house as a retiree. Now she’s planning to move out, to a co-op or townhouse. She said the ordeal of a recent three-day power outage after a surprise snowstorm hammered home the point that “it’s time to move out of Dodge.” In several states, there’s debate about whether to promote aging in place by shifting more Medicaid dollars to community-based programs and away from traditional nursing facilities. But budget problems may complicate such efforts as some financially struggling states cut back on home health services that help keep some elderly people out of nursing homes. Susan Bosak, the social scientist who is advising Tulsa on its Across the Generations initiative, says building positive intergenerational relations throughout a community is vital to enhancing life for its elderly. “Aging in place fosters the illusion we can do it by ourselves, but we can’t,” she said. “A high quality of life requires support from the entire community.”

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Simon K. Roe, son of Dan and Trish Roe, Drums, is celebrating his first birthday today, Nov. 27. Simon is a grandson of Don Roe and the late Mary Lou Roe, Grand Island, Neb., and Marie Franckowiak and the late Frank Franckowiak, Mountain Top. He has a brother, Caleb, 2.

Mason Charles Kata, son of Bryan and Marisa Kata, Nanticoke, is celebrating his second birthday today, Nov. 27. Mason is a grandson of Susan Katulka and the late John Katulka, Nanticoke; Stanley and Noma Kata, Nanticoke; and Thomas and Karen Williams, Las Vegas, Nev.

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Brandon Michael Prevuznak, son of Michael and Lisa Prevuznak, is celebrating his seventh birthday today, Nov. 27. Brandon is a grandson of Charlotte and Stanley Niemiec, Pittston; Bernard and Lorraine Prevuznak, Parsons; and the late David Novak. He has a brother, Matthew David, 5.

Brianna Zamerowski, daughter of Linda and Sean Zamerowski, Delaware, is celebrating her 14th birthday today, Nov. 27. Brianna is a granddaughter of Benjamin J. and Wanda K. Czarnecki and Stanley and Marlene Zamerowski, all of Pringle. She has a sister, Hannah, 1 1.

HONOR ROLL Rice Elementary School Kevin Seyer, principal, Rice Elementary School, recently announced the first quarter Honor Roll. Principal’s Honors: Shane Angle, Zarqua Ansari, Jacob Antosh, Alyssa Bennett, Matthew BrunettiNicholas Brunetti, Patrick Colo, Grant Cormier, Justin Darden, Brian Dwyer, Jade Fallbright, Makena Gormley, Ronnie Grevera, Owen Grigas, Michelle Heller, Sara Hopkins, Sarah Kalada, Connor Kaminski, Kathryn Karpinski, Matthew Kelly, Shea Kilbourn, Kevin Klusewitz, Evan Knapp, Natasha Koslop, Anthony Kovalchik, Kayla Kulp, Sarah Macko, Wesley Mahler, Julia Makowski, Jared McCune, Spencer Riccio, Jordan Rinehimer, Kaitlyn Roberts, Thomas Roberts, Caden Rozitski, Sebastian Rucco, Antho-

Hope Center founders honored with Tucker Award

FNCB donates $10,000 to Salvation Army First National Community Bank (FNCB) recently donated $10,000 to the Salvation Army of Wilkes-Barre to help their flood relief efforts. The money was raised through FNCB’s Valley With a Heart 201 1 campaign. Specially designed ‘I’m Part of the Valley with a Heart 201 1’ T-shirts were sold at each of the 21 branches located throughout Luzerne, Lackawanna, Wayne and Monroe counties. The shirts sold for $10 each with all of the proceeds going to the relief fund. In addition to the Salvation Army donation, FNCB recently announced a Flood Disaster Relief Program to assist individual customers, as well as local business owners, by providing special loans at reduced rates to those affected by the flooding. At the check presentation, from left, Jerry A. Champi, chief operating officer, FNCB; Captain Patty Richwine, commanding officer, Salvation Army of Wilkes-Barre; and Lucy Singer, assistant vice president/group manager, FNCB.

Maternal and Family Health Services (MFHS) presented the Rose Allan Tucker Award to Ron and Suzanne Hillard, founders of The Hope Center, Trucksville, at the 40th Annual Meeting of the MFHS Board of Directors. The award is named for the late Rose Allan Tucker, former Luzerne County Commissioner and long-time employee of MFHS, and is presented annually to someone who has made a significant and lasting contribution to enhance the quality of life for women, children and families in any area of the 16-county region served by the agency. The Hillards were recognized for their efforts to help people in need of medical care through The Hope Center, which they started with their own seed money to offer free medical, legal, pastoral and other resources to people in need. The Hillards recruited volunteers from the medical, legal and counseling fields to provide these services. At the award presentation, from left, are Suzanne and Ron Hillard and attorney Lesa Gelb, chairperson of the MFHS Board of Directors.

ny Ruggeri, Sydney Sobelewski, Wyatt Steltz, Ethan Van Gorden, Eric Witner, Abigail Zaleppa and Braden Zlockie. Honors: Tyler Albert, Bryan Alfaro-Delgado, Paul Ashton, Ryan Black, Lyndsey Blackwell, Kaitlyn Bobeck, Bianna Booths, Robert Briggs, Jennifer Brown, Robert Bueg, Kimberly Conrad, Cassandra Cooper, Emily Dreyfus, Julia Dreyfus, Julia Filchak, Natasha Geisler, Michael Golden, Elizabeth Harding, Michael Jarmiolowski, Manav Javia, Holly Jones, Joey Judge, Kaylei Harris, Aaron Kleger, Kyleigh Kline, Chloe Lacoste, Alexis Legg, Hannah Lines, Elizabeth Martz, Alexis McLean, Timothy Mikolaichik, Paul Mikolajczyk, Mahad Muhammad, Prit Patel, Carlos Perillo, Thomas Perillo, Christopher Ribar, Casattie Roccograndi, Joshua Rusinko, Kiara Smith, Tyler Snipas, Jacob Spaide, Samantha Swartwood, Kara Tereska, Kayla Van Kirk, Brandon Whitman, David Wint and Colin Wrobleski.

Coughlin Class of ’63 enjoys ‘Days of Wine & Roses’ dinner Members of the Coughlin High School Class of 1963 met at the American Legion 815 in Wilkes-Barre Township on Oct. 22 for the annual ‘Days of Wine & Roses’ buffet dinner and to initiate a planning and search committee for their upcoming 50th anniversary reunion in 2013. Musical entertainment was provided by Mr. Jukebox, Georgetown, with a special solo vocal performance by classmate Steve Borick. All members of the Coughlin High Class of 1963 are asked to please contact search committee chairpersons Joan Fallon Holmes at 570-474-5396 or Peggy Grimalia Lyons at 570-823-8157 to assist in locating class members who reside outside of the local Wyoming Valley area. Attendees, from left, first row, are Peggy Grimaila Lyons, Dorothy Anusavage Fetterman Banta, Natalie Tippett, Eileen Eliott Jarecki, Sharon Banks Kutney, Steve Borick and Susie Hmelovsky Ott. Second row: Marie Gerra Bombay, Florence Gola Krulack, Roseann Kossakowski Smith, Patricia McHugh Crahall and Anne Juzwiak Gerrity. Third row: Arthur Miller, Frank Hill, Marcia Rusenko Finn, Sally Throop Price, Walter (Paluchowski) Bennett, Joan Fallon Holmes, William Ott, James Gallagher, Martin Gerrity and Florence Mokris.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our family is, I think, not unusual, in that people kind of spread out. Everyone spreads out and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to have to deal with each other,â&#x20AC;? she said last week in an interview in the northwest Philadelphia home where she and her husband, the actor David Morse, have raised three children of their own. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But when my father died, my siblings and I really kind of had to rally, and none of us really knew each other all that well. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t that we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like each other; we just never had had that much to do with each other,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was fun â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it was really fun â&#x20AC;&#x201D; getting to know the siblings more.â&#x20AC;? And then there was Mother Brigid, as Morseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother came to be called after undergoing â&#x20AC;&#x153;tonsure,â&#x20AC;? a ceremony in which she became a monastic (one

who, in deference to her age, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t live in a religious community but whose job nevertheless is to pray). A religious explorer (â&#x20AC;&#x153;all my life, she was hungry spiritually,â&#x20AC;? said Morse), sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been born an Episcopalian, converting her family to Roman Catholicism for a while, and had continued to explore other beliefs after that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Her nature is to be an evangelist. And that was incredibly annoying. And frustrating,â&#x20AC;? Morse said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Orthodox Christianity has made a world of difference to her,â&#x20AC;? encouraging her to focus on her own spiritual experience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were about 12 years of real struggle with my mother and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure why this twoyear period that the book is about changed everything, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve tried to puzzle it out in the book,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a combination of that we had to see each other a lot and that we just both really needed to solve this problem

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that she was having.â&#x20AC;? The problem: a bout with cancer and a fall that resulted in a broken hip and shoulder, a onetwo punch all too familiar to many members of the Sandwich Generation, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably appreciate Morseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s riffs on the medical system (and in particular the acronym she used for her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s former HMO, derived from a phrase I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t repeat here). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something about having a common adversary that kind of bonded us,â&#x20AC;? she said. And when Morse, a former actress whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worked as a book editor, realized that the emails

sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been sending to update her siblings on their mother might be the basis for a book, she found a new bond. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody was saying to me, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Are you going to publish the book after she dies?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I really wanted to not wait because I knew she was going to live a million years, and it seemed like we were moving toward a happy ending anyway without her having to end it dying, which is such a classic way to end a parent memoir,â&#x20AC;? she said. So she decided to share the project with her mother as she wrote it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had to be introspective about her to write things about

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NBA

Deal saves Christmas Camps to begin Dec. 9 if plan is ratified PAUL SOKOLOSKI By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Basketball Writer

ASSOCIATED PRESS

NBA commissioner David Stern helped broker a tentative agreement early Saturday to end the 149-day lockout.

PENGUINS HOCKEY

Munroe puts end to losing streak

both sides, on top of the fans and jobs that were lost during the stalemate. And it leaves the NBA with its second shortened season, with the hope of getting in 66 games instead of a full 82-game schedule. The lockout isn’t quite over, but it appears the NBA’s nuclear winter will be avoided. After a marathon 15-hour negotiating session

NEW YORK — Now that there’s a handshake deal on a new labor agreement, NBA Commissioner David Stern and union executives must persuade owners and players to approve it, guaranteeing a Christmas Day tripleheader. After a 149-day lockout, owners and players reached the tentative deal early Saturday. It comes at a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars for See DEAL, Page 9C

BIG TEN LEADERS DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP BADGERS

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Veteran goaltender records 28 saves to lift WBS Pens out of five-game tailspin. By TOM VENESKY tvenesky@timesleader.com

BINGHAMTON, NY – Sprawled on the ice with a scrum in front of the net, Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton Penguins goaltender Scott Munroe made a big save when he stuck out his leg to prevent the Binghamton Senators from leveling the score. But the save wasn’t as big as the one he would make seconds later. That’s when Munroe stopped Binghamton forward Nikita Filatov’s penalty shot attempt. Although the SenPENGUINS ators did manage to tie things up minutes later, the Penguins SENATORS rallied with a late goal from Brandon DeFazio for a 3-2 win over Binghamton on Saturday. The win puts a halt to the Penguins five-game losing skid and improves their record to 11-5-1-4. But if you ask the Penguins, there really wasn’t any losing streak. At least not in their minds. “We’re still not thinking about it. We never were,” DeFazio said. “Today was the first game in our new segment. We’re 1-0-0 and that’s the way we’re going to look at it.” For most of Saturday’s game the Penguins held onto a 2-1 lead they established in the first period thanks to goals from Bryan Lerg and Colin McDonald. The lead stuck during a frantic second period that featured lots of rushes and few whistles. Eric Tangradi came close to giving the Penguins a two-goal lead when his shot hit the crossbar and floated over the back of Binghamton goaltender Robin Lehner. Munroe stopped 28 of 30 shots on the night and played strong throughout the game. He stepped up big while the Penguins were called for three straight penalties late in the second and into the third period. Just 45 seconds into the third period, Munroe was in the crease when he made a leg save while sprawled on the ice. During the sequence, one of the Penguins covered the puck while it was loose in front of the net, and Filatov was awarded a penalty shot.

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Wisconsin’s Montee Ball (28) runs past Penn State’s Nick Sukay (1) during the first half Saturday in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin defeated Penn State, 45-7.

Penn State falls hard with title on line By DEREK LEVARSE dlevarse@timesleader.com

MADISON, Wis. -- Drenched and dominated, the Nittany Lions trudged out of Camp Randall Saturday night … and out of the national spotlight. Penn State University, of course, will remain there. When the football program returns to it is uncertain. With their goal of a Big Ten title and a trip to the Rose Bowl demolished by Wisconsin, a 45-7 winner, the Lions face a murky future in the next month, the next year and beyond.

While the Badgers head off to a rematch with Michigan State in the Big Ten title game next weekend, Penn State players will get a week away from football and the chaos surrounding the school before finding out next Sunday which bowl game will take them. “We need this break now after everything that’s been going on, just to get us together mentally,” senior captain Devon Still said. “Get closer as a team.” This was Penn State’s most lopsided

defeat since a 45-6 loss to Ohio State in 2000, the first of the so-called dark years for the program. The program will try to prevent a the start of a similar slide amidst a national search for a permanent head coach, a probe to determine if any NCAA violations have been committed and the ongoing investigations into the Jerry Sandusky case. All of them stand as hurdles for the Lions (9-3, 6-2 Big Ten) to get back to See TITLE, Page 3C

AT H L E T I C S

Special silver for local lawyer Kelly Ciravolo medaled at triathlon in China, finished 42nd at NYC Marathon. By ZACH DOLEIDEN For the Times Leader

SHAVERTOWN—For some, running is viewed as a mundane exercise meant to stay in shape. For others however, running has the potential to

lead some on paths others could never see coming -- it is a way of life. Such is the case for Kelly Ciravolo, a local attorney in Kingston and a distance runner. Through her participation in competitive running, Ciravolo has gotten to participate in several experiences that some people can only dream of. One such event occurred Sept. 11, when Ciravolo

competed in the International Triathlon Union World Championship (ITU Worlds) held in Beijing, China, at a triathlon course previously used during the 2008 Summer Olympics. Ciravolo put together a solid effort, coming home See SILVER, Page 9C

Kelly Ciravolo

OPINION

Stronger GAR would be state powerhouse

he pass came out of Darrell Crawford’s hands perfectly, a beauty of a bomb that found Lucas Benton streaking downfield on his way to a 55-yard touchdown catch. It was the second play of the second quarter. And it was the last time the GAR Grenadiers had a chance to really celebrate. They weren’t going to get drubbed the way they did during last year’s state playoffs, the Grenadiers had vowed. But when they looked up with barely five minutes gone in the third quarter, they were losing 50-6. For the second year in a row, a District 11 team flattened the Grenadiers in a state playoff game. This time, it was Pen Argyl punishing GAR, 50-20. Last year, it was Southern Lehigh pounding out a lopsided 50-14 victory. How does this keep happening to GAR? Aren’t the Grenadiers two-time District 2 champions? Aren’t they the team that usually seems unstoppable, scoring 68 points twice this season and ringing up more than 50 two more times on their way to an 11-2 record? “I just think they play their brand of smash-mouth football in District 11,” GAR coach Paul Wiedlich Jr. said. “Up front, they really controlled both sides of the football. “They kind of overpowered us a little bit.”

Pen Argyl was mightier There was nothing little about Pen Argyl, which will now take its 13-0 season into the second round of the PIAA Class 2A playoffs next week. The Green Knights stacked their defensive front with three 6-foot-3 players all weighing more than 200 pounds, and 6-4, 185-pound Kyle Muller. But size wasn’t the main issue in Friday’s state playoff game at Spartan Stadium. Strength was. “I think they spend a little more time in the weight room,” Wiedlich said. “Our kids go in the weight room. I just think maybe they need to get in there a little more.” If they add bulk to go with all that blazing speed, the Grenadiers could be dangerous on the state level. Because Friday’s game proved GAR could play with the best. They just couldn’t stay with the best. Before the game got away from them, the Grenadiers were going good. They moved to midfield with their opening possession, before a bad snap proved critical in causing an interception on the next play. They stripped away a fumble at the goal line on Pen Argyl’s opening drive. And the Grenadiers answered Pen Argyl’s first score with one of their own, when Crawford launched his touchdown pass to Benton to pull GAR within 8-6. “We were moving the ball,” Wiedlich said. “We ended up causing a turnover when they’re going in to score.” Then Pen Argyl scored a knockout. Pen Argyl shut down GAR’s trick plays, recovered and scored on an onside kick attempt to start the second half, and easily handled GAR’s quarterback shuffle between Crawford and Corey Moore in the second half. But it was more about Pen Argyl’s power than GAR’s speed. “Not a good way to end my senior year,” Crawford said. “A loss is never good. But I’m proud of my teammates for making it this far.” Twice now, GAR got a demonstration of what it takes to make it farther. A little strength goes a long way. Paul Sokoloski is a Times Leader sports columnist. You may reach him at 970-7109 or email him at psokoloski@timesleader.com.

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Joe Ryan scored a hole-in-one at the Irem Country Club Saturday. Ryan, an Irem member, shot the ace on the 150-yard 17th hole. Witnessing the shot were Larry Brown, Mike Judge and Dave Fagula.

L O C A L C A L E N D A R TODAY'S EVENTS GIRLS VOLLEYBALL WVC Senior All-Star Game, 7 p.m., Dallas WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL Misericordia at Moravian, 3 p.m.

MONDAY, NOV. 28

AUTO RACING 10:30 a.m. SPEED — Formula One, Brazilian Grand Prix, at Sao Paulo 9 a.m. TGC — European PGA Tour, South African Open, final round, at Johannesburg, (same-day tape) Noon TGC — Australian PGA Championship, final round, at Coolum Beach, Australia (same-day tape)

MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

TUESDAY, NOV. 29 AHL Penguins at Norfolk, 7:15 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30 COLLEGE WRESTLING New Jersey at King’s, 7 p.m. MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL PSU Wilkes-Barre at PSU Schuylkill, 7:30 p.m. King’s at Delaware Valley, 8 p.m. Luzerne CCC at Harrisburg, 8 p.m. Misericordia at Wilkes, 8 p.m. Penn College at PSU Hazleton, 8 p.m. WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL King’s at Delaware Valley, 6 p.m. Luzerne CCC at Harrisburg, 6 p.m. Misericordia at Wilkes, 6 p.m. Penn College at PSU Hazleton, 6 p.m. PSU Wilkes-Barre at PSU Schuylkill, 6 p.m.

FRIDAY, DEC. 2 COLLEGE WRESTLING Wilkes at Messiah Petrofes Invitational, 11 a.m. COLLEGE SWIMMING Misericordia at Longnecker Invitational, tba MEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL PSU Wilkes-Bare at PSU New Kensington, 7 p.m.

T R A N S A C T I O N S BASEBALL American League OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Named Chili Davis hitting coach. TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Acquired 2B Luis Valbuena from Cleveland for cash considerations.

FOOTBALL

National Football League INDIANAPOLIS COLTS—Waived LB Adrian Moten. NEW YORK GIANTS—Placed WR Michael Clayton on injured reserve. Signed DE Justin Trattou from the practice squad. Signed QB Ryan Perrilloux to the practice squad.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES—Recalled F Paul Szczechura and D Brayden McNabb from Rochester (AHL). DETROIT RED WINGS—Recalled F Fabian Brunnstrom from Grand Rapids (AHL). American Hockey League AHL—Suspended Worcester D Matt Pelech two games for an illegal check to the head of an opponent in a Nov. 23 game at Manchester. ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS—Announced D Matt Campanale was returned to the team by Binghamton (AHL) and F Louie Caporusso and F Jack Downing were recalled by Binghamton.

S O C C E R Barclays Premier League Team GP W D L GF GA Pts Manchester City .............. 12 11 1 0 42 11 34 Manchester United.......... 13 9 3 1 30 13 30 Tottenham........................ 12 9 1 2 26 16 28 Newcastle ........................ 13 7 5 1 19 12 26 Chelsea ............................ 13 8 1 4 28 17 25 Arsenal ............................. 13 7 2 4 26 23 23 Liverpool........................... 12 6 4 2 16 11 22 Everton ............................. 12 5 1 6 15 16 16 Norwich ............................ 13 4 4 5 19 21 16 Aston Villa ........................ 12 3 6 3 16 17 15 Queens Park Rangers.... 13 4 3 6 14 24 15 Stoke................................. 13 4 3 6 13 23 15 West Bromwich Albion ... 13 4 2 7 12 20 14 Swansea........................... 12 3 4 5 12 16 13 Fulham.............................. 13 2 6 5 15 16 12 Sunderland....................... 13 2 5 6 15 15 11 Wolverhampton............... 13 3 2 8 13 23 11 Bolton ............................... 13 3 0 10 19 31 9 Wigan................................ 13 2 3 8 12 24 9 Blackburn ......................... 13 1 4 8 17 30 7 Arsenal 1, Fulham 1 Arsenal: Thomas Vermaelen (65 own goal). Fulham: Thomas Vermaelen (82). Attendance: 60,043. Bolton 0, Everton 2 Everton: Marouane Fellaini (49), Apostolos Vellios (78). Attendance: 24,058. Chelsea 3, Wolverhampton 0 Chelsea: John Terry (7), Daniel Sturridge (29), Juan Mata (45). Attendance: 41,648. Manchester United 1, Newcastle 1 Manchester United: Javier Hernandez (49). Newcastle: Demba Ba (64 penalty). Attendance: 75,594. Norwich 2, Queens Park Rangers 1 Norwich: Russell Martin (15), Grant Holt (73). QPR: Luke Young (59). Attendance: 26,781. Stoke 3, Blackburn 1 Stoke: Rory Delap (28), Glenn Whelan (58), Peter Crouch (72). Blackburn: Ruben Rochina (86). Attendance: 26,686. Sunderland 1, Wigan 2 Sunderland: Sebastian Larsson (8). Wigan: Jordi Gomez (44 penalty), Franco Di Santo (90).

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AMERICA’S LINE

1 p.m. BTN — Chicago State at Illinois 4:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Old Spice Classic, Indiana St vs. Fairfield, at Orlando, Fla. 6:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Old Spice Classic, Minnesota vs. Dayton, at Orlando, Fla. 7 p.m. BTN — Butler at Indiana 9 p.m. ESPN2 — 76 Classic, Oklahoma vs. St. Louis, at Anaheim, Calif.

NFL

1 p.m. CBS — Buffalo at N.Y. Jets FOX — Minnesota at Atlanta 4:15 p.m. CBS — New England at Philadelphia 8 p.m. NBC — Pittsburgh at Kansas City

INJURY REPORT: On the NFL board, Arizona QB Kevin Kolb is doubtful; Minnesota RB Adrian Peterson is out; Chicago QB Jay Cutler is out; Oakland RB Darren McFadden is out; Philadelphia QB Michael Vick is doubtful. Cleveland St

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RAMS

2.5

Cards

JETS

9.5

Bills

BENGALS

Texans

Browns

6.5

JAGUARS

Panthers

TITANS

3.5

Bucs

FALCONS

9.5

Vikings

Santa Clara

6.5

Oklahoma

Legends Lewisburg Sub-Regional Princeton

BUCKNELL

W Alabama

14.5

Morehead St

Hoops for Hope Classic

Bears New Orleans

Alcorn St

Patriots

3.5

EAGLES

TULANE

San Diego

CHARGERS

5.5

Broncos

Steelers

10.5

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7.5

Louisiana Tech

Shamrock Classic Weber St

Underdog

Michigan St

12.5

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6.5

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MISSISSIPPI ST

North Texas

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St. Bonaventure

INDIANA

Butler

ALABAMA

16.5

Virginia Commonwealth

1.5

Texas Tech

DePaul

1.5

Indiana St

Dayton

Legends Kingston Sub-Regional Boston U

Jim Thorpe Classic Portland St

Giants

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Minnesota

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6.5

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Redskins

Fairfield

NCAA Women's Basketball

Villanova

3.5

Arizona St

Saturday's Scores EAST Boston U. 70, Rhode Island 64 Bucknell 87, West Alabama 50 Central Conn. St. 92, Hartford 58 Columbia 59, Manhattan 41 Delaware 81, Lafayette 78 Duquesne 84, Louisiana-Lafayette 65 Hobart 86, D’Youville 63 Hofstra 63, Cleveland St. 53 James Madison 60, Penn 58 La Salle 82, Rider 70 Lebanon Valley 91, Ithaca 78 Marist 81, Colgate 73 Morehead St. 68, Princeton 56 Northeastern 78, St. John’s 64 Oregon St. 66, Towson 46 Saint Joseph’s 65, Penn St. 47 St. Francis (NY) 79, NJIT 60 Staten Island 70, Montclair St. 60 Vermont 64, Siena 62 Wagner 85, Delaware St. 62 Yale 84, Army 75 Youngstown St. 60, St. Francis (Pa.) 59 MIDWEST Adrian 80, Concordia (Mich.) 78 Akron 81, Detroit 63 Charlotte 70, Wright St. 66 IUPUI 74, Texas Southern 55 Indianapolis 80, N. Michigan 64 Iowa 82, IPFW 72 Loyola of Chicago 64, Fordham 50 Nebraska 76, S. Dakota St. 64 Nebraska-Omaha 81, Chadron St. 78 Nevada 64, Bradley 59 Purdue 78, Coppin St. 57 Ripon 80, Illinois Wesleyan 61 SE Missouri 64, Miami (Ohio) 57 St. Joseph’s (Ind.) 99, Lake Superior St. 92, 2OT St. Mary’s (Minn.) 75, Wis.-Eau Claire 67 Toledo 82, Ill.-Chicago 67 UMKC 93, Longwood 53 W. Illinois 65, North Dakota 62 Washington (Mo.) 83, Principia 56 Wofford 56, Prairie View 49 SOUTH Appalachian St. 81, Milligan 58 Davidson 70, UNC Wilmington 67 East Carolina 78, Chowan 62 Fla. International 64, Coastal Carolina 62 Georgia St. 72, Liberty 50 Hampden-Sydney 89, Shenandoah 67 High Point 80, The Citadel 72, OT Howard 67, William & Mary 58 Kentucky 87, Portland 63 NC Central 104, Barber-Scotia 55 SC State 104, Kennesaw St. 98, 2OT San Diego 66, Alcorn St. 65 Savannah St. 72, Gardner-Webb 66 South Florida 68, Florida Atlantic 55 FAR WEST Cal Poly 72, MVSU 55 California 80, Denver 59 Gonzaga 78, W. Michigan 58 Portland St. 66, Louisiana Tech 48 Southern Cal 63, South Carolina 60 Tennessee St. 69, Morgan St. 64 TOURNAMENT Battle 4 Atlantis Third Place Connecticut 78, Florida St. 76, OT Fifth Place Coll. of Charleston 85, UMass 61 Fifth Place Harvard 59, UCF 49 Carrs/Safeway Great Alaska Shootout Fifth Place Cent. Michigan 65, Dartmouth 48 Seventh Place Alaska-Anchorage 77, UC Irvine 63 Hamilton Thanksgiving Tournament First Round Hamilton 86, Berkeley (NY) 55

Cal-Riverside Boston College

3.5

Wake Forest

NCAA Men's Basketball

6.5 11.5

SEAHAWKS

Old Spice Classic

B A S K E T B A L L

Washington St New Mexico

COLTS

College Basketball

2 p.m. ESPN — Baylor at Tennessee 3 p.m. BTN — DePaul at Northwestern 5 p.m. BTN — Louisiana State at Ohio State

RHODE ISLAND

RAIDERS

SAINTS

WOMEN'S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

2.5 76 Classic

Underdog

Monday

5 a.m. ESPN2 — ATP World Tour, Finals, semifinals, at London (delayed tape) 12:30 p.m. ESPN2 — ATP World Tour, Finals, championship match, at London

National Hockey League

ROXY ROXBOROUGH

10.5

SANTA CLARA

Jacksonville St

San Fran St

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Odds

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DUCKS

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Winnipeg

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12. Oklahoma (3-1) lost to Vanderbilt 78-66. Next: vs. No. 18 Ohio State, Sunday, Dec. 4. 13. Rutgers (6-0) beat Arizona State 59-52. Next: vs. Florida, Friday. 14. Kentucky (6-0) did not play. Next: vs. MVSU, Sunday. 15. Purdue (6-0) did not play. Next: at No. 7 Duke, Thursday. 16. North Carolina (4-0) did not play. Next: vs. Kennesaw State, Sunday. 17. Penn State (4-1) vs. Nevada. Next: vs. No. 16 North Carolina, Wednesday. 18. Ohio State (4-0) did not play. Next: vs. No. 20 LSU, Sunday. 19. Texas Tech (4-0) beat Central Arkansas 76-43. Next: vs. Louisiana-Monroe, Sunday. 20. LSU (3-2) did not play. Next: at No. 18 Ohio State, Sunday. 21. Georgetown (4-2) beat No. 10 Georgia 64-56. Next: vs. Northeastern or UNLV, Sunday. 22. Virginia (5-1) beat Hawaii 60-43. Next: vs. California, Sunday. 23. DePaul (4-1) did not play. Next: at Northwestern, Sunday. 24. Texas (4-1) beat California 61-60. Next: at Hawaii, Sunday. 25. UCLA (3-2) beat Colgate 68-48. Next: vs. San Diego State, Wednesday.

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Badgers’ Wilson offered unique challenge for Lions By DEREK LEVARSE dlevarse@timesleader.com

MADISON, Wis. – Penn State has seen plenty of quarterbacks that could run around. Pick up an extra first down or two. Create a few big plays from nothing. Russell Wilson was somehow different. The numbers for the Wisconsin quarterback were not completely eye-popping -- 19-of-29 for 186 yards and two touchdowns. Nothing like the four scores by tailback Montee Ball. But it was Wilson who kept things going in the Badgers’ 45-7 blowout, keeping the Lions defense honest like no other quarterback had this year. Take it from the defenders themselves. “He’s everything I thought he was,” said defensive tackle Devon Still, a likely All-American and a finalist for three national awards. “He’s a dynamic quarterback. … It’s just his desire to win. His desire not to be tackled and just do whatever he can to help out his team. That’s exactly what he did.” “It was tough because we really had to focus in on the running back, and we couldn’t

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because we had to focus on Wilson,” defensive end Jack Crawford said. Wilson, an expert on playaction and rollout passes, finished with just 36 yards rushing but used his legs several times to convert third downs and buy time for receivers to come open. “The scramble really killed us,” Crawford said. “We didn’t tackle well. Our tackling was very poor. Just didn’t get off our blocks well. We’re athletic enough, we have the playmakers, and that’s what’s so upsetting about it.” For Wilson, it was just another week in a record-breaking season. The senior blew away the school passing touchdown record of 21 long ago, improving that number to 28 on Saturday. Going back to his days at North Carolina State, it was Wilson’s 36th straight game with a passing touchdown, tying him for the all-time NCAA record streak with for-

mer Texas Tech quarterback Graham Harrell. Wilson also remains on pace to shatter the NCAA’s singleseason pass efficiency mark with two games left to play. “He’s pretty darn good,” interim coach Tom Bradley said. “He played a heck of a game. Got to take your hat off to him and realize he did a heck of a job today.”

Infirmary report Wide receiver Brandon Moseby-Felder did not make the trip for the second straight week, as he continues to deal with a back injury. Penn State once again brought just 68 active players on the 70-man travel roster, as injured defenders Michael Mauti and Pete Massaro took the final two spots to help out the coaches on the sideline. As usual, four true freshmen – CB Adrian Amos, WR Bill Belton, PK Sam Ficken, WR Allen Robinson – made the trip.

Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson runs past Penn State’s Gerald Hodges for a first down during the first half Saturday in Madison, Wis.

Spike or self-defense? With the game still technically in doubt – a 14-7 lead for the Badgers early in the second quarter – Penn State’s offense

couldn’t get into rhythm. Not helping matters was a series of flags that first negated a first-down run by Silas Redd and was capped off by a dis-

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puted unsportsmanlike conduct penalty against Matt McGloin. After a block in the back call against Justin Brown erased Redd’s impressive run, tight end Andrew Szczerba was flagged for a false start. The ball had already been snapped, and as Wisconsin defenders bore down on McGloin, he instinctively tossed the ball into the ground to stop the play. Officials interpreted it as a sign of frustration following consecutive penalties and hit McGloin for a 15-yard penalty. After the three penalties, the Lions were stuck with a second-and-28 at their 15-yard line, killing the drive. The Scranton signal-caller was not pleased. “It’s a ridiculous call to make in a situation like that,” said McGloin, who said he did not receive an explanation from the referee. “I mean, I’m not gonna stand there with the ball in case a defender doesn’t hear (the whistle) and he ends up clocking me. So I just stepped back and spiked the ball. It’s an incomplete pass. Somehow that’s unsportsmanlike conduct.”

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this point, on the doorstep of a BCS game. Wisconsin was a daunting enough obstacle on Saturday. The Lions hardly helped matters themselves, committing four turnovers that the Badgers turned into 24 points. “It just hits you that nothing’s gonna go right today,” said quarterback Matt McGloin, who finished 9-of-17 for 97 yards, a touchdown and an interception. “Felt like we really couldn’t do anything about it.” “I think we made them look a lot better than they really are,” senior captain Derek Moye said. What the Badgers looked like was one of the best teams in “It just hits the country, you that one that had nothing’s two losses by a gonna go combined 10 points, both right today. coming on lastFelt like we minute desperreally couldn’t ation heaves to do anything the end zone. No chance about it.” for any late heMatt McGloin roics this time Penn St. around. Penn quarterback State’s heave to the end zone came in the first quarter as Wisconsin handed the Lions a 7-0 lead by ignoring Curtis Drake on a go route, resulting in a 44-yard pitch and catch. It was the only thing that worked out for the Lions on the day. After a surprising opening touchdown -- 44 yards from McGloin to Curtis Drake on a badly blown coverage -- Penn State managed just 36 total yards for the rest of the half. At the break, Penn State had run 19 plays to Wisconsin’s 48. The Lions turned it over twice on a McGloin interception and a Michael Zordich fumble on a short kickoff, both of which led to Badgers’ touchdowns. It led to a 28-7 halftime deficit. The Lions had not given up more than 27 points in a game all season long. The fumble was particularly brutal, coming on a short kickoff with 2:03 to play in the half. It took Wisconsin just 1:33 to reach the end zone again. “That’s what did us in at the end of the half,” interim coach Tom Bradley said. “Turn the ball over there and then it starts rolling down hill. Zordich’s fumble probably sealed our fate.” If that didn’t do the trick, then Silas Redd (66 yards) did on the opening drive of the second half, slamming into the back of his own lineman as the ball flew out of his arms and into the air. Another Penn State turnover, another Wisconsin touchdown. A muffed punt by Drew Astorino early in the fourth led to a Wisconsin field goal and the 45-7 final score. Even an impressive 89-yard

Penn St. .............................. 7 0 0 0 — 7 Wisconsin ........................... 7 21 14 3 — 45 A—79,708. PSU Wis First downs ........................... 12 27 Rushes-yards ....................... 27-114 49-264 Passing.................................. 119 186 Comp-Att-Int ......................... 11-25-1 19-29-0 Return Yards ........................ 34 24 Punts-Avg. ............................ 5-46.2 5-40.6 Fumbles-Lost........................ 4-3 1-1 Penalties-Yards.................... 7-58 4-35 Time of Possession ............. 21:43 38:17 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Penn St., Redd 12-66, Dukes 6-25, Belton 3-12, Drake 1-4, Green 3-4, McGloin 1-3, Bolden 1-0. Wisconsin, M.Ball 25-156, White 16-73, Wilson 7-36, Abbrederis 1-(minus 1). PASSING—Penn St., McGloin 9-17-1-97, Bolden 2-7-0-22, Belton 0-1-0-0. Wisconsin, Wilson 19-29-0-186. RECEIVING—Penn St., Moye 3-22, Drake 2-43, De.Smith 2-20, Brown 1-14, Beachum 1-9, Redd 1-9, Green 1-2. Wisconsin, Abbrederis 7-93, Toon 5-42, Duckworth 2-17, Ewing 2-15, M.Ball 1-15, Pedersen 1-3, White 1-1.

FIRST QUARTER

PSU -- Curtis Drake 44-yard pass from Matt McGloin (Anthony Fera kick), 8:44. Drive: 8 plays, 80 yards, 3:32. Comment: The Nittany Lions stunningly strike first at Camp Randall as Wisconsin fails to pick up Curtis Drake despite him being lined up on the outside like any normal receiver. The Lions had their opening drive stopped before backup Badgers tailback James White bumped into Anthony Fera on a punt to give Penn State a first down near midfield.From there, Drake was released by both the cornerback and safety on play-action, and the sophomore was able to turn around and field the McGloin lob like a punt for the Lions’ first passing touchdown since Oct. 22 against Northwestern. PENN STATE 7, WISCONSIN 0 UW -- Jared Abbrederis 21-yard pass from Russell Wilson (Philip Welch kick), 3:32. Drive: 10 plays, 76 yards, 5:06. Comment: Wisconsin strikes right back with an impressive drive as star tailback Montee Ball gets on track and gets the Badgers in gear. Ball rips off 31 yards on five carries as top Penn State linebacker Gerald Hodges comes off the field with an injury. Marching into Lions territory, Abbrederis runs past Chaz Powell and Wilson hits him in the end zone before safety Nick Sukay can get over to close the gap. That gives Wilson 36 straight games with a touchdown pass, tying the all-time NCAA record. PSU 7, UW 7

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Wisconsin’s Montee Ball (28) runs into the end zone for an 18-yard touchdown run Saturday against Penn State in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin won 45-7 to advance to the Big Ten championship game.

run by Stephfon Green in the third quarter was wiped out by a chop block penalty. “I don’t know that I’ve been a part of a (snowball effect) like that since I’ve been back here,” said offensive coordinator Galen Hall, who took over the job before the 2004 season. Wisconsin (10-2, 6-2) outgained Penn State 450-233, racking up 264 yards on the ground. Montee Ball, a sure-fire AllAmerica selection at tailback, rushed for 156 and four touchdowns, the most given up by the Lions all year. Now comes the waiting game as the Lions lobby for inclusion in a bowl game that doesn’t have a different name every other year. “Hopefully,” Bradley said, “we’ll get one more game. And we won’t have to go out like Wisconsin’s Montee Ball (28) pushes into the end zone for a touchdown during the first half Satthis.” urday against Penn State in Madison, Wis.

UW -- Montee Ball 1-yard run (Welch kick), 14:57. Drive: 8 plays, 50 yards, 3:30. Comment: Things unravel quickly for the Lions after a strong start. Penn State gets good field position after the ensuing kickoff goes out of bounds, but Matt McGloin gives it back to the Badgers, throwing an interception to safety Shelton Johnson at midfield. It takes the Badgers just eight plays to turn it into another touchdown. Ball appears to have a 3-yard score just as time expires in the first quarter, but replay overturns it, making it first-andgoal inside the 1. The Badgers go right back to Ball after the break and punch it in on the next play. It is the 31st total touchdown of the year for Ball, putting him eight behind Barry Sanders’ NCAA single-season record. UW 14, PSU 7 UW -- Ball 2-yard run (Welch kick), 2:09. Drive: 11 plays, 83 yards, 5:41. Comment: Penn State’s sloppiest half of the season sees the Lions surrender 21 unanswered points nearing halftime at Camp Randall. Penalties, missed tackles and miscues on both sides of the ball culminate in another long drive for the Badgers before the break, capped off by Ball’s 32nd total touchdown of the season. Wilson in particular has tortured the Penn State defense, spinning out of some tackles and sprinting away from others to pick up first downs with his arm and his legs.But down near the goal line, it’s Ball again, as it has been all season long for the Badgers. UW 21, PSU 7 UW -- Nick Toon 4-yard pass from Wilson (Welch kick), 0:37. Drive: 6 plays, 31 yards, 1:26. Comment: The collapse continues as a short kickoff after the touchdown is fielded by fullback Michael Zordich. Wisconsin’s Conor O’Neill comes up with the strip and the recovery to give the Badgers the ball right back at the Lions 31. Wilson converts yet another big third down before a well-timed shovel pass give the Badgers a first-and-goal. The Lions look for Ball, but it’s Wilson dropping back instead, hitting Toon in the back of the end zone to signal the rout. UW 28, PSU 7

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UW -- Ball 9-yard run (Welch kick), 12:52. Drive: 3 plays, 46 yards, 1:24. Comment: The second half opens no better for the Lions, who fumble it away on their opening possession. Silas Redd smacks into the back of his own lineman, sending the ball flying into the air. Badgers linebacker Mike Taylor recovers at the Penn State 46 and the rout continues. Ball gets the ball inside the 10 again and meets little resistance from a beaten-down Lions defense, scoring his third touchdown of the game. That’s 33 on the season to put him in second place in NCAA history for a single season. UW 35, PSU 7. UW -- Ball 18-yard run (Welch kick), 4:09. Drive: 3 plays, 45 yards, 1:19. Comment: Fittingly, an 89-yard run by Stephfon Green is called back on a chop block penalty, and Penn State punts from its goal line to set up yet another Badgers score. Ball continues to pound away at the Lions defense, covering all 45 yards himself to pick up his fourth score of the game. The score puts him at 128 yards on the day, the most given up by the Lions to a single player all season. Make it 34 total scores. UW 42, PSU 7

FOURTH QUARTER

Wisconsin’s Russell Wilson (16) celebrates after Montee Ball (28) Ball rushed for a touchdown during the first half Saturday.

Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema talks to Penn State head coach Tom Bradley after Saturday’s game.

UW -- Welch 44-yard field goal, 10:47. Drive: 6 plays, 17 yards, 3:59. Comment: Penn State’s fourth turnover of the game -- a muffed punt by Drew Astorino -- leads to more points. Wisconsin was poised to make it four touchdowns following the four turnovers, but a holding call stalled the drive and forced the Badgers to settle for a long field goal through the rain. Wisconsin coaches are already drawing up plays for next week’s rematch against Michigan State in the Big Ten title game. UW 45, PSU 7

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL ROUNDUP

Tide rolls, awaits its fate

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AUBURN, Ala. — Trent Richardson and No. 2 Alabama turned the Iron Bowl into a statement game. Now, they’ll wait and see what happens in the national title and Heisman Trophy races. Richardson rushed for a career-high 203 yards and AJ McCarron threw three first-half touchdown passes to lift the Crimson Tide to a 42-14 victory over rival Auburn on Saturday. The Tide (11-1, 7-1 Southeastern Conference) has a week before finding out if its resume is good enough to secure a shot at a second national title in three years. No. 3 Oklahoma State and No. 1 LSU have big games remaining against No. 12 Oklahoma and No. 13 Georgia, respectively. Richardson ran 27 times and caught a 5-yard touchdown pass in his final chance to impress Heisman voters. He had runs of 35 and 57 yards to set up second-half scores. Fans began chanting first “Heisman” and then “LSU” in the fourth, with a sizable contingent wearing crimson and white remaining in the stands afterward clamoring for a rematch. By then, there wasn’t all that much orange and blue left. The Tide fell to LSU 9-6 in an overtime game that ‘Bama fans at least feel didn’t settle the matter of which one is better. It’s pretty clear who’s best in the state. In the end, the win might have given the Tide enough style points to hold onto No. 2 in the BCS rankings whatever happens next week. The Tide dominated statistically but didn’t put Auburn (7-5, 4-4) away until Dee Milliner’s 35-yard interception return early in the fourth quarter. Alabama entered the quarter with a 30944 advantage in total yards but also gave up touchdowns on a fumble recovery and a kick return. McCarron completed 18 of 23 passes for 184 yards but only attempted five second-half passes. Richardson handled the rest. He gained 142 yards on 13 carries in the second half against a defense ranked 98th nationally against the run. It was more than enough to end Auburn’s streak of 14 straight wins at Jordan-Hare Stadium. The Tigers’ biggest offensive weapons were mostly nonfactors. Tailback Mike Dyer, the SEC’s No. 2 rusher, had three carries at the half and finished with 13 for 48 yards. No. 6 Virginia Tech 38, No. 24 Virginia 0 CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Logan Thomas threw for two touchdowns and ran for one and David Wilson scored on two long runs in the second half as No. 6 Virginia Tech shut out No. 24 Virginia. The Hokies (11-1, 7-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) earned the league’s Coastal Division title and a rematch with No. 18 Clemson in next weekend’s ACC championship game in Charlotte. It was their eighth consecutive victory in the series, and 12th in 13 games. They will be playing for the ACC title for the fifth time and seeking their fourth title in five years. The Cavaliers (8-4, 5-3) had won four straight and seemed ready to finally challenge their state rival, but quarterback Michael Rocco threw two interceptions and fumbled it away once.

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Kansas, Missouri end 120-year Border War With Missouri headed to the Southeastern Conference, longstaning rivalry is over. The Associated Press

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Alabama running back Trent Richardson (3) leaps over Auburn defensive back Ryan Smith (24) in the first half Saturday at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala.

their first year as a member of the Mountain West Conference. Moore was 24-of-36 for 279 yards and he threw touchdowns of 17 and 10 yards in the second half. No. 9 Oregon 49, Oregon State 21 LaMichael James ran for 142 yards before leaving with what appeared to be a left elbow injury, and No. 9 Oregon beat Oregon State to clinch the Pac-12 North and a spot in the conference’s first championship game. The Ducks (10-2, 8-1 Pac-12) will host UCLA on Friday night with a chance to win their third straight conference title and a spot in the Rose Bowl. The Beavers (3-9, 3-6) aren’t going to a bowl game for the second straight season. James, who went into the 115th Civil War as the nation’s top rusher with an average of 142.78 yards per game, was hurt midway through the third when he was hit by Oregon State linebacker Tony Wilson.

No. 12 Oklahoma 26, Iowa St. 6 NORMAN, Okla. — Landry Jones threw for 256 yards, Blake Bell punched in two short touchdown runs and No. 12 Oklahoma set up a Bedlam showdown for the Big 12 championship by beating Iowa State. Trey Franks finished with 88 yards rushing on two long reverses to set up scores for the Sooners (9-2, 6-2 Big 12), and Michael Hunnicutt matched his career high with four field goals. No. 7 Boise State 36, Rebounding after allowing a Wyoming 14 school-record 616 yards allowed last week in a 45-38 loss at BayBOISE, Idaho — Kellen lor, Oklahoma held Iowa State Moore tossed three touchdown passes, including a 46-yarder on (6-5, 3-5) to a season-low 245 the final play of the first half, to yards and only let the Cyclones lead No. 7 Boise State to a victo- score after James Winchester’s snap sailed over the head of ry. After getting off to a sluggish punter Tress Way in the first quarter. start, Moore and the Broncos Oklahoma will visit No. 4 (10-1, 5-1) rattled off 36 straight points to put the game away and Oklahoma State next week with the winner earning the Big 12 secure a second-place finish in

title. No. 13 Georgia 31, No. 25 Georgia Tech 17 ATLANTA — Aaron Murray threw four touchdown passes and No. 13 Georgia extended its domination over No. 25 Georgia Tech. The Bulldogs (10-2) did not get caught looking past their state rival to next week’s return trip to Atlanta, when they will take a 10-game winning streak into the Southeastern Conference championship game against top-ranked LSU. No. 14 South Carolina 34, Clemson 13 COLUMBIA, S.C. — Connor Shaw threw for three touchdowns and ran for another to lead No. 14 South Carolina to a 10-win season for the first time in 27 years and its third straight victory over No. 18 Clemson, 34-13 on Saturday night. The Gamecocks (10-2) choked off Clemson’s once-high scoring offense, holding the Tigers (9-3) to 153 yards and Atlantic Coast Conference passing leader Tajh Boyd to 83 yards through the air. No. 21 Baylor 66, Texas Tech 42 ARLINGTON, Texas — Nick Florence threw two long touchdown passes after Robert Griffin was knocked out of the game and No. 21 Baylor extended its winning streak to four games with a 66-42 victory over Texas Tech on Saturday night. The Bears (8-3, 5-3 Big 12) went on to a record victory without Griffin, whose Heisman Trophy chances were dealt a blow. Connecticut 40, Rutgers 22 EAST HARTFORD, Conn. — Rutgers had a chance Saturday to win a share of its first Big East title, and stay in the hunt for a bid to a BCS bowl game. But the Scarlet Knights fumbled and threw it away, committing six turnovers in a loss to Connecticut. Running back Lyle McCombs and quarterback Scott McCum-

mings each ran for two touchdowns for UConn and Nick Williams had 158 return yards, setting up the Huskies in good field position all afternoon. Defensive tackle Kendall Reyes returned a Chas Dodd fumble for a touchdown as the Huskies forced six Rutgers turnovers. Cincinnati 30, Syracuse 13 SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Munchie Legaux threw for two touchdowns, one a short toss that Isaiah Pead turned into a backbreaking 69-yard score in the fourth quarter, and Tony Miliano kicked three field goals as Cincinnati beat Syracuse to remain in the running for the Big East title. It was the fourth straight loss for Syracuse (5-6, 1-5 Big East), which needs to win at Pittsburgh next week to become eligible for the postseason. North Carolina 37, Duke 21 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Dwight Jones had three touchdown catches while redshirt freshman Giovani Bernard ran for a season-high 165 yards and a score to help North Carolina beat Duke. Jones finished with 10 catches for 101 yards to set a school single-season record for receptions, while Bernard had a season-high 30 carries and finished with 222 total yards to lead the Tar Heels.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The jovial Kansas fan decked out in school colors of red and blue scooped a sizzling hamburger patty off the portable grill and dropped it onto the plate of a smiling fellow dressed in Missouri black and gold. Apparently, passions have cooled over 120 years. Fistfights broke out in the crowd in 1891 when Kansas and Missouri played their first football game. For the most part, good-natured jibes held sway during festive tailgating on Saturday when they played their last. “It’s a shame this rivalry has to end,” said 1976 Kansas grad Steve Billings as he slipped another patty onto the grill. “But we’ll just continue to hope they lose in the SEC and we’ll continue to build the Big 12.” When Missouri rallied for a 24-10 victory before a sparse crowd in Arrowhead Stadium, the nation’s second-oldest collegiate rivalry — and one of the most unique — came to what many consider a sad end. The Tigers, who have shared a conference with Kansas since 1907, are headed to the Southeastern Conference. They’ll likely make more money and no longer worry about Texas or Oklahoma breaking up the league and forcing them to go hat-in-hand to some other BCS conference. Kansas, without an invitation from another BCS conference when the Big 12 seemed on the brink of extinction both this year and last, is staying put. Though things seem settled down now, the Jayhawks down the road will still be subject to the whims of Big 12 powers Texas and Oklahoma, not knowing the security that will soon belong to Missouri. That Missouri was willing to leave them in the lurch is one reason Kansas has refused the Tigers’ offer to continue the rivalry in Kansas City on a nonconference basis. And that, to many Missourians, is one of the best things about leaving. They were wanted by another major conference, and Kansas was not. “Mizzou had to act in the best interests of Mizzou and that was going to the SEC, financially and athletically,” Missouri fan Michael Funk said. “But (the Big 12) has some stability now and I think KU should understand that.” As inflamed as emotions have always been in these parts,

LUCK ON STANFORD’S SIDE VS. N.D. STANFORD, Calif. — Andrew Luck set the school record for the most career touchdown passes and eclipsed his own single-season mark, throwing for 233 yards and four scores to lead fourth-ranked Stanford past No. 22 Notre Dame 28-14 in his home finale Saturday night. Luck topped John Elway’s record of 77 touchdown passes and helped the Cardinal (11-1) build a 21-0 halftime lead. He has thrown for 80 touchdowns in three years and 35 this season. Tommy Rees threw an interception, lost a fumble and took a bruising blow to the ribs for Notre Dame (8-4) before getting benched. Andrew Hendrix threw for 192 yards and a touchdown and ran for another score in a second-half rally for the Fighting Irish that came up short.

fans around the nation rarely paid much attention to KansasMissouri games. Unlike other long-running rivalries such as Alabama-Auburn and Michigan-Ohio State, the Jayhawks and Tigers were rarely very good. But that doesn’t mean people are happy to see the long rivalry end. “If you’ve got a 120-year-old tree in your backyard, do you chop it down and plant a sapling?” asked Amy Longstreet, a lifelong Kansas fan. Called for generations “the Border War,” the Kansas-Missouri rivalry actually did trace its roots to real bloodshed, the violent border clashes between free state Kansas and slave state Missouri in the 1850s and ‘60s. Marauding bands from Kansas known as Jayhawkers would make raids on towns in Missouri, which was protected by militia known as Missouri Tigers. William Quantrill’s raiders murdered more than 100 men and burned Lawrence, Kan., to the ground in 1863. Before that, a gang of Jayhawkers did the same to Oceola, Mo. The ensuing football series was so bitter, the two sides do not even agree on the overall record. Kansas claims victory in 1961 when it inflicted a loss that may have cost Missouri its only shot at a national championship. But Missouri claims victory because the Big Eight Conference said the Jayhawks used an ineligible player and ordered a forfeit. Longtime Missouri basketball coach Norm Stewart would never let his team stay in hotels on the Kansas side of the border.

