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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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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 ...
Bill O Boyle, The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. October 26, 2023 at 9:19 PM Brown was speaking at Thursday grand opening of Keystone Mission's new Innovation Center for Homeless & Poverty at the ...
This partial list of city nicknames in Pennsylvania compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities, boroughs, and towns in Pennsylvania are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce.