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Event benefitting local blind association funds new kitchen

PLAINS TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— Creating a safe, inviting, and innovative kitchen space, the goal of an event bringing the community together this evening to support the local blind association.

Guests enjoyed light refreshments, live music, and basket raffles, all while supporting a great cause.

Attendees had several ways to donate, whether by purchasing kitchen items from the organization's amazon wish list or donating directly through their website.

The evening concluded with a big announcement.

Library honors nationally-known historian

KINGSTON, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— A local library is preserving presidential history. It's in honor to a nationally known presidential historian in our area.

The Hoyt Library in Kingston has dedicated a section of its second floor to Larry Cook.

The Back Mountain presidential historian has always been fascinated with history, in specific presidents and has shaped a career around making them his subject of study.

COVID’s impact on students five years later

COVID's impact on students five years later

(WBRE/WYOU)— This week marks five years since the COVID-19 lockdown began. For young people, particularly Gen Z students, the disruption would go on to have long lasting effects on their health and wellbeing in ways different than that of other generations.

"I lost my childhood during COVID and I'm still trying to recover that. It's hard because you don't know how to recover it. I don't think we ever will from what we have lost, from all the losses and all that's happened during COVID," said Mark Kucewicz, Penn State Wilkes-Barre.

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