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Missouri 24, Kansas 10 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — James Franklin rebounded from three early interceptions to toss two second-half touchdown passes, and Missouri rallied for victory in what could be the final edition of the 120-year-old Border War rivalry.

Denard Robinson, Michigan, accounted for five touchdowns and helped the No. 17 Wolverines beat Ohio State 40-34 and snap a school-record, seven-game losing streak in the rivalry. Kellen Moore, Boise State, threw three touchdown passes, including a last-ditch 46-yarder on the final play of the first half, to lead the No. 7 Broncos to a 36-14 victory over Wyoming. Aaron Murray, Georgia, threw four touchdown passes and the No. 13 Bulldogs extended their domination over No. 25 Georgia Tech, pulling away for a 31-17 victory. Mike Glennon, North Carolina State, threw for a career-high five touchdowns, ran for another score and led the Wolfpack’s rally from 27 points down in the second half to beat Maryland 56-41. D.J. Williams, Grambling State, threw three touchdowns to Mario Louis in a 36-12 victory over Southern University in the 38th annual Bayou Classic.

Mississippi State 31, Mississippi 3 STARKVILLE, Miss. — Vick Ballard rushed for 144 yards and scored two touchdowns, LaDarius Perkins added two more touchdowns and Mississippi State easily beat Mississippi in the Egg Bowl.

Kansas and Missouri’s 120-yearold football rivalry could be over. The “Border War,” as generations have called it, actually traces its roots to real bloodshed, the violent border clashes between free state Kansas and slave state Missouri in the 1850s and ‘60s. But all that history and tradition

END OF AN ERA

ground to a halt Saturday when the Jayhawks and Tigers met for the 120th time on a raw and windy day in Kansas City, where it began with that first game in 1891. Missouri is heading to the Southeastern Conference next season, leaving Kansas in the Big 12.

NUMBERS 26—Games of the losing streak to Tennessee snapped by Kentucky with a 10-7 victory over the Vols. 32—Touchdown passes by Georgia’s Aaron Murray this season, extending his own team record. 35—Points scored in the fourth quarter by North Carolina State in its 56-41 win over Maryland. 4,541—Career yards rushing by Western Kentucky’s Bobby Rainey, passing Lerron Moore on the school’s career list. Rainey’s 1,695 yards this season are also a school record.

ERICKSON’S FUTURE Dennis Erickson’s run in the desert could be nearing an end. The 64-year-old coach is planning to meet with Arizona State athletic director Lisa Love in the next few days to discuss his future with the program. Most indications are that Erickson’s five-year tenure will end after a monumental collapse by the Sun Devils. Once in control of the Pac-12 South, Arizona State lost its grip on the division and its season by losing its final four games.

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PENGUINS SUNDAY LAST FIVE GAMES

Nov. 19 at M’chester L, 4-3

Nov. 20 at Worcester L, 3-1

Wednesday Syracuse L, 7-5

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Saturday at B’hamton 7:05 p.m.

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Dec. 2 Portland 7:05 p.m.

Dec. 3 at Syracuse 7:30 p.m.

“BUT, ASIDE FROM the hockey background, the one thing we all have in common is that we’re proud of our fathers and their careers.”

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Philip Samuelsson of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins skates during the opening day of practice at Coal Street Park’s ice rink in September.

Just like dear old dad Defenseman Samuelsson hopes to follow in his father’s footsteps

muelsson has evolved into a reliable Samuelsson’s hockey path originatdefenseman, posting an impressive ed in Arizona while his father was an plus-7 rating in 16 games. assistant coach for the Phoenix In his first season as a pro, SamuelsCoyotes. He played on a youth hockey team sponsored by PF Chang’s, a Chi- son is also putting his childhood expeBy TOM VENESKY rience of growing up around the NHL nese restaurant chain, from 2006-08. Pittsburgh. Ulf Samuelsson has a tvenesky@timesleader.com “It became one of my favorite restau- to use as well. wealth of hockey knowledge – one that It’s something that Penguins head Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Philip has at his disposal whenever it’s rants. They gave the players a discount coach John Hynes has noticed. on the lettuce wraps,” Samuelsson defenseman Philip Samuelsson is in a needed. “You can see that Philip has comes said. unique position as he tries to follow “He watches all of my games and from that (NHL) backGood food aside, the career path blazed by his father, gives me his opinion. I like getting that ground where his dad has Samuelsson is one of long-time NHLer Ulf Samuelsson. feedback, not that I don’t get it from played a long time. He nine players from his PF “Playing in the NHL is But he’s not alone. the coaching staff here,” Philip Sahas hunger, and he underChang’s team to go on Along the way Samuelsson, 20, has muelsson said. “It’s good to have anmy ultimate goal, and to play Division I colhad several teammates following the other set of eyes focusing on you.” being able to do it with stands there’s a process for him to become a same road. He played with Dean CheSamuelsson was born in Sweden but lege hockey. Pittsburgh would mean a full-time player,” Hynes After his youth hocklios (son of Chris Chelios) in juniors, spent most of his childhood growing lot because of the histo- said. “That comes from ey days, Samuelsson and Ryan Bourque (son of Ray Bourup around the NHL rinks where his some of his childhood spent a season playing que), John Ramage (son of Rob Ramfather played. He hung out in NHL ry with my dad.” and some of the mentorjunior hockey for the age) and Jarred Tinordi (son of Mark locker rooms, rubbing elbows with Philip Samuelsson ship he gets from his Chicago Steel in United Tinordi) with the U.S. National Prostars such as Mario Lemieux, Jaromir dad.” States Hockey League, gram. Jagr, Alexei Kovalev and Nicklas LidAlthough Samuelsson’s game is played in two international tourna“We’re all just fathers and sons like strom while his father carved out an different from his father’s physical ments with the United States and everyone else,” Philip Samuelsson NHL career that encompassed 1,080 style, he doesn’t ignore the similarities Sweden (he has dual citizenship) and said. games and more than 2,400 penalty between the two. His father was also a was a defenseman for Boston College But they did have a little fun with it. minutes. defenseman who wore No. 5 and the last two seasons before earning a “We would kind of give each other a A delicious start played for the Pittsburgh organization. spot with Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. hard time if there was a certain game But there is one more similarity that In just a few short years, Samuelswhere one of the dad’s was better than But Samuelsson was never presthe younger Samuelsson says would be the other,” Samuelsson added. “But, sured to follow in his father’s footsteps son has suited up for two countries, aside from the hockey background, the or even become a hockey player. It was four teams and three different leagues. the biggest of all: To wear a No. 5 And he gained a ton of experience in Pittsburgh jersey with the Samuelsson one thing we all have in common is a decision that he made when he was name on the back. the process. that we’re proud of our fathers and 14. “Playing in the NHL is my ultimate “I’ve been able to take some things their careers.” “That’s when I decided to give hockgoal, and being able to do it with Pittsfrom each coach I’ve played for and And now Samuelsson is part of the ey a serious go and start training in burgh would mean a lot because of the adapt it into my game,” Samuelsson next generation working to get his the summers and developing my history with my dad,” Samuelsson said. “Just having those different perfamily’s name on the back of an NHL game,” Samuelsson said. “There was said. “And to be able to wear his numspectives from each coach has been jersey again. no pressure from my family to play ber while playing for Pittsburgh… that huge for my development.” His father played in the NHL for 16 hockey, but when I chose to do so my His development is continuing with would truly be a special moment for seasons (1984-2000) and won two dad has always been willing to help as me.” Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, where SaStanley Cups during his five years with much as possible.”

Forward – John Tavares (N.Y. Islanders), “He’s my workout buddy in the summer and he has great skills.” Defenseman – Zdeno Chara (BosTavares ton) Goaltender – Jonas Hiller (Anaheim), “I’ve seen him play and he’s very quick. Plus, it looks like he has fun in there.” Power Play Specialist – John Tavares (N.Y. Islanders) Penalty Kill Specialist – Ryan Kesler (Vancouver), “He works hard and I like the way he plays.” Shootout Specialist – Wojtek Wolski (N.Y. Rangers), “He went 9-for-9 one year.” Enforcer – Steve MacIntyre (Pittsburgh), “He was amazing when he was down here, and he’s a really good guy.” Honorable mention – Bob Probert (Detroit, Chicago), “My favorite player growing up.” Agitator/Pest – P.K. Subban (Montreal), “He’s the ultimate agitator right now.” Head Coach – Mike Babcock (Detroit), “I don’t know him but he seems like a very good coach.” All-Time Great – Steve Yzerman (Detroit), “He was the ultimate everything – a team leader, could score, pass, hit and played hurt. Whatever you needed he did it, and he’s definitely someone you’d want on your team.” -- Tom Venesky

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Hotham’s night powers Nailers Defenseman Andrew Hotham, who spent time in Wilkes-Barre/ Scranton’s training camp, ha a four-point night Friday as Wheeling defeated Gwinnett, 5-1. Hotham registered two goals and two assists on the night. Chris Barton scored his team-leading 12th goal of the season to extend his point scoring streak to 10 games. On Saturday, the Nailers lost to Gwinnett 3-1. Cody Chupp scored the only goal for the Nailers, his fifth of the season. Wheeling remains in first place in the Atlantic Division with a 10-5-0-0 record and 20 points. --Tom Venesky

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BIG TEN ROUNDUP

Wolverines finally snap their record skid BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Ralph Bolden scored one touchdown, Caleb TerBush threw for another and Carson Wiggs made three field goals Saturday to lead Purdue past Indiana for the Old Oaken Bucket. The victory makes Purdue (6-6, 4-4 Big Ten) bowl-eligible for the first time under coach Danny Hope. But the Boilermakers are not guaranteed a bowl spot because 10 Big Ten teams are eligible for the league’s eight bowl berths. The milestone victory also was tarnished by a third-quarter injury to Bolden, who appeared to injure his right knee and did not finish the game. School officials did not immediately provide an update on Bolden’s condition. Indiana (1-11, 0-8) finished the season on a nine-game losing streak and is the only BCS conference team not to beat a Football Bowl Subdivision foe.

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Denard Robinson danced with his feet and dazzled with his arm, giving Michigan an edge at quarterback against Ohio State. Finally. Robinson accounted for five touchdowns, helping the 17thranked Wolverines beat the Buckeyes 40-34 on Saturday and snap a record seven-game losing streak against their archrival. He ran left, right and center, using his speed to blow past Buckeyes, juke moves to slip tackles and sacks and even showed some power when an extra yard was needed. The star quarterback had a chance to leave college football’s winningest program when the spread coach he came to play for — Rich Rodriguez — was fired in January. This victory made it all worthwhile. “I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else except with these guys,” Robinson said. “I’m glad I stayed.” And, coach Brady Hoke is happy he was given a chance to come back to Ann Arbor, where he was an assistant. “I got the best job in the world,” Hoke said. Former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel used to think the same thing, especially when he made the Wolverines a target and beat them regularly when they were led by Lloyd Carr and Rodriguez. Tressel was forced to resign nearly six months ago in the wake of a cash-for-Buckeyes memorabilia scandal that also led to quarterback Terrelle Pryor bolting for the NFL and several other players serving multiple-game suspensions in what became the program’s worst season on the field since 1999. The Buckeyes are led by interim coach Luke Fickell — for now — but Tressel addressed his former players Friday before they boarded busses in Columbus, Ohio. “To be able to see him again, I think it definitely got us pumped up,” Ohio State center Mike Brewster said. The Buckeyes got off to a great start, scoring first on Braxton Miller’s 54-yard pass to Corey Brown and holding Robinson to a three-and-out drive. Ohio State led twice more in the first half and had a 24-23 advantage at the break. After the Wolverines went ahead 30-24 on Robinson’s 20-yard

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Michigan running back Fitzgerald Toussaint (28) rushes ahead of Ohio State linebacker Etienne Sabino (6) in the fourth quarter Saturday in Ann Arbor, Mich. Michigan won 40-34.

pass to Martavious Odoms to open the second half, Ohio State pulled within three points early in the fourth and again midway through the fourth quarter. Michigan (10-2, 6-2 Big Ten) was forced to settle for a sixpoint lead with 1:59 left on Brendan Gibbons’ career-long 43yard field goal after two apparent TDs were negated by a video review and then penalties. The Buckeyes (6-6, 3-5) had the ball once more at their 20 with 1:59 left. “I thought we had a chance,” Miller said. They did. But Miller sailed a pass over Deviser Posey’s head on what could’ve been a 76-yard TD, spiked the ball to stop the clock on third down with 45 seconds left — because he said the coaches told him to — then threw a loss-sealing interception to Courtney Avery. “It’s a weird feeling,” Pose said. “We’re not really used to it.” No. 11 Michigan State 31, Northwestern 17 EVANSTON, Ill. — Keshawn Martin returned a punt 57 yards

for a touchdown just before halftime and Kirk Cousins threw two TD passes to B.J. Cunningham as No. 11 Michigan State warmed up for next week’s Big Ten championship game by beating Northwestern. The Spartans had already wrapped up the Legends Division title and a berth in the league championship game next week. Now they have the best record in the division, as well, and 10 victories overall (10-2, 7-1). Cousins threw a 33-yarder to Cunningham in the third quarter and hit him again on a juggling 29-yard TD pass with 5:17 left to complete a 93-yard drive. It was the 62nd career touchdown pass for Cousins, breaking the school record held by Jeff Smoker (61). Northwestern (6-6, 3-5) had its four-game winning streak snapped in the regular-season finale and now hopes for a bowl bid. The Wildcats closed to 24-17 early in the final quarter on Dan Persa’s 12-yard TD pass to Demetrius Fields, set up by a clutch fourth-down pass from Persa to Jeremy Ebert. The Wildcats got the ball

back at the MSU 47, but a holding penalty and Jerel Worthy’s sack of Persa forced a punt and then MSU went on its long, game-clinching drive. Martin sprinted in on his 57-yard punt return with 34 seconds left in the half as Michigan State scored two touchdowns in the final 1:40 of the second quarter and took a 17-3 lead at the intermission. With the score tied at 3-3, Northwestern was driving when Treyvon Green fumbled after a hit by Max Bullough and Michigan State’s Denzel Drone reco-

vered at the Spartan 3 with just more than five minutes left in the half. Northwestern called a timeout — presumably to have the play reviewed — but Michigan State retained possession. MSU then took off on a 97yard drive — Cousins hit Brian Linthicum for 15 yards and heaved a 46-yarder to Martin that carried to the NU 7. Le’Veon Bell then carried the final 7 yards for a TD, completing an eight-play march that put the Spartans up 10-3. Purdue 33, Indiana 25

Minnesota 27, Illinois 7 MINNEAPOLIS — MarQueis Gray rushed for 167 yards and two touchdowns and threw for another score, guiding Minnesota past backsliding Illinois in the season finale and sending the Fighting Illini to their sixth straight defeat. Gray took off 27 times to break the single-season rushing record for a Golden Gophers quarterback, giving him 966 yards. Billy Cockerham had 831 yards rushing in 1999. Troy Pollard’s 11-yard touchdown run in the third quarter was the only highlight for the Illini (6-6, 2-6 Big Ten), who wasted their best start in 60 years and put coach Ron Zook’s job in obvious danger. Nathan Scheelhaase, who was 4-for-6 for 15 yards in a time share with Reilly O’Toole, lost a costly fumble on one of his five sacks.

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Friday into Saturday, Stern accepted some congratulations, headed for another short night of sleep, then planned to brief his owners on a deal that could change the way they do business. Players, looking beat and beaten, face a tougher healing process in approving an agreement that significantly limits their earnings. First, players must drop a lawsuit against the league, reform their disbanded union and approve the handshake deal that was reached shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday. Players’ association executives Derek Fisher and Maurice Evans hardly looked enthused about the agreement as they sat next to executive director Billy Hunter on the same side of a conference table as Stern, Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver and Spurs owner Peter Holt, the chairman of the league’s labor relations committee. But at least they weren’t sitting in a courtroom, where they appeared headed less than two weeks earlier. Just 12 days after talks broke down and Stern declared the NBA could be headed to a “nuclear winter,” he sat next to Hunter to announce the 10-year deal, with either side able to opt out after the sixth year. Owners relented slightly on their previous insistence that players receive no more than 50 percent of basketball-related income after they were guaranteed 57 percent in the old collective bargaining agreement. The target is still a 50-50 split, but with a band from 49 percent to 51 percent that gives the players a better chance of reaching the highest limit than previously proposed. Owners were warned on a conference call Friday night that a deal did not seem imminent, a person briefed on the details told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the information. Then, shortly past 3 a.m., many league officials received an e-mail from Silver saying they had a deal — news that apparently caught many off guard. Silver’s e-mail, the person said, did not contain any specifics about the terms of the tentative agreement. Those details were expected to be provided on a late-afternoon conference call of the labor relations committee Saturday. The agenda was expected to include when franchises may begin contacting their players again and when team facilities could reopen in advance of training camps. Stern said he expects the labor committee to endorse the deal and recommend it to the full board. The players’ side has revealed little of its feelings about the deal, noting the pending antitrust litigation in its desire for keeping details quiet. But players always preferred to be on the court, rather than in it, and now they finally have the chance. “I think it was the ability of the parties to decide it was necessary to compromise and to kind of put this thing back together in some kind of way, to put an end to the litigation and everything that that entails,” Hunter said. Players filed an amended antitrust lawsuit in Minnesota on Monday that could have earned the players billions but surely would have come at the cost of at least the entire 2011-12 season. Both sides said all along the only way to a deal was through negotiating. They got back together Tuesday, setting the way for the pivotal meeting that began Friday. “I think we saw a willingness of both sides to compromise yet a little more and to reach this agreement,” Silver said. “We look forward to opening on Christmas Day and we are excited to bring NBA basketball back and that’s most important.” Both sides are expected to OK the pact, which would pave the way for training camps and free agency to open simultaneously Dec. 9. President Barack Obama gave a thumbs-up when told about the tentative settlement after he finished playing basketball at Fort McNair in Washington on Saturday morning.

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Christian Niccum and Jayson Terdiman from the United States, from left, speed down the course during their first run at the men’s luge World Cup doubles race in Igls, near Innsbruck, Austria, on Saturday.

Berwick racer sixth at opener Jayson Terdiman and partner to do a little more work to get Christian Niccum are the top people faster." Peter Penz and Georg Fisdoubles team for the U.S. chler won the men’s doubles in 1 Staff and wire services

IGLS, Austria — Berwick native Jayson Terdiman and his USA Luge doubles partner Christian Niccum placed sixth at the season-opening World Cup meet on Saturday. The duo was fourth after their first run, which they completed in 39.638 seconds. They fell to sixth with a disappointing second run. "There were some small mistakes made today," United States head coach Mark Grimmette said to USA Luge’s website. "Erin (Hamlin, the top women’s singles luger) had a couple in her runs, and Christian had trouble in the labyrinth in the first run and up top, also. "Our team was really anxious this week to get racing. We need

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with a second-place finish and a silver medal. Traveling as a member of Team USA, Ciravolo mentioned that she was grateful for their help in making the trip possible, from aiding with the financial and paperwork side of things to planning a vast majority of the trip. Upon her arrival, Ciravolo was amazed by the lengths the people of China went to in order to make the event one to remember. “Two days before the race, there was a parade of nations through the city of Beijing,” Ciravolo said. “There were thousands of athletes and spectators that marched through the streets before converging on one of the Olympic arenas from 2008. It was just like the Olympics, but miniature. The ceremony was really something.” Before becoming completely acclimated to the 12-hour time difference, Ciravolo found time to do some sightseeing and managed to hike the Great Wall on just her second day in China. Freedom restricted While in China, Ciravolo did

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Filatov skated in on net, made a few dekes and faked a shot before Munroe calmly made the save to thwart a tie and a huge Binghamton momentum gain. “I just stayed patient with him (Filatov) and I was able to stay with it,” Munroe said. “If that goes in it’s a totally different hockey game.” But the Senators did manage to tie things up after defenseman

minute, 19.099 seconds. The Austrians, who led after the first heat, defeated Vladislav Yuzhakov and Vladimir Makhnutin of Russia by 0.076. Double Olympic champions Andreas and Wolgang Linger of Austria were seventh after the opening run but were fastest in the second run to finish third in 1:19.187. Niccum and Terdiman are sixth in the overall World Cup standings. The tour moves to Whistler, B.C., next week for training on the 2010 Olympic track, followed by World Cup series races Dec. 2-3 at that location. "Christian and Jayson are right there,” Grimmette said. “They’ve got good speed.” Terdiman was a junior doubles bronze medalist for the 2007 season with then-partner

notice many differences between their society and that of our own. She was unable to access her account on Facebook and a lot of other websites that she would normally have access to while at home because the Chinese government actually prohibits them. This made her iPad all the more valuable, as it became a vital tool for talking to her family back home in the United States. “I had an iPad, so I was able to use Skype,” Ciravolo said. “This was very important because my mother was home with my 2-year-old, whom I missed so much. We were able to talk pretty much every day.” Ciravolo also observed how tight security was while they were in the foreign land, being scanned with metal detectors before even boarding the bus prior to the opening and closing ceremonies. Once the day of her triathlon finally arrived, Ciravolo was more than ready to take on the three-headed beast, which consisted of a .9-mile swim, a bike ride that stretches roughly 25 miles and a 6.2-mile run. “It was really something to be surrounded by the greatest athletes from all over the world,” Ciravolo said. “And the fact that not all of them spoke English made it really neat.” Ciravolo further described Alexandre Picard was whistled for tripping, giving Binghamton its third consecutive power play. Senators’ defenseman Josh Godfrey sent a shot in from the point that made its way through traffic and past Munroe to even things at 2-2. Despite the goal, the Penguins were able to withstand a persistent Binghamton attack in the first five minutes of the third period. The Senators generated plenty of chances despite missing several veterans due to injury. “They were playing a little shorthanded but they have a ton

"Christian and Jayson are right there. They’ve got good speed.”

Chris Mazdzer. Olympic luge champion Tatjana Huefner beat Anke Wischnewski in a 1-2 German finish in the women’s race. Mark Huefner Grimmette U.S. luge coach won seven of nine races last season in capturing her fourth overall World Cup title. She had the fastest time in both runs and finished in 1 minute, 19.353 seconds to top Wischnewski by 0.201. Alex Gough of Canada was another 0.074 back in third and former world champion Hamlin of the U.S. was seventh, 0.574 behind Huefner. The World Cup meet ends with a men’s singles and a team relay event Sunday.

the metrics of her triathlon course, stating that with international Olympic racing, a lot of the courses are multiple laps of the bike and the run. This means that instead of completing the bike and run course once, she had to complete three loops on each. While the swim is admittedly not her best leg of the triathlon, Ciravolo was able to exit the water in fifth place. With the knowledge that she has a certain knack for coming from behind and that the run is her best leg, Ciravolo felt that she was in a good spot. Overcoming pain The second leg of the triathlon was the bike portion. Taking the first lap a little easy in order to get used to the technicality of the bike course, Ciravolo began cruising on the second lap and her confidence started to grow. On the third lap, she came across a major setback when her bike flew out from under her, causing her to soar across the road where she landed on her left hip and arm. “I don’t know whether it was overconfidence or if I just slipped on something,” Ciravolo said. “The Chinese people that were volunteering were screaming for an ambulance and I thought to myself that my family, sponsors and coaches were all watching

Luge World Cup Results Saturday At Igls, Austria Men Doubles 1. Peter Penz and Georg Fischler, Austria, 1 minute, 19.099 seconds (39.486-39.613). 2. Vladislav Yuzhakov and Vladimir Makhnutin, Russia, 1:19.175 (39.543-39.632). 3. Andreas Linger and Wolfgang Linger, Austria, 1:19.187 (39.664-39.523). 4. Tobias Wendl and Tobias Artl, Germany, 1:19.266 (39.569-39.697). 5. Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken, Germany, 1:19.282 (39.642-39.640). 6. Christian Niccum and Jayson Terdiman, United States, 1:19.361 (39.638-39.723). 7. Ivan Nevmerzhitskiy and Vladimir Prokhorov, Russia, 1:19.418 (39.677-39.741). 8. Ludwig Rieder and Patrick Rastner, Italy, 1:19.437 (39.713-39.724). 9. Tristan Walker and Justin Snith, Canada, 1:19.456 (39.644-39.812). 10. Christian Oberstolz and Patrick Gruber, Italy, 1:19.472 (39.710-39.762). Also 11. Matthew Mortensen and Preston Griffall, United States, 1:19.486 (39.727-39.759). Doubles Standings (After one of nine races) 1. Peter Penz and Georg Fischler, Austria, 100 points. 2. Vladislav Yuzhakov and Vladimir Makhnutin, 85. 3. Andreas Linger and Wolfgang Linger, Austria, 70. 4. Tobias Wendl and Tobias Artl, Germany, 60. 5. Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken, Germany, 55. 6. Christian Niccum and Jayson Terdiman, United States, 50. 7. Ivan Nevmerzhitskiy and Vladimir Prokhorov, Russia, 46. 8. Ludwig Rieder and Patrick Rastner, Italy, 42. 9. Tristan Walker and Justin Snith, Canada, 39. 10. Christian Oberstolz and Patrick Gruber, Italy, 36. Also 11. Matthew Mortensen and Preston Griffall, United States, 34. 22. Shane Hook and Zachary Clark, United States, 19.

back home. Ending my race just wasn’t an option.” Despite the pain radiating from her leg after the wreck, Ciravolo put together a solid run during the third leg of the triathlon and ended up with the second fastest female run of the day, just 20 seconds behind the winner of the event. While reflecting on her experiences in China, Ciravolo mentioned that she wouldn’t mind returning someday. However, there are a few more stops that she wants to make first. “The thing is, ITU Worlds changes every year, so although I would go back to China, I’m looking forward to New Zealand in 2012,” Ciravolo said. More recently, Ciravolo competed in the New York City Marathon and finished as the 42nd overall female in a field of more than 47,000 participants in a time of 2:56:30. “I always see room for improvement and I like to test myself,” Ciravolo said. “That was my goal for this whole season. I wanted to go for more aggressive races, more elite races and just more races in general. I’m really passionate about it and so I like to keep improving as I get older.” “Next year (in New Zealand), I hope to go for gold. That’s my main goal.”

of skill and speed,” Munroe said. “They were coming at us hard and we kind of weathered the storm.” It wasn’t until 13 minutes later that Philip Samuelsson sent in a shot from up top that DeFazio deflected to give the Penguins a 3-2 lead that would stick. “We did enough to win the game,” said head coach John Hynes. “There’s certain elements I’d like to see more of, but we played well enough to win which is the most important thing.” NOTES

- C Zach Sill was scratched for Saturday’s game. Coach John Hynes said Sill doesn’t have a serious injury and could return for Tuesday’s game or by the weekend. Penguins 3, Binghamton 2 Penguins .................................................... 2 0 1 — 3 Senators ..................................................... 1 0 1 — 2 First Period Scoring – 1. WBS, Bryan Lerg 9 (Samuelsson, McDonald) 4:37. 2. BNG, David Dziurzynski 1 (Petersson, Wiercioch) 7:18. 3. WBS, Colin McDonald 5 (Street, Dimitrakos) power play 13:39. Penalties – BNG, Grant (hooking) 11:50; BNG, Dziurzynski (boarding) 13:26; WBS, Mormina (hooking) 15:58. Second Period Scoring – None. Penalties – BNG, Hamilton (cross-checking) 1:29; WBS, Sneep (holding) 10:15; WBS, Picard (interference) 18:36. Third Period Scoring – 4. BNG, Josh Godfrey (1 (unassisted) power play 3:41. Penalties – WBS, Picard (trip-

MADISON, Wis. — Penn State assistant coach Jay Paterno says his father is handling lung cancer treatments “very well.” Former Nittany Lions head coach Joe Paterno was diagnosed with a treatable form of lung cancer during a follow-up visit for a bronchial illness earlier this month. After Saturday’s 45-7 loss at Wisconsin, Jay Paterno said his father is “going through treatments” and “handling it very well.” The family has requested privacy, saying doctors are optimistic the 84-year-old Paterno will make a full recovery. School trustees fired Joe Paterno on Nov. 9 in the aftermath of child sex abuse charges against former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky.

WORLD CUP SKIING

Switzerland’s Cuche wins men’s downhill The Associated Press

LAKE LOUISE, Alberta — Didier Cuche won the downhill season-opener Saturday, giving Switzerland a 1-2 finish in the World Cup race at Lake Louise. The 37-year-old Cuche finished in 1 minute, 47.28 seconds. He also won at Lake Louise in 2009. “Actually, I always struggle to be fast here in Lake Louise, especially in the downhill,” Cuche said. “I was on the podium three or four times in the super-G, but before the win two years ago I was maybe once top five. It’s a hard course to be fast. You need to attack. You need to glide. You need find a good mix between pushing hard and letting the ski goes. Today, I think I had a lot of help with my skis and my material.” Beat Feuz was second in 1:47.34, and Austria’s Hannes Reichelt was third in 1:47.36. “It’s one race where the Swiss guys are better,” Reichelt said. “We’ll try tomorrow, or at Beaver Creek (next week), to kick the Swiss off the podium.” Bode Miller was the top American, finishing ninth in 1:48.01. Marco Sullivan was 24th, Travis Ganong 27th, Erik Fisher 35th, Wiley Maple 38th and Andrew Weibrecht 51st. Ryan Cochran-Siegle crashed in his first World Cup start. A super-G is scheduled for Sunday. What keeps Cuche going is driving across the finish line to see his name light up in green letters at the top of the leaderboard, instead of red letters below. “If it’s green, it’s perfect,” said Cuche, the defending downhill and super-G season champion. “If it’s red, you start to focus on the next day and hope you get the green light.” Cuche is a hero to Feuz. “He’s the old guy and I’m the young guy so we complete each other,” the 24-year-old Feuz said. “Of course he’s a ski legend and a great guy and to be second behind him, it gives an even sweeter taste to my podium finish.”

ping) 1:44; WBS, Bortuzzo (boarding) 17:10; BNG, Gryba (roughing) 17:10; BNG, Filatov (misconduct) 20:00. Penalty shot – BNG, Filatov – (NG) :45. Shots on goal Penguins – 12-11-4-27Binghamton – 6-11-1330 Power-play Opportunities Penguins – 1 of 3 Binghamton – 1 of 4 Goaltenders Penguins – Scott Munroe 2-1-2 (28 saves-30 shots) Binghamton – Robin Lehner 4-8-1 (24-27) Starters Penguins – G Scott Munroe, D Robert Bortuzzo, D Alexandre Picard, LW Nick Petersen, C Ben Street, RW Niko Dimitrakos Binghamton – G Robin Lehner, D Mark Borowiecki, D Eric Gryba, LW Andre Petersson, C Pat cannone, RW David Diziurzynski Three Stars 1. WBS, Brandon DeFazio (game-winning goal) 2. WBS, Philip Samuelsson (two assists) 3. WBS, Colin McDonald (goal, assist) Referee – Jon McIsaac. Linesmen – Andy Petrus, Jameel Chaudry Attendance – 4,037

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Quarterbacks Att Com Yds TD Int Brady, NWE .............. 387 253 3266 25 10 Schaub, HOU............ 292 178 2479 15 6 Roethlisberger, PIT.. 354 224 2877 16 9 Mat. Moore, MIA ....... 219 138 1607 8 5 Hasselbeck, TEN ..... 337 206 2357 14 8 J. Campbell, OAK .... 165 100 1170 6 4 Fitzpatrick, BUF ........ 330 210 2285 16 14 Rivers, SND .............. 383 237 3023 15 17 Sanchez, NYJ ........... 338 193 2333 14 10 Dalton, CIN................ 332 197 2239 15 12 Rushers Att Yds Avg LG TD Jones-Drew, JAC ....... 212 941 4.44 41 5 F. Jackson, BUF ......... 170 934 5.49 80t 6 A. Foster, HOU ........... 171 740 4.33 42t 6 R. Rice, BAL................ 179 722 4.03 59 8 Be. Tate, HOU ............ 122 686 5.62 27t 3 McGahee, DEN .......... 139 658 4.73 60t 3 Benson, CIN ............... 167 634 3.80 39t 4 D. McFadden, OAK.... 113 614 5.43 70t 4 M. Bush, OAK ............. 139 599 4.31 44 5 Ry. Mathews, SND ..... 130 580 4.46 36 3 Receivers No Yds Avg LG TD Welker, NWE .............. 74 1028 13.9 99t 6 B. Marshall, MIA......... 59 850 14.4 46 3 R. Gronkowski, NWE 56 805 14.4 52t 10 R. Rice, BAL ............... 54 537 9.9 52 2 M. Wallace, PIT.......... 53 922 17.4 95t 6 Bowe, KAN.................. 48 750 15.6 52t 4 Boldin, BAL ................. 48 747 15.6 56 3 N. Washington, TEN.. 48 616 12.8 57 4 St. Johnson, BUF ....... 46 547 11.9 52 4 A. Brown, PIT ............. 44 626 14.2 32 1 Punters No Yds LG Avg Lechler, OAK....................... 50 2558 77 51.2 Moorman, BUF .................... 44 2185 66 49.7 Scifres, SND........................ 30 1462 71 48.7 Fields, MIA........................... 52 2528 70 48.6 B. Colquitt, DEN.................. 59 2849 66 48.3 McAfee, IND ........................ 59 2796 64 47.4 Koch, BAL ............................ 53 2478 62 46.8 D. Colquitt, KAN.................. 55 2544 68 46.3 Punt Returners No Yds Avg LG TD Arenas, KAN................. 20 296 14.8 37 0 Edelman, NWE ............ 17 219 12.9 72t 1 Jac. Jones, HOU ......... 27 308 11.4 79t 1 Mariani, TEN ................ 23 254 11.0 79t 1 A. Brown, PIT ............... 24 265 11.0 41 0 Bess, MIA ..................... 24 264 11.0 22 0 Cosby, DEN.................. 18 196 10.9 30 0 Br. Tate, CIN................. 37 376 10.2 56t 1 Kickoff Returners No Yds Avg LG TD McKnight, NYJ........... 22 795 36.1 107t 1 Da. Reed, BAL ........... 16 457 28.6 77 0 Cribbs, CLE................ 20 561 28.1 63 0 A. Brown, PIT............. 19 528 27.8 52 0 D. Manning, HOU ...... 13 356 27.4 46 0 R. Goodman, SND .... 21 553 26.3 44 0 Mariani, TEN .............. 16 410 25.6 49 0 Br. Tate, CIN .............. 23 559 24.3 45 0 Scoring Touchdowns TD Rush Rec Ret Pts R. Gronkowski, NWE .......................... 10 0 10 0 60 R. Rice, BAL ............. 10 8 2 0 60 Decker, DEN ............ 8 0 7 1 48 A. Foster, HOU ........ 8 6 2 0 48 V. Jackson, SND ..... 7 0 7 0 42 Burress, NYJ ............ 6 0 6 0 36 M. Bush, OAK .......... 6 5 1 0 36 Chandler, BUF.......... 6 0 6 0 36 A.. Green, CIN ......... 6 0 6 0 36 F. Jackson, BUF ...... 6 6 0 0 36 Kicking PAT FG LG Pts Cundiff, BAL ................... 27-27 25-31 51 102 Gostkowski, NWE ......... 33-33 18-21 50 87 Rackers, HOU................ 30-31 19-22 54 87 Novak, SND ................... 21-21 19-22 52 78 Nugent, CIN ................... 24-25 18-19 48 78 Janikowski, OAK............ 25-25 16-18 63 73 Suisham, PIT.................. 24-24 16-21 48 72 D. Carpenter, MIA ......... 14-14 18-22 51 68

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Quarterbacks Att Com Yds TD Int A. Rodgers, GBY...... 361 260 3475 33 4 Brees, NOR............... 422 299 3326 23 11 Romo, DAL................ 380 245 3026 21 9 E. Manning, NYG ..... 355 220 2952 18 9 Ale. Smith, SNF........ 298 186 2116 13 5 Stafford, DET ............ 443 276 3119 26 13 Cutler, CHI ................ 314 182 2319 13 7 M. Ryan, ATL ............ 360 219 2625 15 10 McNabb, MIN............ 156 94 1026 4 2 C. Newton, CAR ....... 365 219 2885 12 14 Rushers Att Yds Avg LG TD L. McCoy, PHL.......... 188 1019 5.42 60 10 Forte, CHI .................. 186 926 4.98 46 3 Gore, SNF ................. 203 909 4.48 55 5 M. Turner, ATL.......... 200 888 4.44 61 8 A. Peterson, MIN ...... 186 872 4.69 54 11 Murray, DAL .............. 147 834 5.67 91t 2 S. Jackson, STL........ 155 749 4.83 47t 4 B. Wells, ARI ............. 154 621 4.03 39 7 M. Lynch, SEA .......... 156 595 3.81 47 6 J. Starks, GBY .......... 124 560 4.52 40 1 Receivers No Yds Avg LG TD Ca. Johnson, DET ..... 63 1023 16.2 73t 12 J. Graham, NOR ........ 62 873 14.1 59 6 Sproles, NOR ............. 60 448 7.5 36 3 G. Jennings, GBY ...... 58 835 14.4 79t 8 St. Smith, CAR ........... 56 992 17.7 77t 5 Witten, DAL................. 56 713 12.7 64 5 R. White, ATL ............. 54 710 13.1 43 3 Pettigrew, DET ........... 54 462 8.6 27 3 T. Gonzalez, ATL ....... 50 561 11.2 30 7 F. Davis, WAS ............ 49 639 13.0 40 2 Punters No Yds LG Avg A. Lee, SNF ......................... 53 2695 68 50.8 J. Ryan, SEA ....................... 63 3067 77 48.7 Morstead, NOR................... 31 1493 64 48.2 Weatherford, NYG .............. 55 2566 61 46.7 McBriar, DAL....................... 38 1754 68 46.2 Koenen, TAM....................... 47 2146 65 45.7 Rocca, WAS ........................ 44 2000 63 45.5 Masthay, GBY ..................... 36 1636 67 45.4 Zastudil, ARI........................ 48 2156 63 44.9 Punt Returners No Yds Avg LG TD D. Hester, CHI.............. 17 361 21.2 82t 2 P. Peterson, ARI.......... 27 463 17.1 99t 3 Cobb, GBY ................... 20 255 12.8 80t 1 L. Washington, SEA.... 28 336 12.0 37 0 Banks, WAS.................. 25 296 11.8 55 0 Ginn Jr., SNF ............... 31 354 11.4 55t 1 Weems, ATL ................ 19 188 9.9 37 0 Sherels, MIN ................ 24 232 9.7 53 0 Sproles, NOR............... 18 173 9.6 72t 1 Kickoff Returners No Yds Avg LG TD Ginn Jr., SNF ............. 23 657 28.6 102t 1 Cobb, GBY ................. 25 696 27.8 108t 1 Sproles, NOR............. 24 635 26.5 57 0 Pilares, CAR .............. 13 340 26.2 101t 1 Logan, DET ................ 19 494 26.0 33 0 Stephens-Howling, ARI............................... 25 596 23.8 35 0 Dev. Thomas, NYG... 21 498 23.7 40 0 Booker, MIN ............... 19 450 23.7 68 0 Banks, WAS ............... 32 749 23.4 47 0 Scoring Touchdowns TD Rush Rec Ret Pts Ca. Johnson, DET ... 12 0 12 0 72 L. McCoy, PHL......... 12 10 2 0 72 A. Peterson, MIN ..... 12 11 1 0 72 J. Nelson, GBY ........ 9 0 9 0 54 C. Newton, CAR ...... 9 9 0 0 54 G. Jennings, GBY.... 8 0 8 0 48 M. Turner, ATL......... 8 8 0 0 48 T. Gonzalez, ATL..... 7 0 7 0 42 L. Robinson, DAL .... 7 0 7 0 42 B. Wells, ARI ............ 7 7 0 0 42 Kicking PAT FG LG Pts Akers, SNF ..................... 24-24 28-33 55 108 D. Bailey, DAL ................ 27-27 27-28 51 108 Crosby, GBY .................. 46-46 18-19 58 100 Kasay, NOR.................... 33-33 22-27 53 99 Gould, CHI...................... 29-29 21-23 51 92 Ja. Hanson, DET ........... 35-35 19-21 51 92 M. Bryant, ATL ............... 25-25 18-19 50 79 Henery, PHL................... 27-27 16-19 47 75 Barth, TAM ...................... 15-15 19-21 55 72

PAT R I O T S AT E A G L E S

Brady expects a ‘Dream’ matchup New England is not taking Philadelphia lightly despite Eagles’ struggles, injuries.

By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer

PHILADELPHIA — Tom Brady talked up the Philadelphia Eagles more than Vince Young. Brady and the AFC East-leading New England Patriots (7-3) visit Philadelphia on Sunday in their second meeting since the Super Bowl in February 2005. The Patriots beat those Eagles 24-21 for their third NFL title in four seasons. Listening to Brady and his teammates discuss the upcoming game, you would think they’re getting ready to play Donovan McNabb, Terrell Owens and Brian Dawkins again. “They’re very talented, there’s no question about that,” Brady said. “You look at their defensive stats and their offensive stats, they’re as good as any team in the league. They can play with anybody. They’ve had two pretty significant blowout wins and then the rest of the games have been very close. It’s not like teams are running away from these guys; they’re in every single game. They’re a tough team

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in all phases.” As usual, Brady was echoing his coach’s thoughts. “They’re good across the board, they’re well-coached, they’re a hard team to get ready for because of the number of things they do and they do them at a high level,” Bill Belichick said. “They are good in all phases of the game. They have a lot of outstanding players.” Nearly eliminated That’s a lot of praise for a team that’s 4-6 and one loss away from being all-but-mathematically eliminated from playoff contention in a season that began with enormous expectations. It was Young who put a bull’seye on the Eagles when he called them a “Dream Team” after signing a one-year contract to be Mi-

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chael Vick’s backup. By now, Young and his teammates have heard plenty of jokes regarding how this “Dream Team” is a nightmare and so on. “I didn’t think anything of it when I first heard it,” cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha said. “I just thought it was Vince talking about how he felt and how he was excited and how it was like a dream come true, something like that. Then it turned into us just being cocky and us being over

confident and saying way too much, etc. etc., which we were never doing. No one ever took it like that when he said it. It was just something like that he’s always looked forward to or he’s happy to be in this situation.” Despite adding a slew of highprofile players — Asomugha was the prize of the free-agent market — to a group that was coming off an NFC East championship, the Eagles haven’t lived up to the hype. They’ve lost four of five

home games, blowing fourthquarter leads in each loss at the Linc. Overall, the Eagles are 1-7 at home since beating Houston last Dec. 2. “They’re talented,” said Patriots cornerback Kyle Arrington, a former Eagle who leads the NFL with seven interceptions. “By no means does their record reflect their talent.” All that talent hasn’t helped Philadelphia in the standings. The Eagles are third behind Dallas (7-4) and the New York Giants (6-4) in the NFC East. However, they’re 3-1 against division opponents and have a chance to win the East if they win their last six games. Young saved the Eagles’ season by leading them to a 17-10 win at the Giants last Sunday. He may have to fill in again for Vick, who broke two ribs in a loss to Arizona on Nov. 13. The Patriots have the worstranked defense in the NFL. Those numbers don’t mean much to Young. There might be plenty of scoring in this game. New England has the league’s second-ranked offense and the Eagles are No. 3. While the Patriots are last on defense, Philadelphia is tied for 11th, but has been vulnerable all season.

S T E E L E R S AT C H I E F S

Palko gets nod against his hometown team Banged up QB Rothlisberger was injured the last time Pittsburgh faced Kansas City.

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Ben Roethlisberger doesn’t remember a whole lot about the last time the Pittsburgh Steelers played the Kansas City Chiefs. The Steelers’ quarterback sustained a concussion when his head banged into the knee of Chiefs linebacker Derrick Johnson as he leaned headfirst during a running play in overtime. He came back to play some of his best games UP NEXT of the 2009 seaPITTSBURGH son afterward, at KANSAS twice throwing CITY for three touchTV: 8:20 p.m., downs without NBC, WBRE-28 an interception OPENING and leading LINE: Steelers by 10 1⁄2 Pittsburgh to a LAST MEETsecond-place ING: Chiefs finish in the beat Steelers AFC East. 27-24 in OT, It certainly Nov. 11, 2009 wasn’t the first time Big Ben was banged up. There have been numerous concussions, several knee injuries, and a fractured thumb sustained a few weeks ago against Cincinnati. Roethlisberger plans to play Sunday night against Kansas City, even though he admitted it’ll be painful, and that’s dreadful news to the Chiefs. The truth is that Roethlisberger seems to play better when he’s ailing. “He’s an extremely intense competitor,” Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said, “and I think adversity such as that brings that out of him. I think it’s a characteristic that all good competitors have.” Pittsburgh had last week off, giving Roethlisberger time to heal. But the thumb still bothered him in practice this week, and he didn’t take snaps under center early in the week, working out of the shotgun with a splint under his glove to protect

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It’s unclear how Pittsburgh might alter its playbook in light of the injury, though it won’t be the first time there have been subtle tweaks. The team worked out of the shotgun and pistol last year against Baltimore to take some of the pressure off Roethlisberger’s sprained foot. “I’ll be out there, I guarantee that,” Roethlisberger said. “It won’t be an issue that way. Will it

be an issue with pain and throw- bit, you have to play a little better, concentrate a little bit more.” ing? I don’t know.” It would take a lot more than a Focus over pain banged up thumb to keep RoethRoethlisberger said he doesn’t lisberger out this week. The plan to take an injection to numb Steelers (7-3) are a half-game bethe pain. Instead, he’ll simply hind Baltimore (8-3) in the play right through it, something tough AFC North, with Cincinhe’s done with tremendous suc- nati just a game back, heading incess at other times in his career. to this week’s games. They have “For me the reason I want to a good opportunity to pick up a play is for my guys,” he said. win on the road against the “When you’re dinged up a little Chiefs (4-6), who have lost three

straight and been ravaged by injuries all season. The latest occurred two weeks ago, when quarterback Matt Cassel hurt his throwing hand late in a loss to Denver. Any hope that he’d be able to return this season vanished the very next day when he had season-ending surgery, turning the reins of an offense already missing tight end Tony Moeaki and All-Pro running back Jamaal Charles to a journeyman quarterback in Tyler Palko. Palko appeared comfortable despite throwing three interceptions in a 34-3 loss last week at New England, which earned him another start Sunday. After that is anyone’s guess. The Chiefs picked up Kyle Orton off waivers from the Broncos on Wednesday, but he couldn’t make it to Kansas City until Friday. That meant there was virtually no chance he could get up to speed in time to play against the Steelers. With a tough stretch coming up, though, the Chiefs were willing to pay the roughly $2.6 million Orton is still owed to potentially play in just five games. In the meantime, Palko is preparing to make the second start of his professional career against a team that has made a habit of competing for Super Bowls. The son of a high school coach in western Pennsylvania said he’s undaunted by the challenge, especially after making his debut in a high-profile game Monday night at New England. “I was surprisingly calm throughout the whole game,” Palko said. Playing the Steelers is especially meaningful for Palko because he grew up watching the Steelers, and even played at Heinz Field while he was leading the University of Pittsburgh. The fact Kansas City could turn around its season with a victory — the Chiefs are two games behind AFC West-leading Oakland — only adds to the pressure. Another loss with a tough stretch looming would almost certainly eliminate Haley’s crew from playoff contention. “I’m fired up,” Palko said. “It was fun growing up in Pittsburgh, seeing the Steelers, the black and gold, understanding the tradition. It’s exciting and I’m looking forward to it.”

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PREDICTIONS Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! Hope y’all had a great one. I had my turkey last week. It was that Bills-over-Dolphins pick, which I still cannot rationally explain. Otherwise had a decent week, including an outright upset with Seattle winning at St. Lou, and a couple of with-points hits on Broncos covering vs. Jets and Redskins-plus against Dallas. Wins by Ravens and Falcons were the two games that pushed. Built in excuse if we fizzle on our Week 12 picks below. It was the doggone tryptophan from Thursday’s pile-driving gorge of a meal. Made me too groggy to concentrate! PATRIOTS (7-3) AT EAGLES (4-6) Line: Off board Cote’s pick: PHI 27-24 Time: 4:15 p.m., CBS Thanksgiving Day pulled rank and stole Week 12’s best games, so it was a pickedover carcass left to the Game of the Week committee. This one will fit the bill as long as the Philly we saw last week deigns to show up again. The game stayed off bet-boards because Mike Vick’s ribs continued to make him questionable, but Vick or Vince Young would face the same susceptible Patriots pass defense. Eagles in upsetting Giants last week finally showed the potential expected back during all the Dream Team talk, with the Birds defense especially coming out of hiding. It will take that same team to upset the Pats. English coming off Monday win and short week. Give me desperation and a home field. Birds. BEARS (7-3) AT RAIDERS (6-4) Line: OAK by 4 1⁄2 Cote’s pick: CHI 21-17 Time: 4:05 p.m. “AAWWK!” shouts the Upset Bird. “The bright side? This cannot possibly be a worse pick than when I had Buffalo beating Miaaawwwk. Can it?” This game had GOTW potential until Jay Cutler went and got hurt, leaving Chicago’s QB as Caleb Hanie, fixing to make his first career NFL start. I hear the name Caleb Hanie and I picture a farmer tilling a field under the harsh flat brim of an Amish hat. Where was I? Carson Palmer might throw for miles on a substandard Bears pass defense, yes. But his chances might be limited because Matt Forte is running wildly on a most-generous Oaks’ run-D. Chicago is the better team here. I’m betting they are even on the road, with an Amish farmer at quarterback. “Jakob Ammann,” notes U-Bird, muttering the name of the Amish founder. “Caleb Haaawwwk!”

