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‘Scrapomatic’ spin on the blues
At first, Mike Mattison and Paul Olsen called themselves “Paul and Mike.”
Libraries offer new services
Remember when libraries were simply places to pick up reading material? Now, especially in Luzerne County, those buildings full of books are finding plenty of other ways not only to encourage visitors but to keep them around for a while.
Blue-collar couples hit even harder by divorce
ORLANDO, Fla. — Stand on the front lines of the recession, as therapist Erica Karlinsky has, and the view for married couples isn’t rosy.
Collaborative uncoupling
ORLANDO, Fla. — You’ve heard of happily married, but is it possible to have a happy divorce?
- A pork rub that’s child’s play to prepare
- If capers or roasted lemons are not typi
- A warm welcome to 2010
- UFCW Federal Credit Union collects coats, mittens
- University counseling centers see many more students with mental-health diseases
- Don’t sweat that scale
- Go ahead, compare apples and oranges
- 25-year-old cancer survivor rides on, gives back
- Health Briefs
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Times Leader Health News
University counseling centers see many more students with mental-health diseases
Stress from the economic downturn, trouble coping with the transition to college, and general depression and anxiety appear to be hitting college students at rates never seen befor ...
Health and Medical News
Drug benefit expanded to 1 million more seniors
In case the prospect of nearly $4,000 in prescription assistance isn't enough to perk up low-income seniors, the government is using '60s singer Chubby Checker to publicize &quo; ...
Sandra Snyder
Evergreen memories dot the branches SANDRA SNYDER WALL TO WALL
“Like seeing old friends again.” That’s how Lissa Bryan-Smith of Wilkes-Barre describes her Christmas ornaments, and I totally get that.
Tom Mooney
Past talents would amaze today’s techies Tom Mooney Remember when
What’s that you say — you couldn’t do text messaging to save your life? Or maybe you have no idea how to take that silvery-looking disk and turn it into a movie on your TV screen?
Consumer News
Is debt-ridden Manchester United in decline?
Snow, as Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Richard Wilbur noted, has a remarkable ability to mask ugliness. In Wilbur's poem "First Snow in Alsace," it covered the ...
Technology News
Comcast, FCC take net neutrality dispute to court
The Federal Communications Commission staked out new ground nearly three months ago when it began drafting rules that would require Internet providers to give equal treatment to ...
Science News
Stricter new smog limit would hit rural areas, too
Hundreds of communities far from congested highways and belching smokestacks could soon join big cities and industrial corridors in violation of stricter limits on lung-damaging ...
Religion
Restoration of lost Scientology materials complete
More than 1,000 unreleased recordings of lectures by L. Ron Hubbard and reams of corresponding writings have been unveiled in the culmination of a 25-year project to locate, res ...
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