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Local Newspapers & Events Calendars

Citizens’ Voice — Online paper offering news, local sports and editorials. Serves the Wilkes-Barre area.

Press Enterprise — Serving Bloomsburg, Berwick, Danville and the surrounding Columbia County. Features local news, sports, classifieds and entertainment. Includes select articles and pictures.

The Scranton Times/Tribune — serving NEPA as “Pennsylvania’s third largest daily journal.” Sections include regional news, local/national sports, politics, finance, classifieds, and entertainment. Events Calendar: The Electric City provides weekly updates on regional arts & entertainment highlights, movie times & reviews, community movers & shakers, sports & recreations for Scranton and vicinity.

Times Leader — Sections: Classifieds, Features, Columnists, Editorial, SAYSO, Obituaries, People. Focuses on Wilkes-Barre, serves NEPA. Events Calendar: The Weekender provides information on live concerts, train excursions, comedy clubs, festivals, poetry, theatre & museum happenings, educational & fitness meetings in the Wilkes-Barre area.

National & International News Media

NewsLink — Find the news media you are looking for! Index to 100s of newspapers, magazines, tv, & radio sites. Listed by state, continent, and type. User-friendly interface.

National Public Radio (NPR) — news, information, & cultural programming. “NPR was created as a private, non-profit organization to provide leadership in national newsgathering and production and to provide the first permanent nationwide interconnection of non-commercial stations.”

BBC — based in London, England and one of “the biggest broadcasting news-gatherer in the world,” BBC News Online focuses on Africa, Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East, South Asia, UK, Business, Entertainment, Nature, Technology, and Health.

Salon.com — an independent online magazine featuring in-depth investigations and commentary on news, politics, business & technology, sex, entertainment, art, and literature.

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Old Route 115 
Lehman, PA  18627-0217
Phone: 570.675.9212