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New York Jets’ Joe McKnight runs against the Buffalo Bills during the fourth quarter of a Nov. 6 game in Orchard Park, N.Y. The Jets won 27-11. Both teams enter today’s game on losing streaks and with 5-5 records.

Victory will aid playoff hopes Bills head to Meadowlands for divisional battle with serious postseason implications. By DENNIS WASZAK Jr. AP Sports Writer

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — A sense of urgency is driving the struggling Buffalo Bills and New York Jets these days. Mounting losses. Injuries. Fading playoff chances. They’ve all combined to turn a pair of promising teams that once appeared poised to dethrone the New England Patriots in the AFC East into scuffling squads desperate for a victory. “It’s a must-win game for us,” Jets wide receiver Santonio Holmes said. “We know what’s at stake right now. We have to come out firing just like we did against these guys the last game we played them.” The Jets (5-5) host the Bills (5-5) at MetLife Stadium in a game New York coach Rex Ryan said marks the start of his team’s

playoff push. It was only three weeks ago that the Jets won their third straight game by dominating the Bills 27-11. Neither team has won since. Two bad losses by New York; three straight for Buffalo. “They’ve been in a little slump as well as we have,” Holmes said. “We know it’s another game on the schedule and they get paid just as well as we do, so they’re going to be ready to come out and put a real good stamp into our playoff chances right now. So we have to be on high alert right now.” That’s for sure. But, so do the Bills. As far as both teams are concerned, their playoff chances depend on it. “I think especially the last (few) weeks have been hard on us,” Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick said. “The biggest thing for us is we’ve really fallen down early, fallen behind and taken big deficits. Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to come back from those.” Fitzpatrick’s play has been one reason. Since signing a six-year,

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$59 million contract extension on Oct. 28, he has mostly struggled with four touchdowns and eight interceptions in four games following a terrific start. In Buffalo’s last three losses, the Bills have been outscored 106-26 — including a 35-8 thrashing at Miami last Sunday. “Well we’re not playing the way we were playing earlier in the season and it’s not necessarily (Fitzpatrick), even though I think he believes he can play a little bit better than he has been playing,” Bills coach Chan Gailey said. “But we can all do bet-

ter, every one of us can, me included. I watch him play and it seems like we’ve had a different offensive line in there each week for the last three or four weeks and it seems like we’ve had different receivers going out there each week, so it’s been hard on him.” There will be some more of the same lineup shuffling this week for the Bills as running back Fred Jackson, their biggest offensive star, was placed on injured reserve with a broken bone in his lower left leg. That means the speedy C.J. Spiller will get more playing time in the backfield instead at wide receiver, where he has been lined up a lot this season. “We lost a great player, but this season’s far from over,” Spiller said. “I’ve just got to elevate my game to a higher level. I’ve got to play at kind of a level that Fred was playing at. Of course, we won’t replace him, that’s obvious. So we’ll just have to try our best and go out there and execute.”

Saints not the cure-all they used to be Giants are looking to escape a two-game skid that has eroded their NFC East lead. By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer

NEW ORLEANS — Whether a two-game skid and a tough upcoming schedule could combine to spell doom for the New York Giants is a question Eli Manning sees little point in addressing right now. “It’s not about who our next opponent is or what the standings are in the division,” Manning said as the Giants (6-4) prepared for their matchup with the Saints (7-3) in New Orleans on Monday night. “When you start looking ahead or trying to calculate other teams that teams in our division are playing, and wins and losses, or how many games you have to win to get in the playoffs, that’s when you lose focus.” Giants coach Tom Coughlin is in no mood to dwell on whether the Giants’ season is on the brink, either. “It’s interesting that after a couple of seven-point losses we are going to talk about that,” Coughlin said this week when asked about the potential for a late-season swoon. “It’s difficult for me to understand why there’s nothing more prevalent to talk about than

TEXANS (7-3) AT JAGUARS (3-7) Line: HOU by 3 Cote’s pick: HOU 21-13 Time: 1 p.m. Houston is an immensely better team but, again, QB play is the great equalizer and the Texans fall off a cliff there losing Matt Schaub to injury for the season and his replacement being Matt Leinart, who has thrown more parties than passes in the NFL. This will be Matt’s first start since Nov. 29, 2009, although he gets a nice welcome-back gift with Andre Johnson returning from injury. Johnson, heavy doses of Arian Foster and a truly lousy Jax offense mean visitors get by despite Leinart. BILLS (5-5) AT JETS (5-5) Line: NYJ by 8 Cote’s pick: NYJ 24-20 Time: 1 p.m., CBS Aside to Rex Ryan: Hey how’s that we’ll-win-the-Super Bowl boast workin’ out for ya, pal? These teams have lost five in a row between them but the Buffs’ slide has been steeper, outscored 106-26 in the past three losses. And now the Bison will be missing top weapon Fred Jackson. Like Planes a lot outright, but bet-line feels fat. Ryan Fitzpatrick is due a rebound game. Let’s hunch wounded Williams muster all remaining pride and keep it close. BROWNS (4-6) AT BENGALS (6-4) Line: CIN by 7 1⁄2 Cote’s pick: CIN 21-16 Time: 1 p.m. Cincy is on a 6-1 run at home vs. its state-mate rivals in this series, and has won five of the past six overall over the Earthtones including 27-17 on Kickoff Weekend. Cleveland’s defense keeps it hanging around games but that moribund offense treats red zones like quicksand. Cannot see ’Gals losing but see it closer than the line as the home team (with Pittsburgh on deck) plays this one on auto-pilot. VIKINGS (2-8) AT FALCONS (6-4) Line: ATL by 9 1⁄2 Cote’s pick: ATL 24-17 Time: 1 p.m., FOX Vikes don’t travel well and now are almost certain to be missing top star Adrian Peterson to an ankle sprain, heaping a ton of pressure on rookie QB Christian Ponder (the NFL’s second-most prominent Christian, after Tim Tebow). Matt Ryan should find plenty of passing lanes against a porous Minny secondary. And yet despite it all this is a lot of points for ’Lanta to cover. PANTHERS (2-8) AT COLTS (0-10) Line: CAR by 3 1⁄2 Cote’s pick: CAR 27-16 Time: 1 p.m. Naturally the Dog of the Week panel thought long and hard about this game, but ultimately decided the winlessness and train-wreck quality of the Colts offered a gruesome appeal all its own. For the only team that took Suck For Luck seriously this looks like the last best shot to dodge 0-16 — and it could happen! I stood on the edge of calling the Nags’ first victory, in fact, and might regret I didn’t. The thing is, Cam Newton might throw and run for 459 yards, give or take. BUCCANEERS (4-6) AT TITANS (5-5) Line: TEN by 3 Cote’s pick: TEN 24-20 Time: 1 p.m. Tenners are 6-0 all-time at home vs. the Tee Bees. More than that, they put a better defense than Tampa on this home field. Also, fantasy owners who have stuck with maddening Chris Johnson could be rewarded here. Bucs’ run defense has been worst in league the past four games, allowing 162 yards per. High upset potential, but the notion of a Johnson revival and the venue tilt this one.

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that.” While consecutive close loses to San Francisco and Philadelphia could hardly be considered shocking, the timing of New York’s slide could not be much worse. The Dallas Cowboys’ recent surge has vaulted them to a halfgame lead in the NFC East, meaning the Giants must now try to keep pace by winning in New Orleans, where the Saints are 4-0 this season. If the Giants’ difficulties persist in the Big Easy, they’ll face the prospect of a four-game losing streak when they host unbeaten Green Bay the following week. New Orleans also has tough games coming up, but that’s a more comfortable topic of discussion for the Saints, who’ve won two straight and enter Week 12 with a one-game lead over Atlanta in the NFC South. Following its meeting with a desperate Giants squad that only

CARDINALS (3-7) AT RAMS (2-8) Line: Off board Cote’s pick: STL 23-19 Time: 1 p.m. Our Mutt matchup is another one kept off the wagering boards due to QB doubt. Kevin Kolb is close to returning for ’Zona but probably not Sunday, so it looks like another dose of John “Red” Skelton, who last week would have had to have been better to rise to the level of abysmal. The Cacti are 1-5 on the road, and St. Lou’s Steven Jackson should enjoy strong numbers against a Cardbirds run defense that was bad even before losing NT Dan Williams to injury. Plus, won’t Sam Bradford happen upon another decent game one of these months? Just by chance, perhaps?

REDSKINS (3-7) AT SEAHAWKS (4-6) Line: SEA by 4 Cote’s pick: WAS 20-17 Time: 4:05 p.m. Upset! These two have comparably tepid offenses and fairly solid defenses. Washington showed in taking Dallas into overtime last week that it is an underperforming team that has no business on a six-game losing streak. The ’Skins are way due, in other words, and should catch the Seabirds in overconfidence-mode. By the way, anybody else noticed that Mike Shanahan has an egregiously red complexion?

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New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning prepares to pass the ball while warming up Nov. 20, in East Rutherford, N.J.

a few weeks ago played well enough to knock off the Patriots in New England, New Orleans will then host Detroit. “We have a couple of conference games coming up that could affect playoff positioning, which I know we aspire to be there, as do the two teams we’re playing coming up,” Saints quarterback Drew Brees said. “It’s very much strategic. These games mean that much more because of that.” If the Giants want to reverse

their fortunes, they’ll likely have to find a way to slow down Brees, whose 3,326 yards passing led the league through last week’s games and represented the most yards passing through 10 games in NFL history. Coughlin hopes New York can manage that with pressure from a defensive line as formidable as any in the league. Defensive ends Jason Pierre-Paul and Osi Umenyiora have combined for 17 1/2 sacks.

BRONCOS (5-5) AT CHARGERS (4-6) Line: SD by 6 1⁄2 Cote’s pick: SD 26-20 Time: 4:15 p.m. Ah, Tim Tebow. Somewhere in the Bible there surely is a psalm that reads, “Lo, but I would smite thee who is unbelieving of a man who throws an awful pass and yet, yay, knows the rapture of winning.” Or something like that. Picture the Tebow bandwagon with a flat. San Diego is better, despite its unholy five-game losing streak, and will show it. Although the bet-line is blasphemously large. STEELERS (7-3) AT CHIEFS (4-6) Line: PIT by 10 Cote’s pick: PIT 24-16 Time: 8:20 p.m., NBC Pittsburgh is coming off a bye, which this season has meant rust as much as readiness. Ben Roethlisberger is test-driving a thumb injury. KC is coming of an embarrassing home performance vs. New England on Monday night. What’s it all mean? Chiefs can’t hep but show better on this prime-time stage. Tyler Palko or not, expect a competitive game. GIANTS (6-4) AT SAINTS (7-3) Line: NO by 7 Cote’s pick: NO 31-27 Time: 8:30 p.m. Monday, ESPN Let’s see. At New Orleans. Eli Manning from there. Hmm. Over/under on number of times ESPN shows Archie and Peyton Manning sitting in a suite: 4. (Give me the over). I’m big on Monday night home teams that are good even without that tailwind, and Saints are 4-0 in their dome. See a shootout. Biggies smarting from consecutive losses, and Eli’s on a 3-0 run under a roof. -- Greg Cote

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New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist, of Sweden, eyes the puck as he makes a save during the third period Saturday against the Philadelphia Flyers at Madison Square Garden in New York. The Rangers won 2-0.

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NEW YORK — Henrik Lundqvist stopped 29 shots, Carl Hagelin scored his first NHL goal and the New York Rangers beat the Philadelphia Flyers 2-0 on Saturday to improve on their best home start in nearly 20 years. After a scoreless first period that featured a fight 4 seconds into the game between New York’s Brandon Prust and Philadelphia’s Zac Rinaldo, Brad Richards scored a power-play goal 54 seconds into the second. Richards’ eighth tally of the season came on a slick passing sequence by defensemen Michael Del Zotto and Dan Girardi after Richards had a goal disallowed 24 seconds earlier when Ryan Callahan swiped the puck with his glove in front of Flyers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky. Girardi has more assists (18) against the Flyers than any other team during his career. Penguins 4, Canadiens 3, OT MONTREAL — Kris Letang returned from being bloodied by a hit late in regulation to score 2:09 into overtime, giving the Pittsburgh Penguins a 4-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night. Letang scored his third goal

after James Neal poked the puck free from Carey Price as Pittsburgh improved to 3-0-1 since Sidney Crosby returned to the lineup. Crosby got his eighth point in four games back from concussion-like symptoms that sidelined him for the better part of 11 months with an assist on Evgeni Malkin’s goal 21 seconds in. Islanders 3, Devils 2 NEWARK, N.J. — Michael Grabner snapped a tie with a short-handed goal and the New York Islanders beat the New Jersey Devils 3-2 on Saturday for their first road win of the season. Matt Moulson and Josh Bailey also scored for New York, which earned its third victory this month and improved to 1-5-2 on the road. Al Montoya had 22 saves. Adam Larsson and Adam Henrique scored for New Jersey. Martin Brodeur made 23 saves. Bruins 4, Jets 2 BOSTON — Chris Kelly scored two second-period goals and Tim Thomas stopped 40 shots, lifting the Boston Bruins to their 11th win in 12 games with a 4-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday

night. Zdeno Chara also scored for Boston, which overcame a 2-0 deficit to earn a point in its 11th consecutive game, its longest stretch since 12 in row (8-0-2-2) Jan. 27-Feb. 21, 2004. Sabres 5, Capitals 1 BUFFALO, N.Y. — Luke Adam scored twice, Jhonas Enroth made 26 saves, and Zack Kassian scored his first NHL goal in the Buffalo Sabres’ 5-1 victory over the Washington Capitals on Saturday night. Jason Pominville and Jochen Hecht also scored to help the injury-riddled Sabres (13-9-1) snap a three-game winless streak despite missing nine regulars. Enroth made his seventh straight start for injured starter Ryan Miller (concussion). Jason Chimera scored on a penalty shot, and Tomas Vokoun made 23 saves for the sliding Capitals (12-9-1). Red Wings 4, Predators 1 DETROIT — Valtteri Filppula scored twice to lead the Detroit Red Wings to their fifth straight win, 4-1 over the Nashville Predators on Saturday night. Filppula added an assist on Henrik Zetterberg’s goal as Detroit won its league-best

ninth game at home. Dan Cleary added his fourth goal of the season. Jack Hillen ended Jimmy Howard’s bid for his fourth shutout of the season when he scored midway through the third period. Howard ended the night with 18 saves. Pekka Rinne had 33 saves for the Predators, who lost their fourth straight. Avalanche 5, Oilers 2 DENVER — Stefan Elliott scored his first NHL goal, Semyon Varlamov had 31 saves and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Edmonton Oilers 5-2 on Saturday night. Paul Stastny, Shane O’Brien, Jan Heda and Jay McClement had a goal each, and Ryan O’Reilly, Milan Hejduk and Chuck Kobasew had two assists apiece as the Avalanche snapped a two-game home skid. Lightning 5, Panthers 1 TAMPA, Fla. — Steven Stamkos had two goals and an assist, Mathieu Garon made 24 saves and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Florida Panthers 5-1 on Saturday night. Martin St. Louis, Tom Pyatt and Ryan Malone also scored for the Lightning, who were coming off a 2-1 overtime victory at Florida on Friday night.

Call of Wild beckons goalie from senior league Paul Deutsch dresses, takes pregame warmup session against the Nashville Predators as a 51-year-old netminder. By The Associated Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Paul Deutsch’s pals in his recreational hockey league needed to find a replacement goalie Wednesday night. The 51-year-old embroidery shop owner was going to be suiting up for another team: The NHL’s Minnesota Wild. The Wild signed Deutsch to an amateur tryout contract to serve as an emergency backup to starter Josh Harding for Wednesday’s game against the Nashville Predators. “Actually giving up my Wednesday night game,” Deutsch said. “We play at Bloomington Ice Gardens at 9:45 p.m. till they turn the lights off. I can’t make it.” Deutsch was signed after Niklas Backstrom was declared out for personal reasons. Matt Hackett was recalled from Houston, but his flight wasn’t scheduled to land in the Twin Cities until about 6:30 p.m. and, with the holiday traffic, Minnesota couldn’t take any chances of being short a goaltender. Deutsch’s improbable shot at playing in an NHL game ended almost as quickly as it started, though. Hackett arrived at the arena just before the 7 p.m. game time and Deutsch was scratched. Wearing a pair of former Wild goaltender Manny Fernandez’s pads, Deutsch participated in pregame warmups. Deutsch never made it to the bench dur-

ing the game. Instead he watched from a suite with members of his daughter’s under-14 girl’s hockey team. Deutsch is a coach for the team and the suite was arranged long before Deutsch received a call from the Wild. “Another goaltending controversy there, if he got in there, who knows,” Wild coach Mike Yeo joked after the game. “It’s great for him and he handled it great. Guys really enjoyed having him in there.” Deutsch watched the Wild win their fifth straight game with starting goaltender Josh Harding making 23 saves. He likely felt much more comfortable watching from the suite than he would have at ice-level. “Told me I better be good tonight so he didn’t have to go in,” Harding said. “It was a lot of fun for him.” Deutsch’s signing was not as unlikely as it seems for someone who last played in a competitive league in 1978, when he was a junior varsity defenseman for Minneapolis Roosevelt High School. He is a good friend of former Wild assistant coach Mike Ramsey and has been used as a fill-in goalie at Minnesota practices. And because of NHL rules, the Wild weren’t allowed to sign a goaltender with professional experience. Deutsch’s amateur tryout contract fit within the rules. “It’s very nervous,” Deutsch said. “Practice is one thing. I have to tell you the game faces are on. I don’t see that very often with these guys. At practice it’s calm, laughing and ha-has. Game day is different.” Deutsch runs a screen printing and embroidery store in a St. Paul suburb and plays recreational hockey. He didn’t even start

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Minnesota Wild emergency backup goalie, 51-year-old Paul Deutsch warms up prior to Wednesday’s game against the Nashville Predators in St. Paul, Minn.

playing goalie until he was 37. “When you play senior men’s hockey and there is no goalie, there is no game,” Deutsch said. “That’s how I started. I was tired of coming into the room and saying ’Oh rats, there aren’t two goalies.’ Guys would literally go home. So I said, “You know what, I’m going to play.”

UConn nips Fla. St.; Kentucky wins big

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PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — Shabazz Napier hit a big 3-pointer with a minute left in overtime and finished with 26 points, leading No. 4 Connecticut to a 78-76 victory over 22ndranked Florida State in the consolation game of the Battle 4 Atlantis on Saturday. Napier also had five assists, four rebounds and two steals, bouncing back from a terrible performance in the Huskies’ 68-63 loss to Central Florida on Friday. The point guard committed seven turnovers and went 1 for 7 from the field against the Knights. Jeremy Lamb added 19 points for Connecticut (6-1). No. 2 Kentucky 87, Portland 63 LEXINGTON, Ky. — Terrence Jones and Darius Miller scored 19 points apiece, Anthony Davis had 13 points and 12 rebounds, and No. 2 Kentucky routed Portland 87-63 on Saturday night in the Wildcats’ final tuneup before playing St. John’s and No. 1 North Carolina next week. Kentucky (6-0) has won every game by double digits, but Portland gave the Wildcats plenty to work on in the coming days after the Pilots (2-4) challenged them with sharp outside shooting and won the rebounding battle, 39-38. Kentucky used an 18-3 firsthalf run to take a double-digit lead. No. 19 Gonzaga 78, W. Michigan 58 SPOKANE, Wash. — Robert Sacre scored 15 points and No. 19 Gonzaga beat winless Western Michigan 78-58 on Saturday. Sam Dower added 15 points off the bench for Gonzaga (4-0), which was playing its annual game in the off-campus Spokane Arena. Western Michigan (0-6), coming off an 80-37 loss to Purdue, has all six of its losses on the road. The Broncos were picked to win the Mid-American Conference West division. They were led by 11 points from Matt Stainbrook. No. 20 California 80, Denver 59 BERKELEY, Calif. — Allen Crabbe scored 15 points and matched his career high with 10 rebounds and No. 20 California defeated Denver 80-59 on Saturday to stay unbeaten at home in Haas Pavilion. Crabbe, last season’s Pac-10 Freshman of the Year, shot 6 for 9 with three 3-pointers and helped the Golden Bears (5-1) overcome a slow start against the Pioneers (4-1). Cal bounced back from a 92-53 defeat to No. 21 Missouri in the CBE Classic championship game Tuesday night in Kansas City, Mo. Chris Udofia scored nine

points to lead Denver, which was outmuscled inside in losing the rebounding battle 33-20 and outshot from the perimeter. The Pioneers struggled offensively on the heels of an impressive win over Bay Area team Saint Mary’s on Wednesday night in Colorado. Justin Cobbs added a career-best 22 points on 7-for-9 shooting and made all four of his 3-point tries for the Bears. No. 25 Texas A&M 56, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 43 COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Elston Turner scored 14 points and No. 25 Texas A&M used its stifling defense to beat Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 56-43 on Saturday. Ray Turner had 13 and eight rebounds for the Aggies (4-1), who held the Islanders to 27.8 percent shooting. Saint Joseph’s 65, Penn State 47 PHILADELPHIA — Langston Galloway scored 17 points as Saint Joseph’s got off to a quick start in a 65-47 win over Penn State on Saturday. The Hawks scored the first 22 points of the game, with Galloway scoring nine, and led 33-13 at halftime. Galloway made 5 of 11 field goal attempts for the game while C.J. Aiken, who scored 14 points, was 6 of 8. The largest lead for St. Jospeh’s was 28 points at 38-10 after Halil Kanacevik hit a layup with 18:25 remaining in the game. The lead never dropped below 17 points the rest of the way. Northeastern 78, St. John’s 64 NEW YORK — Joel Smith scored 29 points, including knocking down 7 of 12 from beyond the arc, to lead Northeastern in a 78-64 win over St. John’s on Saturday. God’sgift Achiuwa led St. John’s (4-3) with 17 points. Morehead State 68, Princeton 56 LEWISBURG — Terrance Hill scored 16 points, including going a perfect 3-for-3 from beyond the arc, to lead Morehead State to a 68-56 win over Princeton on Saturday. Milton Chavis scored 12 points and Lamont Austin added 11 for the Eagles (3-3), who improved to 2-0 in the Lewisburg subregional of the TicketCity Legends Classic. The Tigers have lost both of their games in the tournament. Harvard 59, Central Florida 49 PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — Kyle Casey had 15 points and nine rebounds to lead unbeaten Harvard to a 59-49 victory over Central Florida in the Battle 4 Atlantis championship on Saturday.

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GOLF

McIlroy, McDowell charge ahead The Associated Press

HAINAN, China — Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell will head into the final round of the World Cup with a two-stroke lead after a convincing performance for Ireland in the fourballs on Saturday. The Irish duo hit eight birdies to finish the third round with an 8-under 64, and a 21-under total of 195 at the Mission Hills complex. However, the second-ranked McIlroy and 2010 U.S. Open champion McDowell will be unable to rest easy Sunday with Germany, South Africa and the United States all tied for second at 197. Martin Kaymer and Alex Cekja made 11 birdies in their 11-under 61 on the Blackstone course carved out of cooled lava rock. “We saw the scoreboard on the sixth green and we saw Germany were off to a flyer,” McDowell said. “We actually expected that today. We are probably a little disappointed that we couldn’t pick up a couple more shots on the way in. We really could have put a little bit of daylight between us and the chasing pack.” McDowell did not need reminding about what the Ireland team faces on Sunday. “We are going to have to go and play well tomorrow — it’s as simple as that,” he said. Germany’s feat was matched by South Africans Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen, who also managed a 61. The U.S. team of Gary Woodland and Matt Kuchar had 10 birdies and one bogey in a 9under 63. “Today was a great day. We ham and egged it pretty well,” Woodland said. “Matt really got us going early. I was kind of all over the place, and he made a birdie on the first hole and got the edge off — and then made three or four in a row. I was struggling and he picked me up. “Fortunately, I made some putts on the back nine. Hopefully gives us a lot more momentum going into tomorrow.”

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Rory McIlroy, right, celebrates with Graeme McDowell at the 18th hole during the third day of the Mission Hills World Cup in China.

Australian PGA COOLUM, Australia — K.T. Kim played steadily over the back nine while other challengers fell around him, shooting a bogey-free 5-under 67 Saturday to take a one-stroke lead over Bubba Watson into the final round of the Australian PGA. Kim, who played for the losing International side at the Presidents Cup at Royal Melbourne last week, had a 54-hole total of 13-under 203 at the Hyatt Regency resort course. Watson, who held the lead for part of the third round, doublebogeyed the par-5 15th with two bad chips out of the rough to finish with a 69 after eagling the opening par-5 first. Aaron Baddeley was in third place after a 67, three strokes behind. Second-round leader Marcus Fraser (74), Y.E. Yang (70) and David Bransdon (67) were tied for fourth, four strokes behind. Despite winning his last two matches at the Presidents Cup, Kim said he wasn’t expecting a lot at Coolum. Watson had an eventful 18th, pulling his tee shot into the rough, then hitting a shot with his rescue club into the green which ricocheted into a mar-

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LONDON — Every time Roger Federer steps onto the court, another milestone seems to be within grasp. He seized another one Saturday, reaching his 100th career final by beating David Ferrer 7-5, 6-3 in the semifinals of the ATP World Tour Finals. Federer could add a few more Sunday. He’s in position to win his 70th title overall and a record sixth at the season-ending tournament for the world’s top eight players. “It’s obviously a special occasion for me,” said Federer, who will play Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the final. Tsonga beat Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic 6-3, 7-5 in the

late match, putting the sixthseeded Frenchman into the final of this event for the first time, in only his second appearance. “Roger is the best player for the moment indoors,” Tsonga said. “It’s going to be really special here, for my first final here. It’s going to be an amazing atmosphere on court, and I like that. ... I know it’s the last match (of the year) so I will give it everything.” The victory over Ferrer sent Federer past Andy Murray to No. 3 in the year-end rankings, trailing No. 1 Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal. Djokovic and Nadal were eliminated after losing two of their round-robin matches this week, both saying their minds and bodies weren’t up for top-level tennis following another grueling season. Murray pulled out injured following his opening loss to Ferrer on Monday. Federer — who holds a record 16 Grand Slam titles — is tied

with Ivan Lendl and Pete Sampras with five victories at the ATP Finals, formerly known as the Masters Cup. A win Sunday would also tie Lendl’s record of 39 match victories in the event. Federer became the fifth player to reach100 finals in the open era, joining Jimmy Connors (163), Lendl (146), John McEnroe (108) and Guillermo Vilas (104). “I’m shocked every time that I’ve reached so many finals or won against so many players or whatever record it is,” Federer said. “It strikes me and makes me obviously very happy and very proud that I’ve been able to do it for so many years at the highest of levels.” And with his 806th victory Saturday, Federer moved into a share of sixth place on the career list with Stefan Edberg. In a tournament where his biggest rivals complained of fatigue after failing to make it out of the group stage, Federer showed no

signs of slowing down. The 30year-old Swiss star extended his unbeaten streak to 16 matches after winning titles in Basel and Paris before coming to London. Federer has played some of his best tennis of the year in London, and while he did not look as sharp against Ferrer as he did in his three group-stage victories, he never faced a break point. He broke the fifth-seeded Spaniard twice in the second set and converted his second match point with a forehand winner. Ferrer came within two points of the first set six times in Federer’s service game when the Spaniard led 5-4. But he never earned a break point in a game that went to deuce five times, and Federer finally held when Ferrer sent a ASSOCIATED PRESS backhand passing shot wide. That marked a turning point, Roger Federer reacts after defeating David Ferrer in their semiwith Federer winning the next final match Saturday at the ATP World Tour Finals in London. four games as well to take control.

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SOCCER

Bus crash, fire kills 6, injures 28 elite Togo players Etoile Filante was making the after a bus carrying their team trip to its Sunday match when plunged into a ravine and caught fire. vehicle plunged into ravine. In a statement read on national

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LOME, Togo — At least six topflight Togolese soccer players were killed and another 28 people critically injured on Saturday

television, the Togo government said President Faure Gnassingbe had ordered that those injured from the Etoile Filante club be taken to the military wing of the Lome Central Hospital to receive urgent medical attention. A delegation, led by sports

minister Christophe Tchao, traveled to the accident site with an ambulance to evacuate the injured. The accident happened near the city of Atakpame, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Lome, as Etoile Filante was on its way to Togo’s second largest city of Sokode for Sunday’s league game against Semassi. A tire is believed to have burst,

causing the bus to topple over and plunge down a ravine. Some of the victims reportedly burnt to death. Eyewitness accounts said the bus flipped over several times as it crashed into the ravine. “We do not know how we managed to get out of the accident,” said one of the survivors, goalkeeper Mama Souleyman. Images on Togo national tele-

vision showed the smoldering wreckage of the bus, which was almost completely burnt to ashes. Team a contender Lome-based Etoile Filante is a seven-time Togo national league champion and was runner-up in Africa’s continental club competition in 1968. Last year, two Togo national

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team officials were killed and several players hurt after a gun attack on the team’s bus as it traveled to the African Cup of Nations tournament in Angola. In 2007, Togo sports minister Richard Attipoe was among 22 people who died when a helicopter carrying Togolese soccer fans and officials crashed in Sierra Leone after an African Cup qualifying match.

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Stomach ailment kills Lyle The Associated Press

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Oklahoma State honors its coaches following a victory over Coppin State in Stillwater, Okla., on Saturday. Oklahoma State won 59-35 in the first game after its head coach and an assistant were killed in a plane crash.

Cowgirls back on court after tragedy The Associated Press

STILLWATER, Okla. — An emotionally exhausting nine days for the Oklahoma State Cowgirls ended Saturday with hugs, tears and a few smiles. In their first game since a plane crash killed coach Kurt Budke, assistant coach Miranda Serna and two others, the Cowgirls beat Coppin State 59-35 behind 17 points from Tiffany Bias. The Cowgirls celebrated the victory by standing arm in arm on the floor and singing university’s alma mater with the crowd of 3,557. Interim coach Jim Littell and many of the players then pointed their index fingers toward the sky and went into the stands to hug Budke’s wife, Shelley, and other Budke family members, who attended the game and sat behind the home bench.

Their presence didn’t surprise Bias, a sophomore guard who wrote "Serna" on one of her orange shoes and "Budke" on the other. "It just shows how much OSU is a family," Bias said. "That’s what the Budke family is. They’re a family, and we’re their extended family. No matter what the tragedy is . they are going to come out and support us." In the immediate wake of the Nov. 17 crash in Arkansas, Oklahoma State postponed home games last weekend against Grambling State and TexasArlington, but university officials decided to resume the Cowgirls’ schedule Saturday, five days after a memorial service for the victims inside Gallagher-Iba Arena. "It’s the best therapy we could have," university Presi-

dent Burns Hargis said of the Cowgirls’ return to the court. "I just think the whole OSU family came together wonderfully. It’s not going to be easy. There are going to be a lot of tough times ahead . but if we pull together, we’ll figure out a way to get through this." Littell guided Oklahoma State (2-0) against Coppin State (1-3), and the Cowgirls made it easy on him, as he never so much as had to call a timeout. The Cowgirls have won 55 of their last 56 nonconference home games. "I thought today got much deeper than just the basketball part of it," Littell said. "I thought we had a chance to pay honor today, and I was very, very proud of our kids. I was very, very proud of our coaches. "I just told our players that I’ve been fortunate over the

years to be surrounded by a lot of good players and have a lot of success. I’ve never been more proud of a group than I was today."

Hawkins scored six points in a row during the spurt and her layup with 5 seconds remaining gave Maryland a 53-41 halftime lead.

No. 5 Texas A&M 74, Iowa 58 FREEPORT, Bahamas — Sydney Carter scored 21 points to lead No. 5 Texas A&M to the Lucaya Division crown of the Junkanoo Jam tournament. Carter hit 6 of 16 shots and 9 of 10 free throws, earning the Lucaya Division MVP.

No.13 Rutgers 59, Arizona State 52 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — April Sykes scored 14 points, Monique Oliver grabbed 13 rebounds and No. 13 Rutgers held on to win the San Juan Shootout. Khadijah Rushden pitched in 13 points and nine rebounds for the Scarlet Knights (6-0).

No. 8 Maryland 114, CS-Bakersfield 83 MIAMI — Laurin Mincy scored 23 points to lead No. 8 Maryland to a victory. The Terrapins (7-0) withstood a run by CS Bakersfield midway through the first half and outscored the Roadrunners 11-2 in the final 3:54. Tianna

No. 19 Texas Tech 76, Central Arkansas 43 LUBBOCK, Texas — Shauntal Nobles scored 11 points off the bench and Kierra Mallard grabbed 13 rebounds to lead No. 19 Texas Tech to its 800th victory.

SKIING

American Mancuso takes 3rd

McKinney nearly three decades Her bronze medal was the ago. first podium finish for a U.S. Rebensburg blazed through skier at Aspen in seven years. the course in a combined time of By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer

ASPEN, Colo. — Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany darted in between the shadows, daring to charge on a demanding course with little margin for error. That go-for-broke mentality helped Rebensburg make up nearly a second on the final run to hold off Elisabeth Goergl of Austria to win a World Cup giant slalom on Saturday. It was Rebensburg’s fourth World Cup win in her career. Julia Mancuso finished third to become the first American to wind up on the podium at this venue since 2004. But another streak lives on: No U.S. skier has won in Aspen since Tamara

2 minutes, 11.25 seconds, edging Goergl, the leader after the first run, by 0.33 seconds. “My heart was beating pretty (hard) when Liz came to the last pitch down there,” Rebensburg said. “I didn’t know if it was enough for me. I knew I had to push the limit. I really pushed.” Her teammate, reigning overall World Cup champion Maria Hoefl-Riesch, caught an edge on her final run, skidded off course and didn’t finish. Lindsey Vonn, who was well back in 21st place after the first run, zoomed down the twisting and bumpy course to wind up 12th, 1.74 seconds behind Rebensburg. Vonn’s confidence was soaring heading into this event, especially after winning the season-open-

ing giant slalom race in Soelden, Austria, last month. But on a course that’s always given her trouble, Vonn held back on her first pass and was 2.12 seconds off the lead. She picked up the tempo on her second run, but simply had too much ground to make up. Vonn’s skiing has been limited after tweaking her back in training last week. She has been relying on massages and heating pads to keep her back loose. “I’m trying to pretend like I feel OK,” Vonn said after her first run. “I was a little too nervous today. I just wasn’t really myself.” France’s Tessa Worley, the reigning champion at Aspen, failed to successfully navigate the course in the first run, as did Italy’s Federica Brignone, one of the favorites to wind up on the podium. Lara Gut of Switzerland wound up fifth despite having

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Viktoria Rebensburg reacts after winning at the women’s World Cup giant slalom skiing competition in Aspen, Colo., on Saturday.

the second-fastest time in the morning. Then again, that performance almost came as a surprise to her. Gut typically doesn’t fare well on American slopes. Teenager Mikaela Shiffrin of the U.S. had a solid opening run, but missed qualifying for another run. “I had a lot of fun, made some mistakes, had some good turns

and overall had a good run,” said the 16-year-old Shiffrin, who’s competing in her first full season on the World Cup circuit. “It’s always a disappointment to come down and know that you didn’t make second run. But at the same time I’m happy with many of the turns that I made and I just want to keep this good positive feeling going.”

DENVER — Former heavyweight contender Ron Lyle, who fought Muhammad Ali for the title in 1975 and later battled George Foreman, has died in Denver at age 70. Lyle died Saturday from complications from a sudden stomach ailment, said Ron McKinney, a Salvation Army official in Denver. Details weren’t immediately available. McKinney, a family friend who hired Lyle to start the charity’s boxing program in 2002, said Lyle retired from the program last December but continued to work out at the gym every day “I just saw him yesterday (Friday),” McKinney said. “You looked at him and he looked like he was ready to step into the ring. Shake hands with him, and it’s like shaking a piece of steel.” The gym, called Red Shield Cox-Lyle Boxing, would show replays of Lyle’s fights every Friday night as inspiration for some of the program’s 100 students, McKinney said. Lyle lost to both Ali and Foreman in the mid-1970s. After his career in boxing, Lyle lived in Las Vegas where he trained young boxers and worked as a security guard. He made a brief comeback in 1995 at age 54 and hoped to fight Foreman again in a fight jokingly billed as “Old and Older.” Lyle hoped for a better result than the 1976 match in which he took a beating from Foreman. He also toyed with the idea of fighting Mike Tyson but neither fight materialized.

F I G U R E S K AT I N G

Japanese earn top finishes at Rostelecom The Associated Press

MOSCOW — Japanese skaters Yuzuru Hanyu and Mao Asada overcame errors in their free skates Saturday to win Rostelecom Cup titles and qualify for next month’s ISU Grand Prix final. The 16-year-old Hanyu, who finished second behind Javier Fernandez in the free skate, totaled 241.66 points to edge the Spaniard by three-hundredths of a point and win his first Grand Prix title. First-day leader Jeremy Abbott of the U.S. finished fifth in the free skate and third overall with 229.08 points in the last of the season’s six Grand Prix competitions. The top three men qualified for the Grand Prix final in Quebec City on Dec. 8-11. The pairs was won by world champions Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy of Germany. In ice dance, world champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the U.S. scored their fifth straight victory and second this season in Grand Prix. Asada double-footed a triple axel and reduced her triple combination to a triple Salchow jump. She earned 118.96 points for the free program and totaled 183.25 to beat second-place Leonova by 2.8 points.

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“I LOVE THE OPPORTUNITY to see some of these massive racks that come in. It’s like working at a bear check station.”

TOM VENESKY OUTDOORS

Pesky ticks are truly a hazard for the hunter

Physical fitness important to those heading out for opening day, and rest of deer season. By TOM VENESKY tvenesky@timesleader.com

With rifle deer season opening tomorrow, hunters need to be aware that hunting can put added stress on the heart and should take extra steps to protect themselves. “Elements such as cold weather, rough terrain, heightened adrenalin levels and heavy loads can all “Elements put extra such as strain on the hunter’s cold heart,” said weather, Dr. Steven rough ter- Steinhubl, director of carrain, diovascular heightened wellness at adrenalin Geisinger Health Syslevels and tem. “This is particularly heavy dangerous for loads can hunters who all put ex- lead a mostly sedentary tra strain lifestyle who may not be acon the customed to a hunter’s lot of physical exertion.” heart.” Hunters Dr. Steven should check Steinhubl their Director of with cardiovascular physicians bewellness at fore hunting Geisinger Health if they have System any of these heart disease risk factors: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, diabetes, smoking, a family history of heart disease or lead a sedentary lifestyle. “Just the thrill of seeing a deer can cause the heart rate to accelerate even beyond the maximum we are able to induce during treadmill testing,” Steinhubl said. “When you add to that extra physical exertion of negotiating rough terrain, climbing a tree stand and potentially dragging a 200-plus pound animal out of the woods, a hunter could be in for trouble.” Steinhubl urges hunters to follow these tips to protect themselves during the hunting season: * Have physician approval to hunt. * Never over do it. Listen to your body and rest as needed. * Do not drag a deer out of the woods alone. Use a vehicle or cart. * Wear layers of clothing to regulate body temperature as needed. * Carry a cell phone, radio or communication device and arrange check-in times with hunting partners. * Hunt in a group and be certain someone knows where you are and when to expect you back. * Stay properly hydrated. * Refrain from consuming alcohol and smoking the day before or during hunting. * Refrain from eating a heavy meal before hunting. Hunters should seek immediate medical attention if they experience dizziness, chest pain or heart palpitations, according to Steinhubl. “Hunting is a valued activity for many Pennsylvania residents,” he said. “With the right precautions, it can continue to be an enjoyable experience and not a tragic one.”

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Chris Denmon of the Quality Deer Management Association determines the age of a buck brought into the check station in Sweet Valley during opening day of deer season last year.

Part of his passion

The regional president of QDMA enjoys helping with check station

summer prior to the season, Denmon said there is a correlation between heavy rains and heavy deer. When the rainfall is up during the warmer months, the vegetation is lush and the By TOM VENESKY body weights and even antler develtvenesky@timesleader.com opment are better. While it would appear this year’s deer, Denmon estimated it was eightChris Denmon isn’t a biologist. He high rainfall amounts will equate to and-a-half years old. just plays one on the first day of deer “The teeth were worn down flat,” he larger deer, Denmon said that might season. not be the case. said. “It was shot in state forest land For the last nine years, Denmon and “We have higher rainfall, but acorn that is hunted pretty hard.” other members of the North Mountain When aging a deer, Denmon said it’s production appears to be much lower,” Branch of the Quality Deer Managehe said. “I expect ment Association have operated a deer important to look at teeth on both sides of C H E C K S T A T I O N O P E N weights to be down in check station on the first day of the the deer taken from the jaw. Deer are like rifle deer season. Successful hunters The North Mountain Branch of the the mountains.” people, he said, as can bring their deer to the check staQuality Deer Management AssociDenmon said many tion in Sweet Valley to have it weighed, they favor one side ation deer check station will be hunters who bring more than the other aged and, if it’s a buck, its antlers meaopen Monday from 8 a.m. to 6 their deer to the check when they eat. sured. p.m. It is located on Main Road in station have a genuine Last year, 69 deer Denmon, who is president of the Sweet Valley, across from the Suburban News. Deer will be aged interest in learning North Mountain Branch, usually gets a were brought to the and weighed, and all bucks will more about their deer. check station. Denbuck during the archery season, so he have their antlers measured for They want to know its is one of the branch members willing to mon said 33 percent inside spread, beam circumference true weight, age and were three-and-a-half give up the opening day of the rifle and length. There is no charge. how the health of season to work the check station. With years old, followed by Two free memberships will be their deer may reflect a passion for whitetails and biology, the 30 percent that were given out at the check station. One for the largest rack and anthe health of the herd two-and-a-half. DenSweet Valley resident looks forward to other for the heaviest deer. in the area. mon admitted that collecting data on the deer that are Denmon shares that the data collected brought in each year. interest, aging the “I love the opportunity to see some of each year is somedeer that are shot by his hunting party what skewed because most of the deer these massive racks that come in. It’s each season. The oldest was a doe shot brought in are large bucks, but he said like working at a bear check station,” on state game lands that was more than deer of either sex and any size are imsaid Denmon, of Lehman Twp. 12 years old. He also found a dead buck portant to be checked. And like the bear check stations in a food plot years ago that, when a “Having deer of both sexes in all age operated by the Pennsylvania Game tooth was pulled and aged, turned out classes is important to get a true perCommission, some interesting data is to be 10-1/2 years old. spective on herd health,” he said. collected each season. “Who would think that a buck that The check station has yielded other Last season a buck with a thick, old would be in Pennsylvania? You find interesting results over the last nine eight-point rack was brought in that a lot of interesting things simply by years. When weights are compared Denmon had a hunch was different. When he inspected the teeth to age the with rainfall amounts for the spring and aging deer,” Denmon said.

Season of giving includes deer harvests Donations of meat will help food banks, soup kitchens and pantries feed the hungry around the state. By TOM VENESKY tvenesky@timesleader.com

Hunters are encouraged to donate deer meat through the Hunters Sharing the Harvest program to help feed the more than one million Pennsylvanians who are at risk to go without food. The program enables hunters to donate deer for processing into ground venison for distribution by Pennsylvania food banks, soup kitchens and pantries. Hunters can take their deer to one of more than 100 participating meat processors throughout the state and donate any

amount of their venison to the program – from several pounds to the whole animal. Any hunter donating an entire deer is asked to make a minimum $15 tax-deductible contribution to help cover processing costs. The program covers all remaining fees. The Department of Agriculture, through the federal Emergency Food Assistance Program, contributes $1 per pound of donated venison to reimburse processors. Hunters Sharing the Harvest provides more than 750,000 meals to food banks, soup kitchens and social service programs. Last year, hunters donated nearly 100,000 pounds of venison to more than 4,000 emergency food assistance agencies in 53 participating counties through

the state’s 21 regional food banks. “Each year, the Hunters Sharing the Harvest program brings thousands of pounds of highly desired venison to the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank,” said Kendall Hanna, executive director of the regional food bank. “The families we serve look forward to venison being available each year and, since 2001, we have distributed more than 103,000 pounds of the nutritious, high-protein product for their tables.” Pennsylvanians can also donate money to the Buck for the Pot campaign, which supports Hunters Sharing the Harvest. To learn more about the program or to obtain a list of participating meat processors, visit www.sharedeer.org, or call tollfree 866-474-2141.

here is an enemy among us as we head into the woods for the opening day of deer season tomorrow. It lurks on the forest floor and in the branches above the ground. To make matters worse, this particular enemy is rarely seen until it is attached to your skin. Ticks. They’ve been seemingly more numerous in the woods each hunting season, but this year, from what I’ve seen, has been the worst. A trip to Bradford County a couple weeks ago to hunt fall turkey turned up 10 ticks clinging to my pants when I exited the woods. Last weekend, while scouting for deer signs in a large tract of woods in Mountain Top, I pulled off dozens of ticks throughout the day, not to mention the 70 or more that were on my dog. Every few minutes I’d stop and sweep ticks off my pants, only to have a new batch reappear. Some were as small as the tip of a pen, some were all black and others had a dark red tip on the body. For as many as I found it seemed that the entire forest floor was coated with ticks, and there was no safe haven. With every step I took in the dry leaves, more ticks would appear. It made what should’ve been an enjoyable day in the woods a frustrating one. Not surprisingly, several successful archery hunters in the area have said their deer were infested with the pest. They’re everywhere.

Numbers increasing During the summer, I spoke to Dr. Doug Ayers of the Plains Animal Hospital about ticks and the dangers they pose to pets. Ayers has been practicing for 21 years and he said he’s never seen it this bad. He added that ticks seem to be worse in the spring and in the fall. That window seems to be spreading late into November as mild temperatures linger. Around the same time I spoke to Ayers, I also asked Dr. Steven Ostroff of the state Department of Health if tick numbers are increasing. It is, he said, adding that Pennsylvania has between 4,000 and 5,000 lyme disease cases each year, ranking it in the top five states in the country. The major culprit for lyme disease is the deer tick, but deer aren’t where the disease originates. Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife veterinarian Dr. Walt Cottrell said the deer mouse is the primary carrier of the bacteria that causes lyme disease. If a tick feeds on a deer mouse carrying the bacteria, then it becomes infected and can transmit the bacteria when it feeds on other hosts. Fortunately, if you do find a tick -- or more likely, ticks -- biting into your skin, there is time. Ostroff said once the tick attaches to your skin it feeds until it becomes engorged. Afterward, he said, the tick begins regurgitating into the host, and that’s when the lyme bacteria is transmitted. You have approximately 24 hours to get the thing off before it can infect you with lyme disease. The days that I’ve found the most ticks crawling on my pants were unseasonably warm and dry. Perhaps the rain we had during the week was enough to knock the tick population down a little bit, but even if it was I’m sure they’re thriving again after the warm weekend we’ve had. I guess the threat of ticks won’t go away until the ground freezes or the snow falls. It’s frustrating, but the presence of ticks and the threat of lyme disease aren’t enough to keep me out of the woods for the first day of deer season. Heck, it’s not going to keep me out of the woods anytime during the year. But it is going to make me stock up on DEET and other repellents. And while I’ll be keeping one eye open for deer on Monday, I’ll keep the other on the lookout for that little enemy lurking on the forest floor.

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For deer that lock horns, what follows is grisly By RAY SASSER The Dallas Morning News

DALLAS — Logan Haley spent most of the Texas deer season’s opening weekend sick. His father, Danny Haley, wasn’t having much fun, either. Instead of hunting, he was nursing a sick son. Logan, 15 at the time, made a recovery Saturday night, and the hunters went to their Nolan County deer blind for a short hunting session Sunday morning. Logan turned 16 on Monday, and his family and friends had planned a surprise party at 3:30 p.m. Sunday. They’d made a long drive for a short hunt but it turned out to be worthwhile. "About 9 a.m., I saw a deer in

the ranch road, facing away from us with his head down, feeding, and his front legs wide apart," said Danny Haley. "There was something unusual about the deer and, when I looked closer, it appeared to be a huge non-typical buck. All I could see was horns." Logan studied the deer and thought he was seeing two bucks fighting, except there wasn’t much action. As soon as the buck gave him a shot, Logan took it. As the hunters walked up to the fallen deer, they realized why it looked so unusual. Logan had shot a live deer with the antlers of a second buck locked in its antlers. All

that was left of the second buck was its head, a portion of its neck and a husk of hide. From the odor and appearance of the second deer, Danny Haley figured it had been dead three to five days and coyotes had eaten it, thus freeing the victor of a buck fight to briefly continue a normal life with an odd and smelly crown. "The buck Logan shot appeared to be in pretty good shape," said Danny. "He was out feeding, moving around, and his movements didn’t appear to be all that hampered." Logan Haley got an early 16th birthday present and still made it home for his surprise party. His dad is working with a taxi-

dermist to determine the best mount that will display the unusual trophy. Whitetail bucks are very aggressive toward one another. Fights are a common occurrence, though they rarely last more than a few seconds. On rare occasions, bucks get their antlers intertwined in such a way that they cannot get them separated. Danny Haley said the bucks’ his son’s antlers were impossible to separate by hand. What frequently happens is the force with which bucks fight causes a tine to flex slightly, locking the antlers when tension is released. Unless humans intervene by cutting antlers to free the deer,

locked antlers invariably spell death for both bucks. Wildlife photographer Wyman Meinzer studied coyotes as a graduate student and has hunted, trapped and photographed deer and coyotes his entire life. Meinzer said what he suspects in a case like this is that one deer is killed in the fight, usually by a broken neck. When coyotes find the windfall, the live buck still has some fight in him. The coyotes concentrate on eating the dead deer. The experience of watching coyotes eat a vanquished foe literally at the end of its nose must be traumatic for the live deer. Whitetail bucks are exceptionally strong for their size.

Once the burden is reduced to 20 pounds or so of head and neck, a healthy buck can handle the load — until the coyotes are hungry again. Over the last 30 years, I’ve heard of no more than two situations in Texas like the Haley bucks. Nobody knows how many bucks die locked together but the number is undoubtedly higher on ranches where the herd is balanced between bucks and does and a lot more fights break out. Many large ranches have locked antlers that are often found by cowboys on horseback, deer hunters atop huge trucks that provide good visibility or quail hunters walking through cover away from the road.

