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Luzerne County Council is in the process of ranking the top three prospective engineering design firms for the Nanticoke/West Nanticoke Bridge replacement project, according to a Wednesday update from county Manager Romilda Crocamo.
Council members heard presentations from all three on June 26.
County administrators and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation District 4 representatives also attended these interview sessions, Crocamo said.
Once council ranks the firms, that information will be sent to PennDOT’s Central Office for review and approval, she said.
“All information must remain confidential until Central Offices approves. If any of the information presented is made public, the entire process for selecting a design firm must start at the beginning,” her update said.
Council had planned to hold a public interview session but was informed the applicant interviews cannot be public under PennDOT regulations, officials had said.
Crocamo had closed the county-owned bridge over the Susquehanna River on March 20 after engineers performing an inspection found further deterioration and section loss of primary, load-carrying components.
Council allowed a county administration team to review the statements of qualifications from all five engineering firm respondents and recommend the top three to council, which will make the final selection.
In addition to $10 million in federal funding allocated through the state for this project, the county has access to a $55 million casino gambling fund established for county infrastructure.
Because federal funding is involved, the county must select an engineer to develop three options for the bridge.
Since the bridge closing, the alternate route has been the state Route 29/South Cross Valley Expressway crossing, officially called the John S. Fine Bridge.
Totaling 2,072 feet, the bridge connects Nanticoke and the West Nanticoke section of Plymouth Township. The crossing was constructed in 1914 and last…
The 2025 Queer Liberation March banner leads the way.
Donna Aceto
The Queer Liberation March, a protest march organized annually by the Reclaim Pride Coalition, returned to the streets of Manhattan on June 29 for the seventh time.
“I’m hopeful that people are going to be angry enough to turn out,” Reclaim Pride Coalition co-founder Jay W. Walker said in a pre-march interview with Gay City News at the NYC AIDS Memorial Park in St. Vincent’s Triangle.
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Since 2019, the Queer Liberation March has called upon the spirit of the Stonewall Riots to reclaim Pride as a space without cops or corporate sponsorships. The first official march in 2019 commemorated the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, and the Queer Liberation March route is modeled after the 1970 Christopher Street Liberation Day March route uptown from the Stonewall Inn to Central Park at Columbus Circle, which Reclaim Pride Coalition chooses to reclaim as Lenape Circle.
Paying tribute to the late Cecilia Gentili.Donna Aceto
Walker said that last year, people were in a “more complacent place” leading up to the 2024 US presidential election, but the majority of Americans have seen their rights jeopardized in some way since January.
“All these people that are threatened — we are one. We’re…
Block Island has always been a favored destination for those who love a touch of intrigue. The tiny teardrop-shaped land mass 12 miles off the coast of mainland Rhode Island has a long and storied history with marauders wading ashore, the most famous being Captain Kidd, a privateer turned pirate who visited in 1699 in the days before his capture. He would eventually be executed in London, but not before he told the world he had left behind some buried treasure. While a piece of his fortune was found off the coast of Madagascar, the rest of it could be anywhere, even here on the island. While you’re unlikely to discover his gold, there are some modern-day treasures to discover: Eben Horton’s glass floats.
Horton is no marauder, privateer, or pirate. Rather, he’s a mild-mannered and downright friendly glassblower from Newport, just across the Block Island Sound. He didn’t mean to become a celebrity. But when he inherited a box of cracked paperweights from his mentor that were destined for a landfill, everything changed. “I filled a backpack full of these things and I hid them all along the beach,” Horton said of his first go-around with trash-turned-treasure in the late ‘90s. “And I just thought, This is gonna make some people really happy.”
Each of Eben Horton’s glass floats is hand-blown.
Courtesy of Glass Float Project
That simple act of gifting something beautiful for free, with no strings attached and no Instagram tag required, planted the seed of what would become the Glass Float Project, a Block Island tradition that officially began in 2011.
Every year, starting in late May or early June, Horton and a crew of volunteers…