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TURBOTVILLE — Warrior Run School District board members at Monday night's meeting approved payments for new equipment totaling $87,431.

SUNBURY — Sunbury resident Nate Savidge is now a city councilman after being unanimously appointed Monday night.

LEWISBURG — The Union County Commissioners plan to conduct a salary study to recruit qualified workers and retain the 140 county employees.

LEWISBURG — The Lewisburg National Guard will be a Mega Drop site for Girl Scout Cookies on Saturday.

BLOOMSBURG — A website, previously known as bloomsburgkids.com, that offers information on kids’ activities in Columbia, Montour, Snyder, Union and Northumberland counties has been rebranded.

SUNBURY — This Saturday, the public is invited to attend “An Irish Hooley” — the Irish name for a party — where they can experience traditional Irish dance, music, and storytelling.

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Crews in Lackawanna County battled a small brush fire in Nay Aug Park earlier Tuesday.

28/22 News can confirm the call came in just after 1:00 p.m. and by 2:30 p.m., the flames were out by the Scranton Fire Department.

Training underway for new 911 dispatchers 

According to Assistant Fire Chief Jack Davis, there are no reported injuries and no damage to the surrounding area.

WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Training is underway for the largest Luzerne County emergency services class to date.

It's welcome news after years of staffing shortages and the growing need for dispatchers.

The merger between the county's 911 center and Emergency Management Agency is off to a promising start.

Class is in session for more than a dozen new members of the Luzerne County EMS team. They're completing weeks of paid training followed by floor rotations to become 911 dispatchers.

LANSFORD BOROUGH, CARBON COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Pennsylvania State Police say they are investigating new information about an arson that occurred in 2016 in Carbon County.

According to PSP on Monday, January 11, 2016, at 4:12 a.m. a fire ignited at an unoccupied double-block home in the 500 block of East Front Street, Lansford Borough in Carbon County.

PSP says the Lansford Borough Fire Department and police department responded to the blaze to extinguish the flames and requested the PSP Fire Marshal Unit to assist.

SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — According to the City of Scranton a street in Scranton will be closed until further notice.

The City of Scranton says beginning on Tuesday, February 27, Theodore Street between Return and Ralph Avenues will be closed.

An inspection conducted on the Railroad Bridge over Theodore Street caused the closure after concerns that pieces were falling from the bridge onto the street.

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