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	     	<title><![CDATA[W-B Area board accepts Pizzella's resignation, elects new leader]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[WILKES-BARRE - The Wilkes-Barre Area school board accepted the resignation of board president Frank Pizzella Jr., effective Monday, and now plans to start looking at revisions to the district's hiring policy.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:42:27 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Northwest Area community opposes possible school closure]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[UNION TWP. - None of the 200-plus people at Northwest Area High School on Monday night said they wanted to close Garrison Elementary School.
Not the parents, community members and employees in the audience.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:36:40 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Man dies after jumping off highway overpass]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[A man committed suicide Monday afternoon by jumping off a highway overpass onto state Route 309, the North Cross Valley Expressway, authorities said.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:24:30 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Barletta makes campaign stop in W-B Twp.]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[WILKES-BARRE TOWNSHIP - U.S. Congressional candidate Lou Barletta took to the podium Monday night, heaving heavy criticism toward Washington, which to him has become a catch-all for politicians who ignore the American public.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:22:41 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Weidlich, Downing named grid coaches at GAR, Meyers]]></title>
	     	<link>http://citizensvoice.com/sports/weidlich-downing-named-grid-coaches-at-gar-meyers-1.606219?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[The Wilkes-Barre Area School Board hired two football coaches on Monday, naming Paul Weidlich Jr. the head coach at GAR and selecting Dwayne Downing as the head coach at Meyers.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:13:51 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Witnesses testify shooting victim begged for his life]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[WILKES-BARRE - Aaron J. Witko pleaded for his life in the fractured seconds after the first bullet hit, the witnesses testified Monday. "Stop! Please!" Witko told the gunman as they stood on the wooded banks of the Susquehanna River in Edwardsville.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 23:06:00 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Judge delays county assessment ruling]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[WILKES-BARRE - A senior judge on Monday heard arguments on Luzerne County's motion to dismiss an assessment appeal from Vic Kopko, who wants to invalidate the 2008 reassessment of all property in the county.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 21:29:45 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Man dies after jumping onto Route 309]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[The northbound lanes of state Route 309, Cross Valley Expressway, were shut down this afternoon after a man jumped from the Rutter Avenue, Kingston, overpass and onto the highway, police said.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:25:50 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Huber Breaker Preservation Society has plans for park]]></title>
	     	<link>http://citizensvoice.com/news/huber-breaker-preservation-society-has-plans-for-park-1.604113?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[The Huber Breaker restoration project may be on life support but planning is in high gear for a mini-anthracite living history park on land in front of the breaker on South Main Street, Ashley.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Sun, 7 Feb 2010 23:20:10 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Opinions on tolling I-80 split along geographic lines]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[Some say tolling Interstate 80 will help fund its repair and maintenance, as well as roads and bridges across the state.
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	     	<pubDate>Sun, 7 Feb 2010 22:43:08 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[N.J. says onus for rail funding rests on Pennsylvania]]></title>
	     	<link>http://citizensvoice.com/news/n-j-says-onus-for-rail-funding-rests-on-pennsylvania-1.604019?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[You still can't get there from here. While work has gotten under way on an initial seven-mile stretch of route in New Jersey, much more money and political effort are needed to restore passenger rail service from Northeastern Pennsylvania to New York City's doorstep - and the onus may fall largely on the Keystone State.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Sun, 7 Feb 2010 22:29:46 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Barletta fails to make campaign debt payments ]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[In November, Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta spent $8,000 to mail thousands of letters appealing for contributions to pay off debt from two previous congressional campaigns.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Sun, 7 Feb 2010 21:50:38 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Assisted-living facility owes more than $241K in property taxes]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[Keystone Garden Estates, an assisted-living facility in Larksville, owes more than $241,400 in delinquent property taxes and late fees, with 20 percent of the amount from unpaid taxes due five years ago, county records show.
The Luzerne County Tax Claim]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Sun, 7 Feb 2010 17:30:32 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Specter faces tough road]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter is cruising in polls in his race for the Democratic Senate nomination against U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:47:06 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Big Ugly's bar closes]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[Big Ugly's, the Wilkes-Barre sports bar owned by the father of former county commissioner Greg Skrepenak, has closed until further notice.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:40:40 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Focus on Lokuta deflected scrutiny of others]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[The state Judicial Conduct Board devoted so much of its limited staff and resources to prosecuting misconduct charges against former Judge Ann H. Lokuta, it was ill equipped to investigate an anonymous complaint against the two ex-Luzerne County judges later accused in a kids-for-cash scandal, a conduct board attorney said.]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Sat, 6 Feb 2010 22:11:39 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[5 nabbed in West Side drug bust]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA[KINGSTON - Police on Friday charged a group of alleged Philadelphia-based drug dealers that controlled much of the heroin trade on the West Side of the Wyoming Valley and pushed their drugs in school zones or playgrounds.
Detectives with Kingston police]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Fri, 5 Feb 2010 19:55:14 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Instead of big-box Walmart, open small shops in Exeter]]></title>
	     	<link>http://citizensvoice.com/opinion/letters/instead-of-big-box-walmart-open-small-shops-in-exeter-1.599377?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[Editor:
Dear Exeter residents.
Why another Walmart? Why another big-box store? Think to the future. What happens when this Walmart gets old? Easy for them. They just up and leave. But what about us? The building will be adorned with broken windows, board]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:25:30 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Homeowners huddle for warmth while loft owners go tax free]]></title>
	     	<link>http://citizensvoice.com/opinion/letters/homeowners-huddle-for-warmth-while-loft-owners-go-tax-free-1.599375?localLinksEnabled=false</link>
	     	<description><![CDATA[Editor:
Huddled here, wrapped in two sweaters as I write this, I am thinking that I should purchase a unit in the newly constructed Elevations Lofts Condominiums located in downtown Wilkes-Barre. I could quickly "get into" freeing myself of the responsib]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Fri, 5 Feb 2010 15:23:35 -0500</pubDate>
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	     	<title><![CDATA[Census is key to community development]]></title>
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	     	<description><![CDATA["Who cares about a census? I don't need the government coming into my home and spying. Let's skip it."]]></description>
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	     	<pubDate>Fri, 5 Feb 2010 09:49:28 -0500</pubDate>
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