The documentary film “Agnes,” which details the June 1972 flood that crippled the Wyoming Valley, is hitting the big screen again. To coincide with the flood’s 51st anniversary, the film will be shown ...

Fifty years is a long time. It sometimes feels even longer when we think back that a half-century has gone by. Where were you when something happened 50 years ago? You tend to forget the good things ...

Jun. 23—WILKES-BARRE — Author Gary Letcher says his book, "Bold Forecast," is the first beginning-to-end telling of "this timeless saga of Man vs. Nature" — the Agnes Flood of 1972. The book tells how ...

It had been raining for six days straight in the Wyoming Valley. It was Friday, June 23, 1972, and the banks of the Susquehanna could no longer contain the torrential waters of the swollen river. John ...

FORTY FORT, Pa. — During construction for a restoration project in Luzerne County, crews uncovered headstones displaced 300 feet from the Forty Fort Cemetery after the 1972 Agnes Flood. On Thursday, ...

The flooding brought on by Hurricane Agnes in New York's Southern Tier was terrible and tragic. But even in the midst of the devastation, there were a few moments of levity and even joy to buoy weary ...

Bill O Boyle, The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. November 15, 2024 at 6:19 PM Nov. 15—FORTY FORT — During construction on Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority's Abrahams Creek restoration project in ...

FORTY FORT — During construction on Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority’s Abrahams Creek restoration project in Forty Fort on Thursday, WVSA contractor Rutledge Construction uncovered approximately 35 ...