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Homer Lee Wilkes is an American conservationist and government official from Mississippi. In 2021, Wilkes was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as under secretary of agriculture for natural resources and environment .
A 1907 postcard. Hotel Sterling was a hotel in downtown Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, at the intersection of River Street and Market Street.It was opened in 1898 by local businesspeople, who then owned a music hall located at the site, and was named after Emma E. Sterling, [1] whose late husband, Walter G. Sterling, a local banker and businessman, owned a share of the music hall.
Sometime in 1905, Petto died after being stabbed outside his home located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. [11] His killer was never found. John Otunba Payne (66–67) was a Nigerian sheriff , administrator and diarist who was a prominent personality in Lagos during the nineteenth century.
Apr. 9—A man who admitted to killing a Wilkes-Barre woman inside her residence has filed an appeal with the Pennsylvania Superior Court challenging his lengthy state prison sentence. Charles ...
A restaurant in the Rolling Mill Hill section of Wilkes-Barre was named "The Hart" in honor of former mayor Daniel Hart. The restaurant closed in and was sold at Sheriff Sale in 2009. [1] The John B. McGlynn Learning Center, located in the Boulevard Townhomes on Wilkes-Barre Boulevard, was founded in 1988.
Oct. 30—WILKES-BARRE — The walking dead lined the city's streets on Saturday — but instead of feasting on flesh, the hordes flocked to downtown establishments for a few haunted concoctions.
The property was located in the center of Plymouth Borough, between Academy and Girard streets. In 1874, the Wilkes-Barre Coal & Iron Co. became part of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., which acquired the property, but by some arrangement the mine was operated by the Parrish Coal Co., organized in 1884.
Nov. 10—WILKES-BARRE — U.S. Army Veteran Ronald Skamanich, volunteer curator of memorabilia at the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center, said veterans come up to him all the time and say they have ...