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Jan. 24—WILKES-BARRE — Abide Coffeehouse put out three interesting tip jars ahead of their NEPA-themed Trivia Night on Wednesday, January 24. The cups are labelled "bear," "bar," and "berry ...
The Susquehanna River and Wilkes-Barre Downtown Wilkes-Barre at night The Stegmaier Federal Building Roth Residence Hall McClintock Hall, built in 1841 According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 7.2 square miles (19 km 2 ), of which 6.8 square miles (18 km 2 ) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2 ), or 4.60%, is water.
2 Pronunciation. 11 comments. 3 Lots of changes. 2 comments. 4 Think Before you Delete. 5 comments. 5 Chess history. 2 comments. 6 Motto of Wilkes-Barre. 1 comment. 7 ...
1.1 Toponymy and pronunciation. 2 History. ... The name was altered by the Spanish to Apalache ... Scranton–Wilkes-Barre, PA: 567,559 Scranton, Pennsylvania:
Pronunciation Note Respelling IPA; Aberdeen, Washington: AB-ər-deen / ˈ æ b ər d iː n / Also the city in Maryland Abiquiú, New Mexico: AB-ə-kew / ˈ æ b ə k juː / Regular in Spanish Acequia, Idaho: ə-SEE-kwə / ə ˈ s iː k w ə / Achilles, Kansas: ə-KIL-iss / ə ˈ k ɪ l ɪ s / Advance, North Carolina: AD-vanss / ˈ æ d v æ n s ...
The Susquehanna River reached a record high of 42.6 feet (13.0 meters) in Wilkes-Barre. The river topped the 40.9-foot (12.5-meter) level in flooding caused by Hurricane Agnes in 1972. However, unlike 1972, the levee system in Wilkes-Barre and several other communities held. Those municipalities without a levee system witnessed severe flooding.
In 1806, a large portion of the territory broke away from the township to form the borough of Wilkes-Barre. Today, the township of Wilkes-Barre occupies a 1-by-3-mile (1.6 by 4.8 km) strip of land adjacent to the southeast border of what is now the city of Wilkes-Barre. Coal mining was a prominent industry in and around Wilkes-Barre Township in ...
I've resided in Wilkes-Barre for the better of 50 years. The name is pronounced as "wilks-barry". This is how it is pronounced on all area television and radio stations; this is the language being used in the Luzerne County courthouse, the county seat. All these attempts at change are nothing more than local colloquialisms.