Luzerne County may once again earmark a portion of its Marcellus Shale natural-gas recreation funding to municipalities and nonprofits.

Luzerne County Election Director Emily Cook said the election bureau has received positive feedback from voters so far about the mail ballots and other preparations.

Luzerne County’s prison system has started activating a mobile phone app for staff to track inmates, county Acting Correctional Services Division Head Stanley Fiedorczyk said Tuesday.

A Luzerne County Council committee recently discussed home rule charter changes that may be put before voters as individual ballot referendums in future elections, possibly starting with this year’s November general election.

DALLAS TWP. — Crestwood had two paths to qualifying for the Wyoming Valley Conference Tournament on Thursday night.

LEHMAN TWP. — Holy Redeemer and Lake-Lehman have combined to win the last eight Division 2 championships in Wyoming Valley Conference girls basketball.

YATESVILLE — Dallas pretty much relived a victory a month ago against Pittston Area on Tuesday night.

DALLAS TWP. — Hazleton Area took care of one unbeaten team on Monday and then the final undefeated team on Thursday.

WILKES-BARRE — The main stat, obviously, was the final score Monday night — Holy Redeemer 52, Lake-Lehman 40.

DALLAS TWP. — It was about 10 minutes into the game Tuesday night, and the Dallas Mountaineers looked like they were in trouble.

The Wyoming Valley Conference will have another head coaching opening among its 12 football teams.