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5 days ago | 
wvia.org | Sarah Hall
Morgan Rondinella didn’t know if her heart could handle motherhood. The Scranton resident longed to be a mom, but she feared congenital heart disease would keep her from becoming pregnant or carrying a baby to term. Life delivered a surprise. She plans to give birth to a healthy baby girl this week — with joy, anticipation and feeling the healthiest she ever has in her 31 years. She believes the pregnancy helped heal her heart. “I'm so ready. I'm so excited.
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1 week ago | 
wvia.org | Sarah Hall
Harlee Lassell stood at the edge of Ruddles Run in Jim Thorpe. Freshly stocked trout swam close by, and the 8-year-old wanted one on her line. “I think if we cheer for it, we're gonna get the big one,” said Patrick Rodgers, who helped the Towamensing Elementary School second grader during the 70th annual Special Needs Fishing Derby on Thursday. “When I say ‘big,’ you say ‘fish,’” he said. “Big… fish… big… fish!”It worked within seconds.
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1 week ago | 
plymouth-review.com | Barry Johanson |Dave Boehler |Sarah Hall
Abel Fouts is a fundraising, gym-naming machine. For the third year in a row, the fourth grader at Horizon Elementary has raised the most money in his school’s annual Kids Heart Challenge. Fouts alone raised $5,457 of the $8,977 total donations from his school, which more than doubled the $4,000 goal. The reward is naming rights for Horizon Elementary’s gymnasium […] Remember Me
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1 week ago | 
plymouth-review.com | Barry Johanson |Sarah Hall
A second in time captured to accompany Review coverage of the Plymouth Association of Commerce’s new Downtown Revitalization Committee in May 1975 is the focus of this week’s Look Back. This scene of the everyday bustle along Mill Street in Plymouth offers so many clues as to what life in the heart of our small city was like then: an […] Remember Me
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1 week ago | 
plymouth-review.com | Barry Johanson |Sarah Hall
Francis Musa wants to correct a few misconceptions about his home country, Nigeria. “We do not live in mud huts, people,” the Plymouth High School senior and congenial straight shooter told a crowd of nearly 100 people at the last foreign exchange student presentations of the year, sponsored by AFS, featuring seven speakers and held at Generations on May 4. […] Remember Me
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1 week ago | 
wvia.org | Sarah Hall |Robert Collado
EDITOR'S NOTEWVIA's Robert Collado translated this story. Los estudiantes de Hazleton pronto podrán obtener un título de enseñanza de cuatro años sin tener que salir de la ciudad. Con 5,500 vacantes de maestros en todo el estado, el Colegio Comunitario del Condado de Luzerne, la Universidad Commonwealth de Pensilvania y el Distrito Escolar del Área de Hazleton anunciaron la creación de un modelo "Grow Your Own" el jueves.
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1 week ago | 
wvia.org | Sarah Hall
The fourth-grade students sat around a u-shaped table at Daniel J. Flood Elementary School. Tess Welles — a student herself — sat in the middle, listening to the children read a passage and answering questions about vocabulary words. The senior at Wilkes-Barre Area High School spends every afternoon in the special education classroom. She wants to be a teacher, and the Wilkes-Barre Area School District’s Education Experience program has given her both confirmation and confidence.
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2 weeks ago | 
wvia.org | Sarah Hall
Students in Hazleton will soon be able to earn a four-year teaching degree without ever leaving the city. With 5,500 teacher vacancies statewide, Luzerne County Community College, Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania and the Hazleton Area School District announced the creation of a “Grow Your Own” model on Thursday. Students can spend two years at LCCC and two years at Commonwealth, with all classes either in-person in Hazleton or online. Total cost is less than $30,000.
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2 weeks ago | 
plymouth-review.com | Barry Johanson |Sarah Hall
At the Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah Board of Education’s last meeting, some of the youngest official guests ever – a quartet of 3rd and 4th graders – delivered quite a grown-up presentation and slideshow about the elementary school’s new Kindness Club. Paige Lieffring, Faye Forstner, Eden Ehlenbeck and Olive Vanderkin spoke about “creating a culture of kindness” through “service and positivity.” They […] Remember Me
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2 weeks ago | 
plymouth-review.com | Barry Johanson |Sarah Hall
For a small city with a population of only 2,257 people in 1900 and still under 7,000 at the next turn of the century, Plymouth had more than its share of movie theaters over the years: Three were once clustered within blocks of each other downtown. In 1908, the Crystal Theatre on Division Street was the first to open and […] Remember Me
