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Crestwood High School girls volleyball team plans Dig Pink game

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Crestwood High School girls volleyball team will hold its annual Dig Pink game on Wednesday, October 2, when the Comets host Tunkhannock. The junior varsity game begins at 4:30 p.m. followed by the varsity contest.

							                                Rice Twp. K-9 officer Brian stout, right, chats with state Rep. Alec Ryncavage (R-119) and Marla Conklin, a member of state Sen. Lynda Schlegel Culver’s (R-27) staff.

The Mountain Top Area Community Association holds Cops n’ Canines event

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The Mountain Top Area Community Association held its second annual Cops n’ Canines event on Sunday, Sept. 22 at Rice Twp park.

							                                Vik Menon with The Bombay sandwich, the most popular item on the menu at his restaurant Chaiwala – the Tea Spot.

Chaiwala, The Tea Spot, a cozy new restaurant

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Vik Menon is a tea lover.

							                                Adam Joe Nulton’s finished product.

Crestwood High School seniors take paint to pavement

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Crestwood High School seniors continue the tradition of personalizing their parking spots for the school year.

Mountain Top local businesses given a nod on Labor Day

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The Mountain Top area is blessed with many hard-working people as well as numerous small business owners who devote their lives to their companies. Mountain Peaks is proud to highlight a few of those businesses.

							                                The Crestwood Comet welcomes Camden Fountain, left, and Aurora Logan, right, back to school on opening day at Rice Elementary.

Mountain Top kids start school a bit early for 2024-2025

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School bells rang a bit earlier this year for students in the Crestwood School District as students headed back to class for the 2023-2024 school year on August 22. St. Jude School resumed classes on August 26.

							                                Volunteers prepare snacks for children participating in New Life Community Church Vacation Bible School. Clockwise from bottom left are Carolyn Warner, Mary Blakeslee, Beth Eckert, Maria Pudlosky, Elaine Laskowski, Sandy Lengyel.

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New Life Community Church, Mountain Top, held its annual Vacation Bible School July 22-26. This year’s theme was “The Great Jungle Journey – The Epic Cruise from Genesis to Revelation.”

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MMI Preparatory School welcomes new board members

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Freeland — Attorney Richard A. DiLiberto, Jr. ’79, chair of the board of directors, and Theresa Long, head of school, announced the appointment of four new members to the MMI Preparatory School Board of Directors.

							                                A mail ballot drop box sits in Luzerne County’s Penn Place building in downtown Wilkes-Barre.                                 Times Leader File Photo

DOJ watchdog: Former AG Bill Barr involved in misleading statement on...

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PHILADELPHIA — Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr personally urged a top federal prosecutor in Pennsylvania to issue a misleading public statement amid the 2020 presidential election that was later pounced upon by former President Donald Trump to spread false claims of vote-rigging in the state, an investigation by the Justice Department’s watchdog agency concluded Thursday.

							                                Astronaut Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin poses for a photograph beside the U.S. flag deployed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969.                                 NASA File via AP

Moon fests, moon movie and even a full moon mark 55th...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The cosmos is providing a full moon for the 55th anniversary of the first lunar landing this weekend, and plenty of other events honor Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s giant leap.