Maryland officials on watch for CWD The Associated Press

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Maryland’s firearm deer season is opening with state officials on the watch for chronic wasting disease. The two-week season opened Saturday. The Department of Natural Resources says it is operating a chronic wasting disease surveillance station at the Green Ridge State Forest headquarters. Hunters who kill deer anywhere in Allegany County or in Washington County west of Clear Spring are encouraged to bring them in for sampling. The testing is voluntary and free, and the hunters can keep the deer. Chronic wasting disease is a neurological ailment fatal to deer. There is no evidence that it poses a risk to humans. A deer killed last year in the Green Ridge State Forest was the first in Maryland to test positive for the disease.

Ohio MARIETTA, Ohio — Hunters taking part in Ohio deer-gun season that opens Monday will no longer have to take their kills to a check station for a physical inspection. Deer hunters will be able to use a new automated system for checking game. It was introduced earlier this year by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. Lindsay Rist of the department’s Division of Wildlife says the new system offers three options for reporting deer harvests. Hunters can report by phone, through the Internet or to a traditional licensing agent. Hunters have a full week to harvest whitetail deer after the deer-gun season opens statewide Monday. The season also will include an extra weekend of gun hunting on December 17-18. New York LEICESTER, N.Y. — Author-

ities say a 70-year-old man has died after he fell out of a tree stand while hunting in western New York. State police said Wednesday that a local medical examiner’s office notified troopers Monday that Robert Miller of Portville had died. Miller was injured Saturday morning when he fell about 15 feet from his stand on a tree in the Livingston County town of Leicester, 30 miles south of Rochester. Miller suffered broken ribs, a punctured lung and a cut to his face. Troopers say their investigation found that Miller didn’t secure a safety strap while hunting, and fell after shooting at a deer. Saturday was the first day of deer season in western New York for hunters using shotguns or rifles. Mississippi OXFORD, Miss. — Thirty-

two bow hunters have signed up this year for the city of Oxford’s urban deer hunt program. The program began last year after years of complaints about deer-vehicle collisions and the animals wrecking gardens and landscaping. Jimmy Allgood, Oxford emergency management coordinator and the city’s designated "deer guy," tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that 30 hunter participated last year. Allgood says 109 deer were killed inside the city last year. He says hunters accounted for only 44 of those. He says most of the rest died after colliding with cars. The four-month bow hunt runs throughout the 2011-12 deer season. Maine AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine’s deer-hunting season has closed. The firearms season officially ended half-an-hour before sunset on Saturday.

MCCLATCHY NEWS SERVICE

Jim Pennington of Buckner, Mo., was one of thousands who found success during Missouri’s recent deer opener.

The Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife issued 26,390 hunting permit this year, down sharply from last year when more than 40,000 permit

were issued. Officials cut back to give the deer population a chance to recover following harsh winters in 2008 and 2009 that thinned the herd.

No new federal limits on target shooting Recreational outings on public lands will not face new regulations at this time, says the Obama administration. By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press Writer

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eas of the West, where some residents have clashed with gun owners who use public lands for target practice. In a memo obtained by The Associated Press, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said his department supports opportunities for hunting, fishing and recreational shooting on federal land. "By facilitating access, multiple use and safe activities on public lands, the Bureau of Land Management helps ensure that the vast majority of the 245 million acres it oversees are open and remain open to recreational shooting," he wrote. The memo directs BLM Director Bob Abbey to "take no further action to develop or implement" the draft policy on recreational shooting. Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Mont., who had sharply criticized the earlier proposal, said Wednesday he was glad the Obama administration had reversed course. "But it would be a lot better for everyone if they stopped doing things to restrict gun rights that require them to

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But a new group formed as a result of the issue, the Tennessee Hunters Alliance, opposes the state’s limits on hunting hogs. Chris Henderson, with the Tellico Bear and Boar Club, hunts with dogs and is a supporter of the new group. "They’re actually protecting hogs from hunters," Henderson said of the TWRA. James Fleming, a farmer and outdoorsman in Maury County, said he’s afraid hogs will change the state’s wild game makeup and compete with native wildlife for acorns and other food. He backs the new rules and said hunting wild hogs isn’t a viable way to keep the animal’s population down. "If you’re going to try and control a nuisance animal by shooting them one at a time and they’re breeding 10 at a time, they’re going to outrun you," he said.

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LOS ANGELES — Steve Jobs’ widow may never find a better moment to sell her late husband’s $6.78 billion of Apple and Walt Disney stock. Under U.S. law, Jobs’ heirs may sell Apple and Disney shares and avoid $867 million in capital gains taxes. If Apple’s late co-founder left his estate to his wife, Laurene Powell Jobs, the family won’t be liable for the 35 percent estate tax until she dies or gives money to others, according to estate planners. “I can’t see any reason not to sell all of it,” said Kacy Gott, chief planning officer at the wealth-management firm Aspiriant. “They should have been looking to diversify years ago.” Jobs’ heirs should sell some stock to reduce the estate’s risks, said Joyce Franklin, a San Francisco financial planner who works with high-tech executives. Making sales more attractive: the capital gains tax is set to rise to 20 percent in 2013 from 15 percent now, and highincome Americans will also be subject to a 3.8 percent levy on unearned gains. Jobs owned 138 million Disney shares, valued last week at $4.74 billion, and 5.55 million Apple shares worth $2.05 billion, according to filings. Proxy statements show Jobs moved his holdings into trusts as his health worsened. Trusts let people distribute wealth over time and avoid probate fees. If Jobs had sold all of his Disney and Apple on Oct. 4, the day before he died, he would have registered a gain of about $5.78 billion and a tax bill of $867 million. That’s based on his investment of $55 million in Pixar Studios, now part of Disney, and Apple shares granted in March 2003. They vested three years later at $64.66 each, filings show. Candace Pugatch, a spokeswoman for Laurene Powell Jobs, declined to comment on her tax situation or whether she plans to buy or sell any Apple or Disney shares. Of the two holdings, Disney would be more complicated to sell. The stock represents almost 12 times the average number of Disney shares traded each day over the past year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The Apple holdings represent less than a third of the 17.6 million shares traded on a daily basis, making an open market sale much simpler. Jobs died on Oct. 5 at age 56 from complications of pancreatic cancer. His will hasn’t been made public. Jobs is survived by his wife and four children, Lisa, Eve, Erin and Reed. Under U.S. law, the trust can sell the shares and incur taxes

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Rosy economic data vs. reality By BRAD PLUMER The Washington Post

Policymakers tend to like hard numbers and definitive forecasts. We’ll get X amount of growth next year. This budget will produce Y amount of revenue. It’s a nice, neat way of dealing with the world. And yet, so often, the official predictions turn out to be wildly wrong. “The untold story of this recession,” writes Justin Wolfers, was the

“many false signals given by U.S. GDP data which have given false hope, leading [to] policy mistakes.” Overly rosy gross domestic product numbers back in early 2009 led the White House to misjudge the severity of the downturn, failing to plan for worst-case scenarios. Last month’s encouraging growth figures seemed to ease policymakers out of crisis mode, even though everyone knows that these numbers go

through several revisions. It shouldn’t have been a surprise when we learned Tuesday that GDP growth turned out to be less robust than thought - revised down to 2 percent from 2.5 percent. Yet often it is a shock. That’s why some experts think we need a different approach. Charles Manski, an economist at NorthwestSee FORECAST, Page 4D

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Carol and Joe Hayer of Shavertown leave Main Hardware in Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday with their purchases.

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Any big box store can sell you a plastic light-up Santa, just like the one on your neighbor’s lawn; Larry Stirewalt can sell you one like you’ve never seen before. Since the 1970s, at holiday time Stirewalt and his inlaws before him have opened Christmasland, a 12-room emporium of light-up joy above Main Hardware in Wilkes-Barre. He is one of a number of local business owners who carve out their niche each Christmas by offering unique items shoppers are unlikely to find in a

chain store. “Our whole idea is to have a big selection,” Stirewalt said. “So the chain stores and the big boxes will have one of those plastic Santas or a snowman, and they’ll have like 10,000 of them. We have lots of different kinds and five or six of each kind.” Many of the items Stirewalt carries, like tinsel trees See RETAILERS, Page 4D

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Online retailers power up holiday deals for Cyber Monday WELL, WE’VE gotten through Black Friday (which began on Thursday at many stores) and now we’re on the cusp of Cyber Monday. The online equivalent to Black Friday started in 2005 as retailers saw the amount of shopping being done the Monday after Thanksgiving. Six years later, it’s going strong and some deals actually rival those offered just two days ago. Check out Shop.org and CyberMonday.com for deals or visit individual retailer sites, especially amazon.com for special offers that often include free shipping, percentage-off deals or buy-one, get-one free promotions. According to Shop.org’s eHoliday

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If you’re looking for a cute, unique gift, visit Rite Aid and get an ornament, mouse pad, magnet or mug with your photo on them. Buy-one, get-one free when you use your Wellness + Rewards card. And if you buy $25 worth of those photo gifts, you’ll also get a $5 Up Reward. Also at Rite Aid is a great offer that combines a sale price, an Up Reward and a rebate. Buy the Simply Saline Neti Pot Kit for $9.99 and you’ll get a $4 Up Reward, which is a coupon on your receipt you can use toward your next store purchase. Then fill out this rebate form: www.armandhammer.com/PDF/NetiPotKit_RebateInfo.pdf and you’ll get the $9.99 back. CVS has Complete multi-purpose contact lens solution for $8.99 and

when you use your Extra Care Card, you’ll get $8.99 back in Extra Bucks, which, like Up Rewards, are printed on your receipt and can be used for a future store purchase. If you’re heading to the liquor store anyway this week, here’s a nice way to get a free four-bottle wine rack. Go to www.finewineandgoodspirits.com and have a bottle ordered and delivered to your local wine and spirits shop. If you are one of the first 450 people to do so Monday, you will also get the free wine rack. So place those orders at 12:01 a.m. Andrew M. Seder, a Times Leader staff writer, may be reached at 570-829-7269. If you know of any local steals or deals, send them to aseder@timesleader.com.

n light of the turmoil rocking finance and politics here and around the world, it might seem a chore to express gratitude this holiday season. But psychologists advise that’s exactly what we should do, for our own wellbeing and as inspiration to share our relative good fortune with others. In that spirit, here are some things to be thankful for, particularly in matters affecting financial satisfaction and the health of our society: Alan Simpson: The curmudgeonly conservative former senator from Wyoming is now aiming his famously sharp tongue not just at Democrats across the aisle but at former Republican colleagues who refuse to face the reality that balancing an out-of-whack budget requires both higher revenues and expense cuts. True to his reputation as a plain-spoken maverick, he also blasted AARP for its exaggerated ads warning against cuts in Social Security benefits. Small businesses: God bless them, every one. Well, most of them anyway. Like the resourceful business owners mentioned in Matt Hughes’ article today, small business people are part of their communities as well as contributors to the economy. So Butch Pisano continues to sell Christmas trees at his Sunoco station years after he needed the extra income. “You’ve got to care about what you’re selling,” he said. And who you’re selling to; if only the geniuses who came up with financial derivatives shared that sentiment. Generous donors: Tough times are a double whammy for charities that serve the poor, such as the St. Vincent de Paul Kitchen. As more people look to them for food and other support, fewer people and companies are able to provide donations of cash or food. So when people such John and Tina Dowd, owners of Sundance Vacations, step in with a donation valued at $50,000, it gets notice. But let’s also be grateful for all the people who give what they can to help others in need, whether by opening their checkbooks or spending time that others would devote to themselves. Steady stock markets: Given the daily gyrations and overheated reporting, you might not notice that stock prices aren’t far today from their levels a year ago. Certainly the changes this year pale in comparison to the meltdowns of the Great Recession – or the outsized gains of the dot.com-fueled 1990s. That said, we should be thankful — or at least hopeful — for … Skeptical investors: It’s an exhilarating ride when stock prices are soaring. During an earlier bull market I marveled that nearly every advertising client I called on could tell me how much money they “made” that day as shares leaped. You need only to look at the freefall in 2008-2009 to see that things can go south just as rapidly. While market mavens rue the fleeing individual investor, sitting on the sidelines — or at least being much more careful — seems like a smart strategy right now. The 90 percent with jobs: I know this is a backhanded compliment to the economy, but really, if 9 out of 10 of us have jobs that means most Americans are both earning a living and experiencing the dignity of work. Yes, too large a share don’t make what they should, either because wages have stagnated or hours have been cut, but hopefully we’ll muddle our way out of this mess and better times will return. In the meantime, it’s better to earn something than wait anxiously for unemployment benefits to expire. And let’s not forget what’s most important to be grateful for — the family members, friends and neighbors who make our lives richer and more fulfilling. Sharing our lives with others through good times and bad has more meaning than the size of our bank accounts. Ron Bartizek, Times Leader business editor, may be reached at rbartizek@timesleader.com or 570-970-7157.

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LONDON — Industry analysts and anxious travelers expressed fears last week for the survival of Britain’s venerable tour operator Thomas Cook, after the company, which took more than 22 million people on holidays in the latest year, revealed its financial problems had worsened. Shares in Europe’s second-largest tour operator lost three-fourths of their already depressed value after the company said it was seeking new agreements with its main creditors, barely a month after announcing it had negotiated new funding arrangements to carry it through the slow winter months. The company insisted flights would leave as usual and that it was taking new bookings, but Britons who have bought holidays through the firm were anxious. Jamila Juma-Ware, 27, who has booked a holiday in Tenerife in the next three weeks for herself and her mother, said she was “praying it’s

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going to be all right ... but I’m not confident.” Several small British travel firms have gone under since the global economic crisis hit in 2008, but Thomas Cook is an industry giant, and a fixture of Britain’s main streets. “There are a lot of small independent travel agents around here, but I said I’d rather just book it through someone like Thomas Cook because they’re big and there’s more of a guarantee they won’t go bust,” Juma-Ware said. “And then this week this happens. “ Thomas Cook is, like many airlines and tour operators, suffering from weak consumer demand as Europe’s financial crisis has people worried about their jobs. Unrest in Tunisia — normally the top winter destination for French travelers — and Egypt, flooding in Bangkok and disappointing sales in Russia all have added to the pressure on the company. Analysts said the financial troubles could scare away customers, darkening the firm’s prospects.

“Legitimate questions will be asked as to whether Thomas Cook can survive long-term,” said James Hollins, analyst at Evolution Securities. He added that he believed the company could pull through on the strength of businesses outside Britain, but “a more flexible financial structure and massive turnaround are required.” Thomas Cook was due to report annual earnings for 2010-11 on Thursday, but it has put that off indefinitely “as a result of deterioration of trading in some areas of the business, and of its cash and liquidity position since its year end.” Sam Weihagen, Thomas Cook’s interim chief executive, insisted it was business as usual: “Flights are leaving on schedule, shops are open and we’re taking bookings.” Weihagen said people who book package holidays would be protected by the Air Travel Organizers’ Licensing insurance program which is funded by contributions from travel companies. However, those who book only flights are advised to buy their own travel insurance.

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Q: As a supervisor, I have always had a friendly, nonconfrontational leadership style. I have a dry sense of humor and enjoy joking around with my staff. Recently, one of my employees told me that she feels the others are very disrespectful towards me. I was surprised, because I never viewed their bantering as disrespect. In the past, my manager has also suggested that employees may not respect me because I am too nice and friendly with them. I dis-

agreed at the time, but now I think she may be right. How can I overcome my history and get more respect? A: Before undertaking a leadership style makeover, you must correctly identify the change you need to make. The problem here is not that you are a nice, friendly, jovial person. After all, no one wants to work for a supervisor who is humorless and mean-spirited. The more likely difficulty is that you lack “management presence” — that is, the ability to comfortably relate to people from

More employees faking illness to use up sick days By RONNIE REESE Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — If you plan to use thelastofyour2011sickdaysbefore the end of the year — even if you’re notreallyundertheweather—you might not be alone. Companies that track employee time off and other worker issues say sick-day use among those who aren’t sick is on the rise. From 2006 to 2010, the Workforce Institute at Kronos, a human resources policy group, found an18 percent increase among workers who admitted to taking a sick day when they weren’t really sick. And a 2007 survey by human resources consultant CCH found that twothirdsofU.S.employeeswhocalled in sick at the last minute actually weren’t. “That’s ‘fake’ sick time,” director Joyce Maroney said. Fake sick time is something that many companies can’t afford, especially in a struggling economy, but the reasons employees have for faking it often go beyond just playing hooky. Using sick days to tend to the needs of children and older relatives is increasing among workers whose employers do not allow sick leave for family care, staffing pro-

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MarketPulse 4Q MAGIC Stocks have plunged in November. But for the quarter, the market looks good. The Dow is up 3.2 percent since the start of October. There’s some history that suggests the quarter could end on an up note. Most years, fourth-quarter gains are “magical,” according to the Stock Trader’s Almanac. A strong fourth quarter has been one of the market’s most consistent trends. The Almanac attributes that in part to the good cheer that leads up to the winter holidays. It also has to do with professional money managers, who make changes to their portfolios to get the best possible yearend return.

STRESSFUL HOLIDAYS The Federal Reserve said last week that big banks would have to undergo a new set of “stress tests.” The tests are meant to put banks through hypothetical worst-case scenarios and make sure they have the capital they’d need to withstand them. The tests are expected to be more comprehensive than the round most banks underwent in 2009. But Barclays Capital says banks have much more capital and much less risk than they did then.

A VIRTUAL SPREE Analysts have started to pay nearly as much attention to “Cyber Monday” – the boom in online sales that occurs the Monday after Thanksgiving – than the traditionally frenzied Black Friday. This year, 39 percent of consumers plan to shop on that day compared to 37 percent last year, says research company PriceGrabber. That’s nearly as many as the 40 percent of consumers who plan to shop on Black Friday. Most of those shoppers will cash in on online deals, discounts and free shipping offers available that day. Most of the online shoppers will do so from the comfort of their homes, but four percent will shop from their smartphone. Francesca Levy, Jenni Sohn • AP

An unusual honor

Tom Atteberry’s FPA New Income fund (FPNIX) can boast an unusual honor: it hasn’t posted a loss since 1984. It’s the only U.S. mutual fund with that record. He says it’s because his fund has a disciplined, defensive approach. The fund has the freedom to invest wherever it wants. That means Atteberry can avoid risk when he sees it.

InsiderQ&A

How have you managed not to have a down year since 1984? We take a very strict discipline for every security that we own. So we look to say, if an adverse event were to happen – say interest rates were to rise 100 basis points in a 12-month period – will this security still produce a positive total return for us? It’s a way for us to say, “Am I paid for the risk I’m taking?” whether it’s interest rate risk or whether it’s credit risk.

Atteberry

Some other fund managers might say they do something similar, but you’ve succeeded, so what’s different about your fund? When we start with the premise of, “O.K., I want to have a 12-month period of absolute positive return,” if that’s the objective we’ve set for ourselves, then it becomes “what can I own in the fixed-income markets that will help me accomplish that?” So ... if we can’t find anything that’s attractive in, say, investmentgrade corporate bonds, then we don’t own any. If we find a multitude of attractive bonds to own in the single-family mortgage space, then we have a big allocation there. So we find ourselves free to go where we can find the bonds that will satisfy our objective. And most managers don’t have that degree of freedom. What areas are you staying away from? We’ve been reducing our allocation this year and anything we had in the credit space we owned that were triple-B rated or less. We had been as high as 10 percent, and we’re down now to about 3 percent in that high-yield credit space. The reason for that is we see a tremendous amount of uncertainty... that amount of uncertainty we think results in very anemic growth for the U.S., from a GDP standpoint, so you say, “O.K., why do I want to take on credit risk given a very slow growth economy?” What role does this fund play in a typical client’s portfolio? People have hired us as a part of their fixed-income allocation. They’ll have some other firm they’ve hired and I think they really have hired us as, “O.K. you’re an anchor to that volatility the marketplace may have. If I’ve experienced volatility in equities or I’ve experienced volatility in other fixed-income managers, you guys are an anchor. You’re going to produce a positive return and you’re going to have lower volatility.” And that mix is helpful. So what have you been hearing lately from your clients? Investors probably value reduced volatility right now. Yes. We saw money flow in more earnestly starting in the summer as the uncertainty started to grow. So that’s a way of indicating to us our clientele is getting more nervous. And in talking with our clients we’ve found that they’ve owned a lot of credit, or a manager who’s had a lot of corporate credit. And they were getting concerned with the fact that their corporate credit portfolio was starting to act just like their domestic equities portfolio... So we’ve seen some of them reduce their corporate bond exposure because they see they’re just replicating their equity exposure.

Travelin’ Man What’s the next big thing in travel technology? What matters is what you can do with that smartphone in your hand. What you can do is carry an active itinerary with you that you can interact with us on. Say you were rushing out to JFK today to catch a flight. Expedia can send you a message that says, “Hey, we know you’re running late to the airport,” because we can see where you are by the GPS in your phone. “Don’t worry. Your flight was delayed.” And we can tell you your best two rebooking options. We know your profile; we know you like to fly on American. We know that you tend to fly an aisle seat in economy. We’ll check that and say, “Here are your two best options. Just click ‘accept.’”

The president of Expedia Worldwide imagines a day when the online travel company will make getting stuck at the air airport less of a hassle. Scott Durchslag, the former chief operating op officer of Skype, brings an eye for new technology to Expedia. He’s trying to reignite customers’ passion for travel tra despite tighter airport security and rising fees. Durchslag met with The Associated Press and discussed everything from the economy to his favorite travel destinations. cation on the part of the consumer about what they’re looking for. We see people are tending to stay a little bit closer to home. But the bottom line is people are still traveling. They’re just being savvier about where they go and what value they seek. There’s a big market for spontaneous travel.

EXPEDIA WORLDWIDE PRESIDENT

What are the opportunities to grow in the airfare booking business? It’s starting to be complemented with more of a view toward destinations and experiences. So it isn’t just about checking Munich off of your “I want to see this” list. It’s, “I want to experience Oktoberfest.” There are opportunities in the marketing of package experiences. Part of what triggers people to travel, especially during these types of times, is that sense of escape. We’ll be doing more to make that possible.

SCOTT DURCHSLAG

Expedia Worldwide (EXPE) Friday’s close: $26.11 $19.61

What’s your outlook for travel demand? We are seeing a real flight to value and much greater sophisti-

52-WEEK RANGE

32.89

Price-to-earnings ratio:

based on past 12 months’ results

Earnings 2010 2009

$422 million $300 million

Revenue 2010 2009

$3.4 billion $3 billion

LocalStocks COMPANY

TICKER

52-WK RANGE FRIDAY $CHG %CHG %CHG %RTN RANK %RTN LOW HIGH CLOSE 1WK 1WK 1MO 1QTR YTD 1YR 1YR 5YRS* PE YLD

Air Products

APD

72.26 2 98.01

76.74

-4.34

-5.4

t -15.6 —8.76

3.8

3.0

Amer Water Works

AWK

23.93 8 31.49

29.82

-0.63

-2.1

s 17.9 +24.68

1 15.9a

3.1

Amerigas Part LP

APU

36.76 5 51.50

42.88

-0.80

-1.8

s -12.1 —4.25

11.9

6.9

Aqua America Inc

WTR

19.28 4 23.79

20.96

-0.73

-3.4

-6.8

-.42

-0.5

3.1

Arch Dan Mid

ADM

23.69 3 38.02

27.90

-1.00

-3.5

-7.2 —3.14

-1.8

2.5

AutoZone Inc

AZO

246.26 9 341.89 322.96

-6.44

-2.0

s 18.5 +24.63

1 23.0

...

Bank of America

BAC

-0.61 -10.6

t -61.2—53.81 5 -28.1

...

0.8

Bk of NY Mellon

2.9

Bon Ton Store

BONT

CVS Caremark Corp

5.13 1 15.31

5.17

17.10 1 32.50

17.70

2.39 1 17.49

2.37

CVS

30.49 8 39.50

Cigna Corp

CocaCola

-6.4

t -41.4—33.77 4 -10.2

-0.47 -16.4

t -81.3—82.44 5 -39.1

...

8.5

36.85

-1.31

-3.4

6.0 +18.35

6.6

1.4

35.63 4 52.95

40.92

-1.17

-2.8

11.6 +11.64

-0.2

0.1

61.29 4 71.77

64.74

-2.65

-3.9

-1.6 +3.06

9.2

2.9

Comcast Corp A

CMCSA 19.19 3 27.16

21.00

-0.43

-2.0

-4.0 +5.16

-3.4

2.1

Community Bk Sys

CBU

21.67 4 28.95

23.88

-1.81

-7.0

t -14.0

3.2

4.4

Community Hlth Sys

CYH

14.61 2 42.50

17.41

-1.94 -10.0

t -53.4—46.64 5 -12.3

...

Entercom Comm

ETM

4.61 1 13.63

4.72

-0.82 -14.8

t -59.2—48.30 5 -23.9

...

Fairchild Semicond

FCS

10.25 2 21.02

11.56

-1.59 -12.1

t -25.9—16.77 3

-6.8

...

Frontier Comm

FTR

t -44.6—32.38 4

-6.4

Genpact Ltd

Harte Hanks Inc

HHS

Heinz

5.22 1

-1.22

9.84

5.39

0.09

1.7

13.09 3 18.16

14.60

-0.74

7.00 2 13.74

8.23

HNZ

46.99 4 55.00

Hershey Company

HSY

Kraft Foods Lowes Cos

+.32

-3.9 +2.17

36 13.9

-4.8

2 23.4a

1.2

-0.92 -10.1

s -35.6—30.81 4 -17.8

3.9

49.99

-1.08

-2.1

1.1 +6.80

5.6

3.8

45.67 7 60.96

55.36

-0.67

-1.2

t 17.4 +20.39

3.0

2.5

KFT

29.80 7 36.30

34.32

-0.45

-1.3

8.9 +16.18

2.6

3.4

LOW

18.07 5 27.45

22.68

-0.63

-2.7

-9.6 +2.29

-4.0

2.5

M&T Bank

MTB

66.40 1 91.05

67.70

-4.06

-5.7

t -22.2 —8.82

-7.5

4.1

McDonalds Corp

MCD

72.14 9 95.45

92.10

-0.64

-0.7

s 20.0 +18.95

1 19.3

3.0

NBT Bncp

NBTB

17.05 3 24.98

19.26

-1.68

4.2

Nexstar Bdcstg Grp

NXST

4.55 6 10.28

7.53

PNC Financial

PNC

42.70 3 65.19

-8.0

t -20.2—11.63 3

-1.2

-1.58 -17.3

s 25.7 +44.81

1 10.9

...

49.07

-3.62

-6.9

s -19.2 —8.12

-4.0

2.9 4.9

PPL Corp

PPL

24.10 8 30.27

28.57

-0.96

-3.3

8.5 +17.85

0.1

Penn Millers Hldg

PMIC

13.16 0 20.63

20.40

0.04

0.2

s 54.2 +52.24

...

Penna REIT

PEI

6.50 2 17.34

8.36

-1.08 -11.4

t -42.5—35.45 4 -17.8

...

7.2

PepsiCo

PEP

58.50 3 71.89

62.49

-1.40

-2.2

2.7

3.3

Philip Morris Intl

55.85 9 73.46

71.31

-1.78

-2.4

s 21.8 +24.98

1 24.0a

4.3

Procter & Gamble

57.56 4 67.72

61.00

-2.24

-3.5

1.8

3.4

Prudential Fncl

PRU

42.45 1 67.52

44.91

-3.62

-7.5

t -23.5—11.59 3

-9.1

3.2

SLM Corp

SLM

10.91 2

17.11

11.99

-1.08

-8.3

-4.8 +5.72

2 -22.7

3.3

SLM Corp flt pfB

SLMpB 39.65 1 60.00

41.40

0.15

0.4

-5.5

0.0

... 11.2

Southn Union Co

SUG

23.60 9 44.65

40.87

-1.06

-2.5

t 69.8 +70.17

9.6

1.5

TJX Cos

TJX

42.55 9 61.71

58.75

-0.79

-1.3

s 32.3 +27.92

1 16.8

1.3

UGI Corp

UGI

24.07 5 33.53

28.15

-1.29

-4.4

t -10.9 —4.01

3.2

3.7

Verizon Comm

31.60 6 38.95

35.35

-1.11

-3.0

6.4

5.7

-4.3 -5.2

+.23 +.73

...

-1.2 +15.34

WalMart Strs

WMT

48.31 8 59.40

56.89

-0.34

-0.6

5.5 +7.92

5.4

2.6

Weis Mkts

WMK

36.52 3 42.20

37.83

-1.46

-3.7

-6.2 +1.65

2.0

3.2

Notes on data: Total returns, shown for periods 1-year or greater, include dividend income and change in market price. Three-year and five-year returns annualized. Ellipses indicate data not available. Price-earnings ratio unavailable for closed-end funds and companies with net losses over prior four quarters. Rank classifies a stock’s performance relative to all U.S.-listed shares, from top 20 percent (far-left box) to bottom 20 percent (far-right box).

The quarter’s winners

COMPANY

El Paso Corp.

TICKER

QTD PRICE CHANGE

40.4%

Yields, mortgage rates remain low Investors bought U.S. government debt, driving yields lower amid anxiety about the global economy. The yield on the 10-year treasury fell as low as 1.89 percent last week. Mortgage rates were also low. The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 3.98 from 4 percent the previous week, hovering above a record low of 3.94 percent for a fourth straight week.

InterestRates

Money market mutual funds

PRIME FED Taxable—national avg RATE FUNDS Flex-funds Money Market/Retail FRIDAY 3.25 .13 Tax-exempt—national avg 6 MO AGO 3.25 .13 BofA Muni Reserves/Instit Cap 1 YR AGO 3.25 .13

SOURCE: FactSet

Data through mid-day Nov. 25

0.01 0.10 $ 2,500 min (800) 325-3539 0.01 0.11$ 100,000 min (800) 345-6611

FRIDAY YIELD

1WK

2.36 3.81 3.86 5.01 9.04 1.06

0.00 -0.02 0.09 -0.02 0.42 -0.02

FRIDAY YIELD

1WK

0.02 0.15 0.06 0.27 0.93

0.01 0.01 0.03 -0.01 0.01

s t s t t

s s s s t

-0.13 -0.13 -0.13 -0.24 -0.62

0.16 0.34 0.20 0.83 2.39

0.07 0.01 0.16 0.78

10-year T-Note 1.96 30-year T-Bond 2.92 Money fund data provided by iMoneyNet Inc.

-0.05 -0.07

t t

t -0.95 t -1.37

3.72 4.77

1.72 2.72

U.S. BOND INDEXES Broad market Lehman Triple-A corporate Moody’s Corp. Inv. Grade Lehman Municipal Bond Buyer U.S. high yield Barclays Treasury Barclays

TREASURYS 3-month T-Bill 1-year T-Bill 6-month T-Bill 2-year T-Note 5-year T-Note

CHANGE 1MO 3MO 1YR t t s t s t

t t s t s t

3.29 5.31 4.22 5.95 10.15 2.46

CHANGE 1MO 3MO 1YR

TICKER

FRIDAY NAV

WK CHG

4WK

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17.24 12.46 46.96 30.24 33.90 32.93 27.25 15.80 25.23 24.95 26.11 17.88 16.64 17.98 13.25 27.85 92.90 63.73 24.59 12.97 78.96 33.51 41.14 1.99 2.01 17.89 12.41 12.37 49.93 26.46 11.63 7.56 10.25 10.73 10.73 10.73 10.73 21.23 29.82 6.30 54.21 107.08 107.06 11.13 106.37 106.37 13.81 60.22 10.62 11.85 10.99 10.99 12.63 28.92 28.93 28.91 29.56 51.07 23.87 11.67

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GROUP, FUND

52-WK HIGH LOW

-0.25 -1.04 0.14 -0.25 1.32 -0.65

MutualFunds

2.15 3.73 3.36 4.87 6.61 0.96

52-WK HIGH LOW

RETURN/RANK 1YR 5YR +1.3/A +4.5/C -.9/B -10.7/C -15.2/B -4.6/C -6.4/D +1.2/A -4.8/D -9.2/C +2.3/A -4.1/C -4.9/C -3.9/B +3.4/D -18.4/E -7.7/E -3.7/C -14.9/B -2.2/C -2.1/B -1.8/A -1.4/A +.1/ -.5/ -12.6/B -3.3/E -3.2/E -13.3/A -.9/B +.4/A +1.5/C +.4/D +.9/E +1.1/E +1.4/E +1.1/E -2.8/B -4.8/C +.9/D -2.8/B -1.3/A -1.4/A +6.2/A -1.3/A -1.3/A +6.2/B -4.0/C +1.5/B -2.7/A +6.0/A +6.0/A -16.1/D -2.2/B -2.2/B -2.3/B +.6/A +.7/A -.9/B +.3/

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Rank: Fund’s letter grade compared with others in the same performance group; an A indicates fund performed in the top 20 percent; an E, in the bottom 20 percent. PRICE-TO-EARNINGS RATIO EPS

24.5

-$0.5

PRICE

$24.54

The fourth quarter is more than halfway over, and it has been rocky so far. The S&P 500 rose 14 percent in October before hitting F5 Networks Inc. FFIV 40.1 45.9 0.8 99.53 its peak on Oct. 28. Investors were becoming more confident that Nabors Industries Ltd. NBR 32.3 49.2 0.3 16.22 European leaders would find a way to keep that region’s debt crisis Akamai Technologies Inc. AKAM 32.2 29.2 0.2 26.28 from spilling over into the global economy and that the U.S. could avoid a second recession. But the index then sank 9.4 percent, PulteGroup Inc. PHM 30.4 N/A -0.3 5.15 when the possibility of a solution to the European Harman Int’l Industries Inc. HAR 29.1 22.2 0.7 36.90 crisis faltered and U.S. growth proved slower than expected. EOG Resources Inc. EOG 29.0 145.4 2.0 91.61 So who has come out on top so far this quarter? Energy Pioneer Natural Resources Co. PXD 27.8 16.2 3.0 84.07 companies. Oil prices have fluctuated as investors swing between Joy Global Inc. JOYG 27.1 18.0 1.6 79.27 confidence and concern about global growth, which is directly tied to demand for crude. Oil topped $100 per barrel in early November Ryder System Inc. R 26.7 20.8 1.1 47.52 for the first time since July, before pulling back. That surge gave energy companies a lift. Of the ten industry sectors in the S&P 500, energy increases. El Paso Corp. tops the list because in early October, rival Kinder companies have done best this quarter, rising 7.6 percent since the beginning Morgan said it would buy the company, creating the country’s largest natural of October. This screen shows the S&P 500 companies with the biggest price gas pipeline operator.

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KEVIN BLAUM IN THE ARENA

Divided gov’t doomed work of debt panel

MCT PHOTOS

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker sits in his office at the State Capitol in Madison, Nov. 16. At least 540,000 signatures must be gathered in 60 days to allow a special election to recall Walker.

IT’S WALKER VS. WORKERS

Wisconsin governor is at the heart of an emotional rights battle “For eight years as a county executive I talked repeatedly about the problem of collective bargaining and arbitration." Scott Walker Wisconsin governor

ment Accountability Board to file papers to recall the governor. “The day has come, the time is now,” said Democrat Kathleen Falk, a former county executive ADISON, Wis. — Veterans of Wisconwho may run against Walker if the recall succeeds. sin’s year of political turmoil and recall The filing starts the clock on a 60-day period in which like to say that this is what democracy recall organizers must gather 540,208 signatures looks like. from eligible Wisconsin voters. In the Capitol rotunda one day last The night before, Walker foes counted down the week, Chris Reeder stamped out a beat with his sanhours at “midnight maddaled feet and led a rousing choness” events at union halls rus of “Roll Out the Recall,” and recall offices. They while joyful demonstrators dispatched post-midnight danced polka turns under the petition-gatherers in pajamajestic dome. mas and held driveIn his office a few dozen steps through signings for Wisaway, the object of this daily consin drivers heading sing-along trained his intense fohome from work or from cus on his agenda to curb union the deer stand. In the first power and lure job-creating 48 hours recall officials businesses. “People want leadersaid they collected 50,000 ship,” said Wisconsin Gov. Scott signatures. Walker, a steadfast and polarizJulie Wells, 52, a granding Republican who is only in Hundreds of protestors came out to show mother from nearby Fort his 11th month in office and who their support for their recall of Walker in Atkinson who works as a expects to face a recall election August, 2011. Jeff Johnson, a teacher at South Division High School, and Mary Grace non-union employee in an next year. What democracy looks like Cano give Brother Bob Smith a piece of their aluminum can plant, was selected to file the papers. here is not always pretty. It is own mind. She saw the possibility of emotional, raucous, sharply didefeat in stark terms. vided and characterized by unending campaigns. In a “There won’t be a middle class — we’ll all end up state where laws from the progressive era of the1920s poor,” she said. “If he breaks those unions, he’s going allow angry voters to throw out “bums” they disagree to come after me next.” with, the national battle over limiting government vs. The man inspiring such statewide energy is a protecting the middle class has created a state of political siege. On Nov. 15, Walker foes marched to the GovernSee WALKER, Page 5E

By JIM RAGSDALE Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

“There won’t be a middle class — we’ll all end up poor. If he breaks those unions, he’s going to come after me next.” Julie Wells a grandmother

DETENTION LOOPHOLES

A fight over immigrant criminals and U.S. policy By MARK K. MATTHEWS The Orlando Sentinel

WASHINGTON — The stories are horrific: a Fort Myers, Fla., policeman gunned down in 2008 by a Cuban convict freed from U.S. detention because he couldn’t be deported. A New York City woman attacked and eviscerated last year by a Chinese immigrant criminal also free because he couldn’t be sent back to his homeland. Rep. Sandy Adams, R-Fla., has seized on those stories as evidence of what she calls a deadly loophole in U.S. immigration policy: a decade-old U.S. Supreme Court ruling that says the U.S. cannot indefinitely detain immigrant criminals whose home countries refuse to take them back. “We have American citizens being harmed,” said Adams, a House freshman who has made the issue a frontburner concern, using it to grill Home-

land Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and as fodder for a stinging newspaper essay. “At the end of the day, criminal immigrants are going back into the community, and they are going back to commit really heinous crimes,” she said. But officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement — while acknowledging the murders — say the problem represents a fraction of the cases they handle annually. The people Adams is talking about — mostly criminals released from immigration detention centers after serving jail or prison time for their crimes — totaled a bit fewer than 13,000 during the past three years. By comparison, the U.S. in 2010 deported nearly 400,000 immigrants, about half of them convicted criminals — a rate that ICE called a one-year re-

cord. “These releases are a very small part of what we do,” said a senior ICE official not authorized to speak on the record. According to ICE, about 4,000 — fewer than a third — of those released in the past three years were Cubans, whose government refuses to take them back. Others are from nations such as China and India that require time-consuming investigations before accepting deportees. Once released, all are monitored by either parole-like visits or more-sophisticated tracking such as GPS devices as the U.S. tries to deport them. Though ICE doesn’t keep crime statistics, it has tracked at least two murders since 2008 — the ones Adams cites — and says that anyone convicted of a crime goes back to jail.

One of the solutions Adams supports — an allowance for indefinite detention of immigrant criminals who can’t be deported — has drawn the ire of human rights groups. “We’re a nation of laws, and our laws don’t condone indefinite detention unless there is exceptional circumstances. That is what a free society does,” said Susana Barciela, policy director of the Miami-based advocacy group Americans for Immigrant Justice. Adams rejects that view: Holding immigrants indefinitely, she has said, was “not a concern of mine.” Her motivation, she said, is preventing further violence by released immigrant criminals. Adams has also pressed the Obama administration to reduce the number See IMMIGRANT, Page 6E

DOOMED TO fail, a committee of the super dysfunctional Congress of the United States, charged with formulating a plan to reduce the federal budget deficit by $1.2 trillion over 10 years, publicly called it quits late Monday afternoon. Created by the Budget Control Act, hastily adopted in August to increase the national debt ceiling and avert a global economic calamity, the Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction was a ruse providing temporary cover for a Congress that sadly no longer works. Reducing the deficit by $1.2 trillion through budget cuts alone would require crippling blows to national defense, education, Medicare and perhaps Social Security. After all, that is where the money is. Knowledgeable economists agree that increased taxes on the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans, to pre-Bush No. 43 levels, is an essential and reasonable component of any serious deficit-reduction plan. Members of Congress surely understand it. The president advocates it. So why are we in this fix? The 12-member “super” committee made up of three Republicans and three Democrats from both the House and Senate became immediately suspect when the GOP appointed six right-wing members. Congressmen Jeb Hensarling of Texas, David Camp of Michigan and Fred Upton, longtime protégé of David Stockman, former Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Reagan, were sure bets to oppose any compromise. They were joined by Republican senators Jon Kyl of Arizona, Rob Portman of Ohio and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. No profiles in courage there. All six previously had signed a pledge to the far-right activist Grover Norquist, opposing any increase, in any tax, of any kind, for any reason, no matter how insignificant the levy or vital the national purpose. What has happened to the Republican Party? Last Sunday, “60 Minutes” produced a revealing segment titled, “The Pledge: Grover Norquist’s hold on the GOP.” It was an in-depth look at the divided and dysfunctional Congress. View it at www.cbsnews.com/sections/60minutes/ main3415.shtml. Divided government occurs when one party controls the presidency while the other presides over the Senate and /or the House of Representatives. We have had a divided national government during 30 of the last 44 years. It often produced significant results for the benefit of the entire country through mutual cooperation and compromise. Not anymore. The declaration that gave birth to this nation and the Constitution that established its enduring system of governance were constructed on the principle of compromise, clearly anticipating and encouraging its continuous use. Our Constitution does not contemplate half the legislative branch refusing to compromise and willing to push the nation and the world to the brink of economic catastrophe. Last Sunday, David Frum, Republican speech writer for President George W. Bush and the aide who inserted the phrase “axis of evil” into the 2002 State of the Union address, wrote a compelling piece for “New York Magazine.” It is required reading for every Republican, indeed every American. In it he states, “The conservative shift to ever more extreme, ever more fantasy-based ideology has ominous real-world consequences for American society.” See it at http://nymag.com/news/politics/conservatives-david-frum-2011-11/ index4.html. A committee failed. Super voters must not. As another election rapidly approaches our divided government has become dangerously dysfunctional. And, at least in the short term, it must “cease to be divided.” Voters must consider the serious constitutional crises this Congress has created. They need to study a myriad of pressing issues facing their country and their children. They must decide. Only voters can end divided government. When they do … “It will become all one thing or all the other.” – Abraham Lincoln Kevin Blaum’s column on government, life and politics appears every Sunday. Contact him at kblaum@timesleader.com.

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OUR OPINION: CHRISTMAS WISH

Top of our list? The gift of hope

T CAN’T BE found in a shopping bag or even bought with cash, but the thing we – and perhaps many of you – will be on the lookout for during the consumerfueled, four-week buildup to Christmas is this: hope. Hope seems to be in short supply lately, like rain in Texas or business startups in WilkesBarre’s University Corners space or cheap gasoline. A drip here, a drop there and then … a long, long dry spell. Perhaps it’s because of Congress’ pitiful performance or the pathetic economy or Penn State’s apparent fall from grace or lingering flood-related problems, or maybe the whole putrid mix, but lots of people around Northeastern Pennsylvania sound glum. Excessively so. That’s why we are hyperalert, like the new castle guard on his first night watch, for all things hopeful. Examples of goodness. Beacons that better days lie just ahead. Signs of progress. Preparations for new and marvelous possibilities. Humanitarian gestures. Humor. Creativity. Community spirit. We would love, for example, to see – and hear – carolers on the city’s Public Square during the early evening hours, drawn there not as a business gimmick or by obligation but by the joy of performing. Ditto for a bevy of brass instrumentalists. Or guitarists. (Friendly flash mob, any-

SHARE GOOD NEWS If you spot signs of hope between now and Christmas, email a note with the details to mjones@timesleader.com.

one?) On other fronts, dare we expect during this season of miracles to learn of any developments such as these as-yet-unfulfilled dreams? • Donors in Luzerne County respond in record-breaking fashion to charitable appeals from the United Way, Salvation Army and American Red Cross, all of which were stretched thin because of September’s flooding. • Corporation announces major expansion into Wyoming Valley, bringing hundreds of new jobs. • Residents embrace new methadone clinic (or a homeless shelter or veterans housing) rather than succumbing to fear. • Firefighters report no apartment or house fires in December due to unattended candles or faulty space heaters. • Elected leaders in Washington momentarily put aside political differences and push through some bills that help unemployed Americans. • Philanthropist “adopts” historical society; massive museum planned. Hope, we have rolled out the welcome mat for you. Please don’t pass us by.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “If you talk to people about what is most frustrating about air travel, what comes out is the loss of control. We’ve been pushing to give people control again.” David Cush The CEO of California-based airline Virgin America, which offers flights between major U.S. cities, believes flying doesn’t have to be painful. Each plane is equipped with TVs for every passenger, colorful mood lighting and Wi-Fi. Instead of flight attendants dictating meal times, passengers buy food when they want it by pressing a few buttons on their TV.

OTHER OPINION: SUPERCOMMITTEE

Bush tax cuts sunk debt panel

UCH HOT AIR has been expended, with much coming, about the failure of Congress’ Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to reach an agreement to forestall $1.2 trillion in budget cuts beginning in 2013. The “supercommittee” thus confirmed the worst suspicions about this Congress: It is not capable of addressing the nation’s debt crisis, not if it would imperil its members’ individual interests. Floating in the hot air are all manner of excuses: President Barack Obama failed to lead. The Republicans wouldn’t give on tax expenditures. The Democrats wouldn’t be specific about cuts to entitlements. Etc., etc. Ignore it all. Three words explain the supercommittee’s failure and, indeed, much of the debt crisis itself: Bush tax cuts. Had Congress not enacted President George W. Bush’s tax-cut proposals in 2001 and 2003, at least $2.2 trillion more would have flowed into the

Treasury between 2001 and 2010, according to the authoritative Tax Policy Center of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution. Had Congress not decided to pass a Medicare drug benefit and wage two wars off the books, the picture would have been even brighter. Water under the bridge, right? Well, here’s some water that’s still upstream: If Congress were to allow the tax cuts to expire next year (they’ve already been extended two years because of a deal Obama struck with congressional Republicans) it would mean an additional $4 trillion to the Treasury between 2012 and 2020. Four trillion dollars is precisely the amount that the leaders of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform recommended last December as being needed in the next10 years to stabilize the debt crisis. But the commission couldn’t get the majority seven votes among its members to send its plan to Congress. St. Louis Post-Dispatch

School ban on T-shirts bearing flags seems extreme IS BANNING a few students from wearing U.S. flag Tshirts really the best way to maintain order in a public school? Really? That’s what officials at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Calif., insist they were doing last year on Cinco de Mayo. And now a federal judge has concluded they were not outside First Amendment bounds. But surely that ruling won’t stand. Three families sued the Morgan Hill district, south of San Jose, after five students were told to turn their flag shirts inside out or go home when they wore them during the school’s observance of Cinco de Mayo, a Mexican holiday increasingly marked in the United States as a celebration of MexicanAmerican heritage and culture. School officials said they were worried about the flag-wearing students’ safety because the previous year groups of Hispanic and Anglo students had yelled obscenities and threats at each other. The court record shows that one of the shirts had “America” written in cursive across a replica of the Declaration of Independence, for goodness’ sake. Now, the Declaration did, at one point in U.S. history, amount to fighting words in a figurative sense. But telling a kid he can’t wear those words proudly in a public school seems to be a mindless distortion of govern-

dren sued the Millard school district over suspensions received for wearing T-shirts honoring a friend who was gunned down, allegedly by a street gang member. The stuLINDA P. CAMPBELL dents wore the shirts, which said “Julius, RIP,” for several days at two different schools before officials banned them. The student ment authority that stands the First Amendwho designed the shirts said he was selling ment on its head. them to help raise money for his dead Nevertheless, U.S. District Judge James friend’s family; school officials said they Ware in San Francisco dismissed the suit against the Morgan Hill district on Nov. 8. He could convey a gang message and provoke retaliation. said the principal and assistant principal Camp ruled the suit could go to trial be“reasonably forecast” that the shirts “could cause officials hadn’t shown evidence that cause a substantial disruption with school would justify “a well-founded expectation of activities” and thus they acted within the limits set by the Supreme Court’s 1969 ruling disruption.” Public school administrators need some in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Comleeway to exercise good judgment under munity School District. often-trying circumstances. Tinker said students don’t shed their freeBut here’s the inescapable irony the Morspeech rights at the schoolhouse gate, but gan Hill case creates: Under Supreme Court the court also allowed authorities to restrict precedent, an Occupy protester could burn a those rights in the interest of maintaining U.S. flag on the sidewalk as a political stateorder in the classroom. ment without getting punished. But in one But letting a school official ban display of corner of California, a high schooler can be the United States’ national symbol on the sent home for wearing a U.S. flag T-shirt on spur of the moment because he’s worried campus if the principal’s worried it could about what might happen? That just seems start a fight. to go beyond reasonable protection of stuCan somebody please alert the Colbert dent safety, especially when there’s no evicomedy team? dence that the students were deliberately standing in anyone’s face instigating violence. Contrast Ware’s ruling with one by U.S. Linda P. Campbell is a columnist for the Fort District Judge Laurie Smith Camp in Omaha, Worth Star-Telegram. Readers may write to her at Neb., on the same day. 400 W. 7th St., Fort Worth, Texas 76102, or via email at lcampbell@star-telegram.com. In that case, a mother and her three chil-

COMMENTARY

Can a declining America recover superpower status? THE REDCOATS are coming! The Redcoats are coming! Remember what your elementary school teacher taught you about the War of Independence? The British wore scarlet coats, which made them easy marks and symbolized institutional pomposity, adherence to status over efficiency and an out-of-touch empire bent on doing things the old way. The rebellious American colonists, on the other hand, wore whatever; they were nimble, unencumbered by institutional baggage and not too proud to employ guerrilla tactics. Those lessons are as much about ideological indoctrination as they are about history. The secrets to America’s success, they tell us, are rebellion and innovation, the enemies of status and tradition. The problem today, however, is that we’re the imperial power wearing the red coats. And we are so concerned about losing our global dominance that we’ve lost sight of the maverick qualities that made us pre-eminent in the first place. Reflecting a widespread fear of internal decay and external competition, survey after survey shows that Americans think the country has seen its best days. Last month, a poll commissioned by the Hill newspaper found more than two-thirds (69 percent) of respondents think the United States is in decline,

COMMENTARY GREGORY RODRIGUEZ and 83 percent are very or somewhat worried about the nation’s future. Like almost everyone else on the globe, a growing number of us, according to the Pew Global Attitudes Project, believe that China will surpass the United States as the premier superpower. But concern over America’s place in the world is one thing, hysteria is quite another. Paleoconservative commentator Pat Buchanan has just published a book, “Suicide of a Superpower,” in which he suggests that the United States will collapse by 2025. So noticeable is the naysaying that the editors of Foreign Policy magazine set up an online “Decline Watch” to track, and occasionally ridicule, the “gloom-and-doom punditry.” What this suggests is that Americans are spending entirely too much time defending their global status and not enough inventing a brighter future. It also suggests that being the sole world superpower is actually holding us back. Australian political scientist John Kane has gone so far as to argue that when the United States achieved global preeminence, there emerged an “irresolvable tension” between “American power and American virtue.” Sitting at the top precludes striving to be better.

Barry C. Lynn, the author of “Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction,” suggests that Americans’ growing infatuation with power has led us to cede too much control to corporate giants. Likewise, military historian Andrew Bacevich says our “penchant for empire” has fostered a culture of entitlement that saps innovation. As a big portion of the world muddles toward what could be a catastrophic shutdown of the global financial system, Americans should keep in mind that our position at the top of the heap might have done us as much harm as good. Lynn is optimistic about our chances of surviving whatever gloomy days lie ahead. But it’ll depend on regaining our rebellious spirit. “Everything is about to fall apart,” he told me over coffee earlier this month. “The bright side is that we have an opportunity to reestablish our democracy after this plutocratic era. That’ll allow us to unleash pent-up creativity we need to rethink how we engineer competition and use corporations.” So maybe America is in decline. But fretting about it won’t help a lick. It’s time to take off our red coats. Gregory Rodriguez is executive director of the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University and a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Readers may send him email at grodriguez@latimescolumnists.com.

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Dems, not the GOP, are debt do-nothings DEMOCRATS are unanimous in charging that the debtreduction supercommittee collapsed because Republicans refused to raise taxes. Apparently, Republicans are in the thrall of one Grover Norquist, the anti-tax campaigner, whom Sen. John Kerry called “the 13th member of this committee without being there.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid helpfully suggested “maybe they should impeach Grover Norquist.” With that, Norquist officially replaces the Koch brothers as the great malevolent manipulator that controls the republic by pulling unseen strings on behalf of the plutocracy. Nice theory. Except for the following facts: • Sen. Tom Coburn last year signed on to the SimpsonBowles tax reform that would have increased tax revenues by $1 trillion over a decade. • During the debt-ceiling talks, Speaker John Boehner agreed to an $800 billion revenue increase as part of a Grand Bargain. • Supercommittee member Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, a Club for Growth Republican, proposed increasing tax revenues by $300 billion as part of $1.2 trillion in debt reduction. Leading, very conservative Republicans proposing tax increases. So why does the myth of the Norquist-controlled anti-tax monolith persist? You might suggest cynicism and perversity. Let me offer a more benign explanation: thickheadedness. Democrats simply can’t tell the difference between tax revenues and tax rates. In deficit reduction, all that matters is tax revenues. The holders of our national debt care not a whit what tax rates yield the money to pay them back. They care about the sum. The Republican proposals raise revenues, despite lowering rates, by opening a gusher of new income for the Treasury in the form of loophole elimination. For example, the Toomey plan eliminates deductions by $300 billion more than the reduction in tax rates “cost.” Result: $300 billion in new revenues. The Simpson-Bowles commission – appointed by President Obama and endorsed by Coburn – used the same formula. Its tax reform would lower tax rates at a “cost” of $1 trillion a year while eliminating loopholes that deprive the Treasury of $1.1 trillion a year. This would leave the Treasury with an excess – i.e., new tax revenues – of $100 billion a year, or $1 trillion over a dec-

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ANOTHER VIEW

A photograph by Aimee Dilger and words by Mark E. Jones

COMMENTARY CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER ade. Raising revenues through tax reform is better than simply raising rates, which Democrats insist upon with near religious fervor. It is more economically efficient because it eliminates credits, carve-outs and deductions that grossly misallocate capital. And it is more fair because it is the rich who can afford not only the sharp lawyers and accountants who exploit loopholes but the lobbyists who create them in the first place. Yet the Democrats, who flatter themselves as the party of fairness, are instead obsessed with raising tax rates on the rich as a sign of civic virtue. This is perverse in three ways: (1) Raising rates gratuitously slows economic growth, i.e., expansion of the economic pie for everyone, by penalizing work and by retaining inefficiency-inducing loopholes. (2) We’re talking pennies on the dollar. Obama’s coveted Bush tax cut repeal would yield the Treasury, at the very most, $80 billion a year – offsetting 2 cents on the dollar of government spending ($3.6 trillion). (3) Hiking tax rates ignores the real drivers of debt, which, as Obama himself has acknowledged, are entitlements. Has the president ever publicly proposed a single significant structural change in any entitlement? After Simpson-Bowles reported? No. In his February budget? No. In his April 13 budget “framework”? No. During the debt-ceiling crisis? No. During or after the supercommittee deliberations? No. And regarding the supercommittee, Obama was AWOL – then immediately pounced on its failure by going on TV to repeat his incessantly repeated campaign theme of the donothing (Republican) Congress. A swell slogan that fits nicely with the Norquist myth. Except for another inconvenient fact: It is the Republicans who passed – through the House, the only branch of government they control – a real budget that cut $5.8 trillion of spending over the next 10 years. Obama’s February budget, which would have increased spending, was laughed out of the Senate, voted down 97-0. As for the Democratic Senate, it has submitted no budget at all for two and a half years. Who, then, is do-nothing? Charles Krauthammer’s email address is letters@charleskrauthammer.com.

he wealthy person sees scraps. The impoverished person sees a feast. The T resourceful person sees tomorrow’s soup. The plumber sees a potential grease clog. The veterinarian sees a health hazard for dogs. The vegetarian

sees a senseless slaughter. The turkey lover sees a late-night snack. The cook sees an accomplishment. The dish washer sees a sizable task. Is it any wonder, on critical matters beyond the kitchen, we don’t see eye to eye?

Carrot loaf? Tzimmes? Our cherished traditions IT EMERGES every November. From an oven. From a mold. From a casserole dish. It is lime green or beet red or marshmallow white. It has olives or bananas or diced pimentos. It elicits cheers or boos, “mmm” or “yechh,” but no one is neutral. It’s the Thing You Eat Only On Thanksgiving. Can you smell it? “Oh, no, not the carrot loaf!” someone will yell, and someone else will say, “Oh, yes, the carrot loaf!” and someone else will say, “Every year it’s the same thing, the stupid carrot loaf!” And every year it is. There is something about Thanksgiving that elicits the weirdly edible, strangely constructed food. It is oval-shaped. Or deep-dished. Or in mini logs. Or the size of large marbles. For a holiday where the menu is supposed to be the same, there’s a rash of one-of-akind dishes. And one-of-a-kind for a reason. “Here comes the green stuff!” someone yells. That’s a refrain in our home – my wife’s side. Lemon-lime Jell-O, cottage cheese, walnuts and fruit cocktail from a can. The Green Stuff. Don’t ask me. It came with the marriage. “I can’t believe you eat that!” someone says.

COMMENTARY MITCH ALBOM “That’s my favorite!” someone says. “I can’t believe you eat that!” someone says. Every family has one. A quick Internet search on the topic “weird Thanksgiving food” reveals a cornucopia of dishes apparently invented in fingerpainting class. Cranberry Fluff – using cranberry sauce, cranberry Jell-O, whipped cream and crushed pineapple. Oyster casserole – canned oysters, hardtack, cream and butter. Yam patties. Speaks for itself. Many of the oddball dishes seem to involve, for some reason, sweet potatoes. Or cream cheese. Or olives. Or Jell-O. Before the Green Stuff, my family had “the mold.” It mixes raspberry Jell-O, big round cherries and some kind of sherbet. It’s actually pretty good. It moves on your plate like a live squid, but it’s pretty good. What I want to know is what the Pilgrims would think. According to history books, the original Thanksgiving meal probably consisted of, in part,

cornmeal, fish, wild fowl and turkey. There was likely some rabbit, deer, squash, beans, nuts, onions and eggs. No mention of a pimento loaf. Or celery/raisin/cottage cheese bars. Or cranberry sour cream. Or yam patties. (I know we used that one already. I just like saying it.) So the question is, with no apparent link to the Pilgrims and Indians, from where did the Thing You Eat Only On Thanksgiving come? Well, I have a theory. When we were kids, my grandmother made a dish at the holidays – including Thanksgiving – and she called it tzimmes. I have no idea if I’m spelling that right, but what could it matter? We had no idea what was in it. Some kind of sweet potato, prunes, carrots, cinnamon. Or maybe dried wood chips and dandelions? Who knows? The point was that my uncle, her son, hated it. Hated it. Every time it was served, he went ballistic. “Not the tzimmes again! It’s awful! Get it away from me! Bleep!” And we all cracked up. She made it every year. Nobody objected – even though hardly anyone ate it. Here’s my theory: We all wanted to hear my uncle complain. What curse words would he use this time? It

When we were kids, my grandmother made a dish at the holidays – including Thanksgiving – and she called it tzimmes. I have no idea if I’m spelling that right, but what could it matter? We had no idea what was in it. was funny. An expected highlight. A tradition. He would die of cancer, my uncle, much too young, in his early 40s. One of the last big family meals he attended, my grandmother made the tzimmes again. He was already sick. Not his old vibrant self. But when he saw that stuff, like a comic with a lobbed punch line, he rallied. “Bleep! Not the bleepin’ tzimmes.” We still laugh and cry at that story. So celebrate your olives. Your yams. Your carrot loaves. Thanksgiving is about bringing us together in whatever way we can cherish each other. Nobody said you have to swallow. Mitch Albom is a columnist for the Detroit Free Press. Readers may write to him at: Detroit Free Press, 600 W. Fort St., Detroit, MI 48226, or via email at malbom@freepress.com.

Regretfully, one Iraqi has paid too high a price to help Americans LARNACA, Cyprus – Salam Hamrani is safe – for now. My Iraqi fixer and friend endured two years in a Baghdad jail. His crime: helping American troops nab Shiite militants who were killing his Sunni neighbors. He finally was freed and escaped with his family to Greek Cyprus. Our reunion in Larnaca was emotional and full of laughter. But Salam’s story is a sad tale of U.S. failures and betrayals in Iraq. A Shiite whose uncle was hung by Saddam Hussein, Salam was thrilled when U.S. troops ousted the dictator. As Iraq collapsed into civil war, he was furious when the militant Shiite Mahdi army moved into his mixed neighborhood and started killing Sunnis. So he started tipping U.S. officers at a forward operating base in his district about the worst of these killers. When U.S. troops withdrew, family members of one of these thugs got friends in the Iraqi army to arrest him, along with his two sons. A Shiite army general who was chummy with the killer’s mother and sister made sure Salam stayed in prison.

hear from the Greek Cypriot Interior Ministry whether they will get refugee status that will enable them to stay on the island. TRUDY RUBIN I hope they succeed, because if Salam has to return home, he won’t live long. The price that Iraqis pay for having Although U.S. civilian and military helped Americans has become hideously officials made inquiries (at my urging) high. and these might have saved Salam’s life, This became painfully clear in the day they were unable to expedite his freedom. Finally, after two years, an honest judge – and a half I spent with Salam and his at great risk to his own life – freed Salam family in Cyprus. He’s renting a small furnished apart(there was no evidence against him). But his Mahdi army enemies, who had ment in Larnaca, where his courageous murdered his brother while he was in jail, wife Nadia – freed from her black abaya and veil – cooks for the family and plays made death threats against him. And – with Fatima. Salam has not regained the under Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al50 pounds he lost in prison and his feaMaliki – murderous Mahdi army militures are much sharper than when we tiamen who killed Iraqis and U.S. troops worked together in Baghdad. are being let out of prison. Son Mustafa, 22, father of Fatima, sits So Salam sold his property and his silently, still haunted by his arrest and wife’s jewelry, packed up his family, including his 1-year-old granddaughter, and time in a tiny cell, too small to sit down in. His other son, Marwan, 20, recalls fled via Syria to Turkey. From Turkey, smugglers took the family in a small boat beatings with cables and electric prods. Their army tormentors tried in vain to on a treacherous sea journey to Turkish make them swear that their father was a Cyprus. The family gave baby Fatima a terrorist. sleeping pill to keep her quiet. Marwan now studies computer sciThey walked for hours in the dark in order to cross the Turkish-Greek Cypriot ence, and dreams of being able to have a normal adulthood, while Mustafa does border, hushing Fatima’s cries as they little. These young men paid dearly for passed Turkish policemen. Then they their father’s “crime” of helping American requested asylum. They are waiting to

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troops. Salam’s gutsy assistance to his threatened Sunni neighbors back home has not gone unrecognized. An Iraqi Sunni businessman whose son was kidnapped by Shiite militiamen – and rescued by Salam – contributed some money to the Hamrani family’s escape. Another Sunni neighbor named Samer, whom Salam rescued from Mahdi army goons, visited him repeatedly in prison, and then fled to Cyprus. As Salam and I sat at an outdoor table at McDonald’s on the Larnaca seafront boardwalk – where Iraqi refugee families come to stroll in the winter’s cold – Samer dropped by. The two men recalled, how, when smugglers dropped Salam and his family off in Larnaca in the middle of the night, he called Samer, who rushed to help them. But when the men started discussing their uncertain future, the conversation died. Salam and his family are still living in limbo. Greek Cypriot officials have told him he will get refugee status (which gives the right to work but not citizenship); yet this still hasn’t come through. And despite his work with American journalists, and the huge risks he took to help U.S. troops, Salam’s chances of coming to America are slim. Congress established a Special Im-

migrant Visa program in 2008 to help Iraqis who are endangered because they helped us. The program promised to grant 25,000 primary visas over five years (with more visas for family members); less than 3,500 have been issued so far. And just when those visas are most needed – with all U.S. troops set to leave by the end of this year – the program has been frozen by new security requirements. Only 10 applicants were admitted in August, 40 in September and 98 in October; a backlog of thousands is still waiting. Iraqis who have completed the SIV process are being told they must wait eight to nine more months, even though many are under death threat. I’m getting e-mail from Iraqi interpreters who have had to leave U.S. military bases that are closing, and are moving from house to house lest they be murdered. In eight to nine months, those interpreters might well be dead. This failure to act is a blot on America’s honor, a betrayal of Iraqis who risked their lives to help us. Trudy Rubin is a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Readers may write to her at: Philadelphia Inquirer, P.O. Box 8263, Philadelphia, PA 19101, or by email at trubin@phillynews.com.

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have been noticing a television commercial by the National Federation of Independent Business that congratulates Congressman Lou Barletta of Hazleton for his efforts on its behalf. Whenever I see these nebulous organizations supporting the GOP point of view, I need to investigate. Here is some information about the NFIB: 1. It calls itself “non-partisan,” but the organization consistently gives its support to the GOP, campaigning 95 percent of the time or more for Republican candidates. 2. The NFIB is losing membership, from 600,000 members in 2006 to 350,000 in 2009. 3. The NFIB continually champions pro-corporate positions. So, what can we surmise? Well, it is proven to be very partisan, not non-partisan as the commercial would like you to believe. It gives a biased

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and not forthcoming representation of Congressman Barletta’s efforts. Maybe our congressman is an NFIB operative supporting pro-corporation positions at the expense of you, the everyday working middle class. Let the public beware! Bill Eydler Wilkes-Barre

Reader questions Sterling doings

hy are the voters electing a county commissioner to sit on the Luzerne County Council? Don’t we want these people gone? Now they want to give money for the Hotel Sterling demolition work. Why aren’t the

commissioners going after CityVest? Has CityVest accounted for every penny it got from us? Does CityVest have any assets that we can get to satisfy this loan? I’ll bet there is more to it than what the commissioners are telling us. I guess we’ll find out when the new leadership takes over. Frank Giordano White Haven

Gas drilling bills ignore taxpayers

ur state Senate and House of Representatives are trying to pass bills that favor gas drillers over Pennsylvania taxpayers. These bills, SB 1100 and HB 1950, are

not only poorly written, but also sell out their constituency on the matter of gas drilling impact fees and local municipal powers. These bills give huge gifts to the industry at the expense of the people. The bills take away local municipal powers to help zone the industry, which is necessary and individualized for each community. For example, the work by the Dallas taxpayers group to try and keep compressor stations operated by Williams Co. and Chief Gathering Co. away from Dallas High School would be challenged by the industry and then brought to the attorney general of Pennsylvania for a final decision. With a governor who has not shown any restraint in gifting the Marcellus Shale drillers and with the impunity with which the natural gas industry has been disturbing the land, air and water throughout the state, we all know how a decision handed to the attorney general will turn out. In my district, state Sen. Lisa Baker voted to strip local

municipalities of any remaining democracy and local rule of law to govern those she was meant to protect. The impact fees are too meager in relation to the other 33 states that tax gas drilling, even when our state’s companies are poised so close to their end markets that they are making higher profits. Not only that, but in Luzerne County, even though we are being negatively impacted by damage to our roads and bridges from the thousands of trucks going to drill sites out of county, and we presumably will be breathing the fumes from the myriad of compressor stations that will be all around us, we won’t see any of this money. The public needs to stay awake on what our elected officials are doing, and are not doing, in their legislative roles to preserve the rights of local communities to decide what they deem appropriate in their backyards. Many of our state senators and representatives have overstepped their bounds in this decision and the public (regardless of party affiliation) will not be happy with having

their rights stripped. The regulations proposed by these bills were fast-tracked by the governor and written by a Marcellus Commission that was stacked with industry representatives; the public was left out of the discussion. The setbacks proposed are too small and do not square with scientific evidence advocating for farther distances from private or public water supplies and wells. Best practices are not mandated on the industry, and drilling will now be allowed in residential areas. The gas is going nowhere. If you thought the time was right to pass something rather than nothing, Senator Baker, maybe you should have considered a moratorium to get the consensus and compromise your constituency deserves rather than rush to gift the industry. Please call your state senator and representative now. Urge them to reject these bills, and tell them to go back to the drawing board. Dr. Thomas Jiunta Lehman Township

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As Texas grew more GOP and conservative, Perry’s politics evolved By WAYNE SLATER The Dallas Morning News

AUSTIN, Texas — Rick Perry was not always a champion of states’ rights and a voice of evangelical populism. In his first major speech to the Texas Legislature a decade ago, after George W. Bush ascended to the White House, Perry struck a moderate tone, a hands-acrossthe-aisle appeal that mirrored Bush’s moderate pragmatism as governor. “How can we expect our border children to reach for the sky when they cannot even reach the classroom?” Perry said, calling for more state and federal funding for schools and college scholarships. He pitched it as “a cause far greater than party or politics.” A very different Perry addressed the Legislature last February. From the same House chamber, under a high ceiling and gleaming chandeliers, he delivered a message that seemed crafted for the political moment. Instead of boosting teacher benefits, he recommended that school districts do more with

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preacher’s son and former Eagle Scout who left Marquette University without a degree and found his calling in conservative politics. A former state assemblyman and an elected Milwaukee County executive, Walker led a 2010 Republican sweep in Wisconsin that gave the GOP a lock on power, including both bodies of the Legislature. Once elected, Walker, 44, hit the ground sprinting. Before even taking office, he lobbied to block $810 million in federal rail funds. Walker’s February bill aimed at fixing the state’s immediate budget problems and essentially did away with the need for unions representing teachers and state and local workers; organizations that are part of the Democratic Party’s bedrock. The bill called for higher pension and health care contributions and prohibited these unions (but not those representing police and firefighters) from negotiating for pensions, health care costs or work rules. It capped annual wage hikes, required annual union recertification votes and banned

less. Rather than increasing college scholarships, he warned of cuts on the way. He foreshadowed the dwindling funding of Medicaid for the poor. In the first talk, his guest had been a college student benefiting from a state grant. This time, it was the widow of a Houston police officer killed by an illegal immigrant. The economic and social environment in Texas had changed. And so had Perry. That conversion is getting more attention now that he’s running for president. “Rick Perry is not the same guy he was when he first became governor,” said Kathy Miller of the Texas Freedom Network, a nonprofit group that monitors social conservatives in government. “And that’s entirely to do with the shifting political winds in Texas.” As a Democrat in the Texas House in the 1980s, Perry was a moderate conservative — supporting agriculture and business but also voting to triple legislators’ pay and to raise taxes by $5.7 billion — the biggest in-

crease in state history — to balance the budget. Later, as a Republican and the state agriculture commissioner, Perry praised the efforts of thenfirst lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on behalf of national health care. In a letter to Clinton in 1993, Perry wrote that her efforts “in trying to reform the nation’s health care system are most commendable.” But as the state grew more Republican, the contours of Perry’s politics evolved as well. Nowhere is that evolution clearer than during his decade as governor. “He’s moved more further to the right because he’s got the lay of the land,” said Bruce Buchanan, a University of Texas political scientist. “There were more Democrats in the Legislature when he took over than there are now. At some point, Perry began toying with larger aspirations, and he had to notice that the Republican Party was moving sharply rightward and that competitive opportunities might open up there.” In his first year as governor,

Perry signed a hate crimes bill that included gays as a protected class — anathema to the party’s right wing. His instinct, at least initially, was to mimic Bush’s centrist bipartisanism. “Certainly, you’re not going to see a great philosophical difference between Rick Perry and George Bush,” he said shortly after taking office. “Stylewise, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see — maybe it will be the difference between a Yalie and an Aggie.” Although some conservatives in the GOP opposed a state health insurance program for Texas teachers, Perry advocated a way to do it. At a border summit in South Texas, he cited “the feasibility of bi-national health insurance” covering both U.S. and Mexican residents along the border. And in a 2001 letter to The Dallas Morning News, Perry said he was “intrigued and open to the Bush administration’s amnesty proposal” for illegal-immigrant workers. But the Perry who presented himself for re-election to a third

full term last year — and for president this year — was a different man, tempered by a decade of increasingly partisan politics and adept at seizing the current political mood. A Perry campaign spokesman did not respond last week to a request for comment. Perry aides previously have said the governor has been consistent in reflecting Texas and its values — conservative, business-friendly and fiscally prudent. Democratic state Rep. Garnet Coleman of Houston added something else. “He’s an opportunist,” Coleman said. “That would be the single word that best describes him — opportunist.” (EDITORS: STORY CAN END HERE) Coleman said Perry’s embrace of the religious right is an example. In advance of his 2006 re-election race, Perry learned that Republican U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison was considering challenging him. Hutchison supported abortion rights in some in-

stances, a position that appeals to moderate Republican women but not religious conservatives. Perry needed to ensure that the GOP base turned out in big numbers, so he helped create a network of evangelical pastors to back a 2005 ballot initiative to ban gay marriage. Organized by Perry allies and funded by Perry donors, the Texas Restoration Project encouraged congregations to “vote their values.” Perry became a champion of the gay-marriage ban. His office scheduled a ceremonial bill-signing at a Christian school in Fort Worth. Perry was joined by Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and Don Wildmon of the American Family Association. Rod Parsley, a barrel-chested Ohio televangelist with a blowtorch delivery, exhorted Texas voters to outlaw same-sex marriage. “We are not to sacrifice our children on the altar of sexual lust of a few,” Parsley said. “Homosexuals are anything but happy and anything but fine.”

payroll deductions for union dues. “As soon as the unions saw them,” UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin said of the bill’s provisions, “it was clear they were looking at their death sentence.” Tens of thousands marched on the Capitol, with some crowds measuring beyond 100,000. Democratic senators fled the 33-member chamber and hid out in Illinois, in a vain effort to block the bill. Walker was pranked into a taped phone call with a deepvoiced poser he believed to be conservative benefactor David Koch. Walker never budged and the bill passed as he proposed it. A nasty state Supreme Court race and nine Senate recalls dominated the spring and summer. Interest groups made Wisconsin their proxy battleground to the tune of $44 million in campaign expenditures. By that time, Lynn Freeman and Ray Yunker had their eyes on the big prize. Veterans of the mass demonstrations, they gravitated to United Wisconsin, which dedicated itself in February to the sole task of recalling Walker. “At some point it becomes obvi-

ous that marching in a circle feels good, but isn’t going to get anything accomplished,” said Freeman, a Madison career counselor and a board member of the organization. Yunker, also a board member, lost a job in real estate and now works for a school bus company. He began to feel part of something much bigger. “I think it may have started in Egypt, moved to Madison and is now spreading throughout the country” he said. Activists have also filed recall petitions against Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and four Republican senators, including Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald. If these elections take place, most likely in the spring, Wisconsin will conduct an unheard-of 13 legislative recalls and the Walker-Kleefisch recalls in less than a year’s time. In an interview in his office, where a sign proclaims “Wisconsin is Open for Business,” Walker was focused and determined but said the weeks of demonstrations were “pretty intense.” He continues to deal with bullhorns aimed at his office windows, but he neither backs down on his policies nor criticizes public workers personally.

He points out differences between benefit packages for public and private workers and blames national unions seeking to reclaim their dues for the opposition. He objects strenuously to the most persistent criticism of him — that his “original sin,” as foes call it, was in not disclosing during the campaign that he planned radical changes in public employee bargaining. “For eight years as a county executive I talked repeatedly about the problem of collective bargaining and arbitration,” Walker said. He said he has dealt with an inherited $3.6 billion deficit the way he said he would. “We clearly said we’re going to do it without raising taxes, we’re going to do it in a way that creates more jobs in the private sector, we’re going to do it by protecting core services — and that’s what we’ve done,” Walker said. Freed from campaign limits during the recall period, and expecting the petition drive to succeed, Walker said he will fight vigorously for his job and will argue that early returns from property tax bills and school negotiations show his plan is working. Only two U.S. governors, Gray Davis of

California in 2003 and Lynn Frazier of North Dakota in 1921, have been removed from office via recall. “I still think the overwhelming majority of voters in the state have just kind of had it with year-round elections,” Walker said. “They just want us to move forward.” “Forward” is Wisconsin’s motto, but for many Walker foes, the state’s 7.7 percent unemployment rate belies his promise to create a boom in new jobs. Economic concerns lie beneath the surface of many recall supporters, as do Walker’s cuts to address the deficit, which opponents say are weakening the state’s pillar of public education. Stephan Thompson, executive director of the state Republican Party, said Walker had to take on union power to deal with the state’s ruinous structural budget problems. He said Walker challenged “labor unions that basically got away with whatever they wanted from the Democratic leadership.” The result, Thompson said, is a fiscally stronger state that will be more attractive to businesses. Polls show the recall effort poses the same existential threat to

the governor that he represented to the unions. In the Tenney Park neighborhood of this very liberal city, volunteer Randy Wagner drew a quick signature from resident Erin Moonlight. “I’d bake you brownies if I had time,” she told Wagner. “You want blood? I’ll give blood.” The determination of those wanting a recall was on display again Saturday, when an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 people gathered under a cold drizzle in Capitol Square to promote the recall campaign. Back in the rotunda earlier in the week, a cartoonish sign above the singers showed one robed judge grabbing another, a reference to a physical altercation between two Supreme Court justices over (what else?) Walker’s budget bill. A counter-protester carried a sign accusing the singers of violence and a cutout image showed Walker clad in a “pink slip,” signifying his hoped-for departure. What democracy looks like, mostly, is hard work, summed up by a banner draped above the demonstration. “Struggle for the Soul of Wisconsin,” it reads — a message both sides would agree with.

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of visas it issues to citizens of countries that don’t accept their people back. “This legal remedy works,” Adams wrote in The Washington Times this month, citing it as key to persuading Guyana in 2001 to take back more than 100 immigrants the U.S. wanted to expel. The fight gives Adams, elected with the strong backing of the tea party in 2010, a pet issue to attack the administration that appeals to conservatives. Adams, like many of her GOP peers, has advocated increased state and federal efforts to detain and deport immigrants here illegally. The right-leaning Center for Immigration Studies has applauded her approach as a good companion to legislation filed by U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, that would give greater power to immigration officials to hold criminal immigrants in custody

if they can’t be deported quickly — or at all. “I think it is very useful to press the administration on why they have not been using the tools Congress has given them to encourage or incentivize other countries to take their people back,” said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the center. “We have been far too timid or reluctant to use the leverage that we have. Ms. Adams is right to press them,” she said. Adams had asked that Homeland Security look into why it hasn’t used the tactic of withholding visas more often. Under current law, immigration officials do have some leeway to hold immigrants indefinitely if they are deemed to have contagious diseases, are considered a terrorist threat or are an immediate danger to the community. But simply having a criminal record isn’t enough. Statistics from the past three years prove as much. Of the 12,871 immigrants released from immigration detention centers from October 2008

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to April 2011, about 68 percent had criminal records, according to ICE statistics. Data on what they had been convicted of were unavailable. An oft-cited snapshot of the detainee population on Jan. 25, 2009, found that among those with criminal records — a 42 percent minority that day — the most common crimes were drug charges, assault and driving under the influence. Opponents of tougher detention laws argue that keeping someone in detention indefinitely for a past crime — after the detainee has already served jail time — is categorically unfair, especially for immigrants from places such as Cuba where deportation is a remote possibility. “We are not the kind of people who lock people up for life,” said David Leopold of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. He described efforts by Adams and others as “politics pure and simple” and said that their push on this issue was proof they were going “out of their way to embarrass the administration.”

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Chesney, McGraw team up Stadium tour brings old friends, now country superstars, together. By CHRIS TALBOTT AP Entertainment Writer

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Renaissance meets rock in Steamroller

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If you wanted to see a lute and a crumhorn, where would you go? No, not to a bakery. The musicians of Mannheim Steamroller will bring re-creations of these medieval instruments to Wilkes-Barre along with drums, synthesizers, a light show and a touch of holiday cheer. “It’s eclectic music, and it’s a combination of styles that range from the Renaissance to the most modern rock-’n’-roll rhythms,” said Steamroller cofounder Chip Davis, describing the fare planned for a Tuesdayevening concert at the F.M. Kirby Center on Public Square. “We’ll have synthesizers right

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The musicians of Mannheim Steamroller are similarly versatile, he said. “They’re all highly educated and trained. They have to be able to play the rock-’n’-roll version of a song, the present-day version and the versions that go all the way back to the Dark Ages.” One highlight of Tuesday’s concert is a 20-minute segment of costumed characters re-enacting a Renaissance-style feast. It will be projected onto a 100-foot-wide screen so everyone will get a good view, Davis said. The concert also includes a modern light show and plenty of holiday tunes.

“I used to be a jingle writer,” Davis said. “I did over 2,500. I did a COURTESY PHOTO lot of TV news themes, Wilkes alum Jackson Berkey, at left, and his wife, Almeda, secDavis music for the ond from right, enjoy a lighter moment with Chip Davis, center. 1980s Olymalongside harpsichords and of chicken filled with different pics, Greyhound buses, that kind of stuff. It forced me into grand piano and the recorders pieces.” Don’t be surprised when the not just being a classical player. from the 14th century.” “We’re a lot like Colonel musician refers to corporate lo- I had to compose in a lot of different styles.” Sanders,” Davis said. “A bucket gos. See MUSIC, Page 4F

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Oh, the stories Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney could tell you from their early days together in Music City. And they’re about to make more, joining forces on an ambitious stadiums-only tour next summer. Chesney and McGraw got to know each other living in the same apartment complex 20 years ago, cemented their friendship opening for George Strait, and joined forces in 2001 when McGraw invited Chesney on the road at a pivotal moment in his career. They’re teaming again from the pinnacle of country music. “It’s two artists who’ve known each McGraw other for 20 years, who’ve been friends for 20 years ... at the top of our game to be able to go out and do this together,” McGraw said. “To get two artists to agree on Chesney anything is pretty spectacular. But to agree to go out together, do a tour together and just have a great time together and play music together is a pretty unique and remarkable thing. And I think that can only happen with guys who are as good of friends as we are.” The tour, dubbed the Brothers of the Sun Tour, will kick off June 2 in Tampa, Fla., and wrap Aug. 25 in Foxboro, Mass. Along the way there will be stops in many of the nation’s largest cities. There’s also a stop in Nashville, a place neither artist has played regularly. “It seemed time,” Chesney said. “There was no other reason than that. It just seemed like it was time for us to play at home again. It’s a really ironic place for us to play because we played in the shadows of that place for so long, right downtown in all these bars ... for tips. Now all we have to do is go across the river.” “All we’re really trying to do is keep from having to go back and play for tips,” McGraw joked. There will be no need for that. Both rose from tip-jar status to the superstar level, and Chesney is currently country music’s undisputed top live draw. He sold more than 1.3 million tickets on his tour this summer — he’s topped 1 million eight times now — and fills stadiums regularly. He’s not just one of country’s top draws but one of music’s. Chesney has always been ambitious, but this tour takes it a step farther. He says there’s nothing like standing on stage with 60,000 people singing your songs back to you. The chance to do it 18 times will be spectacular. “I love seeing that passion on everybody’s faces up there and all those people that are singing your songs back to you,” Chesney said. “And to be able to do it with your buddy and see it happen to him and us together, it’s going to be special. It may not happen again.” It’s the kind of moment both daydreamed about while living on the outskirts of Nashville. They played hotdog stands and dive bars, places like The Turf and Skull’s Rainbow Room. They have so many stories, though few they’re willing to tell publicly. “We’ve got our own demons, we’ve got our own fun, we’ve got a lot of friendship going into next summer,” Chesney said. “There is one story I can tell about Tim. ... I remember vividly a girl knocking out a windshield of his car with a baseball bat. I remember that.” “Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s all that needs to be said about that,” McGraw said as both laughed at the memory. “I remember the electricity being off a lot (and saying), ‘Bring some burritos and a fire log. Bring your guitar and we’ll sing George Strait’s greatest hits.’ ”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19). So-called “necessities” will turn out to be unnecessary, after all. You’ll be reducing your needs because it makes life simpler and more pleasurable to do so. It also happens to reduce your carbon footprint. TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You remember who you are and what you came for. You could even reach out and grab it in one dashing move. What held you back before was fear, and it was all in your head. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Your memory will serve you well and could make you money. Old advice will be newly applicable. For instance, you may get the prime opportunity to heed the warning your mother gave you all those years ago. CANCER (June 22-July 22). You usually want to make something beautiful out of what was once quite ordinary. However, now you’ll be inspired by the challenge of creating something beautiful out of what was downright despicable. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Strong intentions will be necessary for progress to happen. It will take a bit of a push to get people motivated, but diplomacy is needed, too. You’ll succeed by figuring out where to push and how hard. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You will be asked to change your stance on an issue, though the reasons for doing so may not be compelling enough to convince you. You know your mind, and you’re not going to change it so easily. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You’ll be in the mood to share, though your usual personal boundaries might be a little fuzzy. So be careful what you confess and to whom. Tonight you’ll learn of exciting developments in your inner circle. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You will witness someone doing good in the world. The act may be small, but it is still remarkable. This will expand your vision of what it means to make the world a better place. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Your mind and heart will provide ample illumination for you to see the world how it really is. In some way, you’ll light the path for someone with a broken bulb. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You won’t run away from a challenge just because it seems hard. Indeed, it is the high level of difficulty that makes you rush toward it. Your favorite kind of challenge is an impossible one. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Your thoughts and behaviors will convey your generous nature. When they don’t, you feel on a physical level that you’re misaligned or simply not yourself. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Your heart will be light; your mood, majestic. Nothing, not even the densest cloud cover, can stop you from spreading the sunshine and dancing in the moonlight. TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Nov. 27). An aura of glamour envelops you this year. You’ll put yourself into endeavors that some would call impractical, but you know better. Your commitment to doing what makes you feel happy will prove the most useful and down-to-earth choice. Your best financial months are March, June and October. Leo and Pisces people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 25, 49, 1 and 16.

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The newspaper obituary isn’t just the announcement of a person’s death and service schedule. Obits often are homages to a life well lived, an insightful look at a person and the impact he or she had on the world. But in the intriguing “Dead Last,” the obit becomes a sinister weapon that takes aim at Thorn, James W. Hall’s perennial Key Largo beach bum. Thorn has never been the most sociable of characters, content to eke out a living tying fishing flies, enjoying “the wayward scent of wilderness” and becoming involved with one nefarious crime after another. But the death of Rusty Stabler, his wife of one month, throws Thorn into a grief-fueled rage over which he has little control. “Some crucial atom inside him had cracked apart and all the wild-eyed craziness ... stabilized by her presence went into a state of fission.” Nearly suicidal, Thorn starts burning everything he owns — clothes, furniture, mementoes. The bonfire “cleansing” is in full

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lthough her parents died when she was in her teens, Pat Nixon was determined to get ahead. She went to work so she could attend college. She was fond of acting on the stage and met Richard M. Nixon in a Whittier Community Players production of “The Dark Tower.” They married in 1940; as a political wife, and eventual first lady, Pat was soft-spoken, dutiful and even tragic as her life fell in her husband’s shadow. All of this can be gleaned from Ann Beattie’s book “Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life,” but it is hardly at the center. Beattie begins by listing the 11 nicknames Pat, born Thelma, went by. Surprisingly, she is not talking about the subject of her book, but about the process of writing. “Names, nicknames, they’re fascinating to writers, but they also cause anxiety because they’re so elusive, and because writers have to come up with so many of them.” The name of this book is elusive to a fault. More appropriate titles might have been “A Novelist Writes About Writing, Using Mrs. Nixon as a Starting Point,” or “MFA in a Book: A Short Story Writer on Writing.” Those seeking a richly imagined life of a first lady, with emotions and details and a story that moves forward from chapter to chapter, should look elsewhere. Beattie, who teaches at the University of Virginia, is one of the most acclaimed short-story writers of her generation (she’s a baby boomer). She uses this book to impart her writing lessons, many of them in short, disconnected chapters. She provides close readings of major short-story writers such as Anton Chekhov, Raymond Carver and Guy de Maupassant; sometimes, but not always, they are connected to aspects of Pat Nixon’s history or persona. Beattie has many creative insights, which directly address her writing process in general, and the writing of this book in particular. “Writing fiction about a real person tests my unexamined assumptions,” she writes, “letting me see if, in the character I create, my preconceptions are reflected, reverse, or obscured.” Even louder than that voice of introspection is the voice of the professor, dispensing wisdom to

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ready recipients. “Fiction writers rely on dialogue to carry more meaning than the words themselves convey,” she writes, continuing, “if the writer relies too much on things happening suddenly, the reader is likely to become skeptical.” After imagining a conversation between Pat Nixon and Hillary Clinton making cookies together, she writes, “Mrs. Nixon baking cookies with Hillary Clinton is an example of an anachronism.” This is followed by short chapters with similar endnotes explaining how they’re examples of “irmus,” “epizeus” and “charentismus,” all relatively obscure rhetorical terms. Are you taking notes? Yes, this travels far from the subject at hand, if it can be said that Pat Nixon is in fact the subject. Mrs. Nixon, who didn’t want her husband to return to politics after his 1960 loss of the presidential election to John F. Kennedy, faded into the background after Nixon became president in 1968. Her muted presence, maybe veiled by a self-effacing properness, left a canvas so blank that it provides Beattie with the greatest of challenges: a character who is so uninteresting as to barely be there. Can she make a story out of an enigma? In only a few chapters does

Beattie genuinely take up this challenge, imagining Mrs. Nixon moving through the world, giving her enough room on the page to think or feel. In one of the most powerful short sections, she illustrates Mrs. Nixon’s sad, anxious thoughts as the White House photographer gathers her family for some last pictures; her husband has resigned in disgrace. It’s just good enough to make a reader wonder why there aren’t more passages like it. As the book goes on, her husband intrudes. An intelligent, complex and deeply flawed man, he is more compelling than his wife as a character. His role as president, and the predominance of that in their lives, moves him further toward center stage. Yet while Beattie claims to have channeled his voice, it comes off not as empathetic but campy; he is better illuminated elsewhere. She makes one valuable connection, however: that Nixon, who ordered campaigns of fake letters to the editor supporting his views, was actually a practitioner of fiction, on a grand scale. Beattie turns to literature over and over, doling out writing advice, making proclamations about how fiction functions, using it as the key to unlock real people. The book may not en-

lighten us at all about Mrs. Nixon, but it reveals the erudite workings of writer and educator Ann Beattie. Beattie writes with total assurance, as if she is giving a lecture. For those unfamiliar with the subject of writing, this could be an interesting introduction to how writers write. But it is a dangerous one. Because she leaves little room for inquiry and even less for deviation, the book becomes one long-winded speech. Where there might be exploration, there is pontification. What might be confidence starts to come across as careless blitheness. Her interpretations are sometimes strange — graffiti always says what it means, the glass animals in Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” are a symbol for Laura’s hymen, the first novel was 1740’s “Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded” by Samuel Richardson — and her thoughts on writing are individual, not truths that should be universally acknowledged. More nurturing writing guides have come from the desk of Anne Lamott. And a fully imagined life of a first lady can be found in Curtis Sittenfeld’s “American Wife” (2008), a novel loosely based on the life of Laura Bush. “Mrs. Nixon” falls short on both counts.

force when Buddha Hilton, the 19-year-old sheriff of Starkville, Okla., shows up at Thorn’s Key Largo house. Michaela Stabler, a high-profile lawyer who was Buddha’s adoptive mother and Rusty’s aunt, was murdered in her bed in Starkville. Rusty’s newspaper obituary was placed next to the body. The murder scene is eerily similar to “Miami Ops,” a failing TV crime show being filmed in South Florida that is written by Sawyer Moss and stars his twin brother, Flynn. Adding to the coincidence, the Moss brothers are the only sons of April Moss, the newspaper obit writer and an old acquaintance of Thorn. Buddha has little use for Thorn, and both are out of their comfort zones in the urban jungle of Miami. But they make a credible detective team as they investigate whether the growing pattern of murders is a ploy for better TV ratings. “Dead Last” works as an exciting detective novel but also provides an insightful look at grief. The solid story and characters show why Hall ranks at the top echelon of Florida mystery writers.

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frescoes, altars and chapels within. One of those chapels, the Capilla del Santo Caliz, holds a chalice said to be the one from which Christ drank during the Last Supper, although Valencia is not the only city to claim this treasure. Later, as we stood gazing at the Goya paintings in the Capilla de San Francisco de Borja, from the artist’s dark later years, a young woman in our group noted several pregnant women walking around the church’s periphery. The cathedral, Jose explained, is also home to the Virgen del Buen Parto (Our Lady of Good Delivery), so it’s a tradition that during every month of their pregnancies, expectant mothers walk nine times around the cathedral before saying a prayer to ensure a healthy delivery. Adjacent to the cathedral, the Plaza de la Virgen is the city’s busiest pedestrian plaza, a bustling meeting place of outdoor cafes and tables. Steps from there, our tour concluded at Horchateria El Siglo, where we dunked fartons (finger-shaped pastries) in horchata, a cold, creamy drink made from pressed tiger nuts that’s Valencia’s signature beverage. I then made my way back to my hotel and collapsed in my room, thinking that Valencia certainly doesn’t skimp on tradition. ••• I spent the next day splashing at La Malvarrosa beach before walking down the promenade for a beachside paella. Though many different versions are served, I figured “when in Valencia” and opted for the traditional paella valenciana, made with chicken, rabbit and vegetables. I dug into the delicious

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Shoppers peruse produce at Valencia’s Mercado Central, Europe’s largest indoor market, with 900 stalls selling nearly any food imaginable. Most of the crowd was local, speaking Spanish or Valenciano, the regional language.

rice dish “Valencia style” — scooping from the pan. Finally, I visited the Port and Royal Juan Carlos I Marina, an area that was reborn, rebuilt and revamped as Valencia prepared to be the first European city to host the America’s Cup yachting race in 2007 and then again in 2010. The European Formula 1 Grand Prix races through these streets every summer, and more than 200,000 passengers are expected to have embarked on cruises on these waters this year. To get a taste of that, I set sail on a sunset catamaran cruise. As the wind guided our boat farther from shore, I watched the bright sky morph into golden tones, and I thanked my lucky stars, some of which were starting to appear for their evening shift, to have found a city capable of satisfying my diverse travel desires. A glass of cava in hand, I toasted the town and the city, the old and the new that make Spain’s No. 3 second to none.

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The Science Museum, left, LAssut de lOr Bridge, center, and Agora, rear, are part of Valencia’s City of Arts and Sciences, a modern icon in a 2,000-year-old Spanish city.

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’m a greedy tourist. When I travel, I want to experience it all: the old and the new, the quaint and the cosmopolitan, the historic and the contemporary. So when I heard about a city that flows with the ease of a small town while boasting beaches, museums and architectural masterpieces on par with those of the world’s great cultural centers, I took notice. I was chatting with a musician who’d recently toured Spain’s third-largest city, Valencia. “It has one of the most gorgeous skies I’ve ever seen,” she said. “The light is intoxicating.” She continued to extol the city’s virtues: It was alternately a “hot, happening city” and a “cute little town.” The contradictions intrigued me. How successfully, I wondered, did the place straddle them? Armed with my curiosity and a carry-on, I set off to find out. Arriving in Valencia at an ungodly hour of the morning, I stumbled up to the reception desk of my hotel. Still dazed from the medication that had failed to induce sleep in the air but was instilling stupor on the ground, I learned that my room wouldn’t be ready for several hours. Forced to rally, I stored my luggage, splashed water on my face, downed a coffee and headed out to investigate the town. I joined a walking tour of the spot where it all began, the Centro Historico. Exploring the city’s past, we learned that retired Roman soldiers created a community named Valentia here in 138 B.C.; that Arabs conquered the region in the 8th century, introducing the rice that would eventually crown the city the birthplace of paella and the oranges that continue to be the region’s most important cash crop; and that King James converted Valencia to Christianity in 1238, erecting churches on the sites of demolished mosques. Our guide, Jose, pointed out remnants from medieval times: the Torres de Serranos and, across the city center, the Torres de Quart, towers that for centuries served as both prisons and the gates of the city wall. As we roamed through the winding walkways, I was smitten with the balconies that extended from seemingly every window in town, some curving, with intricate ironwork, some tiled with Mediterranean ceramics. As a New Yorker, I envied these beautifully crafted stages for viewing what I would have to concur is one of the most gorgeous skies I’ve ever seen. Our group moved deeper into the city center toward the Gothic glory of La Lonja. Now a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site, this building was the commodity exchange and hub for the city’s booming silk trade in the 16th century. With its twisting

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FORD `08 ESCAPE XLT. 56,800 miles.

Grey metallic with grey cloth interior. 2WD. Auto. Power windows & locks. Dual air bags. A/C. Alloy Wheels. Excellent condition. $14,500 Trades Welcome 570-328-5497

FORD ‘06 MUSTANG

GT CONVERT. One owner. Extra clean. Only 15K miles. $18,880

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

FORD ‘08 FOCUS SE Auto. Alloys. CD Player. $11,880

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

GEO `93 PRIZM

91,000 miles. Looks & runs like new. $2,300 or best offer, please call 570-702-6023

Say it HERE in the Classifieds! 570-829-7130

HONDA `05 ACCORD EX-L V6 sedan, auto-

matic transmission with navigation. Graphite exterior, grey lather interior, cruise control, power bucket seats, tinted glass, remote keyless entry, antilock brakes, airbags - driver, passenger & sides. Sun roof / moon roof. Rear window defogger, air conditioning front & rear, power steering, alloy wheels, Multi CD changer, navigation system, fog lights, premium sound excellent condition, timing belt changed. $9,500. Top Off The Line 570-814-0949

HONDA 06 CIVIC LX

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

Silver. Auto. 91K miles. Some body dents. A title. Runs excellent. Service records. Asking $9,000. 570-417-3507

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HONDA `09 CIVIC LX-S

Excellent condition inside and out. Garage kept. Regularly serviced by dealer, records available. Option include alloy wheels, decklid spoiler, sport seats, interior accent lighting (blue), Nose mask and custom cut floor mats. Dark grey with black interior. 56K highway miles. $14,400. Call 570-709-4695

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HONDAS ‘08 Accord LX-P

42K. Burgundy. Reduced! $16,500 ‘08 Accord LX 34K. Silver. Reduced! $15,200 ‘08 Civic LX 30K. Bronze. Reduced. $13,900 OBO MAFFEI AUTO SALES 570-288-6227

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HYUNDAI `02 ELANTRA 129,995 miles,

manual, 4 door, anti-lock brakes, air conditioning, air bags, power locks, power windows, power mirrors, CD player, leather interior, sun roof, rear windshield wiper, tinted windows, GREAT ON GAS. REDUCED $3,000. 570-654-8469

HYUNDAI ‘06 ELANTRA Tan, 4 door,

clean title, 4 cylinder, auto, 115k miles. Power windows, & keyless entry, CD player, cruise, central console heated power mirrors. $3900 570-991-5558

HYUNDAI ‘10 ELANTRA GLS

Only 8,200 miles! 1 Owner. $15,995

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LEXUS `98 LS 400

Excellent condition, garage kept, 1 owner. Must see. Low mileage, 90K. Leather interior. All power. GPS navigation, moon roof, cd changer. Loaded. $9,000 or best offer. 570-706-6156

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NISSAN `08 SENTRA

58K miles. 4 cylinder, 6 speed manual. Great condition. All power. A/C. Cruise. $10,500. Call 570-333-4379 after 6:30 pm

NISSAN `08 XTERRA

Grey, Mint condition. 35K miles. New, allseason tires. Sirius radio. 2 sets of mats, including cargo mats. $18,400. Call 570-822-3494 or 570-498-0977

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1451 SHOEMAKER AVE, W. WYOMING

570-714-4146

PONTIAC ‘02 SUNFIRE

2 door. Very clean! Warrantied. 75K. $5,695. BUY * SELL * TRADE

PONTIAC `04 VIBE White. New manual

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TOYOTA `10

VOLKSWAGEN `04

Camry SE. 56,000 miles. Red, alloy wheels, black cloth interior. Will consider trade. $14,200 (570) 793-9157

TOYOTA ‘00 SOLARA SE SUPER CLEAN All power, new

tires, new back brakes. 125,000 miles. $7,500 negotiable. 570-417-8353

JAGUAR `00 S TYPE

4 door sedan. Like new condition. Brilliant blue exterior with beige hides. Car is fully equipped with navigation system, V-8, automatic, climate control AC, alarm system, AM/FM 6 disc CD, garage door opener. 42,000 original miles. $9,500 Call (570) 288-6009

JEEP `04 WRANGLER 4” lift, 33” BFG

base KM2, 5 speed, excellent condition, 46,200 miles. $12,500. OBO. Call 570-592-1829

LEXUS `08 ES 350

Beautiful. Burgundy with doeskin interior. All options. 26k. Mint condition flawless. Looking to sell for trade in value of $22,000. 570-479-6722

CHEVY ‘30 HOTROD COUPE

TOYOTA 07 CAMRY LE

MERCEDES ‘29

Low miles. One owner. $13,880

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

TOYOTA ‘09 COROLLA S Auto. 4 Cylinder. $16,450

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

VOLVO 850 ‘95 WAGON Runs good, air, automatic, fair shape. $1,800. 347-693-4156

transmission & clutch. Front wheel drive. 165k highway miles. Great on gas. Good condition, runs well. $3,000 or best offer 570-331-4777

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MERCEDES ‘76 450 SL $24,000

Kit Car $9,000 (570) 655-4884 hell-of-adeal.com

FORD `52 COUNTRY SEDAN CUSTOM LINE

STATION WAGON V8, automatic, 8 passenger, 3rd seat, good condition, 2nd owner. REDUCED TO $6,500. 570-579-3517 570-455-6589

FORD SALEEN ‘04 281 SC Coupe

1,000 miles documented #380 Highly collectable. $28,500 570-472-1854

MERCEDES 1975

Good interior & exterior. Runs great! New tires. Many new parts. Moving, Must Sell. $2,300 or best offer 570-693-3263 Ask for Paul

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PONTIAC 01 GRAND AM 4 cylinder. Auto. Sharp Sharp Car! $2,995 Call For Details! 570-696-4377

PORSCHE `01 BOXSTER S Biarritz white, con-

vertible,new $58,000, 3.2 liter, 6 cylinder, 250HP. Loaded with all the extra options. Less than 15,000 miles. $21,000 570-586-0401

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110,000 miles, 5 speed, 2 door, antilock brakes, air conditioning, power windows, power mirrors, AM/FM radio, CD changer, leather interior, rear defroster, tinted windows, custom wheels, $8,000. (570) 817-1803

SUBARU `02 FORESTER

L. AWD. Red. $2,850. Hail damage. Runs great. Auto, air, CD, cassette, cruise, tilt. All power. 174K miles. Mechanical inspection welcomed. Call 570-561-9217 SUZUKI ‘10 SX4 4x4 6,000 miles. $14,500. ‘95 Mercedes 66,000 miles. $8,995. ‘08 Ford F250, 4x4 4,000 miles, 4 door, 8 foot bed/with plow. $45,000. All showroom new! 570-826-0200 or 570-868-3968

VOLKSWAGEN ‘00 BEETLE

2.0 automatic, air 67k miles $6400. 570-466-0999

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P R # V O LUM E NISSA N DEA LER I I IN PENNSY LV A NIA ** C C B L A C K TO E E P R ESENTS: B A SIC S SA L E • • S S E E L $ 18 ,9 9 5 L 149 E E C C T T I I O 20 ,495 $18 9 P ER M O. 24,595 $239 P ER M O. O N N • • S S E E R 29,999 $299 P ER M O. 27,995 $299 P ER M O. R V V I I C C 3 1,8 6 5 3 9 ,9 9 5 E 299 E S C AN H ERE FO R S ERVIC E S PEC IAL S

JU ST A NNO U NC ED NISSA N B LA C K FR IDA Y B O NU S C A SH O N A LTIM A A ND M A XIM A ,R O G U E, M U R A NO ,TITA N & A R M A DA

$500

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2012 N 2012 NISSAN ISSAN A ALTIMA LTIMA 2 2.5S .5S SEDAN SEDAN

STK#N 20533 M O D EL# 13112 M SR P $23,820

30 A VA IL A B L E

TH IS P R IC E!!

