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42-85152. Website. www.wilkes-barre.city. Wilkes-Barre (/ ˈwɪlksbɛəri / WILKS-bair-ee) is a city in and the county seat of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it had a population of 44,328 in the 2020 census. It is the second-largest city, after Scranton, in ...
Luzerne County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 906 square miles (2,350 km 2), of which 890 square miles (2,300 km 2) is land and 16 square miles (41 km 2) is water. It is Northeastern Pennsylvania 's second-largest county by total area.
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 ...
According to the John Wilkes article, "The city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania was named for John Wilkes and Isaac Barré." There is no source in that article, so I hesitate to include it here, but some editor may be able to create an inline citation and add the fact here, probably in the lede. -- DThomsen8 (talk) 16:10, 19 December 2009 (UTC ...
August 22, 2024 at 6:18 PM. Aug. 22—WILKES-BARRE TWP. — Residents of Wilkes-Barre Township will party like it's 1774 this weekend, celebrating the town's 250th anniversary. Mayor Carl Kuren ...
Wilkes University is a private university in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It has over 2,200 undergraduates and over 2,200 graduate students (both full and part-time). [ 3 ] Wilkes was founded in 1933 as a satellite campus of Bucknell University , [ 6 ] and became an independent institution in 1947, naming itself Wilkes College, after English ...
Oct. 26—WILKES-BARRE — Mayor George Brown on Thursday said it's a dream that took four years to come true. Brown was speaking at Thursday grand opening of Keystone Mission's new Innovation ...
Lackawanna County is the second largest county in the Scranton–Wilkes-Barre–Hazleton, PA Metropolitan statistical area. It lies northwest of the Pocono Mountains approximately 40 miles (64 km) from the New Jersey border in Montague Township, and approximately 25 miles (40 km) from New York state in Kirkwood.