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Five years after being diagnosed with emphysema, filmmaker David Lynch passed away in Janunary 2025 at the age of 78.

BTE Improv will perform its first show of the season at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 12 at the Alvina Krause Theatre in Bloomsburg.

When people visit a casino to gamble, they never know whether they’re going to win.

Chairman Dave Petrosky took a break from cutting cabbage and onions Thursday afternoon to talk about the traditions of the 49th annual Dozynki, or Harvest Festival, that Holy Mother of Sorrows Polish National Catholic Church in Dupont will host on Sunday, Sept. 7.

“I’m excited about this; I’m excited to teach,” local artist Nina Davidowitz said as she looked ahead to the art classes she will lead this season at the Jewish Community Center in Kingston — and at the Circle Centre for the Arts in Wilkes-Barre.

The Hoyt Library in Kingston invites you to join in a virtual presentation at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17 of “a surprisingly hilarious journey with Gabe Henry through the history of the English language.”

“Honey, Don’t!”

Whenever a new sports season rolls around — specifically baseball, basketball or football — I start thinking about the movies that surround that sport. In the case of the current baseball season, for example, I wrote a story about “The Sandlot” through the eyes of its director David Mickey Evans, who also happens to be a Wilkes-Barre native.

After Bonnie Ostrowski Wallace of Wyoming, Pa., passed away in February 2022, her son Bobby sorted through her belongings, which included an extensive library of cookbooks.