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B U Y FO R

L EAS E FOR

W / $1250 N IS S AN R EB ATE, $50 0 N M AC CAP TIVE CAS H & $50 0 N IS S AN B L ACK FR ID AY B ON U S CAS H

P ER M O. P lu s Ta x.

* $149 Perm o n th p lu s ta x. 24 m o n th lea s e; 12,000 m iles p eryea rw / $1999 ca s h d o w n o rtra d e eq u ity + $203.50 regis tra tio n fees ; $2,202.50 to ta l d u e a td elivery; Res id u a l= $15,721.20; S a le p rice p lu s ta x in clu d es $1,250 Nis s a n Reb a te & $500 NM AC Ca p tive Ca s h & $500 Bla ck F rid a y Reb a te. M u s tb e a p p ro ved thru NM AC @ T ier1.

2012 N 2012 NISSAN ISSAN F FRONTIER RONTIER SV SV 4X4 4X4 CREW CREW CAB CAB

2011 N 2011 NISSAN ISSAN R ROGUE OGUE S A AWD WD

STK#N 20753 M O D EL# 22211 M SR P $23,905

STK#N 21216 M O D EL# 31412 M SR P $29,595

O NLY 10 L EFT @ TH IS P R IC E

4 Cyl, CVT , A/C, AM /F M /CD, Cru is e, T ilt, F lo o rM a ts & S p la s h Gu a rd s

L EAS E FOR

P lu s Ta x.

W / $10 0 0 N IS S AN R EB ATE

P lu s Ta x.

STK#20706 M O D EL# 23211 M SR P $32,130

2 5 ,9 9 5

W / $250 0 N IS S AN R EB ATE & $50 0 N IS S AN B LACK FR ID AY B ON U S CAS H

SA VE $10,000 O FF M SR P !!

P ER M O. P lu s Ta x.

* $299 Perm o n th p lu s ta x. 39 m o n th lea s e; 12,000 m iles p eryea r; Res id u a l= $15,101.10; M u s tq u a lify T ier1. $1557.88 Do w n p lu s $644.12 in fees = 2202.00 to ta l d u e a td elivery. L ea s e in clu d es $1375 NM AC L ea s e Ca s h. S a le Price + ta x & ta gs in clu d es $2500 Nis s a n Reb a te & $500 Nis s a n Bla ck F rid a y Bo n u s Ca s h.

P lu s Ta x.

2011 2 011 N NISSAN ISSAN MURANO MURANO CROSS CROSS CCABRIOLET ABRIOLET CCONVERTIBLE ONVERTIBLE

STK#N 20839 M O D EL# 27011 M SR P $48,020

V8, Au to , A/ C, L ea ther, Hea ted S ea ts , Prem Utility, F lo o rM a ts & S p la s h Gu a rd s , M u ch, M u ch M o re!

L EAS E FOR

* $299 Perm o n th p lu s ta x. 39 m o n th lea s e; 12,000 m iles p eryea r; Res id u a l= $13,895.20; M u s tq u a lify T ier1. $2,499 D u e & Reg fees = $2702 to ta l. In clu d es $3000 L ea s e Ca s h. S a le p rice p lu s ta x & ta gs in clu d es $2,000 N is s a n Reb a te.

2011 N 2011 NISSAN ISSAN TITAN TITAN PRO4X PRO4X CC CC 4X4 4X4

STK#N 20279 M O D EL# 36811 M SR P $41,865

W / $20 0 0 N IS S AN R EB ATE

* $299 Perm o n th p lu s ta x. 39 m o n th lea s e; 12,000 m iles p eryea r; Res id u a l= $18252.50; M u s tb e a p p ro ved thru NM AC @ tier1. $1999 Ca s h Do w n o rT ra d e E q u ity + $203.50 Regis tra tio n F ees ; T o ta l @ d elivery= $2202.50. $1800 NM AC L ea s e Ca s h & $500 Nis s a n Bla ck F rid a y Bo n u s Ca s h in clu d ed . S a le p rice p lu s ta x & ta gs in clu d es $2,500 Nis s a n Reb a te & $500 Nis s a n Bla ck F rid a y Bo n u s Ca s h.

2011 N 2011 NISSAN ISSAN MURANO MURANO S A AWD WD

L EAS E FOR

B U Y FO R

P lu s Ta x.

W / $ 2 5 0 0 N IS S A N R EB ATE & $ 5 0 0 N IS S A N B L AC K FR ID AY B O N U S C A S H

B U Y FO R

P lu s Ta x.

STK#N 20841 M O D EL# 25011 M SR P $31,580

L EAS E FOR

2011 N 2011 NISSAN ISSAN P PATHFINDER ATHFINDER S 4X4 4X4

SA VE $6500 O N EVER Y 2011 M A XIM A IN STO C K O NLY

B U Y FO R

*$239 Perm o n th p lu s ta x. 39 m o n th lea s e; 12,000 m iles p eryea r; Res id u a l= $18940.80; M u s t b e a p p ro ved thru N M AC @ T ier1. $1999 ca s h d o w n o rtra d e eq u ity + $226 regis tra tio n fees ; T o ta l @ d elivery= $2225. S a le Price + ta x & ta gs in clu d es $2500 N is s a n Reb a te.

2011 N 2011 NISSAN ISSAN MAXIMA MAXIMA SV SV SEDAN SEDAN

V-6, CVT , L ea ther, M o o n ro o f, Hea ted S ea ts , PW , PDL , Cru is e, T ilt, AM /F M / CD, F lo o rM a ts & S p la s h Gu a rd s

L EAS E FOR

B U Y FO R

W / $250 0 N IS S AN R EB ATE

* $189 Perm o n th p lu s ta x. 39 m o n th lea s e; 12,000 m iles p eryea rw / $2698.50 ca s h d o w n o rtra d e eq u ity + $203.50 in regis tra tio n fee = $2,902 to ta l d u e a td elivery; Res id u a l= $12,669.65; S a le p rice p lu s ta x in clu d es $1,000 Nis s a n Reb a te & $500 Bla ck F rid a y Reb a te. M u s tb e a p p ro ved thru NM AC @ T ier1.

STK#N 20807 M O D EL# 16111 M SR P $36,505

3 A VA IL A B L E A T TH IS P R IC E!!

V-6, Au to , A/ C, Prem Utility Pkg, PW , PDL , Cru is e, T ilt, AM / F M / CD, F lo o rM a ts & S p la s h Gu a rd s

H U R R Y !!

B U Y FO R

SA VE $5000 O FF M SR P

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B U Y FO R

W / $5,250 N IS S AN R EB ATE & $50 0 N IS S AN B L ACK FR ID AY B ON U S CAS H

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B U Y FO R

V6, CVT , Na viga tio n , Hea ted L ea therS ea ts , AM / F M / CD, F lo o rM a ts , M u ch, M u ch M o re!

*S a le Price p lu s ta x & ta gs . In clu d es $2000 Nis s a n Reb a te.

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HARLEY DAVIDSON MERCEDES-BENZ `73 ‘03 Dyna Wide Glide Excellent condition garage kept! Gold450SL en Anniversary - silConvertible with

removable hard top, power windows, AM /FM radio with cassette player, CD player, automatic, 4 new tires. Champagne exterior; Italian red leather interior inside. Garage kept, excellent condition. $28,000. Call 825-6272

OLDSMOBILE `68 DELMONT

ver/black. New Tires. Extras. 19,000 miles. Must Sell! $10,000. 570-639-2539

HARLEY DAVIDSON ‘05 SCREAMING EAGLE V-ROD Orange & Black.

HYOSUNG `04 COMET

45,000 miles • 350 Rocket engine • Fender skirts • Always garaged

250. 157 Miles. Excellent Condition. $1,200. Call 570-256-7760

412 Autos for Sale

Will sell for $6,000 Serious inquires only 570690-0727

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King of the Highway! Mint original antique show winner. Factory spot lights, wide white tires, biggest Harley built. Only 28,000 original miles! Never needs inspection, permanent registration. $7,995 570-905-9348

KAWASAKI ‘05

NINJA 500R. 3300 miles. Orange. Garage kept. His & hers helmets. Must sell. $2400 570-760-3599 570-825-3711

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NEW LOW PRICES! 2000 GMC Jimmy 4x4

2003 Kia Spectra

PORSCHE ‘78 911 SC TARGA 60,000 miles. 5

4 Cyl., 73K, Extra Clean!

5,990

speed. Air. Power windows. Metallic brown. Saddle Interior. Meticulous original owner. Garaged. New Battery. Inspected. Excellent Condition. $25,000. OBO (610) 797-7856 (484) 264-2743

6 Cyl., 98K

4,990*

2003 Ford Taurus

2000 Ford Taurus

6 Cyl., Station Wagon, 151K, Runs Great

2,990

6,990*

2002 Hyundai Elantra

73K, Great Condition

7,990

88K, Like New

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2000 Ford Ranger 4x4

Commercial Trucks & Equipment

CHEVY ‘08 3500 HD DUMP TRUCK 2WD, automatic.

4 Cyl., 88K, Loaded

5,590*

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MOTOR TWINS

Only 12,000 miles. Vehicle in like new condition. $19,000. 570-288-4322

CALL STEVE MORENKO 2010 Wyoming Ave., Wyoming

718-4050

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GMC SIERRA ‘98 3500 4WD Stake Side,

350 V8, Auto. 75,000 miles on current engine. 12' wood bed, body, tires, interior good. Excellent running condition. New generator, starter, battery. Just tuned and inspected. $6,900. Call 570-656-1080

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HSoft ARLEY DAVIDSON ‘80 riding FLH.

Blue pearl, excellent condition, 3,100 miles, factory alarm with extras. $10,500. or best offer. Tony 570-237-1631

• All original

412 Autos for Sale

#35 of 50 Made $10,000 in accessories including a custom made seat. Exotic paint set, Alien Spider Candy Blue. Excellent condition. All Documentation. 1,400 Asking $15,000 570-876-4034

HARLEY DAVIDSON ‘05 V-ROD VRSCA

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HARLEY DAVIDSON 2006 NIGHTTRAIN SPECIAL EDITION

Used as a show bike. Never abused. 480 miles. Excellent condition. Asking $15,000 570-876-4034

Must Sell! Appraised for $9,200

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‘96 HONDA

American Classic Edition. 1100 cc. 1 owner, under 20,000 miles. Yellow and white, extra chrome, VNH exhaust, bags, lights, MC jack, battery tender, helmets. Asking $3500 570-288-7618

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Classic, many chrome accessories, 13k miles, Metallic Emerald Green. Garage kept, like new condition. Includes Harley cover. $12,900 570-718-6769 570-709-4937

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TRAVEL TRAILER 33 ft

Rear queen master bedroom, Walk thru bathroom. Center kitchen + dinette bed. Front extra large living room + sofa bed. Big View windows. Air, awning, sleeps 6, very clean, will deliver. Located in Benton, Pa. $4,900. 215-694-7497

Kawasaki` 93 ZX11D NINJA LIKE NEW 8900 Original

451

miles. Original owner. V@H Exhaust and Computer. New tires. $3,800. 570-574-3584

GET THE WORD OUT with a Classified Ad. 570-829-7130

POLARIS ‘00 VICTORY CRUISER 14,000 miles,

92 V-twin, 1507 cc, extras $6000. 570-883-9047

YAMAHA ‘97 ROYALSTAR 1300

Trucks/ SUVs/Vans

BUICK `05 RENDEZVOUS BARGAIN!!

AWD, Fully loaded, 1 owner, 22,000 miles. Small 6 cylinder. New inspection. Like new, inside & out. $13,000. (570) 540-0975

CHEVROLET `10 SILVERADO 1500 Extended Cab V71

Package 4x4. Bedliner. V-8. 5.3 Liter. Red. Remote start. Garage kept. 6,300 miles $26,000 (570) 639-2539

12,000 miles. With windshield. Runs excellent. Many extras including gunfighter seat, leather bags, extra pipes. New tires & battery. Asking $4,000 firm. (570) 814-1548

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CHEVY `10 SILVERADO

4 Door Crew Cab LTZ. 4 wheel drive. Excellent condition, low mileage. $35,500. Call 570-655-2689

CHEVY `10 SILVERADO

4 Door Crew Cab LTZ. 4 wheel drive. Excellent condition, low mileage. $35,500. Call 570-655-2689

CHEVY ‘10 EQUINOX LT

Moonroof. Alloys. 1 Owner. $23,777

CHEROKEE ‘10

FLAGSTAFF `08 CLASSIC NOW BACK IN PA.

4x4. 56K original miles. Extended cab. Automatic 6 cyl. A/C. Recent safety & emissions inspection. Excellent condition. No rust. Clean inside & out. Purchased from an estate. Garage kept. Well maintained. $7,495. Trade in’s accepted. 570-466-2771

CHEVY `00 SILVERADO

Super Lite Fifth Wheel. LCD/DVD flat screen TV, fireplace, heated mattress, ceiling fan, Hide-a-Bed sofa, outside speakers & grill, 2 sliders, aluminum wheels, , awning, microwave oven, tinted safety glass windows, fridge & many accessories & options. Excellent condition, $22,500. 570-868-6986

SUNLINE SOLARIS `91 25’ travel trailer A/C.

Bunk beds. New fridge & hot water heater. Excellent condition. $3,900. 570-466-4995

1500. 4x4. 8’ box. Auto. A/C. 121K miles. $5,995. 570-332-1121

CHEVY `03 BLAZER Excellent Condition. Only 5,000 Miles. Full equipped. $8,000 (570) 288-9297

NISSAN `08 XTERRA

58k miles. 4x4. Auto. All power. CD. Keyless entry. $14,000 570-735-3005 570-793-9180

FORD `00 WINDSTAR

SE. 7 passenger, 4 door, V6, all power, inspected, well maintained, excellent family van, reduced to $2,495. 570-287-3951

4 Cylinder. 5 speed. Front wheel drive. air. Warranted. $7,895. BUY * SELL * TRADE

Leather & Moonroof. $15,872

FORD ‘99 EXPLORER Leather. Moonroof. 4x4. New Inspection. $3,995

FORD ‘00 EXPLORER XLT. CD. Power

seats. Extra Clean! $3,995 Call For Details! 570-696-4377

1518 8th Street Carverton, PA Near Francis Slocum St. Park

FORD ‘99 F150 Shortbox. 1 owner. New truck trade! $4,495 Call For Details! 570-696-4377

1518 8th Street Carverton, PA Near Francis Slocum St. Park Extra Cab. 6 Cylinder, 5 speed. Air. 2WD. $4,995 Call For Details! 570-696-4377

D.P. MOTORS

1451 SHOEMAKER AVE, W. WYOMING

570-714-4146

GMC '02 SAFARI CARGO VAN

AWD. Auto. Warrantied. $5,195 BUY * SELL * TRADE

GMC `05 SAVANA

1518 8th Street Carverton, PA Near Francis Slocum St. Park

FORD 02 RANGER EDGE Extra cab. 5 speed. 6 cylinder. 2 wheel drive. Extra sharp truck! $4,995 Call For Details! 570-696-4377

1500 Cargo Van. AWD. V8 automatic. A/C. New brakes & tires. Very clean. $11,950. Call 570-474-6028

HONDA `10 ODYSSEY

$7,900

FORD 08 EDGE SEL Leather. Auto. $18,940

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

HONDA ‘09 CRV LX

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

D.P. MOTORS

1451 SHOEMAKER AVE, W. WYOMING

570-714-4146

HYUNDAI '04 SANTA FE

4 Cylinder. Auto. Front wheel drive. 78K. Very clean!. Warrantied. $7,795. BUY * SELL * TRADE

HYUNDAI ‘06 SANTE FE LTD

Leather. Moonroof. One owner. $14,580

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

To place your ad Call Toll Free 1-800-427-8649

FORD 03 RANGER

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

AWD. 1 owner. $18,940

1518 8th Street Carverton, PA Near Francis Slocum St. Park

FORD `04 EXPLORER Eddie Bauer Edition

59,000 miles, 4 door, 3 row seats, V6, all power options, moon roof, video screen $12,999. 570-690-3995 or 570-287-0031

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451

Trucks/ SUVs/Vans

Special Edition. Maroon, Fully loaded. Leather seats. TV/DVD, navigation, sun roof plus many other extras. 3rd seat . Only 1,900 Miles. Brand New. Asking $37,000 (570) 328-0850

LEXUS `96 LX 450

Full time 4WD, Pearl white with like new leather ivory interior. Silver trim. Garage kept. Excellent condition. 84,000 miles, Asking $10,750 570-654-3076 or 570-498-0005

Triple black, economical 6 cylinder. 4x4 select drive. CD, remote door opener, power windows & locks, cruise, tilt wheel. 108k highway miles. Garage kept. Super clean inside and out. No rust. Sale price $6,895. Scranton. Trade in’s accepted. 570-466-2771

1518 8th Street Carverton, PA Near Francis Slocum St. Park

JEEPAuto. 04 LIBERTY V6.

Black Beauty! $6,995 Call For Details! 570-696-4377

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570-714-4146

JEEP ‘04 GRAND CHEROKEE

4.0 - 6 cylinder. Auto. 4x4. Air. Many options very clean! 1 owner. Warrantied. $9,295. BUY * SELL * TRADE

MERCEDES-BENZ `99 ML 320

Sunroof, new tires, 115,930 miles MUST SELL Only $200/ month (570)760-0511

Trucks/ SUVs/Vans

‘08 Chevy Trailblazer LT 15K miles. Moonroof. Black. $19,995 ‘08 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo 42K miles. Black. 6 cylinder. $16,995 ‘08 Honda CRV EX White. Moonroof. $19,900 ‘08 Chevy Trailblazer LT 29K miles. Tan. Moonroof. $17,995 ‘06 Chevy Trailblazer LT EXT Gray. 82K miles. $12,495 ‘04 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo SE Blue. Moonroof. Leather. 74K miles. $10,200 ‘04 Jeep Grand Cherokee 6 cylinder. Auto. 102K miles. Gray. $8,995 ‘04 Chrysler Town & Country Van Limited 78K miles. Blue. Every available factory option. $9,500 MAFFEI AUTO SALES 570-288-6227

MERCURY `07 MARINER One owner. Luxury

4x4. garage kept. Showroom condition, fully loaded, every option 34,000 miles. GREAT DEAL $14,500 (570)825-5847

JEEP ‘07 GRAND CHEROKEE

4WD & Alloys. $16,995

MITSUBISHI `11

OUTLANDER SPORT SE

AWD, Black interior/exterior, start/ stop engine with keyless entry, heated seats, 18” alloy wheels, many extra features. Only 4,800 miles. 10 year, 100,000 mile warranty. $23,500. Willing to negotiate. Serious inquires only - must sell, going to law school. (570) 793-6844

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

JEEP 08 COMPASS

4 WD. Auto. CD. $13,992

451

Trucks/ SUVs/Vans

NISSAN `04 PATHFINDER ARMADA Excellent condition.

Too many options to list. Runs & looks excellent. $13,995 570-655-6132 or 570-466-8824

NISSAN ‘08 ROGUE S AWD. Auto $17,990

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

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SUZUKI `07 XL-7 56,000 miles,

automatic, all-wheel drive, 4 door, air conditioning, all power, CD player, leather interior, tinted windows, custom wheels, $13,000 Call 570-829-8753 Before 5:00 p.m.

TOYOTA 09 RAV 4

Only 13K miles! Remote Starter. $21,750

To place your ad call...829-7130

D.P. MOTORS

1451 SHOEMAKER AVE, W. WYOMING

451

4X4 SUV SALE

JEEP `02 GRAND CHEROKEE LAREDO

FORD ‘05 ESCAPE XLS

CHRYSLER 02 TOWN & COUNTRY V6. Like new!

accessible, removable front passenger chair. IMS ramp system, recently inspected, new battery, full air conditioning, all power, 27,000 miles, excellent condition. $14,900 negotiable. 570-288-4894

451

HONDA 06 CRV SE

570-714-4146

FORD 02 F150

FORD `00 WINDSTAR Handicapped

Trucks/ SUVs/Vans

1451 SHOEMAKER AVE, W. WYOMING

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

$5,495 Call For Details! 570-696-4377

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D.P. MOTORS

Standard cab. 8’ bed with liner. Dark Blue. 98,400 miles. $6,200 or best offer 570-823-8196

1518 8th Street Carverton, PA Near Francis Slocum St. Park

Travel trailer. 39 ft., 4 slide outs, 3 bedrooms, 2 bath rooms, microwave, awning, tinted windows, Brand new. Have no pets or smokers. Much more!!!!! $33,000 (cell) 682-888-2880

Trucks/ SUVs/Vans

CHEVY `99 SILVERADO Auto. V6 Vortec.

CHEVY `00 S-10

442 RVs & Campers

451

D.P. MOTORS

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

1451 SHOEMAKER AVE, W. WYOMING

570-714-4146

MITSUBISHI ‘06 OUTLANDER Very nice! 4 cylinder. Auto. 4WD. $8,395 BUY * SELL * TRADE

1518 8th Street Carverton, PA Near Francis Slocum St. Park

MAZDA 03 MPV VAN V6. CD Player.

SUZUKI4x4. `03 XL-7 85K. Auto.

1 owner vehicle!! $2,995 Call For Details! 570-696-4377

Nice, clean interior. Runs good. New battery & brakes. All power. CD. $6,800 570-762-8034 570-696-5444

560 Pierce St. Kingston, PA www.wyoming valleymotors.com 570-714-9924

VOLVO `08 XC90

Fully loaded, moon roof, leather, heated seats, electric locks, excellent condition. New tires, new brakes and rotors. 52,000 miles highway $26,500/ best offer. 570-779-4325 570-417-2010 till 5

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0.9% APR* ON ALL NEW ACURA MODEL S For well-qualified buyers

2012 MDX

2012 TSX

2012 TL

2012 RL

2012 RDX

2012 TSX SPORT WAGON

2012 ZDX

For more information; visit your local showroom today or acura.com. *Subject to limited availability through January 3, 2012, on approved credit through Acura Financial Services, DBA of AmericanHonda Finance Corp. 0.9% APR for 24–36 months on all new and unregistered 2011 and 2012 Acura models through January 3, 2012, for well-qualified buyers. Not all buyers will qualify. Higher financing rates apply for buyers with lower credit ratings. Example (per $1,000 financed and for 0.9% APR): 24 months financing at $42.06/month or 36 months financing at $28.16/month. Dealers set actual price. See dealer for complete details. © 2011 Acura. Acura,TSX, MDX, TL, RDX, ZDX and RL are trademarks of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

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BEER & LIQUOR LICENSE FOR SALE LUZERNE COUNTY $22,000 For More Info Call 570-332-1637 or 570-332-4686

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Concerned about your future? BE YOUR OWN BOSS Work Full or Part time. Accounts available NOW throughout Luzerne & Lackawanna counties. We guarantee $5,000 to $200,000 in annual billing. Investment Required. We’re ready – are you? For more info call 570-824-5774 Jan-Pro.com

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2012 H on d a

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***LEAS E 3 6 M ONTHS THROUG H AHFC . $0 DOW N. 1S T PAY M ENT AND TAG S DUE AT DELIV ERY . RES IDUAL $12,23 7.75

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2239/ 39/M OO.*.*

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$7,250

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$8,950

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$7,950

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$8,750

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$10,950

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$8,950

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$11,950

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$11,950

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$13,250

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$13,950

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$16,500

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$16,750

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$16,750

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$16,950

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B lack,20K M iles

$18,250

$14,950

09 SU BA R U IM PR EZA A W D

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$12,950

04 SUBA RU IM PREZA W RX SDN

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$22,500

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Antiques & Collectibles

GRANDFATHER CLOCK Howard Miller,

great Christmas gift, excellent shape. $1,400. Call 570-287-3036

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Appliances

APPLIANCE PA RT S E T C .

Used appliances. Parts for all brands. 223 George Ave. Wilkes-Barre 570-820-8162

Looking for that special place called home? Classified will address Your needs. Open the door with classified! WASHER, dryer, dishwasher buy any 2 for $650 get one free. 570-235-7170

700 MERCHANDISE Air Conditioners

AIR CONDITIONERS, 18,500 BTU - $100. 8,000 BTU $75. 570-823-8442

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Antiques & Collectibles

712

$ ANTIQUES BUYING $

Old Toys, model kits, Bikes, dolls, guns, Mining Items, trains & Musical Instruments, Hess. 474-9544 BARBIE DOLL Little Debbie collector’s doll 1995 never out of original box $35.. Rising Star Barbie with musical CD collector’s doll 1998 never out of original box. $30.. Wonderful X-mas gifts. 570-262-0770.

796 Wanted to Buy Merchandise

Baby Items

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS Pack N Plays, Highchair, Jumparoo, Snap and go, Infant car seat & bases, Graco swing, Bassinet, Crib /Toddler bed no mattress. Price for all $300. 693-3028

720

Cemetery Plots/Lots

MEMORIAL SHRINE CEMETERY 6 Plots Available

May be Separated Rose Lawn Section $450 each 570-654-1596

728

HOBART WM5 commercial undercounter dishwasher with hot water booster runs good. $700. 793-3389

Shopping for a new apartment? Classified lets you compare costs without hassle or worry! Get moving with classified! 732

Doyouneedmorespace? A yard or garage sale in classified is the best way tocleanoutyourclosets! You’re in bussiness with classified!

744

MEMORIAL SHRINE

* NELSON * * FURNITURE * * WAREHOUSE * Recliners from $299 Lift Chairs from $699 New and Used Living Room Dinettes, Bedroom 210 Division St Kingston Call 570-288-3607 HEADBOARD, oak twin, $50. Oak night stand $50. 570-825-0569

Baby Items

MATTRESS SALE

CLOTHING, 0-12 months, girls, $1-$5. 570-825-0569 F.P. Sugar Plum cradle & swing $100. FP newborn rock n play sleeper $25. Baby bouncer $10. Boppy with 2 covers $25. Girl’s clothes newborn lot $18& 03 month lot $33 All fall & winter, like new condition. 570-760-1005 HIGH CHAIR, wooden, Eddie Bauer $25. (2) ladybug comforter sets $25. each. 1 pink car seat $15. 570-417-1171

796 Wanted to Buy Merchandise

570-735-1487 WE PAY THE MOST IN CASH

BUYING 11am to 11pm

We Beat All Competitors Prices!

Mattress Guy

Twin sets: $159 Full sets: $179 Queen sets: $199 All New American Made 570-288-1898

Fresh Cut Trees or Cut Your Own * Spruce * Fir * * Live Trees * * Wreaths *

PUB STYLE kitchen set 2 chairs with backs & round table with 2 drop leafs. Solid walnut. Excellent condition, just purchased end of September. Moving Paid $159. sell $125. 570-406-4523.

OPEN DAILY 8 A.M. to 7 P.M. Ample Parking Holiday Music helenandedstree farm.com 570-868-6252 Nuangola Exit 159 off I-81 (Follow Signs)

726

Clothing

746 Garage Sales/ Estate Sales/ Flea Markets

JACKET ladies leather jacket with fox tail fur hood $100. Size small mans Waltham watch $200. Vintage tweed Persian wool swing coat ex $250. Hot pink formal gown $99. 570-735-5087

LARKSVILLE

CLEARVIEW DR ACROSS FROM

VOLKSWAGEN Route 11, Narrows

After Thanksgiving for 4 days Sale!!

UGG BOOTS, girls, chestnut color, size 2. Excellent condition. $60. 474-0753

39 Prospect St • Nanticoke 412 Autos for Sale

412 Autos for Sale

Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday! Furniture-most all clothing & shoes only 25¢ each. Basement is filled!

WEDDING GOWN size 9-10, used once, perserved in box. $50. 825-0569

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746 Garage Sales/ Estate Sales/ Flea Markets

S195 W O YSlocum E R S V I LSt. LE 570-718-1123 Minutes from Wilkes-Barre

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758 Miscellaneous

All Junk Cars & Trucks Wanted

TV Samsung LED 3D Smart 55”, 2-sets 3D glasses, manufacture warranty, less than 1-year old, $999. 288-3352

FLEAMARKET & BID BOARD

Highest Prices Paid In CA$H

Antiques, Collectibles, Coins & MUCH MORE! Flea Market Spaces Currently Available. Attention: No Bid Board this month, watch for our grand opening in Edwardsville

PICKUP

WARRIOR RUN

Furniture & Accessories

FURNISH FOR LESS

Christmas Trees

HELEN & ED’S CHRISTMAS TREE FARM

Exercise Equipment

TREADMILL, Lifestyle, excellent condition 8 mph, incline, time & mile meter, electric. $200. 570-902-5244

LOTS FOR SALE 6 lots available at Memorial Shrine Cemetery. $2,400. Call 717-774-1520 SERIOUS INQUIRES ONLY

722

Commercial/ Industrial Equipment

12 Chestnut Street Sunday 11/27 9am-12pm Appliances (small & large), furniture, odds & ends, VERY REASONABLE! CASH ONLY!

WEST WYOMING FLEA MARKET 6th Street

OPEN SPACE YEAR ROUND

AVAILABLE INSIDE & OUT ACRES OF PARKING OUTSIDE SPACES - $10 INSIDE SPACES $60 AND UP (MONTHLY)

Saturday 10am-2pm Sunday 8am-4pm

752 Landscaping & Gardening FREE PLANTS EverBloom, strawberry plants, 3 to 4 crops a year. Call Bob Sr. 570-823-3030 9am to 9 pm

758 Miscellaneous TOM TOM G.P.S Home & Car Charger $70 655-2548 CHRISTMAS ITEMS .50 to $1. Hats & scarfs .50. Coats S, 2X & large $2. to $5. Sweaters $1. Picture frames .50 to $2. Purses $1. & $2. Books .25 to $1. Glassware .25 to $1. 570-823-4941

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FREE

570-574-1275 CANDLE FRAGRANCE OILS, priced less than 1/2 of wholesale. $20. Box of assorted piller candle molds, variety of shapes & sizes $30. 2 bags of 2 oz votive molds 50 per bag $10. Portable Display shelf for craft shows $35. 81 piece Reed & Barton silverware set new in box. (Richmond Hill pattern.) $60.822-6184

FREE AD POLICY

The Times Leader will accept ads for used private party merchandise only for items totaling $1,000 or less. All items must be priced and state how many of each item. Your name address, email and phone number must be included. No ads for ticket sales accepted. Pet ads accepted if FREE ad must state FREE. One Submission per month per household. You may place your ad online at timesleader.com, or email to classifieds@ timesleader.com or fax to 570-831-7312 or mail to Classified Free Ads: 15 N. Main Street, WilkesBarre, PA. Sorry no phone calls.

HANDBAG & CHANGE PURSE, Dooney & Bourke, $200. Sneakers, ladies, size 8, medium, $100 for all, negotiable. Chairpads, 4 black microfiber $25. Droid, Verizon cell phone, 3 back covers, $100.570-855-3363 HOUSEHOLD goods all new items total of 66 valued at $427.10 asking $150 or best offer. 570823-3030 9am-9pm PING PONG TABLE $25. Yale safe $50. Heater Tower, electric, portable, $20. School desk $15. 570-825-5847

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UTILITY TRAILER: 2000 lb. capacity with treated wood box, almost new. $500. 836-8080.

762

Musical Instruments

PIANO B. Squire Upright Vintage 1938 by Kemble Piano. Very good condition. $100. 570-474-5705

780

Televisions/ Accessories

TV Phillips 32” HD wide screen, flat front, tube $75. 570-696-0187 TV Polaroid 21” with DVD player $30. 570-823-8442

782

Tickets

BUS TRIPS

RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR

12/2, 1:00 pm Show 2nd Mezz. $91 12/4, 1:00 pm Show Orch. $156 12/9,1:00 pm Show 2nd Mezz. $91 12/11,2:00 pm Show, Orch. $156 3rd Mezz. $101 12/16,1:00 pm Show Orch. $106 2nd Mezz. $91 12/17 11:30am Show Orch. $156 2nd Mezz. $121

796 Wanted to Buy Merchandise

Mr. Peanut & Planter Peanut Items.

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(570) 868-6895

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WANTED JEWELRY

WILKESBARREGOLD

(570)48GOLD8 (570)484-6538

The Video Game Store 28 S. Main W.B. Open Mon- Sat, 12pm – 6pm 570-822-9929 / 570-941-9908

Highest Cash Pay Outs Guaranteed Mon-Sat 10am -6pm C l o s e d S u n d a ys

$$ CASH PAID $$ VIDEO GAMES & SYSTEMS

1092 Highway 315 Blvd (Plaza 315) 315N .3 miles after Motorworld

Highest $$ Paid Guaranteed Buying all video games & systems. PS1 & 2, Xbox, Nintendo, Atari, Coleco, Sega, Mattel, Gameboy, Vectrex etc. DVD’s, VHS & CDs & Pre 90’s toys,

We Pay At Least 80% of the London Fix Market Price for All Gold Jewelry

London PM Gold Price

Nov. 25: $1,688.50 Visit us at WilkesBarreGold.com Or email us at wilkesbarregold@ yahoo.com

The Video Game Store

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Cats

CATS & KITTENS 12 weeks & up.

All shots, neutered, tested,microchipped

VALLEY CAT RESCUE

824-4172, 9-9 only

815

Dogs

PAWS TO CONSIDER.... ENHANCE YOUR PET CLASSIFIED AD ONLINE Call 829-7130

Buyer & seller of antiques! We also do upholstering. 570-855-7197 570-328-3428

NEW YORK CITY SHOPPING

810

Place your pet ad and provide us your email address

We make house calls!

at Seneca Lake Sat. 12/3. $186 per couple Receive a Free Christmas Wreath

COOKIE’S TRAVELERS 570-815-8330 570-558-6889

Highest Prices Paid!!

NEED CASH?

DECK THE HALLS WINE TOUR

11/28, 12/4 & 12/10 Only $35 BASKETBALL AT MSG 12/10 DUKE VS. WASHINGTON PITTSBURGH VS. OKLAHOMA STATE $85 or $115

Wanted: Junk Cars & Trucks

800 PETS & ANIMALS

796 Wanted to Buy Merchandise

1150 S. Main Scranton Mon - Sat, 12pm – 6pm 570-822-9929

BUYING COINS, gold, silver & all coins, stamps, paper money, entire collections worth $5,000 or more. Travel to your home CASH paid. Marc 1-800-488-4175

Wanna make your car go fast? Place an ad in Classified! 570-829-7130.

412 Autos for Sale

This will create a seller account online and login information will be emailed to you from gadzoo.com “The World of Pets Unleashed” You can then use your account to enhance your online ad. Post up to 6 captioned photos of your pet Expand your text to include more information, include your contact information such as e-mail, address phone number and or website.

MINI-SCHNAUZER PUPPIES - ACA

1 male & 1 female. 570-239-9544

PITBULL

Free, great dog, 3 1/2 years old, raised with a Beagle and five kids, wonderful companion, needs immediate home. 570-824-9138

PITBULL/LAB MIX PUPS

7 weeks old. 4 black, 2 yellow, 1 white. Call 570-836-1090

412 Autos for Sale

1.866.356.9383 MOTORWORLDGROUP.COM MOTORWORLD DRIVE JUST OFF INTERSTATE 81 WILKES-BARRE, PA SA ALES HOURS MON – FRI: 9AM-7PM SAT: 9AM-5PM SUN: OPEN FOR OUTDOOR BROWSING NOON-5PM SALES

North Eastern Pennsylvania’s #1 Luxury Vehicle Destination

2012 CADILLAC CTS AWD SEDAN

LEASE FOR

STK# C3480

295

2011 CADILLAC SRX AWD LUXURY COLLECTION STK# C3500

LEASE FOR

PLUS TAX/TAGS FOR 39 MONTHS*

*PAYMENTS INCLUDE LEASE CONQUEST REBATE OF $2,000. IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR EXTRA REBATE, YOU MUST CURRENTLY BE IN A LEASE OF A NON-GM VEHICLE.

*LEASE WITH 10K MILES PER YEAR AND $1,995 DUE AT SIGNING. MUST QUALIFY FOR LEASETHROUGH ALLY FINANCIAL.

2011 CADILLAC ESCALADE AWD PREMIUM COLLECTION STK# C3405

WAS: $75,165

*PAYMENTS INCLUDE LEASE CONQUEST REBATE OF $2,000. IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR EXTRA REBATE, YOU MUST CURRENTLY BE IN A LEASE OF A NON-GM VEHICLE.

*FINANCING IN LIEU OF REBATE.

STK# C3434

SAVE: $7,500

WAS: $70,620

MOTORWORLD DISCOUNT: $4,000 REBATE: $4,000

NOW

67,665

*LEASE WITH 10K MILES PER YEAR AND $2,995 DUE AT SIGNING. MUST QUALIFY FOR LEASETHROUGH ALLY FINANCIAL.

2011 CADILLAC ESCALADE EXT PREMIUM COLLECTION

MOTORWORLD DISCOUNT: $3,500 REBATE: $4,000

OR FINANCE FOR 0% APR FOR UP TO 72 MONTHS*

389

PLUS TAX/TAGS FOR 39 MONTHS*

OR FINANCE FOR 0% APR FOR UP TO 72 MONTHS*

NOW

62,620 SAVE: $8,000

*FINANCING IN LIEU OF REBATE.

*ACTUAL MILEAGEWILLVARY DEPENDING ON HOWYOU DRIVEAND MAINTAINYOURVEHICLE.PRICE PLUSTAX ,,TAG TAG ,,&TITLE.PHOTOSARE &TITLE.PHOTOSARE FOR DISPLAY PURPOSES ONLY.DEALER NOT RESPONSIBLE FORTYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS.ALL PRICES INCLUDEAPPLICABLE REBATESAND/OR INCENTIVES.SEE DEALER FOR DETAILS.PRIOR SALES EXCLUDED.ALL OFFERS SUBJECTTO MANUFACTURES PROGRAM CHANGES.PRICESAVAILABLE ONADVERTISEDVEHICLES ONLY .MILEAGE CHARGE OF $.25/MILE OVER 30K MILES. LESSEE PAYS FOR EXCESSWEAR. NOTAVAILABLEWITH SOME OTHER OFFERS.FINANCING ON SELECT 2011 MODELS ONLY,THRUALLY FINANCIAL,MUST QUALIFY. ALL OFFERS EXPIRE 11/30/11.

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Why Spend Hundreds on New or Used Appliances? Most problems with your appliances are usually simple and inexpensive to fix! Save your hard earned money, Let us take a look at it first! 30 years in the business. East Main Appliances 570-735-8271 Nanticoke

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Power Windows/Locks, Keyless Entry, CD, A/C $

MSRP $ Ken Pollock Sale Price

18,019* 16,499* $

SALE PRICE $

23,114* 21,499* $

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- 500* - 500***

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15,499*

2012 SUZUKI EQUATOR CREW CAB 4X4

Manufacturer Rebate Suzuki Owner Loyalty

SALE PRICE

- 750* - 500***

Manufacturer Rebate $ Suzuki Owner Loyalty

- 1,000* - $ 500***

19,999*

SALE PRICE $

21,199*

2012 SUZUKI SX4 SEDAN

2011 JD POWER

Stk#S1799

24,284* 22,449* $

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MOST APPEALING

MIDSIZE CAR

2” Leveling Kit with Wheel Package, Power Windows/Locks, Keyless Entry, CD, Alloy Wheels, 6 Ft Box, Running Boards MSRP w/ add ons

SALE PRICE $

32,637*

29,399*

LE Popular Package, Power Windows/ Locks, Keyless Entry, CD

18,289* 16,799* $

MSRP $ Ken Pollock Sale Price

1ST PLACE AWARD

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Suzuki Kizashi

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15,299*

* ALL PRICES + TAX & REGISTRATION. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. ALL REBATES AND DISCOUNTS INCLUDED. **BASED ON SUZUKI NATIONAL SALES VOLUME REPORTS FOR 2010. THIS IS A COMBINED OFFER. MAKE YOUR BEST DEAL ON A PACKAGE PRICE. ***OWNER LOYALTY REBATE, MUST HAVE OR OWN SUZUKI VEHICLE IN HOUSEHOLD. +2011 SUZUKI KIZASHI JD POWERS HIGHEST RANKD MIDSIZE VEHICLE (APPEAL) STUDY JULY 2011. OFFERS END NOV 30, 2011.

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2011 FORD ESCAPE LTD 4X4

S TK #NP10785, 4 C yl, Au to , A/C , Allo ys , AM /FM /C D, S po ile r, On e Ow n e r, 21,53 9 M ile s a n d Lo w M ile s

S TK #NP10776, 4 C yl, Au to , A/C , PW , PDL, C ru is e , Tilt, 25,285 M ile s , a n d S u pe rFu e l M ile a ge !

S TK #N21191A, 4 C yl, Hyb rid , A/C , PW , PDL, C ru is e , Tilt, 15,556 M ile s , M u c h, M u c h M o re !

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15,995

18 ,995

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2011 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE LTD 4X4

2011 DODGE CHALLENGER SRT8 COUPE

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S TK #NP10743 , V 6, Au to , Na viga tio n , Bo s e S o u n d , Le a the r, M o o n ro o f, 43 ,670 M ile s , Ou ts ta n d in g!

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N OW A S L OW A S

$26,627 $ 26,627

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22012 012 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE LAREDO S T K #1173023 4X4 M S RP $22,650

Includes returning lessee rebate $1,000,M ilitary $500

Inc ludes rebate $2,500, R eturning Les ee $1,000, M ilitary $500

2 2012 0 1 2 RAM 2500 REG. CAB 4x4

2012 2 0 1 2 DODGE DURANGO CREW AWD

S tk#1286056 M S RP - $34,770

S T K # 1223032 M S RP $32,230

$26,972 $ 26,972**

5.7 Liter H em i, Trailer Tow G roup, Trailer Brak e C ontrol

3.6-Liter V 6 autom atic , Blac k 3-Piec e H ard Top w /Storage Bag, Blac k A ppearanc e G roup

Inc ludes $1,000 C ons um er C as h, $750 Toy s for Tots , R eturning Les s ee $1,000, M ilitary $500

S tk#1287006 M S RP - $39,870 38 RAM TRUCKS ARRIVED

29 GRAND CHEROKEES IN STOCK

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$27,965 $ 27,965

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Includes $1,000 C onsum er C ash,R eturning Lessee $1,000,M ilitary $500

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2011 CHRYSLER 200 TOURING

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A S A S

$18,861

Inc ludes $500 A lly Bonus C as h, $500 M ilitary, $500 Bonus C as h

2011 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN MAINSTREET S tk#1181004 M S RP - $30,150

$750 Toys for Tots Bonus Cash Expires 11/30/11

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$24,075*

Inc ludes $500 M ilitary, $1000 A lly Bonus C as h, $1000 Bonus C as h, $750 Toy s for Tots Bonus C as h

2011 CHRYSLER 300 LIMITED S tk#1151002 M S RP - $37,335

3.6L, A uto, H eated Leather Seats , D ualPane Panoram ic Sunroof, U C onnec t w /N av, C D /D V D

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$28,503*

Inc ludes $500 M ilitary, $1000 A lly Bonus C as h, $1000 Bonus C as h

2011 CHRYSLER 200 S

S tk#1173023 M S RP - $22,650

S tk#1173016 M S RP - $27,285

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2011 DODGE AVENGER MAINSTREET

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S tk#1161007 M S RP - $18,130* Pow er W indow s , Pow er Loc k s ,C D /M P3 & Sirius XM Satellite R adio

ON L Y 3 L E FT!

A S A S

6.7L V 8 H em i, 6-Speed A utom atic , H eav y D uty Snow Plow Prep Pac k age, Sirius XM Satellite R adio, Prem ium C loth 40/20/40 Benc h Seat, Lim ited-Slip D ifferentialR ear A x le, R ear Sliding W indow , Folding Trailer Tow M irrors , R oof-M ounted C learanc e Lam ps , U c onnec t V oic e C om m and w ith Bluetooth, Bluetooth Stream ing A udio, Integrated Trailer Brak e C ontroller w ith D is play, Spray in Bedliner Tow H ook s

2011 DODGE CALIBER EXPRESS

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$23,995 $ 23,995**

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2012 0 1 2 RAM 1500 2 2012 012 JEEP WRANGLER UNLIMITED 2 QUAD CAB 4X4 SPORT 4X4

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$16,812

R eturning Les s ee $1000, M ilitary $500, $500 A lly Bonus C as h, $500 Bonus C as h

2011 Dodge Nitro Heat 4x4 S tk#1156022 M S RP - $27,120

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PRICE REDUCED! 314 Bennett Street Refashioned 3 or 4 bedroom, two full modern baths. Two story, 2300sf, with level yard with lovely new landscaping and 1 car garage. New EVERYTHING in this charming must see property. Custom blinds throughout the home. Great neighborhood with Park beyond the backyard. MLS# 11-3776 $164,900 Call Patti 570-328-1752 Liberty Realty & Appraisal Services LLC

Blueberry Hill. 3 bedroom ranch. Large lot with pool. $339,500 No Realtors For more details call 570-406-1128

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BLUEBERRY HILLS 108 Blackberry Ln. Newer construction, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, family room with gas fireplace. Formal dining room. 2 car garage, gas heat, large deck, above ground pool. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3858 $289,900 Call Lu-Ann 570-602-9280

1140 SPRING ST. Large 3 bedroom home with new roof, replacement windows, hardwood floors. Great location! For more information and photos visit: www. atlasrealtyinc.com. MLS 11-2636 $99,900 Call Tom 570-262-7716

Kitchen, Living room, dining area, 2 bedroom, full bath & pantry. Was in Flood - took up to 3” on first level. $15,000 firm. Call (570) 780-0324

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Nice income property conveniently located. Property has many upgrades including all new replacement windows, very well maintained. All units occupied, separate utilities. 11-3283 $89,900 Call Nancy 570-237-0752

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2 unit duplex, 2nd floor tenant-occupied, 1st floor unoccupied, great rental potential. Separate entrances to units, one gas furnace, new electrical with separate meters for each unit. The 1st floor apartment when rented out generated $550 per month. 11-4247 $52,000 Call Nancy 570-237-0752

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44 Orchard St. 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath single, modern kitchen with appliances, sunroom, hardwood floors on 1st and 2nd floor. Gas heat, large yard, OSP. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-1866 $137,999 Call Lu-Ann 570-602-9280

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128 JEAN ST. Nice bi-level home on quiet street. Updated exterior. Large family room, extra deep lot. 2 car garage, enclosed rear porch and covered patio. For more information and photos visit: www. atlasrealtyinc.com MLS 11-2850 $184,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

908 Primrose Court Move right into this newer 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath Townhome with many upgrades including hardwood floors throughout and tiled bathrooms. Lovely oak cabinets in the kitchen, central air, fenced in yard, nice quiet neighborhood. MLS 11-2446 $119,900 Call Don Crossin 570-288-0770 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-287-0770

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EAGLE VIEW….. Great buys …VERY HIGH AND VERY DRY !!!! The Views at Eagle View in Jenkins Township are outstanding. All rear yards offer breathtaking views of the river and valley. You’ll never ﬁnd a better time to buy your lot. Put a deposit on any lot and build now or when you are ready. We are a custom builder and will build to your plan or modify one of ours to be your “Dream Home”. We have started our landscaping, utilities and pave at Eagle View…. making these spectacular lots even more outstanding. From South Main turn toward the river on Brady Street then left.

