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MOOSIC, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — High school seniors in Lackawanna County took a walk down memory lane ahead of graduation.

The class of 2025 at Riverside Junior/Senior High School took a trip to their elementary school this morning.

Pomp and circumstance. Cap and gowns, and the graduating class of 2025. A celebratory send-off for the graduating seniors at Riverside Junior/Senior High School.

Monday, the class of 2025 walked the halls where they first learned how to read and write, Riverside East Elementary in Moosic.

OLD FORGE, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Kids often discover art by coloring with crayons, but there is something else about art that they discover along the way, their creativity.

For one local teen, that creativity is gaining her national recognition.

17-year-old Rhianna Kupetz seems right at home inside the art room at Old Forge Junior/Senior High School. She is familiar with several art mediums, including batik, by using soy wax and cheesecloth.

WEST WYOMING, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A hearing over an unpleasant smell in Luzerne County has come to a halt. Residents in that area say the odor is affecting their quality of life.

But they now have to wait a little bit longer for a solution to their problem.

At a hearing last week, Judge Joseph Carmody heard arguments surrounding a smell coming from KB Crash Creations in West Wyoming. Today, he ordered the case to be reassigned to another judge.

TUNKHANNOCK, WYOMING COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — According to Tunkhannock Township Police, a glider landed on school district property in an emergency landing Monday afternoon.

Courtesy of Tunkhannock Twp. Police

Police say the glider left Elmira, NY, and was heading towards Wellsboro, PA, with the plan to go back to Elmira.

Senior farmers market voucher distributions cancelled

The pilot told first responders that he missed a necessary updraft to complete the trip and chose an alternate landing site.

Courtesy of Tunkhannock Twp. Police

MIFFLINBURG — As part of a hands-on tour, more than 150 fifth grade students from Milton Area School District stepped out of the classroom on Friday and onto a working dairy farm to trace the journey of milk from cow to carton.

(WBRE/WYOU) — According to the Area Agency on Aging, the first two Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) voucher distribution events have been cancelled and will be rescheduled for a later date.

The announcement comes because the agency has not yet received the vouchers. It was previously revealed that federal funding for the vouchers has been cut.

The first two Luzerne/Wyoming County distribution events have been cancelled, including the June 3 event at Misericordia University's MacDowell Hall and the June 5 Kingston Active Adult Center.

POCONO SUMMIT, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Having fun at the carnival, but also learning about safety. How one local high school gets its students and area first responders together to prioritize being safe in the summer.

Walking on a straight line is normally an easy task, but when you’re wearing beer goggles, it makes it a bit harder.

“I couldn’t see anything at all…Like I was looking at the floor and I thought I was on the line, but I wasn’t,” said a freshman at Pocono Mountain West High School, Ronald Christian.

WILKES-BARRE CITY, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The Luzerne County District Attorney released that there was an officer-involved shooting in Wilkes-Barre City.

According to police, they responded to a naked woman wielding two knives who then later attacked a civilian on North Main Street around 1:00 a.m.

Case of citrus smell from kratom plant continued

Police say Satin King, a 45-year-old female, attempted to strike the civilian with one of the knives, then police shot King multiple times.

SELINSGROVE — Four-year-old Liam Rising was reunited on Saturday with the type of medical helicopter that saved his life.