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This is the 16th year of this campaign for pediatric services at Allied Services Integrated Health Systems.

KINGSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A big honor is heading to a familiar face in Luzerne County's legal world.

Attorney Joseph Quinn of the Kingston law firm Hourigan, Kluger and Quinn will receive the "Pennsylvania Association for Justice Lifetime Achievement Award" Thursday night.

28th annual Briggs Farm Blues Festival kicks off tonight

Quinn is just the fifth person ever to receive it, recognized for not only his courtroom success but also for mentoring fellow attorneys.

NESCOPECK TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Bonding over the blues, thousands of people are expected to make their way to a local farm in Luzerne County for an annual music festival.

28/22 News stopped by the grounds of the three-day event ahead of Thursday night’s kick off.

A line of campers grows and grows in front of the family-owned Briggs Farm in Nescopeck Township.

“We are getting our spot honestly cause you have to get here early enough because it’s first come, first served to get into the campsites,” explained Ben Pypiak of Berwick.

The announcement from the Trump administration, less than a month before it takes effect, leaves little time for borrowers to prepare or consider their options.

The body of a kayaker was recovered near the Bushkill River Access on Wednesday.

BUSHKILL, PIKE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — The body of a kayaker has been recovered after capsizing along the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

On Wednesday, park rangers from Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and rescue teams from Bushkill Fire responded to a call involving a capsized kayaker. Rescuers were on scene within 33 minutes.

Search underway for missing Pa. woman

No power outages reported after overnight transformer fire in Lackawanna County

SUNBURY — State police were busy over the July 4 holiday weekend enforcement period.

SPRING TWP. — A temporary road will open Monday on Route 522 in Spring Township, Snyder County, during a bridge replacement project.

LEWISBURG — The Upper Susquehanna Synod (USS) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in Lewisburg will receive $20,000 to cultivate deeper communities of faith in their rural contexts.The grant is through the Wartburg Theological Seminary’s The Country and Small Town Lived Ecclesiology (CaSTLE) Project, a five-year initiative to support renewal in small-town and rural congregations.The synod’s project, The Priesthood of All of USS, will further equip lay worship leaders to inspire people to live into mission beyond weekly worship time.