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							                                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.

							                                Staff preparing sushi at Myst in Jim Thorpe.

Former Lanahu Ales will be home to new kind of restaurant...

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When Joshua Crownover and his late friend and business partner Mike Heiser purchased the former Lanahu Ales building on Kirby Avenue in Fairview Township in April of 2022 their vision was to bring something very different to Mountain Top – a restaurant with the atmosphere of a cozy corner bar while serving authentic Asian cuisine.

							                                Coach Mark Atherton gets pointers from Frank Gramazio while Simon Brodginski, class of 1978 listens.

Crestwood alumni basketball game held

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The inaugural Crestwood High School Alumni Basketball Tournament held Saturday, Aug. 13, at Wright Township park basketball courts was a huge success.

							                                Martin Bibla poses with his family – wife, Anna, and five children, Magnus, Lincoln, Mariusz, Marin and Quinn – during a ceremony prior to Crestwood’s first football game of the season on Friday.                                 Joe Soprano | Mountain Peaks

Comets’ retiring Martin Bibla’s number

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Crestwood High School honored former football player Martin Bibla before the start of the Comets’ first game of the season against Valley View on Friday night.

Crestwood fourth quarter honor roll

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SEVENTH GRADE

Crestwood Class of ‘72 holds reunion

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The Crestwood High School Class of 1972 recently held their 50th class reunion at Four Blooms restaurant in Drums. Pictured above left to right are class members in attendance: First row: Cindy Wildrick Stec, Sandra Kaszuba Petrosky, Kathy Melley Stein, Jane Spaide Dodson, Bill Hosier, Glenn Savarese, Debbie Miller Harrison, Stacie Portman Zibel, Nancy Myers Cramer, Karen Roman. Second row: Jane Chokola Kwiatkowski, Ann Cosgrove Paddock, Susanne Darden Kaminski, Joy Rinehimer, Lujean Haydt Baab, Brenda Bilek Welgosh, Cyndi Gonshor Verlander, Kathy Hanna Walley, Beth Timinsky Fisher, Jeanie Taney Mylet, Joe Morren. Third Row: Stephanie Smeltzer Karr, Louise Jarick Fino, Anne Wambold, Mike Rokitko, Alice Thomas Roche, Pam Cox Thomas, Jay Thomas, Linda Coleman Prushinki, Bob Williams, Marilyn Geib Young, Phil Majewski. Fourth Row: Bill Levanda, Paul Dixon, Bob Lamson, Kevin Daley, James Druby, Glenn Richardson, Duane Arnold.

							                                Crews tend to Reading & Northern steam locomotive 425 at Jim Thorpe on Aug. 16, 2020. After taking a break for a couple years, the Rotary Club of Mountain Top is bringing back its steam train excursion to Jim Thorpe on July 9, 2022.                                 Roger DuPuis | Times Leader

Rotary Club of Mountain Top hosting steam train trip this summer

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MOUNTAIN TOP — A beloved local train trip will be back on track this summer.

A third-generation plumber in training

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Six-year-old Landon Birk is shown with his dad, Zachary Birk, left, and grandfather Ron Birk, right as Birk Plumbing and Heating completes a new furnace installation.

							                                Chris Hacken

Mountain Top native bringing fiber optic internet to region

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Growing up in Mountain Top, Chris Hacken noticed internet service in the Wyoming Valley area was lacking.

							                                Jorge Junquera talks with students during breakfast. From Left, Junquera, Violet Balara and Morgan Koons.

Crestwood honors distinguished alumni

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Crestwood High School students and faculty at the district’s second annual Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony held Oct. 6 at the high school had the opportunity to hear from the school’s first graduate to be admitted to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a graduate who achieved tremendous success in the financial world.