Dan Reese has been promoted to oversee Luzerne County’s consolidated GIS/Mapping and Planning and Zoning Department, according to the latest human resources department personnel report for August.

After extensive discussion earlier this year, a Luzerne County Council majority has formally introduced a “responsible contractor ordinance.”

PITTSTON — The Second Presbyterian Church, Parsonage Street, held its annual 9/11 remembrance breakfast on Wednesday at the City of Pittston Fire Hall. The event was for EMS, police and fire departments serving the Pittston area. The church has been providing the 9/11 breakfast since 2007.

Employees at Luzerne County’s Human Services Building on Pennsylvania Avenue in Wilkes-Barre were ordered to remain in the building Wednesday afternoon due to a “third-party shooting threat” related to the county Children, Youth and Families agency, county Manager Romilda Crocamo told county council in an email.

Ryan Roman shot 1-over-par, 36 on the front nine at Fox Hill Country Club Friday to lead Dallas past Pittston Area in a key Wyoming Valley Conference golf regular-season finale.

Madelyn Keating ran a career-best time and was part of the scoring lineup Aug. 30 when Mississippi State opened its women’s cross country season with a first-place finish at the Twilight Cross Country Classic in Memphis, Tenn.

CHAPMAN LAKE – Wyoming Area coach Randy Spencer might prefer a different approach, but he loves the responses his football team has produced when its unbeaten record is in jeopardy.

YATESVILLE — Pittston Area was perfectly equipped to handle immediate, unexpected adversity.

YATESVILLE — Pittston Area was perfectly equipped to handle immediate, unexpected adversity.

CHAPMAN LAKE — Two-touchdown deficit and all the momentum residing with a quality opponent on its home field?

Ava Musinski scored with 2:14 left in overtime Wednesday to lead Wyoming Area to a 3-2 victory over visiting Holy Redeemer in a Wyoming Valley Conference Division 2 girls soccer opener at Tenth Street Field.