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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Today is Sunday, Sept. 6, the 249th day of 2026. There are 116 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 6, 1975, 18-year-old tennis star Martina Navratilova of Czechoslovakia, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum in the United States.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Freeland High School Class of 1976’s 50th class reunion: RSVP deadline, Sept. 23; event, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026. Sands Springs Country Club. Cost, $45. Classmates’ email information needed for invitation and event announcement. For details, email Selina at freelandclassof76@gmail.com. Hazleton High School Class of 1965’s 61st reunion: Saturday, Sept. 19. Valley Country Club. For information, call Carol at 570-788-5057 or Sharon at 570-956-6275.

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SUBMIT HOT SHOTS: If you wish to submit a photo for publication, email a photo to community@citizensvoice.com. Include your name, hometown, and pertinent information about the photo. Photos should be high-resolution Photographer Nancy Stauch of West Wyoming captured this sunrise breaking through the clouds on an early morning in her neighborhood.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Greater Hazleton Area Lilies of the Valley Garden Club meeting: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10. Conyngham United Methodist Church. The speaker will be a local farmer speaking about pawpaw trees and the fruit that these trees produce. New members are always welcome. For information, contact Beverly at 570-956-6793. Hazleton UNICO’s 18th Annual Bell’Italia Festival: 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, Sept. 11; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Greater Hazleton Area Lilies of the Valley Garden Club meeting: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10. Conyngham United Methodist Church. The speaker will be a local farmer speaking about pawpaw trees and the fruit that these trees produce. New members are always welcome. For information, contact Beverly at 570-956-6793. Hazleton Art League presents “Pastel Visions: A Mark-Making Journey”: Through Sunday, Sept. 27. Hayden Family Center for the Arts, 31 W.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... He was only 153 miles southeast of the Susquehanna County hamlet where he grew up, but Montrose might as well have been a million miles away from Daniel Crisman’s new life. In late summer 2001, Crisman was a New York City transplant. Danny, as his mother, Debbie, calls him, had a girlfriend. He had a new job at the global professional services firm Marsh McClennan. He stared down a wealth of opportunities before the day everything changed.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Eight months ago, American aircraft launched from 20 bases as a special operations team entered Caracas and removed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from a fortified compound. Dozens of Venezuelan and Cuban personnel were killed. Congress never authorized the operation.

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I’ve heard the shared stakes in resisting invasive hyperscale data center development described countless times over the past year or so, but rarely as plainly as Valley View School Board Director Joseph Farrell put it on Wednesday evening. The occasion was a special meeting called to discuss whether the district should continue its participation in litigation against data centers and power plants proposed on the district’s doorstep.