March 4, 2012 – The Anthracite Trail Riders Club, a group of ATV riders and volunteers from Coal Township, is getting the Whaleback ready for a group of geology professors who will come to study the geologic formation. The Whaleback is an anticlinal exposure of folded rock near Shamokin. Given its locations near…

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Solomon-Plains Elementary School was awarded a $2,000 grant from PP&L’s Empowering Educators Grant Program. The grant allows 6th grade students at Solomon-Plains to take a watershed tour of abandoned mine lands and streams impacted by Abandoned Mine Drainage (AMD) within and near the Wilkes-Barre Area School District (WBSD). The goal…

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