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EYEWITNESS NEWS (WBRE/WYOU) — Since 2004, the Pocono Mountains Community Fundraiser has raised more than $3,000,000 for dozens of non-profits, as Monroe County’s largest single-event fundraiser.

This year, three deserving organizations were selected to receive funding and will be honored at a big event.

Brianna Strunk with the Pocono Television Network is introducing us to each organization.

Meet Lisa Latham, a retired teacher who spends her free time helping people.

"I just love it, it fills my heart to do it," Latham said.

SUNBURY — Northumberland County President Judge Paige Rosini, on Thursday, will hear a motion to deny public access to court proceedings involving related ongoing events dating to 2019.

As it splashed around in the bottom of a small translucent Tupperware container awaiting measurement in a plastic pipe fitted with measuring tape, an Eastern hellbender regurgitated pieces of recently devoured and partially digested crayfish.

MIFFLINBURG — The Mifflinburg Police Department is investigating several incidents of theft from motor vehicles that occurred over the weekend in the borough.

LEWISBURG — The supervisors in East Buffalo Township approved a Mifflinburg firm to be the general contractor for its Spruce Hills Park project.

SELINSGROVE — Susquehanna STEM to the Skies, a 501(c)(3) public charity based at the Penn Valley Airport in Selinsgrove, recently received $25,600 in grants.

A 23-year-old Elysburg man was killed after being struck by a tanker truck and a 45-year-old Schuylkill County man and a 38-year-old Bushkill man died as the results of automobile accidents over a two-day period in Northumberland County last week.

SELINSGROVE — The Selinsgrove Area School District is looking to boost campus security with the aid of a state grant.

HARRISBURG — The commonwealth awarded $75 million in competitive grant funding to schools seeking to eliminate environmental hazards like mold, asbestos and lead-tainted water that would jeopardize the health of students and the adults helping deliver their education.

SELINSGROVE — The Regional Engagement Center (REC) board continues to pursue the purchase of property off 18th Street in Penn Township for a new center location.