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Major renovations, updates, spacious, landscaped, enclosed porch and patio, 4 bedrooms.Gorgeous. Charming inside and out on half acre. Exceptional buy at $180,900 Shari Philmeck ERA BRADY ASSOCIATES 570-836-3848 FORTY FORT 4 Sunset Court

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HARVEYS LAKE

209 Constitution Avenue, LIBERTY HILLS Fantastic view from the deck and patio of this 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath vinyl sided 2 story home. Four years young with so many extras. A dream home! MLS# 11-2429 $299,900 Call Florence 570-715-7737

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Must see! Located in a private cul-desac. Large enclosed front porch, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2 car garage. REDUCED! $139,000 MLS 11-2824

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HANOVER TOWNSHIP

Reduced! Bi-Level. 1,750 sq ft. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1 car garage. New carpeting, paint, etc. Large lot. Asking $99,900. Deremer Realty 570-477-1149

5 Raymond Drive Practically new 8 year old Bi-level with 4 bedrooms, 1 and 3/4 baths, garage, fenced yard, private dead end street. For more info and photos visit: www. atlasrealtyinc.com MLS 11-3422 $179,000 Call Colleen 570-237-0415

65-67 St. Mary’s Rd Double Block close to Marion Terrace Elementary. 3 bedrooms each unit. Nice private yard. Buyers Agent must be present at first showing in order to claim commission. MLS 11-2426. $65,000 Call Connie Eileen R. Melone Real Estate 570-821-7022

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This home says “come in!” You’ll feel right at home the moment you step inside. 3 large bedrooms, 2 ½ modern baths, modern kitchen, living room, dining room with hardwood floors, office, laundry room, comfortable gas heat, cool central air and 2 car garage. You have to see the patio! MLS 11-2487 $235,000 Call Jerry Bush Jr. Coldwell Banker Gerald L. Busch Real Estate 570-288-2514

8 Diamond Ave. Don’t worry about winter in this fully insulated home with new windows. 3 floors of living space lets you spread out and enjoy this house. Large family room addition plus 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, 1st floor laundry, large corner lot. Modern kitchen with granite counters. For more information and photos visit www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS #11-622 $119,000 Call Colleen 570-237-0415

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HANOVER TWP 710 Church Street

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Exceptionally well care for home in move in condition. Everything is new, roof, siding, windows, porches, kitchen and baths. MLS 11-2309 $119,000 Jay A. Crossin CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770 ext. 23

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187 South Street 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, modern kitchen, security system, beautifully landscaped patio, pond & above ground pool are just a few of the touches that make this home so appealing. Great neighborhood! Close to major highways. MLS #11-2370 $124,500 Call Debra at 570-714-9251

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19 Garrahan Street Attractive 2-story in great neighborhood. Newer roof, newer 2nd floor replacement windows, newer split A/C system, large eat-in kitchen, bedroom pine flooring, walk-up attic & a mostly fenced yard. REDUCED $59,900 MLS#11-1754 Call Steve Shemo (570) 288-1401 (570) 793-9449

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1301 Murray St. Very nice duplex, fully rented with good return in great neighborhood. For more information and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-2149 $124,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

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322 Spring Street Out of the flood area. 2 family home. One with 2 bedrooms, the other with 3 bedrooms. Needs TLC. 50x125ft lot. Walking distance to schools grade 7-12, kindergarten & 1st. Reduced to $45,000.

Kwiatkowski Real Estate 570-825-7988

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2 story in good condition with 3 bedrooms, 1 full bath, eat-in kitchen, 2 car garage, fenced yard & new gas heat. $44,000 Call Ruth Smith 570-696-1195 or 570-696-5411

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* NEW LISTING! * 3-story home with 4 car garage. Hardwood floors, sun parlor with magnificent leaded glass windows, 4 bedrooms, eat-in kitchen with pantry, formal dining room, gas heat. MLS #11-4133 $84,500 Maribeth Jones 570-696-6565

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Pole 165 Lakeside Drive A truly unique home! 7,300 sq.ft. of living on 3 floors with 168' of lake frontage with boathouse. Expansive living room; dining room, front room all with fireplaces. Coffered ceiling; modern oak kitchen with breakfast room; Florida room; study & 3 room & bath suite. 5 bedrooms & 4 baths on 2nd. Lounge, bedroom, bath, exercise room & loft on 3rd floor. In-ground pool & 2story pool house. AC on 3rd floor. $1,149,000 MLS# 10-1268 Call Joe Moore 570-288-1401

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189 Rock St. Spacious home with 4 bedrooms and large rooms. Nice old woodwork, staircase, etc. Extra lot for parking off Kenley St. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3404 $99,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

KINGSTON 125 3rd Ave

Well kept 2 story with 3 bedrooms and 1.5 baths situated on a nice street in Kingston. Newer roof, furnace, water heater, electric service. Replacement windows throughout. Basement has high ceilings, ideal for re-finishing or workshop! MLS 11-2167 $144,000 Jay A. Crossin CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770 KINGSTON

131 THEODORE ST., Beautiful bi-level located in Hex Acres, a quiet country setting, yet minutes from town. This home features quality workmanship and finishes and is in absolute move-in condition. Features modern kitchen and baths, lower level family room, sunroom, deck and above ground pool. All on a large nicely landscaped lot. MLS#11-2901 $160,000 Karen Ryan 283-9100 x14

129 S. Dawes Ave. 4 bedroom, 1 bath, large enclosed porch with brick fireplace. Full concrete basement with 9ft ceiling. Lots of storage, 2 car garage on double lot in a very desirable neighborhood. Close to schools and park and recreation. Walking distance to downtown WilkesBarre. Great family neighborhood. Carpet allowance will be considered. For mor info and photos visit: www.atlas realty.inc.com $129,900 MLS #11-1434 Call Tom 570-262-7716

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HARDING 310 Lockville Rd

JENKINS TWP. Enjoy the serenity of country living in this beautiful two story home on 2.23 acres. Great for entertaining inside and out. Three car attached garage with full walkup attic PLUS another 2 car detached garage. MLS 11-831 $267,000 Call Nancy 570-237-0752

HARVEYS LAKE

Large Family home, private, on partly wooded parcel over 1 1/2 acres. Large front porch surrounded by greenery. Well built & maintained, natural woodwork, updated bathrooms. $117,500 Jeannie Brady ERA BRADY ASSOCIATES 570-836-3848

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297 Susquehannock Drive A HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS! HOLIDAYS! Classic 2 story home with 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2 car garage. Master bedroom with walkin closet, private yard with above ground pool, kitchen overlooks large family room. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-2432 $259,900 Call Colleen 570-237-0415

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475 S. Main St. 3 bedroom, 1 bath, 2 story home with vinyl replacement windows, vinyl siding, large yard and off street parking. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3545 Price reduced $64,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

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Great duplex on nice street. Many upgrades including modern kitchens and baths, plus ceiling fans. Both units occupied,separate utilities. 11-3284 $74,900 Call Nancy 570-237-0752

Spacious 2 story home on lovely tree lined street. Includes 3 bedrooms, 3 baths (1 on each floor), Living room, dining room, family room, office and kitchen. All new windows, fresh paint. MLS 11-2676 $136,000 Call Kathy 570-696-5422

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220 Wright Ave Modern 3 bedroom rancher. Woodburning fireplace in living room. Gas heat. Central air conditioning. Aluminum siding. Newer roof. Nice yard. Extras. MLS 11-4225 $105,000 Bob Kopec HUMFORD REALTY 570-822-5126

Located within 1 block of elementary school & neighborhood park this spacious 4 bedrooms offers 1450 sq. ft of living space with 1.75 baths, walk up attic, and partially finished basement. Extras include gas fireplace, an inground pool with fenced yard, new gas furnace & more.

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431 Chestnut Ave. Charming 2 story single family home with upgrades, including new kitchen cabinets, furnace, hot water heater, 200 amp electric, 2 car detached garage. Walk up attic for additional storage space. MLS 11-4106 $129,900 Jay A. Crossin EXT 23 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770 KINGSTON 663 Westmoreland Avenue

Charming 2-1/2 story with 3 bedrooms on 2nd + a 4th (12x24) on 3rd, full bath upstairs, half bath with laundry on 1st floor, lots of closet space, finished walk-out basement and much more! MLS 11-2340 $185,000 Jay A. Crossin CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770 ext. 23

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Spacious 4 bedroom, 2 bath Brick “Cape Cod” with oversized 2 car garage with loft for storage. MLS#11-4162 $179,900 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950 KINGSTON

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Ann Marie Chopick 570-760-6769

Stately brick 2-story featuring formal living room with fireplace, formal dining room, modern cherry kitchen, knotty pine study, spacious family room, sunroom, computer room, TV room, 4 bedrooms, 5 baths. MLS#11-2250

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46 Zerby Ave Lease with option to buy, completely remodeled, mint, turn key condition, 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, large closets, with hardwoods, carpet & tile floors, new kitchen and baths, gas heat, shed, large yard. $134,900 (30 year loan @ 4.5% with 5% down; $6,750 down, $684/month) 100% OWNER FINANCING AVAILABLE Call Bob at 570-654-1490

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38 W. Walnut St. Charming 4/5 bedroom with 1.5 baths. Beautifully appointed kitchen w/granite counter tops, cherry cabinets and hardwood floors. Gas fireplace in living room, leaded glass windows in living room and dining room. Nice back deck, 2 car garage and 4 season front porch. MLS 11-4103 $179,900 Jay A. Crossin EXT. 23 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

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You will be impressed by this well kept 3 bedroom charmer with intown location. Large fenced yard & 2 tiered deck-great for entertaining. Large, bright eat-in kitchen, spacious family room with fireplace & new carpet in master bedroom and hall. 1 car garage & shed. MLS# 11-1623 $109,900. Michael Slacktish 570-760-4961

NEW LISTING – Nestled on just under an acre just minutes from 81S this colonial offers 2194 sq. ft. of living area plus a finished basement. Enjoy your summer evenings on the wrap around porch or take a quick dip in the above ground pool with tier deck. The covered pavilion is ideal for picnics or gatherings And when the winter winds blow cuddle in front of the gas fireplace and enjoy a quiet night. Price to sell, $185,900 Ann Marie Chopick 570-760-6769

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10 Miller Street 3 bedroom, 1 bath ranch recently damaged by flooding. No structural issues, roof is good, will need basement and first floor renovations. Large lot, off-street parking with carport, nice location. MLS#11-3646 Originally 129,000 Reduced to $42,500! Eric Feifer 570-283-9100 x29

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330 Charles St. Very nice 2 bedroom home in move in condition with updated kitchen and baths. Nice yard with shed and potential off street parking. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3525 $59,900 Call Colleen 570-237-0415

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SALE BY OWNER! Charming, well maintained. Front porch, foyer, hardwood floors, granite kitchen, 4 bedrooms, living room/large dining room, 2 fireplaces, 2.5 baths, sun room, basement with plenty of storage. Private English style back yard. $195,000 570-472-1110 LAFLIN 3 Main Street

4 bed, 1 1/2 bath. WOW - Talk about Charm! Stained glass windows, HUGE rooms, beautiful woodwork and wood floors plus storage. Nice 162 sq ft enclosed porch, 1886 sq ft. Massive storage unit outback, can be converted to a multiple car garage. Endless possibilities here. Just needs the right person to love it back to life. MLS 11-3282. $139,900. Call/text for Details. Donna Cain 570-947-3824

LUZERNE 76 N. Dawes Ave. DO THE MATH! Qualified FHA buyers could possibly be paying less than $900 per month for mortgage, taxes and insurance. NOW is the time to buy. Stop throwing your money away renting. Well cared for 2 bedroom home with private yard, garage and driveway. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-2278 $124,900 Call Colleen 570-237-0415

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177 Third Ave. Neat as a pin! 3 bedroom, 2.5 baths, end unit townhome with nice fenced yard. Bright Spacious kitchen, main level family room, deck w/ retractable awning. Gas heat/central air, pull down attic for storage and 1 car garage. Very affordable townhome in great central location! MLS 11-1282 $134,500 Mark R. Mason 570-331-0982 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

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Historic 120+ year old home, many original details, new roof, updated electrical and a huge garage. Currently a gift shop. Corner lot, newly paved parking area. $170,000 MLS 11-2115. Call Betty at Century 21 Smith Hourigan Group 570-287-1196 ext 3559 or 570-714-6127 LAFLIN

Lovely brick ranch home in great development. 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. All hardwood floors, brand new roof. 2 family rooms suitable for mini apartment. 1st floor laundry, sunroom, central air, alarm system, 1 car garage and electric chair lift to lower level. Very good condition. 11-2437 $210,000 Call Nancy Answini 570-237-5999 JOSEPH P. GILROY REAL ESTATE 570-288-1444

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867 Bennett With just a minimum amount of TLC, this is a great starter home. Nice location with great view of Wyoming Valley and beyond, off street parking in rear via alley. All measurements approximate. BeinG sold “as is”. MLS 10-2774 $60,000 Call Michelle Boice 570-639-5393 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

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Novak Road

Lovely, nearly completed, renovated Victorian farmhouse sits high on 7.81 acres featuring panoramic pastoral views, high ceilings, original woodwork, gutted, rewired, insulated and sheetrocked, newer roof, vinyl siding, kitchen and baths. Gas rights negotiable. Lots of potential with TLC. Elk Lake $129,900 MLS# 11-525 Call 570-696-2468

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Private country living, with easy access to interstate. Relax and enjoy this comfortable A-Frame home. Jacuzzi, large deck and gorgeous pond. Great for entertaining inside and out. MLS 11-3285 $249,900 Call Nancy 570-237-0752

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111 E. Grand St. One half double block. 3 bedrooms, plaster walls, aluminum siding & nice yard. Affordable @ $34,900 Call Jim Krushka TOWNE & COUNTRY REAL ESTATE Co. 570-735-8932 or 570-542-5708 NANTICOKE

15 Albert Road Home in good condition! Nice rear yard! Basement is heated & semi finished! Hardwood floors under carpet! MLS#11-3703 $134,000 Jim Graham at 570-715-9323

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16 Hazlenut Drive New granite counter tops/island! 3 zone heat, nice lower level finished with walkout, huge inground pool, fenced yard! Large bedroom sizes. Large family room with fireplace & new carpet. New garage door! Hardwood in living room & dining room. MLS #11-2270 $389,000 Jim Graham at 570-715-9323

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803 Aspen Drive Brand new carpet in lower level family room! Hardwood on 1st floor dining room, living room, bedrooms & hall! Large rear deck. Master bedroom opens to deck! Private rear yard! Basement door opens to garage. MLS #11-2282 $199,000 Jim Graham at 570-715-9323

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414 E. Grove Street 3 bedroom, 1 bath, 2 story with off street parking, backyard, new oil furnace, windows, wiring, kitchen, bath, flooring & paint. Excellent condition. $89,500. Seller Assist of $5,000 Call Bill Remey @ 570-714-6123

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East Noble Street Nice two family on the east side. Gas heat. Detached 2 car garage. Affordable @ $69,500. Call Jim for details TOWNE & COUNTRY R.E. CO. 570-735-8932 570-542-5708

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REDUCED! Motivated Seller! $116,900. 619 S. Hanover St Nicely appointed brick 2-family. 2nd unit on 2nd and 3rd floors has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths currently at $400/ mos below market value of at least $600/mos. Most windows replaced throughout. Heated 2-car detached garage, rear covered patio, fencedin side yard. MLS#11-2538 Call Steve Shemo (570) 288-1401 (570) 793-9449

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95 William St. 1/2 double home with more square footage than most single family homes. 4 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, ultra modern kitchen and remodeled baths. Super clean. For more information and photos visit www.atlas realtyinc. com MLS 11-2120 $54,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

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168 Mill St. Large 3 bedroom home with 2 full baths. 7 rooms on nice lot with above ground pool. 1 car garage. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3894 $89,900 Tom Salvaggio 570-262-7716

PITTSTON

214 Elizabeth St. Cozy 3 bedroom home tastefully done. Separate 1st floor laundry, lots of storage, vinyl siding, replacement windows. 1 full bath and 2 - 1/2 baths. Finished bonus room in basement MLS 11-4172 $79,900 David Krolikowski 570-288-0770 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

PITTSTON REDUCED

31 Tedrick St. Very nice 3 bedroom with 1 bath. This house was loved and you can tell. Come see for yourself, super clean home with nice curb appeal. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3544 Reduced to $79,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

10 Norman St. Brick 2 story home with 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, large family room with fireplace. Lower level rec room, large driveway for plenty of parking. Just off the by-pass with easy access to all major highways. For more info and photos visit: www. atlasrealtyinc.com. MLS 11-2887 $169,900 Call Colleen 570-237-0415

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10 Garfield St. Looking for a Ranch??? Check out this double wide with attached 2 car garage on a permanent foundation. Large master bedroom suite with large living room, family room with fireplace, 2 full baths, laundry room, formal dining room, vaulted ceilings throughout and MORE! For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 10-2463 $89,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

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New Listing. Wonderful home on a huge country size lot, in a private setting, just off the beaten path. Economical Dual heat system, central A/C plus ductless unit, Lower Level family room, detached 2 car garage, fireplace & a great view from the front porch! MLS 11-3733 $229,900 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

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38 Frothingham St. Four square home with loads of potential and needs updating but is priced to reflect its condition. Nice neighborhood. Check it out. For more info and photos visit: www. atlasrealtyinc.com MLS 11-3403 $62,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

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754 Laurel St. Absolutely beautiful move in condition. This 2 bedroom Ranch home with fully finished basement is in excellent condition. Come and see for yourself. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com. MLS 11-3796 $129,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

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993 Sunrise Dr. Horizon Estates Fabulous end unit townhome provides luxurious, carefree living. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths with 1st floor master suite. Ultra kitchen with granite and stainless appliances. Dining room with built in cabinet. 2 story living room with gas fireplace and hardwood. 2 car garage, maintenance free deck, nice yard that can be fenced. Low HOA fee for snow removal and grass cutting. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3488 $289,900 Call Terry 570-885-3041 Angie 570-885-4896

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3 bedroom, 2 bath bi-level in good condition with 2 car garage, eat-in kitchen and living room/dining room combo. Lower level has framed out family room with brick fireplace. Very nice lot. Electric base board heat. $139,900 Call Ruth Smith 570-696-1195 or 570-696-5411

Don’t miss this spacious 2 story, with a 17 x 11 Living room, formal dining room, eat in kitchen plus ½ bath on the first floor & 2 bedrooms & bath on 2nd floor. Extras include an enclosed patio and a detached garage. Reasonably priced at REDUCED! $34,900. MLS 11-2653 Ann Marie Chopick 570-760-6769

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OUT OF FLOOD ZONE North Street Large raised ranch with 2 car garage. Modern kitchen, 3 bedrooms, living room, family room, 3 season porch, finished lower level with 1½ bath & laundry. $139,900 570-779-2424 PLYMOUTH

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3 unit income property on extra deep lot with frontage on 2 streets. Single family home next door (MLS#11-2228) also for sale. Possible commercial use with rezoning. $78,000 MLS#11-2244 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

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Updated 2-story, 3 bedroom, 2 bath home has 1 car garage & carport, fenced rear yard with tiered deck and more. MLS#11-3655 $152,000 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

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401 W. Shawnee Ave OUT OF FLOOD AREA Beautifully redone 3-4 bedroom, 2 bath bi-level with garage on cozy corner lot near Valley West High School. New Paint, Carpeting, Appliances & more. $125,000. 570-706-5496

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67 Watkins St Large 4 bedroom with many attractive details emanating from the French door entrance foyer. MLS#11-3962 $135,000 Call Al Clemont 570-371-9381

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396 Cedar Lane Retreat to this charming Pocono Style Contemporary. A stones throw to Pennsylvania's state gamelands. Relax or entertain outdoors and enjoy Pennsylvania's abundant wildlife. 11-4354 $119,999

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Spacious 3 unit in very nice condition & has been owner occupied for over 40 years. 3 bedrooms each unit, vinyl sided and most all replacement windows, 2 furnaces, ample parking & a lot of old charm! Nice location on tree lined street. MLS#11-3253 $142,500 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

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Woodridge I This spacious 2 story sits on a private partially wooded lot with inground pool. Plenty of living space, living room with fireplace, first floor den, and laundry, needs some attention but well worth the price. $159,900 Ann Marie Chopick 570-288-6654

52 Barber Street Beautifully remodeled 3 bedroom, 1 bath home in the heart of the town. With new carpets, paint, windows, doors and a modern kitchen and bath. Sale includes all appliances: refrigerator, stove, dishwasher, washer and dryer. Nice yard and superb neighborhood. Priced to sell at $89,900 or $433.00 per month (bank rate; 30 years, 4.25%, 20% down). Owner also willing to finance 100% of transaction with a qualified cosigner Call Bob at 570-654-1490

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Well maintained raised ranch in Midway Manor. Good size level yard with shed. Large sunroom/laundry addition. Lower level family room with wood stove. MLS #11-4178 $163,700 Call Christrine Kutz Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

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Great New Construction on 2 Acres with 1 year Builders Warranty! 2 Story home with 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, living room with gas fireplace , dining room, kitchen, breakfast room & laundry room. dining room with tray ceiling, whirlpool tub in master bath plus 2 car attached garage, open front porch & rear deck. MLS 11-2453 $275,000 FIVE MOUNTAINS REALTY 570-542-2141 SWEET VALLEY

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Exquisite 4 bedroom. Formal living room, floor to ceiling brick fireplace. Formal dining room. Beautiful eat in kitchen, cherry cabinetry, granite counters, stainless steel appliances. Master suite, ash hardwood floors, his/her closets and balcony. Master bath, cherry vanity and granite counters. Spacious 24x28 family room, entertainment unit & bar. Office, built-ins. Sunroom. Three car garage. Completely updated and well maintained. This home is conveniently located on 2.5 park like acres just minutes from Cross Valley. MLS#11-2008 $519,000. Call Ruthie 570-714-6110

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OUT OF FLOOD ZONE Estate. Nice brick front ranch home on a corner lot. 1 car attached garage, circle driveway, central air. 2 bedrooms, 1 full bath with 2 showers, Full basement with brand new water proofing system that includes a warranty. Great location. MLS 11-2127 $108,500 Call/text for Details. Donna Cain 570-947-3824

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Enjoy the quiet life in this spacious 3 bedroom home on double lot. Features hardwood floor in dining room, covered patio, oversized 2 car garage, family room with fireplace & finished, walk out basement with another fireplace. MLS# 11-1873 $160,000 Michael Slacktish 570-760-4961

SWOYERSVILLE

Adorable seasonal cottage with rights for North Lake. Two bedrooms, furnished, 10x10 shed, front porch with roof, deck, tip-top condition! Make it your getaway for just $68,900! Shari Philmeck ERA BRADY ASSOCIATES 570-836-3848

Luxurious End Townhouse

3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, Cathedral ceilings, hardwood floors, gas heat, Central Air, master bath with whirlpool tub & shower, lovely landscaped fenced yard, 1 car garage. Great Location. MLS#11-3533 Call Nancy Palumbo 570-714-9240

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68 Laurel Drive True log home, inside and out. 4 bedroom / 2 bath home with full basement. located in quiet community. Knotty pine interior, living room fireplace, wrap decking, paved drive and more. MLS 11-4211 $114,900

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16 Miller St. 4 bedroom Cape Cod, one with hardwood floors. Central air, nice yard in Garden Village. For more info and photos visit: www. atlasrealtyinc.com MLS 11-3645 $129,900 Call Tom Salvaggio 570-262-7716

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4 Oliver Road Located in the back part of Oliver Road in a very private part of North Lake in Sweet Valley. Yearning to be restored, lake front cape cod in a very tranquil setting was formerly used as a summer home. MLS 11-2113 $99,000 Jay Crossin CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770 ext. 23

Well maintained 3 bedroom, 2 bath double wide in nice neighborhood. Many updates. Landscaped & fenced yard with pool, large deck & koi pond! $99,700 MLS#11-2253 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

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1114 Golf Course Dr Raised Ranch with 3 bedrooms & attached garage. Spacious wrap around deck and enclosed patio. ADT security system has also been recently installed. 11-8467 $125,000

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White-Haven Pocono's. Nice 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath Ranch. Great Vacation Home or Year round Home. Community Lake & other amenities. Close to Hunting, Fishing, Golf and Skiing. Close to Rt 80. All offers contingent to bank short sale approval. REDUCED! $67,900 MLS# 11-765 Call Tony Wasco 570-855-2424 Trademark Realtor Group 570-613-9090

Lovely bi-level, 4 bedroom home situated on scenic one acre with pond, above ground pool, shed and fruit trees. Stay cozy with 2 gas stoves and coal stove (in addition to electric heating.) Great buy at $189,900 Shari Philmek ERA BRADY ASSOCIATES 570-836-3848

604 Lily Lake Road 3 bedroom home in beautiful country setting. Large 3 stall detached garage. Priced to sell. MLS#11-1046 $104,900 Owner willing to sell separate detached garage parcel for $39,900

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321 Franklin St. Great 2 bedroom starter home in the “Garden Village”. Brand new flooring throughout, fresh paint, vinyl siding and replacement windows. Newer electric service, eat in kitchen w/breakfast bar. 1st floor laundry room and off street parking. MLS 11-2302 $89,500 Mark R. Mason 570-331-0982 CROSSING REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770 WEST PITTSTON

Well cared for and nicely kept. A place to call home! Complete with 2 car oversized garage, central air, first floor laundry, eat in kitchen. Convenient to shopping, West Pittston pool and ball fields. PRICE REDUCED! $114,900 MLS 11-583 Call Judy Rice 570-714-9230

438 Tripp St

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Completely remodeled home with everything new. New kitchen, baths, bedrooms, tile floors, hardwoods, granite countertops, all new stainless steel appliances, refrigerator, stove, microwave, dishwasher, free standing shower, tub for two, huge deck, large yard, excellent neighborhood $154,900 (30 year loan @ 4.5% with 5% down; $7,750 down, $785/month) 100% OWNER FINANCING AVAILABLE Call Bob at 570-654-1490

WEST WYOMING

550 JOHNSON ST 100 Warren St 16,000 sq. ft. commercial building with warehouse / offices. Great location. 1 block west of Route 93. Approx. 3 miles from 80/81 intersection. Many possibilities for this property--storage lockers; flea market; game/ entertainment center; laundromat; auto garage. $119,000 Call Karen at Century 21 Select Group - Hazleton 570-582-4938

124 Holiday Drive 4 bedrooms, 2 full baths. Brick fireplace in living room. Large front deck. Screened porch. Unfinished dry basement. Sold furnished. Home close to Route 940, Interstate 80, NE Ext to PA turnpike, Route 81. Open floor plan. MLS 11-5369 $89,000

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WAPWALLOPEN Mary Ellen & Walter work together in a unique approach that guarantees your real estate needs are handled immediately & professionally. Mary Ellen 696-6566 Walter 696-2600 ext 301

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WHITE HAVEN

570-760-6769 Spacious 1791 sq. ft. 1/2 double with wrap around porch, shed & garage. Semi modern kitchen & bath. 3 bedrooms with gas heat and plenty of storage. $24,900. Possible rent to own Ann Marie Chopick 570-760-6769

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Lovely 3 bedroom 2400 sf Cape Cod with modern eat-in kitchen, large sunroom & family room. Master bedroom with master bath. Central air, gas heat & 2 car garage. Very well landscaped with beautiful paver sidewalks. Quiet neighborhood. Possible 6 month rental for the right tenant. $229,000 Call Ruth Smith 570-696-1195 or 570-696-5411

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Large 4 bedroom, 1 bath home on extra deep lot wit frontage on 2 streets. Multi family unit (MLS #11-2244) next door also for sale. Possible commercial use with rezoning. $93,500 MLS# 11-2228 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

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Beautiful Colonial home with 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, eat in kitchen & formal dining room located in a wonderful neighborhood. Home has tile floors, ceiling fans, first floor laundry room, & lower level rec room. Gas furnace with baseboard hot water, above ground pool & hot tub. $256,800 Call 570-693-3941

180 Woodhaven Tucked at the end of a natural Spring-fed Lake, a quiet, restful setting gives you the peace and tranquility you’re searching for. Sophisticated log design features cathedral ceilings with expansive glass to soak in the view overlooking the lake. Expansive living area with high, vaulted ceiling leads your eye to the open loft and wide Catwalk. Easy access to decks and patio from every level to enjoy nature at it’s best. Huge 840 sq. foot, guest quarters –so very convenient for friends and family. Call now to learn more about this very special property. MLS 11-5544 $374,900

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30-31 Oak Drive 3 Bedroom, 2 bath single family. 11-6522 $129,900

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Nice tow bedroom single, gas heat, enclosed porch, fenced yard. Close to downtown & colleges. Affordable at $42,500. Call TOWN & COUNTRY REAL ESTATE CO. 570-735-8932 570-542-5708

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3 unit commercial building with 2 apartments & a store front operation plus a detached 2 car garage. $75,000 MLS# 11-1724 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

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HANOVER TWP.

HANOVER TWP. If you’re a fan of city lights, enjoy them from the custom-built deck of this stunning Contemporary in a great neighborhood. Picture perfect condition. Nothing to do but move-in! MLS# 11-3663 BARBARA M. 696-0883 $249,900

EXETER 2BR, 2.5 bath End Unit Townhome w/private deck & yard. Beautifully maintained. MLS# 11-1254 RHEA 696-6677 or TRACY 696-0723 $168,500

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WILKES-BARRE Options abound in this unique building highlighted w/32 stain glass windows, 3 levels, 2 3/4 baths, add’l lot. MLS# 11-8 DAVID 970-1117 $199,900

HANOVER TWP. 3-4BR, 2.5 bath home in Liberty Hills. Gas heat, C/A, finished basement on 1/3 acre fenced lot w/in-ground pool. MLS# 11-2873 ANDY 714-9225 $274,900

Preview this 4BR, 3bath 2 story model w/ lots of HW & tile. Granite counters in kit, MSTR Suite w/2 walk-in closets & tiled bath w/ dbl vanities, shower & whirlpool. Home/lot packages available. TERRY D. 715-9317

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SHAVERTOWN

WYOMING

SHAVERTOWN

CLARKS SUMMIT Beautifully appointed home set high off the road w/6+acres for more privacy yet you are only mins from downtown C.S. Granite cntrtps, cherry HW flrs, cath ceilings, gourmet Kit, wonderful MSTR Ste & a backyard to die for! Builtin grill, refrig, etc under a covered patio & in-ground pool! MLS# 11-2396 DEB 714-5802 or PEG 714-9247 $790,000

SHAVERTOWN Elegant home w/wonderful floor plan-5BRs, 6baths & huge kitchen w/Garland range & bright breakfast area. Great finished lower walks out to patio & stunning Sylvan pool! MLS# 11-37 MARGY 696-0891 $750,000

WYOMING Traditional meets modern! 4BR authentic Tudor w/ every amenity overlooking gorgeous private grounds w/in-ground pool, mature trees & gardens. A must see! MLS# 11-3957 MARCIE 714-9267 $474,000

SHAVERTOWN Exquisite Back Mountain home. 5BRs, 7 baths. Viking appliances. All the amenities you desire. Private wooded lot. MLS# 11-3321 JOAN 696-0887 $849,000

DALLAS

BEAR CREEK TWP.

MOUNTAINTOP

SHICKSHINNY LAKE

DALLAS Wonderful 3-4BR, 2.5 bath Traditional on quiet street. Offers formal LR, DR, modern kitchen, FR w/FP & large bonus room. MLS# 11-4069 BARBARA M. 696-0883 $249,900

BEAR CREEK TWP. New Construction! Quality abounds in custom designed 4BR, 3.5 bath home. Open floor plan, gourmet kitchen, lg LR, HW floors 1st floor, Master Suite w/tile shower & Jacuzzi. Minutes to Golf Course! MLS# 11-1361 CLYDETTE 696-0897 $489,000

MOUNTAINTOP Spectacular 2 story in excellent condition with upgrades galore! A true beauty & great value! MLS# 11-3758 LISA 715-9335 $359,900

SHICKSHINNY LAKE Newly renovated 3BR, 2 bath Ranch on lovely large waterfront lot. Shed for boat plus double carports. A must see! MLS# 11-2512 LESLIE 696-0841 $325,000

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WILKES-BARRE & SURROUNDS Wilkes-Barre

822 Scott St.

12-2PM

Wilkes-Barre

848 N. Washington St.

Wilkes-Barre

681 N. Franklin St.

Exeter

29 Grant St.

Exeter

1947 Wyoming Ave.

Laﬂin

155 Haverford Dr.

Laﬂin

61 Market St.

Duryea

620 Hooven St.

Shavertown

1-2:30PM

Realty World Rubbico Real Estate Harveys Lake Lewith & Freeman

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PITTSTON/NORTH & SURROUNDS

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Coldwell Banker Rundle Real Estate

12-2PM

Century 21 Signature Properties

2-4PM

Lewith & Freeman

Dallas

12-1:30PM

56 Wyoming Ave.

1:30-3:30PM

11 Division St.

12-1:30PM

211 Kunkle Rd.

KINGSTON Well built 2 story Commercial building. Great opportunity with this prime location - 8000SF in high traffic area has additional parking available. 1st floor can be used for office or commercial space, 2 apartments on 2nd floor create income to offset mortgage payment. MLS# 11-508. RHEA 696-6677 $325,000

Century 21 Signature Properties

2-4PM McDermott & McDermott Real Estate

Project now owned and under development by Audi Management IV LLC

MOUNTAINTOP & SURROUNDS

Mountaintop

4 Mystic Dr.

1-2:30PM

Lewith & Freeman

228 Circle Dr.

1:30-3PM

Lewith & Freeman

LUXURY CONDOMINIUMS

2-3 Bedrooms with 1st Floor Master Distinctive Design & Architecture

Unit pricing starts at $269,000

KINGSTON/WEST SIDE & SURROUNDS Forty Fort

86 Walnut St.

ERA One Source Realty Luzerne ERA One Source Realty Kingston

2-3:30PM

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Coldwell Banker Rundle Real Estate

1-3PM

ERA One Source Realty

11AM-1PM

Lewith & Freeman

76 Zerby Ave.

1-3PM

Century 21 Sherlock Homes

267 Grove St.

1-3PM

Elegant Homes

Waypoint Townhomes 287 N. Sprague Ave.

Edwardsville

BACK MOUNTAIN & SURROUNDS

Smith Hourigan Group

KINGSTON

CLARKS SUMMIT

MOUNTAINTOP Lot 1 Woodberry Dr., Mountaintop

EXETER

Coldwell Banker Rundle Real Estate Kingston

Call Marcie Petrucelli 570.714.9267 or Marie Montante 570.714.9279

Lewith & Freeman Real Estate, Inc.

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MLS#11-4032

122 Buck Ridge Dr., Drums

MLS#10-4159

$185,000 159 Terrace Ave., Trucksville

MLS#11-3049

$159,900

$179,900

48 Marjorie Ave., Wilkes-Barre $159,900 MLS#11-3989

I’m Sue Barre. I sell houses, and I can sell yours. (570) 696-5417

Two-story Townhomes

WHITE HAVEN

• 1st ﬂoor master • Formal Dining Room • Eat-in Kitchen • Loft • Valuted Ceilings • Front Porch • Garage • Garden Area

Beautiful New Construction Townhouses in the Crestwood School District. 100% USDA Financing Available. Right oﬀ I-81 and minutes from turnpike. Beautiful 2 Story Foyer, forced air, walk-in closet, master bath, walk-out basement, 1 car garage, stone exterior, & choose from many upgrades. MLS#11-4185 $105,000

(570) 474-9801

PLAINS

Excellent location, come see this 3 bedroom ranch conveniently located just minutes off the cross valley x-way. Nicely updated eat-in kitchen with Pergo floors. 1yr old roof & seamless gutters. Large & level lot w/shed & OSP. Full partial finished basement w/new windows & w/playroom w/gas space heater (very efficient). Move-in condition.(3rd BR is a laundry room but can easily be converted back) MLS#11-3168 $114,900

MOUNTAINTOP

Lovely like-new (2000) 3BR, 2.5 bath home on 4.17acres. Formal LR & DR; Large eat-in kitchen w/Island & all appliances; 1st floor FR w/stone fireplace & sliders to patio; MBR Suite; A/C; LL ready to be finished; 2 garages; Tunkhannock Schools; Privacy & beautiful view!

$269,900

Watch this Community come to life by becoming a Bell Weather Resident. There has never been a better time to join us…

Prices Starting in the $170s

ASHLEY

3 bedroom 2 story home in a quiet neighborhood. Modern kitchen and bath. Nice yard with plenty of oﬀ street parking. MLS#11-3656 $65,900

Fairway Estates Phase II, Hanover Home and lot packages available! Bring your house plan and choose your lot!

Construction by: Premiere Home Builders, Inc. Dave & John Pieczynski Home and Lot Packages Available! Only 10 6 Lots Left!!!

28 Carverton Road, Shavertown, PA Phone: 696.2600 ext. 207 Fax: 696.0677 Direct: 696.6569 cpieczynski@poggi-jones.com www.poggi-jones.com

ASHLEY

Totally remodeled 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom Ranch located on a corner lot in Ashley. Modern kitchen and bath, new carpeting. New vinyl siding. Also private driveway with fenced in yard. MLS#11-1532 $90,000

HANOVER TWP.

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. Fantastic ranch home located in the Hanover Hills Development in Hanover Twp. 3 bedroom, 2 baths. Eat-In kitchen, HW ﬂoors in bedrooms. BRAND NEW ROOF! One car attached garage. Large yard. Out of ﬂood area !! MLS#11-4232 $105,000

OPEN HOUSE TODAY • 12:00-1:30

DUPONT

Beautiful Brick home with in ground pool. Home features hardwood floors, fireplace & fulley finished basement. Just minutes from Route 315, Route 81,W.B., Scranton International Airport, and shopping close by. Basement recently remodeled for additional living space with new kitchen.MLS#11-4082 $175,900

620 HOOVEN ST., DURYEA

Main Street through Pittston, R onto Parsonage Street which turns into Foote Ave, Left onto Hooven @ Town Tavern. Home on Left. MLS#11-1457 $85,600 Anne Marie Janus; (570)899-0704

DURYEA

Gorgeous home on beautifully landscaped corner lot in the sought after Blueberry Hills Development. Granite countertops, open ﬂoor plan and large master suite. Inviting family room with gas ﬁreplace. Deck with unforgettable views of the mountainside awaits you. MLS#11-3974 $339,900

DALLAS

Motivated Seller! Very Spacious cape cod located in Elmcrest development. Nicely landscaped yard, Beautiful built-ins with original wood work highlight each room. Stone ﬁreplace in living room with hardwood ﬂoors under carpet, all new updated electrical. MLS#11-2246 $179,000

MOUNTAINTOP

Less than 5 years old. This 4 bed 2.5 bath home features a beautiful kitchen w/custom maple cabinets, granite counters w/ island, and dining area. Large FR with stone FP. Nice lot and landscaping, newly paved drive, 2 car garage, rear deck, 2 zone heat & central a/c. Quiet neighborhood. MLS#11-2047 $299,000

Pretty 4BR Bi-level! LR, DR, 3BRs, HW, finished lower level, FR w/FP, 3 full baths, 2 car garage. 2120SF. Nice lot! MLS# 11-2282 $199,000

Jim Graham Associate Broker

If you are buying or selling anywhere in the county, I can help you! Only if you call! Direct Line - Jim (570) 715-9323

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Pure Indulgence... Luxury Condominums nestled in a quiet corner of Northeast Pennsylvania

Find us in our convenient Location: Wyoming Avenue to Union Street. Turn onto Mill Hollow in Luzerne

For more information or to schedule an appointment, contact: Christine Pieczynski at 696-6569 DIR: South Main St., Hanover to right on Bunker Drive. MLS#10-2222

61 MARKET ST., LAFLIN

Route 315 to Laﬂin Road. Right onto Market. Continue all of the way to end of road.( cul-de-sac) MLS#11-3557 $149,900 Anne Marie Janus; (570)899-0704

W NE

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16 Zarychta Road, Tunkhannock

714045

1124 Woodlawn St., Scranton

Rae Dziak 714-9234

(570) 288-9371

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570.288.9371

DALLAS TOWNSHIP Spectacular wooded and rolling topography provides backdrop for one of the Back Mountains most successful new neighborhoods. Created by Halbing-Amato Developers, you can work with Summit Pointe Builders to design your dream home or choose your own builder. Offers public, water, sewer, gas, electric, phone and cable.

Priced from $52,900 to $89,900.

Call Kevin Smith (570) 696-5420 Kevin.Smith@Century21.com

Directions: From Kingston. Route 309 to a right on Center Street. Left at the “T” onto Ondish Road. Follow 3/4 mile to Saddle Ridge Entrance on the Right.

MOUNTAINTOP

Enjoy this quiet community in Crestwood school district. Quality materials like Douglas Fir timber, Anderson Windows & Superior Walls. Features include modern kitchen & baths w/ tile, HW floors, 2 zone heat and central A/C, concrete patio. Spacious floor plan offers Formal LR, DR & FR. MLS#11-3684 $269,000

MOUNTAINTOP

Beautiful new construction in Crestwood school district. Home features include Hardwood ﬂoors, Anderson windows, 2 zone forced air, & much more. Spacious kitchen w/ island, tile, & maple. Walk-out basement ready to ﬁnish w/ Superior Walls foundation. Very quiet neighborhood centrally located near dining, shopping, & interstate. MLS#10-4123 $299,000

Mountaintop (570) 403-3000

ONE SOURCE REALTY

Clarks Summit Peckville Moscow Lake Ariel

MOUNTAINTOP

I am a extremely eﬃcient energy saving 2 story home in a beautiful neighborhood. I’ve been completely remodeled including a new heat pump which doubles as my air conditioning. My electric and plumbing have been completely updated as well as my roof and energy star windows. My kitchen is undergoing a remodel and my baths are brand new. I oﬀer scenic views and live amongst the wildlife. MLS#11-759 $219,900

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MOUNTAINTOP

Lovely family sized home located in Alberdeen Acres oﬀers 4beds 3baths, ﬁreplace with many amenities.Private setting on 1.8acres located near the 7th hole of Blue Ridge Golf Course. New Roof! MLS#11-3813 $269,000

(570) 403-3000 (570) 343-9999 (570) 424-0404 (610) 377-6066

WAPWALLOPEN

LOW TAXES!!! I am well maintained home with 3 bedrooms and 2 bath’s. Country living within minutes of I-81. Enjoy my spacious ﬂoor plan and peaceful nights on my deck or balcony. MLS#11-3200 $189,900

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Conditions and limitations apply; including but not limited to: seller and house must meet specific qualifications, and purchase price will be determined solely by ERA Franchise Systems LLC, C b based ased d upo upon a d discount isc of the home’s appraised value value. Additionally, a second home must be purchased through a broker designated by ERA Franchise Systems LLC. ) ©2008 ERA Franchise Systems LLC. All Rights Reserved. ERA® and Always There For You® are registered trademarks licensed to ERA Franchise Systems LLC. An Equal Opportunity Company. Equal Housing Opportunity. Each Office is Independently Owned and Operated.

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GALE LEWIS REALTOR

(570) 675-4400

www.gordonlong.com

OPEN HOUSE TODAY • 1:00-3:00PM 76 ZERBY AVENUE, EDWARDSVILLE

Wyoming Valley West S.D. Move in condition, 3 BR, 2 Baths with partially finished basement, fenced yard, 2 car garage and security system available. (MLS #11-5074) HOSTED BY: GALE LEWIS Directions: Wyoming Ave to R on Northampton, to Main St, R on Zerby, property on the left.

$119,900

NEW PRICE

RT 239 CAMBRA Wonderful Views from this well Built Ranch Home on 2 ACRES, Full Finished Basement. Two Car Garage. Asking $155,000 Call Richard Anytime for appointment 570.406.2438 Listing #11-3414

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WILKES-BARRE

Beautifully maintained double block on large landscaped lot (5 lots). Many updates, hardwood under carpet, ceiling fans, plaster walls and off street parking for 9! Must See! MLS # 11-2651 $110,000 Call Christine Kutz for details. Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

906 Homes for Sale

WILKES-BARRE 241 Dana Street

WILKES-BARRE 60 Saint Clair St

WILKES-BARRE

WYOMING

Spacious 3 bedroom, 1.5 baths with textured ceilings, updated kitchen, all appliances including dishwasher, tiled bath with whirlpool tub, 2nd floor laundry room. Replacement windows. DRASTIC REDUCTION $60,000 MLS# 11-88 Call Arlene Warunek 570-650-4169

Great 4 bedroom home with new kitchen, furnace and bath. Laundry room off kitchen. Newer windows and roof. Hardwood on first floor. Off street parking. Older one car garage. Walk up attic. MLS 11-1478 $69,000 Call Nancy Answini 570-237-5999 JOSEPH P. GILROY REAL ESTATE 570-288-1444

WILKES-BARRE

64 West River St Smith Hourigan Group (570) 696-1195

WILKES-BARRE 116 Amber Lane Very nice bi-level home with newer laminate floors, vaulted ceiling, 2 large bedrooms. Finished lower level with 1/2 bath and laundry room. Large family room, built in garage, and wood pellet stove. No sign, alarm system. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3290 $89,900 Call Colleen 570-237-0415

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WILKES-BARRE

134 Brown Street Nicely remodeled, spacious 2-story with attached garage on corner lot. Modern, eat-in kitchen with stainless steel appliances; large lower level Theatre Room and additional rec room with dry bar and 5th bedroom. Newer roof, mostly newer replacement windows & gas furnace. MLS# 11-1817 REDUCED TO $79,900 Call Steve Shemo (570) 288-1401 (570) 793-9449

26-28-30 Blackman Street Nice investment triplex conveniently located on bus route close to schools. Grosses over $3,000/month! Separate gas, electric & water; parking for 10+ cars. Reduced to $94,900. MLS#11-423 Call Steve Shemo (570) 288-1401 (570) 793-9449

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Great neighborhood surrounds this updated 2 story home with original woodwork. 3 bedroom, 1 bath, 1,500sf oak eat-in kitchen, hardwood floors, stained glass windows, large rooms, fenced yard, deck. Zoned R1 Single Family Zone. $79,900 MLS #11-599 Call Tracy Zarola 570-696-0723

WILKES-BARRE

WILKES-BARRE 221 Brown Street

49 Hillard St. Great 3 bedroom home with large modern kitchen. Ductless air conditioning on 1st floor. Laundry on 2nd floor. Nice deck and fenced in yard. Off street parking for 2 cards via rear alley MLS 11-2896 $85,000 Call Shelby Watchilla 570-762-6969 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

Beautifully restored 1890 Queen Anne with working elevator located in Wilkes-Barre's Historic District built by Fred Kirby close to riverfront parks and downtown shops and restaurants. This architectural gem has six bedrooms & 5 baths and a modern kitchen with granite counters and SS appliances. Original 2-story carriage house with for two cars. Hot tub included. MLS 11-2316. $329,900 Call Darren Snyder Marilyn K Snyder Real Estate 570-825-2468

Great first home or down size. Nice clean move in ready no lawn work here. 2 car detached garage and best of all the Mortgage is probably lower than your rent payment. $52,500 MLS# 11-871 Call Tony Wasco 570-855-2424 Trademark Realtor Group 570-613-9090 WILKES-BARRE

231 Poplar St. Rolling Mill Hill Section Well-Maintained 3 bedroom home in Move-in condition. Hardwood floors, upgraded appliances & great storage space. Private driveway & nice yard. MLS# 10-4456 $75,000 Barbara Young Call 570-466-6940

COLDWELL BANKER, RUNDLE REAL ESTATE 570-474-2340 Ext. 55

Land for sale? Place an ad and SELL 570-829-7130

NO FLOODING HERE

Remodeled 2-3 bedroom with eat-in kitchen & oak cabinets; large dining room with oak flooring; laundry room on first floor with 1/2 bath; ceramic tile master bath with granite vanity and walk in linen closet; extra large master bedroom; wrap porch; partially fenced; concrete basement; ceiling fans; stained glass windows; gas heat; wood floor attic; shed; close to mall; quiet, safe neighborhood. Nice view. Move in condition, no repairs needed. Low real estate taxes. $87,500. 570-970-8065, or email aleta59@msn.com

DOUBLE LOT IN WILKES-BARRE CITY Extra large duplex. Total 7 bedrooms, 2 baths, hardwood floors, fireplace, screened porch, full basement and 2 car garage. $58,000. Jeannie Brady ERA BRADY ASSOCIATES 570-836-3848

WILKES-BARRE Emergency

262 Stucker Ave & Extra Lot (3rd street after baseball field) 7 room (3 bedrooms), 1 1/2 baths. Lower Level has family room and 1 car attached garage. To settle Estate. Drastically reduced. Original price $119,900, now reduced to $79,900. 10-2472 Call Joe Bruno 570-824-4560 JANE KOPP REAL ESTATE 570-288-7481

1702 W. Eighth St. 1 story Ranch with 100x200 lot, paved driveway, new energy star replacement windows. Excellent starter home. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com. MLS 11-2912 $89,500 Fred Mecadon 570-817-5792

WYOMING

3 bedroom, single home. $22,500. Must Sell. Call 570-956-2385 WILKES-BARRE

Great price! 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath, needs some love. High ceilings, open floor plan downstairs, extra room upstairs for closet, office, storage, whatever you need. Subject to short sale, bank approval. $37,900 MLS 11-3134 Call/text for Details. Donna Cain 570-947-3824

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Huge Price Reduction!! Owner says SELL! Move right in to this 2-3 bedroom. Newer roof and windows & fenced rear yard. MLS#11-3440 FOUR STAR MCCABE REALTY Call 570-674-9950

PRICE REDUCED! 166 Jones Street Nice starter home. Spacious sideyard with off street parking, hardwood floors under carpet in living room & dining room, newer furnace. MLS #11-2979 $38,000 Call Debra at 570-714-9251

WILKES-BARRE REDUCED

60 Kulp St. 3-4 bedroom, 2 story home with well kept hardwood floors throughout. Private driveway with parking for 2 cards and nearly all replacement windows. MLS 11-2897 $59,900 Jay A. Crossin Ext. 23 CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770

WILKES-BARRE SOUTH

3 bedroom, 2 story, with brick & stucco siding. Beautiful hardwood floors. Semi-modern kitchen. Finished basement with fireplace. Covered back porch. Priced to sell. $79,900. MLS 11-2987 Besecker Realty 570-675-3611 WILKES-BARRE To Settle Estate $60,000

WILKES-BARRE

Lot 39 Mayock St. 9' ceilings throughout 1st floor, granite countertops in kitchen. Very bright. 1st floor master bedroom & bath. Not yet assessed. End unit. Modular construction. MLS #10-3180 $179,500 Jim Graham at 570-715-9323

YATESVILLE PRICE REDUCED

12 Reid st. Spacious Bi-level home in semi-private location with private back yard. 3 season room. Gas fireplace in lower level family room. 4 bedrooms, garage. For more informtion and photos visit wwww.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 10-4740 $149,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200 VM 101

40 Fifth st

909

Very nice 2family,one side move in the other rented separate utilities, 6 rooms each side plus 1/2 bath upstairs each side. Wonderful neighborhood plus short walking distance to Wyoming Avenue. 11-4027 $124,900 Call Nancy 570-237-0752

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WYOMING

608 Wyoming Ave

314 Horton Street Wonderful home, 6 rooms - 3 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, two-story, living room with built-in bookcase, formal dining room with entrance to delightful porch. Eat-in kitchen. Private lot, detached garage. A must see home. MLS 11-2721 New Price $60,000 GO TO THE TOP... CALL

JANE KOPP REAL ESTATE

Location, Location, location! Either you are looking to raise your family or just work from home this amazing brick ranch style property has it all. Zoned commercial, 3 very large bedrooms and 3 1/2 baths, full finished basement, library room, oversized living room, formal dining room and so much more. You have to see it to appreciate. Call today for a private tour of the property. 1 year Home Warranty. MLS 11-1870 PRICE REDUCTION!!! OWNER WANTS OFFERS $275,000 Call Tony Wasco 570-855-2424 Trademark Realtor Group 570-613-9090 WYOMING

MOTIVATED SELLER!! Nicely maintained 2-story traditional in great neighborhood. Modern oak kitchen, open layout in family room/den with new floors, above ground pool in fenced rear yard. 1-car detached garage with workshop area, all on a nice wide lot. MLS#11-2428 REDUCED TO $139,900 Call Steve Shemo (570) 288-1401 (570) 793-9449

WYOMING

Very nice ranch on corner lot in great neighborhood & out of flood zone! Sharp hardwood floors in 2 bedrooms & dining room. Finished basement with 3rd bedroom. Relaxing flagstone screened porch. 1 car garage. One block from elementary school plus high school bus stops at property corner! MLS#11-3831 $139,500 Call Steve Shemo (570) 288-1401 (570) 793-9449

YATESVILLE

570-288-7481

WEST NANTICOKE

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Income & Commercial Properties

909

Income & Commercial Properties

KINGSTON

584 Wyoming Ave. MOTIVATED SELLER! Three large offices along with a reception area with builtin secretarial/paralegal work stations; a large conference room with built-in bookshelves, kitchenette and bathroom. Lower level has 7 offices, 2 bathrooms, plenty of storage. HIGHLY visible location, offstreet parking. Why rent office space? Use part of building & rent space- share expenses and build equity. MLS#11-995 REDUCED TO $399,000 Judy Rice 570-714-9230 Call Tracy Zarola 570-696-0723

AVOCA

High on the hill with a country style porch. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, modern eat in kitchen with island. Gas fireplace, large foyer & office. MLS # 11-3717 $79,900 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

New Listing. Beautiful home in “Willow View” that shows “Pride of Ownership” throughout! Spacious Florida room that leads to a private yard with extensive landscaping, brand new roof, 3 baths, 4 bedrooms, lower level family room & more! MLS 11-3714 $298,500 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

909

Income & Commercial Properties

NANTICOKE

423 E. Church St. Great 2 family in move in condition on both sides, Separate utilities, 6 rooms each. 3 car detached garage in super neighborhood. Walking distance to college. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-1608 $123,000 Call Tom 570-262-7716

P E N D I N G

25 St. Mary’s St. 3,443 sq. ft. masonry commercial building with warehouse/office and 2 apartments with separate electric and heat. Perfect for contractors or anyone with storage needs. For more information and photos log onto www.atlas realtyinc.com. Reduced to $89,000 MLS #10-3872 Call Charlie 570-829-6200 VM 101

Nice duplex zoned commercial, can be used for offices as well as residential. All separate utilities. Keep apt. space or convert to commercial office space. Adjacent lot for sale by same owner. MLS 11-2176 $85,900 Jay A. Crossin CROSSIN REAL ESTATE 570-288-0770 ext. 23

KINGSTON LIGHT

HANOVER TWP 22 W. Germania St

This 6,600 sq. ft. concrete block building has multiple uses. 5 offices & kitchenette. Over 5,800 sq. ft. warehouse space (high ceilings). 2 overhead doors. $85,000 MLS 10-1326 Bob Kopec HUMFORD REALTY 570-822-5126

134 Page Ave. Light industrial complex consisting of main building (8,417 S/F) with offices and shop areas. Clear-span warehouse (38’x144’); and pole building (38’x80’) on 1.16 acres. MLS 11-1320 $299,000 Call Joe Moore 570-288-1401

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94 Church St. Spacious double block, one with one side owner occupied, 2nd side needs cosmetic care. Off street parking for 2 vehicles, walking distance to the downtown. Pool and patio deck. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com. MLS 11-3292 $76,500 Call Bill Williams 570-362-4158

Income & Commercial Properties

155 E Walnut St. Good investment property knocking on your door. Don't miss out, come and see for yourself. Also included in the sale of the property is the lot behind the home. Lot size is 25X75, known as 147 Cherry St. $82,000 MLS# 10-2666 Call Karen Coldwell Banker Rundle Real Estate 570-474-2340 SCRANTON

Live in one and rent the others to pay for your mortgage! This Multi-Unit features gorgeous hardwood floors in the 1st level apartment. 2nd level apartment has 4 bedrooms! Lower Level apartment has cozy efficiency. Plenty of parking & 2 car carport is another highlight. Call Jesicca Skoloda 570-237-0463 JesiccaSkoloda Realtor@gmail.com MLS# 11-2741 $119,999 570-696-2468

P E N D I N G

JENKINS TWP.

Shopping for a new apartment? Classified lets you compare costs without hassle or worry! Get moving with classified! PITTSTON

Duplex. Aluminum siding, oil heat, semi - modern kitchens, long term tenant. On a spacious 50’ x 150’ lot. Motivated Seller. REDUCED. $37,900 Anne Marie Chopick 570-760-6769

570-288-6654 PITTSTON

3 bedroom townhouse. 1.5 bath, 1 car garage yard. Only 4 years old. $112,500 each or buy all 6 for $650,000 Garry Tokanets Broker Mountain City Realty 570-384-3335

WEST PITTSTON

Great Investment Opportunity. 2 Storefronts & attached 3 bedroom home all rented out with separate utilities. $125,000 MLS# 11-2185 Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950 WILKES-BARRE 495-497 S. Grant St

KINGSTON

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$135,000 SPECTACULAR WATER VIEW! 2 acres overlooking Huntsville Reservoir. Building site cleared but much of woodlands preserved. Perc & site prep done. MLS # 11-2550. Call Christine Kutz for details. Four Star McCabe Realty 570-674-9950

DALLAS

63 acres. Wooded parcel. 5,000’ roadfront on 2 paved roads. Level & rolling. In Dallas Twp. $425,000 Besecker Realty 570-675-3611

New Goss Manor lots. Prices ranging from $59,900 to $69,900. Public water, sewer, gas & electric available. Call Kevin Smith 570-696-1195 or 570-696-5420

SMITH HOURIGAN GROUP

Ida Acres, Wyoming Area School District. 6 lots remain, starting at $38,000. Private setting. Underground utilities. 570-947-4819

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EXETER

Out of flood area. 100x125ft. All utilities in place. Building moratorium does not apply to this lot. $45,000 reduced to $42,000 Call 570-655-0530

HARDING

Mt. Zion Road One acre lot just before Oberdorfer Road. Great place to build your dream home MLS 11-3521 $29,900 Call Colleen 570-237-0415

HARVEYS LAKE SELLER SAYS SELL! Land with Lake View 90' x 125' Lot with View of the Lake. Sewer Permit Required. $19,000 MLS# 10-2523 Call Cindy 570-690-2689 www.cindykingre.com

Wellness Center / professional offices. Lease Space Available. Brick/stucco facade offered on building exterior while interior features built-in offices with natural woodwork & glass. Modern style lofts allow for bonus interior space & warehouse space is offered as built to suit. -Spaces Available: 1200 sf, 1400 sf, 4300 sf Warehouse space, also offered as built to suit) -Custom Leases from $8.-$12./ sq. ft. based on terms. -Price/square foot negotiable depending on options. (ASK ABOUT OUR FREE RENT) -Property ideal for a medical, business, or professional offices. -100+ Parking Spaces. Call Cindy 570-690-2689 www.cindykingre.com

1334 Main St. 1 story, 2,600 sq. ft. commercial building, masonry construction with offices and warehousing. Central air, alarm system and parking. Great for contractors or anyone with office/storage needs. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com. MLS 11-3156 $84,900 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

DALLAS

EXETER

HUGHESTOWN

165 Searle St. Double block home, great investment propPerty or live in one side and rent the other. Two 3 bedroom, 6 room 1/2 doubles . Great walk up attic on both sides. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com. MLS 11-3915 $49,900

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INDUSTRIAL

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WILKES-BARRE

WILKES-BARRE 54 PENN ST. SALE BY OWNER

NEW CONCRETE DRIVEWAY

Nice home, great price. 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, wood floors, off street parking, Approx 1312sq ft. Currently rented out for $550 monthly, no lease. Keep it as an investment or make this your new home. MLS 11-3207 $46,000 Call/text for Details. Donna Cain 570-947-3824

WILKES-BARRE PARSONS Reduced - $79,900

WILKES-BARRE

156 Sherman Street HANDYMAN SPECIAL. Extra Large duplex with 7 bedrooms, 2 baths, fireplace, screened porch, full basement and 2 car garage on double lot in WilkesBarre City. $59,500 ERA BRADY ASSOCIATES 570-836-3848

TIMES LEADER www.timesleader.com

SALE OR LEASE PRICE REDUCED Modern office building, parking for 12 cars. Will remodel to suit tenant. $1800/mo or purchase for $449,000 MLS 11-751 Call Charlie 570-829-6200

PITTSTON

Township Blvd.

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WILKES-BARRE

98-100 Lockhart St

MAKE AN OFFER! Ideal location between WilkesBarre & Scranton. Ample parking with room for additional spaces. Perfect for medical or professional offices. Contact agent to show. Asking $945,000 Contact Judy Rice 570-714-9230 MLS# 10-1110

570-675-4400

LAFLIN PLAINS

33 Market St. Commercial/residential property featuring Ranch home with 3 bedrooms, newly remodeled bathroom, in good condition. Commercial opportunity for office in attached building. For more info and photos visit: www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS 11-3450 Reduced $159,000 Call Tom 570-262-7716

570-675-4400 Nice double block in good condition with 2 bedrooms on each side. New vinyl siding. Bathrooms recently remodeled. Roof is 2 years old. Fully rented. Tenants pay all utilities. MLS11-580.$55,500 Call Darren Snyder Marilyn K Snyder Real Estate 570-825-2468

107-109 E. Carey St. High traffic, high potential location with enough space for 2 second floor apartments. A stones throw away from the casino. Large front windows for showroom display. Basement & sub - basement for additional storage or workspace. PRICE REDUCED $99,500 MLS# 10-1919 Call Stanley (570) 817-0111 COLDWELL BANKER RUNDLE REAL ESTATE 570-474-2340

Great Investment Opportunity. Separate utilities. Motivated seller! MLS 11-4330 $80,000 Maria Huggler CLASSIC PROPERTIES 570-587-7000

WYOMING PRICE REDUCED!

285 Wyoming Ave. First floor currently used as a shop, could be offices, etc. Prime location, corner lot, full basement. 2nd floor is 3 bedroom apartment plus 3 car garage and parking for 6 cars. For more information and photos go to www.atlas realtyinc.com MLS #10-4339 $169,900 Call Charlie VM 101

LAFLIN Lot#9 Pinewood Dr

BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME one of the last

on available lots in desirable Laflin. Convenient location near highways, airport, casino & shopping. DIRECTIONS Rt 315 to laflin Rd; make left off Laflin Rd onto Pinewood Dr. Lot is on corner of Pinewood Dr. and Hickorywood Dr. MLS 11-3411 $34,900 atlas realtyinc.com Call Keri Best 570-885-5082

LEHMAN

New Listing!

Market Street OVERLOOKING THE HUNTSVILLE GOLF COURSE. Own and build your own dream house overlooking the 10th green at the prestigious Huntsville Golf Course. Picturesque setting in the Back Mountain area of Lehman. Near Penn State College, Lehman. Accessed by Market St., downtown Lehman corner off Rt. 118 or passed the Huntsville dam. Driveway in place, septic approved. All on over 1 acre of prime 10th green view land. MLS#11-2860 $107,000 Bob Cook 570-696-6555

TIMES LEADER www.timesleader.com

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4600 SF Warehouse w/22’ceilings & 4 loading docks. Zoned Commercial. Includes 2 BR, 1 bath home. MLS#11-4245 CHRISTIAN 585-0600

900 SF Commercial space on 1st flr. 900 SF 2 BR apt on 2nd flr. Billboard also available to rent on bldg. MLS#10-4309 TINA 714-9251

Large 8000 SF building looking Large Traditional 4-6 BR, 2500 SF home w/great potential. Zoned for a new lease on life! Zoned Commercial. MLS#11-4058 Community Business. MLS#11-4208 SANDY 970-1110 or DAVID 970-1117 RAE DZIAK 714-9234

Auto repair & body shop w/state certified paint booth. 2nd flr storage. MLS#11-2842 ANDY 714-9225

Great corner property. Ranch style home includes 2990SF Commercial space. MLS#11-459 LISA 715-9335

Currently business on 1st flr, 3 BR apt. on 2nd flr. Lg garage in rear w/storage. Owner financing or lease purchase available. MLS#11-4015 ANDY 714-9225

2-Story Masonry bldg. Ideal for loft apts or sm mfg business. Pkg for 36. MLS#11-741 MIKE J 970-1100

Many possibilities for 2 retail tenants. Potential for 3rd apt. Off street pkg. MLS#11-2238 ANDY 714-9225 or JUDY 714-9230

3 BR, Ranch w/gar+ Great location on busy Rte Prime location Commercial Bdg located on Unique Building ZONED HWY COMMERCIAL- 4 BR Cape attached bldg. Zoned HWY COMM. Ideal May be converted to suit your needs 309! Office Bldg w/1500 SF of space busy Rte 309. 4000 SF of space. Off for office or sm business. MLS#10-4367 & 2270 SF warehouse. MLS#11-2094 street pkg. MLS#11-2096 Cod on 100x556 lot. MLS#11-229 w/zoning approval. MLS#11-302 RAE 714-9234 ANITA REBER 788-7501 RAE 714-9234 ANITA REBER 788-7501 DAVID 970-1117

Wonderful opportunity for commercial bldg w/ice cream stand, storefront & apt. Also storage bldg. MLS#11-554 CORINE 715-9321 or MATT 714-9229

Great investment - Turn key gas station w/convenient mart. Prime location. MLS#11-1810 GERI 696-0888

Established restaurant/bar. Equip & liquor license included + 3 Apts. MLS#11-3896 MIKE 970-1100 or BETTY 970-1119

4 Sty brick office bldg, more than half rented. High traffic area. 2 lots included for pkg. MLS#11-1045 ANDY 714-9225 or MARGY 696-0891

Well built 2 story - 8000 SF bldg. Prime location/high traffic area. Add’l pkg available. 1st flr office/commercial space & 2 apts on 2nd flr. MLS#11-508 RHEA SIMMS 696-6677

5700 SF in Prime downtown Move-in ready. Use the entire location. Suitable for office/residence. Full bldg or rent space out. Ten offices, 3 baths, basement, private parking, Zoned C3. off street pkg. MLS#11-995 MLS#11-345 TRACEY 696-0723 or JUDY 714-9230 MARGY 696-0891

Lg Commercial warehouse & office space w/over 3.5 acres. Owner financing or lease purchase available. MLS#11-4014 ANDY 714-9225

Outstanding brick bldg! Parking for 7-10 cars. MLS#08-2790 PEG 714-9247

Turnkey restaurant/bar. Liquor license & inventory included + 3 Apts. MLS#11-3895 MIKE 970-1100 or BETTY 970-1119

Creative business investment opportunity. 10,000 SF bldg on 3 acres. MLS#11-3121 SUSAN LONGO 714-9264

3.895 Acres on W-B Blvd700 front feet provides excellent exposure. Utilities, access road, possible KOZ opportunity. MLS#11-1346 VIRGINIA ROSE 288-9371

Commercial opportunity awaits your business.1st flr 10,000 SF w/offices. 2nd flr storage. Plenty of pkg on 4.62 acres. MLS#10-1110 JUDY 714-9230

Prime commercial storefront + 3 spacious Apts. Parking lot in rear. MLS#10-3764 DONNA S 788-7504

Excellent opportunityEstablished Restaurant for sale in busy shop ctr. Business only. MLS#11-2782 PAT G 788-7514

6000+ SF former furniture store, plus apt. & lots more space. High traffic area. Combined w/12 Davenport. MLS#11-3865 RAE DZIAK 714-9234

High traffic Route 11 w/6000 SF Showroom/Garage, & Apt above. MLS#11-2106 ANITA REBER 788-7501

Multi-Purpose Bldg Established turn-key Convenient location on State St - Adjacent lot restaurant w/2 apts. Business & available. MLS#10-4590 building priced to sell! MLS#11-130 MARGY 696-0891 or MIKE J 970-1100 ANDY 714-9225

2 bldgs zoned commercial. 1 consists of retail space & apts, the other is a 2-story home. MLS#10-4056 MIKE JOHNSON

Prime location - former Convention Hall. Wonderful opportunity for professional offices. Pkg for 100+ cars. Zoned Hwy Business. MLS#11-3654 MARGY SIMMS 696-0891

Rental space - office & Attractive office space 32,000SF, Prime Location Prime location on 2800 SF Office bldg w/3 bay 30+ parking, including trailer spaces warehouse, 500SF to 15000SF. MLS#09- in excellent condition. Good visibility. 1900SF - 12 pkg spaces. MLS#09- Memorial Hwy. Unique space-many garage. Plenty of pkg. Visible from Rt 2115 For "rent" only. MLS#10-4503 MLS#08-1305 3085 possibilities. Zoning B-2. MLS#11-669 309 & 81. MLS#11-851 MATT 714-9229 BARBARA M 696-0883 VIRGINIA ROSE 288-9371 MARGY 696-0891 MARK 696-0724 JUDY 714-9230

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MOUNTAIN TOP

Crestwood Schools! 126 Acres for Sale! Mostly wooded with approx. 970 ft on Rt. 437 in Dennison Twp. $459,000 Call Jim Graham at 570-715-9323

MOUNTAIN TOP Several building lots ready to build on! ALL public utilities! Priced from $32,000 to $48,000! Use your own Builder! Call Jim Graham at 570-715-9323

NEW PRICING!!! EARTH CONSERVANCY LAND FOR SALE *61 +/- Acres Nuangola $99,000 *46 +/- Acres Hanover Twp., $79,000 *Highway Commercial KOZ Hanover Twp. 3 +/- Acres 11 +/- Acres *Wilkes-Barre Twp. 32 +/- Acres Zoned R-3 See additional Land for Sale at www.earth conservancy.org 570-823-3445 POTTER COUNTY 11 wooded acres borders state forest near Keating Summit. Electric, road frontage, perc, perfect for cabin. Owner financing. 800-668-8679.

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Apartments/ Furnished

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Apartments/ Unfurnished

HANOVER TWP.

PLYMOUTH FURNISHED APARTMENT Available immedi-

ately, refrigerator and stove provided, off-street parking, no pets, utilities all paid, Call (570) 881-0636

WYOMING 1 bedroom, 2nd

floor. No pets. Drug free. Non smoking. Proof of employment & background check. Heat & hot water provided. $600/month + 1 month security. Call (570) 693-2415 Leave message.

941

Apartments/ Unfurnished

ASHLEY 1st floor, 2 bed-

room. Off street parking. Washer dryer hookup. Appliances. Bus stop at the door. $575. Water Included. 570-954-1992

BACK MOUNTAIN Cozy 2 bedroom.

Heat & Appliances. $575/ month. 570-574-2588

DALLAS

Demunds Road 2 bedroom apartment. Near Misericordia University. Off street parking. $650. Pets OK. Call 704-975-1491

DALLAS Modern 1st floor,

1 bedroom with all appliances. Off street parking. No pets. $550 per month + utilities. 570-639-1462

1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, all appliances provided, off-street parking, no pets, no smoking. Heat, sewer, hot water included, $550 per month + 1st & last month & $400 security de-posit. Call: 570-852-0252 after 8:00 a.m.

HANOVER TWP. 1ST FLOOR APT.

1 or 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, no pets, heat, hot water, & garbage. $550. plus 1 months security due at signing deposit. 570-899-3870

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HANOVER TWP.

Lyndwood Ave. 3 bedrooms, 1st floor, in nice neighborhood. Dishwasher, washer/dryer hook up. Parking, porch storage. $600/per month + utilities & security deposit. Call 904-382-4509

HANOVER TWP.

Modern 1 bedroom, bath with shower, refrigerator and stove, washer/dryer hookup, off-street parking, $400/month, plus utilities, & security. Call 570-825-2431

HANOVER TWP.

Newly remodeled large 2nd floor 1 bedroom apartment with hardwood floors. $750/month + utilities. Call John Thomas 570-287-1196 or 570-714-6124

DALLAS TWP Mooretown Road Well and septic already on site. Build your home on this beautiful 2.2 acre lot. 2 car garage on site with fruit trees, flowers, grape vines and dog run. From Dallas take Rt. 118 to right on Rt. 29 N, left on Mooretown Road for about 1/2 mile, see sign on left. MLS 11-2779 $59,200 Call Patty Lunski 570-735-7494 Ext. 304 ANTONIK AND ASSOCIATES, INC. 570-735-7494

WYOMING COUNTY

14+ acres, Rt. 29 Noxen, bordering StateGame Lands. Great for hunting or private home site. Low taxes. $105,000. Please call 570-690-5951

915 Manufactured Homes

ASHLEY PARK

Laurel Run & San Souci Parks, Like new, several to choose from, Financing &Warranty, MobileOneSales.net Call (570)250-2890

924

Out of State Properties

FLORIDA SOUTH WEST COAST 2 bedroom/2 bath only $129,900. Similar unit sold for $325k. Stainless, granite, storage, covered parking, close to golf, 5 minutes downtown & Gulf. Ask about our $500 travel reimbursement package. Call now 877-888-7601 NY STATE & Adirondacks, Rustic cozy cabin with 5 acres, $19,995. Over 150 new properties & camps. Minutes to state game lands. New survey, clear title, fully guaranteed! For cozy cabin details call 800-229-7843 or visit www.landand camps.com

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CONDO FOR LEASE:

$1,800. 2 bedroom/ 2 Bath. Call Us to discuss our great Amenity & Maintenance program! Call 570-674-5278

DALLAS

Large 3 bedroom 2nd floor. No pets. Off street parking. Call Joe 570-881-2517 Dallas, Pa. MEADOWS APARTMENTS 220 Lake St. Housing for the elderly & mobility impaired; all utilities included. Federally subsidized program. Extremely low income persons encouraged to apply. Income less than $12,250. 570-675-6936, 8 am-4 pm, Mon-Fri. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE

Apartments/ Furnished

PLAINS Furnished 1

bedroom, luxury apartment. EVERYTHING INCLUDED. Heat, hot water, A/C, electric, phone, cable. Private, no smoking, no pets. 570-954-0869

HARVEYS LAKE 1 bedroom, LAKE

FRONT apartments. Wall to wall, appliances, lake rights, off street parking. No Pets. Lease, security & references. 570-639-5920

HUDSON development,

In 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, refrigerator and stove, washer /dryer hookup, full basement, no pets, $625/month, water & sewer paid, security. 570-829-5378

Available Immediately

KINGSTON Spacious 2

DUPONT Completely remodeled, modern 2 bedroom townhouse style apartment. Lots of closet space, with new carpets and completely repainted. Includes stove, refrigerator, washer, dryer hook up. Nice yard & neighborhood, no pets. $595 + security. Call 570-479-6722

bath, 2 bedroom, 2nd floor apartment. Appliances included. $510 + utilities 1 & 2 bedroom apartments include appliances $450. + utilities. ASK ABOUT OUR DISCOUNT FOR G OOD C REDIT H OLDERS !

DURYEA Unique NY loft style

Tina Randazzo Property Mgr

apartment. 2nd floor. 1 bedroom. No pets. All appliances included. Washer, dryer, etc. Water & garbage included. $750 + utilities. 570-237-5361

FORTY FORT 1 & 2 bedroom apts.

very nice, clean, great neighborhood, hardwood floors, a/c, washer/dryer with newer appliances, storage, 1st/last/security with one year lease. References required. $650-$695 + utilities. Water/sewer by owner, no pets, non smoking. Call 202-997-9185 for appointment

FORTY FORT

1 bedroom, excellent location, newly remodeled. Sunken living room. Oak floors kitchen and bath and w/w. Incl. fridge, stove, dishwasher. Coinop laundry in building. Off street parking. $750 includes all utilities. No smoking 570-779-4609 or 570-407-3991

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FORTY FORT Newly renovated,

938

SMITH HOURIGAN GROUP

great neighborhood. Non smoking. Oak floors, new carpet in master bedroom. new windows, bath & shower. Stove & fridge, dishwasher. Off street parking, coin-op laundry. $575 + gas, electric & water. References required. No pets. 570-779-4609 or 570-407-3991

570-899-3407

KINGSTON - NEW

Ford Avenue Quiet 2 bedroom, second floor. Pantry, storage, w/d, garage. NO PETS $600 + security Call Jay at 570-430-0093

KINGSTON 1 & 3 BEDROOM

APARTMENTS Spacious, off street parking. Recently refurbished. $500. and $650. + utilities. References, credit and background check. 570-239-8793 or 570-947-5997

KINGSTON

1 bedroom. Available now. $425 + security & electric. Call 570-829-0847

KINGSTON

1st floor, 2 bedrooms, private parking, quiet neighborhood, near colleges. $600/month + utilities, 1 month rent & security. AVAILABLE NOW! 570-656-7125 KINGSTON 1st floor. Renovated, spacious 2 bedroom. Gas heat & AC. Living room/dining. Eat in kitchen with appliances. Laundry in unit. Off street parking. Screened in porch. No pets. No smoking. $750/month + utilities. 570-714-9234

KINGSTON 210 PIERCE immediSTREET Available

ately, 3 bedrooms, 2 bath rooms, refrigerator & stove provided, washer/dryer hookup, off-street parking, Cats allowed. $700/per month, plus utilities, One month/security deposit. Call (570) 371-8555 after 11:00 a.m. to set an appointment or email tgerhard2 @gmail.com.

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Apartments/ Unfurnished

KINGSTON

4 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, stove provided, washer/dryer hookup, all gas heat, off-street parking, no pets, $795/month, plus utilities, & security Call 570-706-5628 or 570-574-5547

KINGSTON

Newly remodeled 2 bedroom, dining & living room, off street parking. All new appliances. $575 month + utilities, security & references. Water & sewer included. Absolutely No Pets.570-239-7770

KINGSTON

Newly remodeled 2 bedroom, dining & living room, off street parking. All new appliances. $575 month + utilities, security & references. Water & sewer included. Absolutely No Pets. Call 570-239-7770 KINGSTON

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941

Apartments/ Unfurnished

NANTICOKE 2 bedroom, 1st

floor. Large eat in kitchen, fridge, electric stove, large living room, w/w carpeting, master bedroom with custom built in furniture. Ample closet space. Front/back porches, off street parking, laundry room available. No dogs, smoking, water, sewer, garbage paid. $525/mo + gas, electric, security, lease, credit, background check. (570) 696-3596

NANTICOKE

2nd Floor apartment for a tenant who wants the best. Bedroom, living room, kitchen & bath. Brand new. Washer/dryer hookup, air conditioned. No smoking or pets. 2 year lease, all utilities by tenant. Sewer & garbage included. Security, first & last month’s rent required. $440.00 570-735-5064 NANTICOKE

3 BEDROOM 1/2 DOUBLE

Kingston “A Place To Call Home” Spacious 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts 3 Bedroom Townhomes Gas heat included

Washer/dryer hookup. Off street parking: Garage & yard $640.+ utilities. Now accepting section 8. 570-237-5823 for appointment

24hr on-site Gym Community Room Swimming Pool Maintenance FREE Controlled Access Patio/Balcony and much more... Call Today or stop by for a tour! 570-288-9019

3 bedroom, wall to wall carpet, offstreet parking, $595 per month + utilities, security, lease. Also 2 bedroom $495. HUD accepted. Call 570-687-6216 or 570-954-0727

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347 Hanover St. Large 1 bedroom, 1st floor, wall to wall carpet, eat-in kitchen with appliances, washer & dryer hookup, porch & shared yard. $395/mo + utilities & security. New energy efficient gas furnace. Pet Friendly. Call 570-814-1356

FREE

KINGSTON Very nice, 3 room

efficiency with bath. No pets. Nonsmoking. All utilities included. $575/mos Call 570-287-3985 KINGSTON West Bennett St. Twinkle in Kingston’s Eye, 2nd floor, 1000 sq. ft. 2 bed, Central Air, washer/dryer and appliances. No pets. Non-smoking. 1 car off street parking. Available Nov-1. $700/month + gas, electric, 1 year lease & security. 570-814-1356

KINGSTON

Wyoming Avenue 2nd floor, 1 bedroom, appliances included, no pets, $425 + utilities. Call 570-287-9631 or 570-696-3936

LARKSVILLE 3 bedroom, 1 bath.

$725. With discount. All new hardwood floors and tile. New cabinets / bathroom. Dishwasher, garbage disposal. Washer/dryer hookup. Off street parking. Facebook us at BOVO Rentals 570-328-9984

LUZERNE

1 bedroom, wall to wall, off-street parking, coin laundry, water, sewer & garbage included. $495/ month + security & lease. HUD accepted. Call 570-687-6216 or 570-954-0727

MOOSIC

4 rooms, 2nd floor, heat, water, sewer included. $695. Security /references 570-457-7854

MOUNTAIN TOP 1 Bedroom apart-

ments for elderly, disabled. Rents based on 30% of ADJ gross income. Handicap Accessible. Equal Housing Opportunity. TTY711 or 570-474-5010 This institution is an equal opportunity provider & employer.

MOUNTAIN TOP WOODBRYN 1 & 2 Bedroom.

No pets. Rents based on income start at $405 & $440. Handicap Accessible. Equal Housing Opportunity. 570-474-5010 TTY711 This institution is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

Immediate Openings!

NANTICOKE

1, 2, OR 3 BEDROOMS AVAILABLE

1st month deposit and rent a must. 570-497-9966 516-216-3539 Section 8 welcome

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NANTICOKE

HANOVER SECTION 2 bedrooms, two

floors, non-smoking, no pets, oil heat. $430 + security and references 570-678-5455 or 570-868-7020

NANTICOKE Second floor, 3 bed-

rooms, 2 full baths, appliances, air conditioning, heat & hot water, no smoking or pets. $625/ mo. 570-735-8939

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NANTICOKE Spacious 1 bedroom apartment. Washer & dryer, full kitchen. No pets. $465 + electric. Call 570-262-5399

NANTICOKE

Two level, 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, all appliances , sewer and garbage included, off-street parking, no pets, quiet neighborhood $460/per month, plus 1 month security. Call 570-441-4101

PITTSTON 152 Elizabeth Street

Spacious 2 bedroom apartment with ample closet space. Off street parking. All utilities and appliances included. No pets. $795 + lease & security. Call 570-510-7325

PITTSTON bedroom, living

3 room, kitchen, bath, foyer & enclosed porch. Off street parking. On site laundry. Tenant pays electric, sewage & trash. Water included. $650 + security. (570) 881-1747 PITTSTON AVAILABLE DEC. 1 2 bedroom, modern and clean. Includes stove and fridge. W/d hookup. Landlord pays sewer and garbage, tenant pays heat, water & electric. NO PETS Lease & security required. $550/mo 570-829-1578

PITTSTON

Jenkins Twp.

Newly renovated, 4 bedrooms, 2 full baths, living room, kitchen, stove, & fridge included washer/dryer hookup, off-street parking. Heat & water included. $875. per month + security deposit. Credit check & references. Cell 917-753-8192

PLAINS

15 & 17 E. Carey St Clean 2nd floor, modern 1 bedroom apartments. Stove, fridge, heat & hot water included. No pets. Off street parking. $490-$495 + security, 1 yr lease Call 570-822-6362 570-822-1862 Leave Message

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Apartments/ Unfurnished

PLAINS 1st floor. Modern 2 bedroom. Kitchen with appliances. Convenient location. No smoking. No pets. $550 + utilities. 570-714-9234

PLAINS

Remodeled 2nd floor, 1 bedroom apartment. New kitchen & bath. Pergo floor. Laundry room with Washer / dryer. Plenty of storage. Option to rent garage space for additional $50. Pets negotiable. $700 + security & utilities. Call 570-690-2579

PLYMOUTH

2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom,washer/dryer hook-up, enclosed porch, off-street parking, $475 per month + security + utilities. Call 570-821-9881 PLYMOUTH

3 bedroom 2 story single home for rent with option to buy. Great opportunity for a buyer lacking down payment. Home is remodeled from top to bottom. Tenant pays utilities. $600/month. Call Judi 570-814-5319 or 570-474-6307

SMITH HOURIGAN GROUP

PLYMOUTH

Large 2 bedroom 1 bath, ground floor. $545 per month + security. Landlord pays most utilities. Cats OK with pet deposit. 310-431-6851

SHAVERTOWN

2nd story 1 bedroom apartment. Garage parking. Back porch. Washer dryer. $575 + utilities & security. Call 570-406-4073 SHAVERTOWN APARTMENT Nifty location! 4 rooms, 1 bedroom, 1 bath, living room, kitchen and den. All appliances, owner pays utilities except electric. $700 month. No pets, 1 year lease, offstreet parking. Maribeth Jones 570-696-6565

SUGAR NOTCH Main Street

Modern 1st floor efficiency. $275 + security & utilities. No pets. Call 570-822-2032

SWOYERSVILLE

Available immediately, 2nd floor, 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom, refrigerator and stove, off-street parking, no pets, living room & kitchen. $385/month, plus utilities, & security. Call 570-287-0451 or 570-239-3897

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SWOYERSVILLE Roomy 1 bedroom.

Extra large walk in closet. Equipped with range, refrigerator, washer & dryer. New tile bath. Security, references & lease. No pets. $575/month. Utilities by tenant. 570-287-5775 570-332-1048

WEST PITTSTON

1ST FLOOR, 5 ROOMS All appliances washer/dryer hook-up. Wall to wall carpet. Off street parking. $650 per month + utilities, security & references. No smoking. No pets. 570-574-1143

WEST PITTSTON

203 Delaware Ave. Out of flood zone. 4 rooms, no pets, no smoking, off street parking. Includes heat, water, sewer, fridge, stove, w/d. High security bldg. 1st floor or 2nd floor 570-655-9711

WEST PITTSTON

East Packer Avenue 2 bedroom Townhouse with full basement, 1 bath, off street parking. $625/mo + utilities. No Pets. 570-2831800 M-F, 570-3886422 all other times

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West Pittston, Pa. GARDEN VILLAGE APARTMENTS 221 Fremont St. Housing for the elderly & mobility impaired; all utilities included. Federally subsidized program. Extremely low income persons encouraged to apply. Income less than $12,250. 570-655-6555, 8 am-4 pm, Monday-Friday. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE

WILKES-BARRE 135 Westminster

St., 2nd floor, 2 bedrooms, living room. Laundry hookup. Recently renovated. Pet friendly. Section 8 Welcome. $495 + utilities. Call 570-814-9700

WILKES-BARRE

151 W. River St. NEAR WILKES 1st floor. 2 bedrooms, carpet. Appliances included. Sewer & trash paid. Tenant pays gas, water & electric. Pet friendly. Security deposit & 1st months rent required. $600. 570-969-9268 WILKES-BARRE 1st floor, 3 sizeable bedrooms, 1.5 baths, big living room, plenty of closets. Front and side entrance, OSP. $695/mo incl.water. 1 year lease, security and application fee. Call Holly 570-821-07022 EILEEN R. MELONE REAL ESTATE 570-821-7022

WILKES-BARRE

2 bedroom with kitchen appliances. $550/month + utilities & 1 month security. No pets. Call 570-647-5053

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WILKES-BARRE

Mayflower Section 1 bedroom apartment available. Nice Area. Duplex (1 unit ready now). Heat and hot water. Rent with option to buy. No pets. Call 570-823-7587

WILKES-BARRE

Meyers Court. 3 bedroom end unit townhouse. $690 + utilities. For more info visit: DreamRentals.net or call 570-288-3375

WILKES-BARRE

Small efficiency at 281 S. Franklin St; 3rd floor; kitchenette & bath. $400 per month includes heat. Call 570-333-5471 with references

WILKES-BARRE SOUTH SECURE BUILDINGS 1 & 2 bedroom

apartments. Starting at $440 and up. References required. Section 8 ok. 570-332-5723 WILKES-BARRE 1 bedroom water included 2 bedroom water included 1 bedroom efficiency water included 2 bedroom single family 3 bedroom single family HANOVER 4 bedroom large affordable 2 bedroom NANTICOKE 2 bedroom large, water included PITTSTON Large 1 bedroom water included PLAINS 1 bedroom water included KINGSTON 3 Bedroom Half Double McDermott & McDermott Real Estate Inc. Property Management 570-821-1650 (direct line) Mon-Fri. 8-7pm Sat. 8-noon

2 apartment near General Hospital. $525 utilities, first, last & security. No pets. 570-821-0463 570-417-3427

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WILKES-BARRE

Clean, 2 bedroom, duplex. Stove, hookups, parking, yard. No pets/no smoking. $475 + utilities. Call 570-868-4444

WILKES-BARRE

Downtown. Unique, modern. 2,300 sq ft NY Loft style apartment. Oak hardwood floors, exposed brick walls, high ceilings. 12 bedrooms, 2 full baths. New tiled kitchen, living room & great room. Fireplace. Front / rear entrance with deck. Water incl. $1,500. 570-821-0435

WILKES-BARRE

Freshly painted 3 bedroom. Eat in kitchen. New floor & electrical fixtures. Pets OK. Water & sewage included. $525. First and security a must. Call 570-223-6252

WILKES-BARRE

In desirable area. 2 bedrooms, newly renovated, close to public transportation. $500/month + utilities. 973-216-9174

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WYOMING

Updated 1 bedroom. New Wall to wall carpet. Appliances furnished. Coin op laundry. $550. Heat, water & sewer included. Call 570-687-6216 or 570-954-0727

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APARTMENTS AVAILABLE NOW!! Recently renovated, spacious, wood floors, all kitchen appliances included, parking available. 1 bedroom $530 all utilities included. 2 bedroom $500 + utilities. Call Agnes 347-495-4566

WYOMING

1 bedroom, 2nd floor, off-street parking. Stove, fridge, washer, dryer included. Utilities by tenant. $425 + security. Non smoking. No pets. 570-885-0843

WYOMING

BLANDINA APARTMENTS Deluxe 1 & 2 bedroom. Wall to Wall carpet. Some utilities by tenant. No pets. Non-smoking. Elderly community. Quiet, safe. Off street parking. Call 570-693-2850

941

internet? Our new leases include a FREE high speed connection! Affordable modern office space at the Luzerne Bank Building on Public Square. Rents include internet, heat, central air, utilities, trash removal, and nightly cleaning all without a sneaky CAM charge. Parking available at the intermodal garage via our covered bridge. 300SF to 5000SF available. We can remodel to suit. Brokers protected. Call Jeff Pyros at 570-822-8577 COURTDALE

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Free standing building. Would be great for any commercial use. 1900 sq. ft. on the ground floor with an additional 800 sq. ft in finished lower level. Excellent location, only 1 block from North Cross Valley Expressway and one block from Wyoming Ave (route 11) Take advantage of this prime location for just $895 per month! 570-262-1131

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113 Edison St. Quiet neighborhood. 2 bedroom apartments available for immediate occupancy. Heat & hot water included. $625 Call Aileen at 570-822-7944

WILKES-BARRE

MAYFLOWER AREA 1 bedroom with appliances on 2nd floor. Nice apartment in attractive home. Sunny windows & decorative accents. Off street parking. No pets, no smoking. Includes hot water. $400 + utilities 570-824-4743

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1280 sq ft. 3 phase power, central air conditioning. Handicap accessible rest room. All utilities by tenant. Garbage included. $900 per month for a 5 year lease. 570-735-5064.

OFFICE SPACE PLAINS

Total space 30,000 sf. Build to suit. Perfect for Doctors suite, day care, etc. High visibility. Lots of parking. Rent starting $10/sf. MLS 11-4200 Call Nancy or Holly JOSEPH P. GILROY REAL ESTATE 570-288-1444

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HANOVER TWP.

End unit. Former beauty salon would also be suitable for retail store. High traffic area. $800 per month. (11-4214) Call John Thomas 570-287-1196 or 570-714-6124

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Lease Space Available, Light manufacturing, warehouse, office, includes all utilities with free parking. I will save you money!

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EAST MOUNTAIN APARTMENTS

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OFFICE OR STORE NANTICOKE

SMITH HOURIGAN GROUP COMMERCIAL LEASE 1000 SF - 5000 SF Space Available. Ideal for Veterinarian for satellite office. 5000 SF Warehouse Space with loading docks, office, heat, and plumbing. Call Cindy King 570-690-2689

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WAREHOUSE

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WAREHOUSE/LIGHT MANUFACTURING OFFICE SPACE PITTSTON Main St.

12,000 sq. ft. building in downtown location. Warehouse with light manufacturing. Building with some office space. Entire building for lease or will sub-divide. MLS #10-1074 Call Charlie 570-829-6200 VM 101

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Great Business Opportunity 1,500 square feet, available immediately. High traffic area, excellent street visibility on the Sans Souci Hwy. Call 570-760-5215

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2 units available - 2,800 SF & 725 SF - located on the top (10th) floor. Overlooking the Wyoming Valley. Tenant improvement allowance. Call for more details.

Lease this freestanding building for an AFFORDABLE monthly rent. Totally renovated & ready to occupy. Offices, conference room, work stations, kit and more. Ample parking and handicap access. $1,750/ month. MLS 11-419 Call Judy Rice 570-714-9230

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Laird St. Complex, Easy Interstate access. Lease 132,500 sq. ft., 12 loading docks, 30 ft. ceilings, sprinkler, acres of parking. Offices available. 570-655-9732, ext.312

WILKES-BARRE/ SOUTH Best Lease Any-

where 9,000 sq. ft. @ $1.00/sq. ft. & 6,000 sq. ft. @ $1.25/sq. ft. Gas heat, overhead doors, sprinklered. Can Be Combined Call Larry at 570-430-1565

WYOMING

72â&#x20AC;&#x2122; x 200â&#x20AC;&#x2122; VACANT COMMERCIAL LOT 233 Wyoming Ave, Route 11. For Sale or lease. Call 570-388-6669

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Garages

KINGTON

REAR OF 57 SHARPE ST Garage bay for rent. 26.5â&#x20AC;&#x2122; long x 11.5â&#x20AC;&#x2122;wide. Electric lights. One overhead door and individual entry. $100/month. 570-760-8806

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rooms. Gas Heat. Hookups. Parking. Enclosed porch. Large yard. No Pets. $535 + utilities & security. 570-824-8786

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EDWARDSVILLE Available immediately, large EIK, 3 bedrooms, 2nd floor bath, washer/dryer hookup, stove & refrigerator, living room, dining room, walk-up attic, no pets, one year lease, $600/month, plus utilities, & security deposit. Call 570-262-1196

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HANOVER TWP.

Completely remodeled 2 bedroom, 1 bath, wall to wall carpet. Stove, washer/dryer hook up. Off street parking. $750/month + first, last & security. Includes water, sewer & trash. No pets. No smoking. References & credit check. 570-824-3223 269-519-2634 Leave Message

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Turn key medical facility formally occupied by Geisinger Hospital. Space has 10 exam rooms, x-ray, minor procedure room, 2 Physician offices, Lab & nurses station.

UPPER ASKAM 1/2 DOUBLE Recently remodeled, 6 rooms. New bath & kitchen, with stove and refrigerator, ceramic floor, carpeted throughout, gas fireplace, vertical & mini blinds included. 1st floor laundry room with hook-ups, awning covered front porch, fenced in backyard, full basement. Sewer and garbage fee included. Close to I-81. $550/month, plus utilities, security & references. NO PETS. 570-822-7813

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$850/ month + utilities. 570-639-2202

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NANTICOKE

3 bedroom. Wall to wall carpet. Backyard. Washer dryer hookup. $475 + security. Call 570-472-2392

134 PAGE AVENUE, KINGSTON Light industrial complex consisting of main building (8,417 s.f.) with offices & shop areas; clear-span warehouse (38â&#x20AC;&#x2122; x 144â&#x20AC;&#x2122;); and pole building (38â&#x20AC;&#x2122; x 80â&#x20AC;&#x2122;) on 1.16 acres. MLS#11-1320 JOE MOORE $299,000

33-37 TENER STREET, LUZERNE High Traffic - Good visibility. This 6,000 sq. ft. masonry building is clear span. Multiple uses - professional - commercial, etc. 18 storage/ warehouse units included. MLS#11-2787 JOE MOORE $325,000

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PITTSTON

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PLAINS TWP.

2 bedroom, 1/2 double with eat in kitchen, including stove and refrigerator, washer & dryer hook-up, plenty of off street parking, large yard. Sewer and refuse included. Lease, NO PETS $550 + utilities 570-829-1578

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BEAR CREEK VILLAGE

Beautiful 3,000 sq. ft. contemporary, private beach & recreation area. 2 car garage, 3-4 bedrooms, 3+ baths, office space, fireplace, 3 private acres. No pets. References, job verification, & credit report required. $1400/ month + utilities, 1st & last month + security deposit, lease negotiable. Contact edenpeter@ gmail.com

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HARVEYS LAKE

Small 3 bedroom Victorian home on large lot. New furnace. 1 block from Warden Place. Large yard. Water included. Credit references, $690 month + utilities & 1 month security. Call 570-714-1296

HAZLETON "T "S

THE ERRACE ECTION Located very near Hazleton Hospital. Residential home, Ranch style rental with garage. $1200 a month includes heat & utilities conveniently located near I80. References, credit check, security required Dee Fields, Associate Broker 570-788-7511

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KINGSTON Completely remodeled Large 2 story, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, single family home including refrigerator, stove, diswasher & disposal. Gas heat, nice yard, good neighborhood,. Off street parking. Shed. No pets. $995. month. 570-479-6722

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LARKSVILLE

GREENBRIAR Well maintained ranch style condo features living room with cathedral ceiling, oak kitchen, dining room with vaulted ceiling, 2 bedrooms and 2 3/4 baths, master bedroom with walk in closet. HOA fees included. $1,200 per month + utilities. MLS#11-4063. Call Kevin Smith 570-696-5422

SMITH HOURIGAN 570-696-1195

DRUMS

SAND SPRINGS GOLF COMMUNITY Townhome in Sand Hollow Village 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath, one car garage conveniently located near I80/I81 & Rt309. References, credit check, security required Dee Fields, Associate Broker 570-788-7511

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Conveniently located. Spacious 4 bedroom single. Gas heat. Off street parking. Lease, no pets. Security. Call Ann Marie Chopick 570-760-6769

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MOUNTAIN TOP

Rent to Own - Lease Option Purchase 5 bedroom 2 bath 3 story older home. Completely remodeled in + out! $1500 month with $500 month applied toward purchase. $245K up to 5 yrs. tj2isok@gmail.com

MOUNTAINTOP

3 bedrooms, 2 baths, large eat in kitchen. Garage. Huge deck overlooks woods. Washer/dryer, dishwasher, fridge, sewer & water included. Credit check. $1,100 + security, No pets, no smoking. Proof of income required. Call (570) 709-1288

MOUNTAINTOP

DUPONT 2 bedrooms, 1

bathroom, all appliances + washer/dryer. Heat & sewer included. $650/ month, plus 1 month’s security and references required. No pets. 570-655-5074 after 5:00 p.m.

FORTY FORT

Beautifully remodeled 2 1/2 bedroom house in a country setting. Large living room & extra room for bedroom or office. Kitchen with all new cabinets and tile floor. Plenty of closet space. New wall to wall carpet. $800 + utilities, security, first & last. No pets or smoking. Call 570-709-1930

NANTICOKE Desirable

Lexington Village Nanticoke, PA Many ranch style homes. 2 bedrooms 2 Free Months With A 2 Year Lease $795 + electric 26 Yeager Ave Extraordinary neighborhood! Rent this 4 bedroom, all brick house, until June 30th. Large modern kitchen. 2 1/2 baths. Formal dining room. Office/den. Fireplace. Central Air conditioning. All major appliances. 2 car garage. $1,600 month. Call Bob Kopec Humford Realty, Inc. 570-822-5126

HANOVER GREEN 2 bedroom. 1 bath.

Shed. Nice yard. Quiet Area. Hanover Schools. $525 per month +1st month & security. $25 application fee. Call (570) 851-6448 Leave Message.

HANOVER TOWNSHIP

2 story home with beautiful wood work. 3 bedrooms. 1 bath. Living room, dining room, den, modern kitchen. Gas heat. Small yard. Private Drive. $700/month + utilities & security. Optional 3rd floor area (2 rooms & full bath) for additional $100/month. Contact Linda at (570) 696-5418

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PLYMOUTH

3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, washer/dryer hookup, off-street parking, no pets, $475/month, plus utilities, lease and security. Nice neighborhood. Call 570-287-2405

TRUCKSVILLE

2 to 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms, fully renovated, gas/electric heat, off street parking, washer/dryer hookup, no pets, $850/month, plus utilities, security, and lease required. Call 570-675-5916

953 Houses for Rent WILKES-BARRE

Must see, near hospital. Cozy private single 3 story home. 2 bedroom. Walk in basement. Washer/dryer hook up. Fenced in yard. $550/month + utilities & security. Call (570) 451-1389

WILKES-BARRE

NEAR GENERAL HOSPITAL Single family, 3 bedrooms, new carpeting, large back yard, on dead end street, no pets. $700/per month, plus utilities. Security & lease. Credit and background check. Call 570-709-7858

WILKES-BARRE

Three 3 Bedrooms $625, $675, $700 All clean & beautiful. Tenant pays all utilities. References & security. No pets. 570-766-1881

959 Mobile Homes

DALLAS TWP.

Newly remodeled 3 bedroom, 2 bath. Large kitchen with stove, water, sewer & garbage included. $545 + 1st & last. 570-332-8922

962

Rooms

KINGSTON HOUSE Nice, clean furnished room, starting at $315. Efficiency at $435 month furnished with all utilities included. Off street parking. 570-718-0331

965

Roommate Wanted

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HARVEYS LAKE

1 bedroom, fully furnished. Includes utilities/cable, internet, access to lake. $400 month. Call Don 570-690-1827

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971 Vacation & Resort Properties

FLORIDA

Boca Raton Beautiful 5 room home with Pool. Fully furnished. On canal lot. $600 weekly. If interested, write to: 120 Wagner St. Moosic, PA 18507

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WEST NANTICOKE 1 BEDROOM MASTER SUITE HOUSE For lease, 1 bed-

(570) 696-1195

room, 1 bathroom, refrigerator and stove provided, washer / dryer hookup, Central Air, Great View, $575/ per month, plus utilities, $1st and last month/ security deposit. Call (570) 262-4870

HARVEYS LAKE HOME FOR LEASE

WEST PITTSTON 2 bedroom single

Lakefront home, remolded, FULLY FURNISHED, lease for 8-10 months, $1,500/mo+ utilities. Call Deb Rosenberg 570-714-9251

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home for rent. Washer dryer hookup. Stove & fridge included. Call 570-430-3095

WILKES-BARRE bedroom single

3 home. $850 + Utilities & Security. Call 570-262-7654

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