CMYK TODAY’S $ $ Areason to You oughta be DEAL 99 ONLY@ celebrate in pictures FOR 45 Gay pride celebration boost- Parish’s first Mass; Kids DAILY ed by N.Y. marriage law. Festival; Murgas Radio Club DEPA AL! NE NATION & WORLD, 5A CLICK, 1C Sign up now at nepadailydeals.com The Times Leader292459 WILKES-BARRE, PA timesleader.com MONDAY,JUNE 27,2011 50¢ SUNDAY’S SCOREBOARD St. Therese Church in Wilkes-Barre holds final Mass before Nanticoke consolidation with St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception mayor is attacked Joe Dougherty is beaten Saturday in a crime that might be linked to others. INTERLEAGUE By JERRY LYNOTT N.Y. YANKEES 6 [email protected] ROCKIES 4 NANTICOKE – As the city’s mayor, Joe Dougherty might have upset some people, but not to the point where they would beat him and PHILLIES 3 steal his car. The part-time mayor was the OAKLAND A’S 1 victim of a vicious attack Sat- urday night near his house on East Green Street that left him METS 8 with a broken nose, staples in his head and bruises over his RANGERS 5 body. DON CAREY/ THE TIMES LEADER “I don’t think it was anybody Monsignor Francis J. Callahan speaks to the parishioners of St. Therese in Wilkes-Barre during the last from town, to be completely “Next NATIONAL LEAGUE Mass at the church on Sunday afternoon. To his left is a statue of St. Therese. honest with you,” he said Sun- PADRES 4 day. thing you Three white males in their know I’m BRAVES 1 late teens or early 20s assault- ed him and drove off with a drug out of white, four-door 2011 Chevro- my car and New roots form let Cruze that has the number IL BASEBALL 192 in black on the driver’s side I’m BULLS 11 quarter panel. Police are inves- thumped.” SWB YANKS 3 By SARA POKORNY tigating whether the carjack- [email protected] ing and robbery is connected Joe Dougherty WILKES-BARRE -- Parishioners to the smash-and-dash burglar- Nanticoke mayor lined the walls, filled every seat and ies of stores in Hanover, New- BUSCH LEAGUE even spilled out the doors as St. port and Union townships. Kurt Busch earned his Therese Church on Old River Road Dougherty, 44, a full-time, automotive paint first career road course held its final Mass salesman for Colours Inc., said he was sitting in victory with a dominating INSIDE: Final Sunday at noon. the car provided by the company doing paper- performance at Infineon Mass for St. The church has work around 11:15 p.m. and waiting for a friend Raceway. Busch led a Francis Church, been around since to come by so that they could go out. The head- see page 3A. race-high 76 laps for 1929, when Bishop lights were on, the motor running and the interi- his first win of the Thomas C. O’Reilly season. 7B established it. It currently has rough- SeeMAYOR, Page 12A ly1,200 parishioners. Monsignor Francis J. Callahan, the current pastor, has been with the church for 24 years. Work on valley “We all have very mixed emotions right now,” Callahan said. “You get very attached to your parish, your family. At the same time, it’s exciting DON CAREY/ THE TIMES LEADER levee never ends Pastor Emeritus Harry J. Lewis takes part in celebrating the last Mass SeeTHERESE, Page 12A at St Therese in Wilkes Barre on Sunday afternoon. Reinforcements and drainage improvements maintain protection, officials say. INSIDE By JENNIFER LEARN-ANDES [email protected] ANEWS: Local 3A Work goes on before Pa. budget deadline The Wyoming Valley Levee will need periodic Nation & World 5A enhancements to stay strong, and one is current- Obituaries 8A ly under way. Editorials 11A Spending plan bill failed to get a gins Friday. “We just can’t vote for anything,” Der- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has hired BSPORTS: 1B vote in the Appropriations Lobbyists roamed the Capitol, as al- mody said. Fullard Environmental Controls Inc., Ford City, CCLICK: 1C ways occurs during the final days of bud- Meanwhile, in the Senate, Democrats for $2 million to improve drainage and beef up Community News 2C Committee over the weekend. get negotiations, but the only visible ac- sought to link a Marcellus Shale tax with the support system in several spots of the levee, Birthdays 3C tion on the budget were votes on some their efforts to ease the expected budget said Luzerne County Flood Protection Author- Television 4C higher-education funding bills and a pub- cuts for state-supported universities. ity Executive Director Jim Brozena. Movies 4C By MARC LEVY and MARK SCOLFORO lic push by House and Senate Democrats “Before we can go to cut anything, we The need for touch-ups was expected, he said. Crossword/Horoscope 5C Associated Press for a tax or fee on Marcellus Shale natural need to settle this issue with the natural Initial portions of the raised levee were complet- Comics 6C HARRISBURG — State lawmakers re- gas extraction. gas billionaires,” Sen. Michael Stack, D- ed in1999, and the structure went through major DCLASSIFIED: 1D turned to the Pennsylvania Capitol on House Minority Leader Frank Dermo- Philadelphia, told colleagues in a floor de- floods in 2004, 2005 and 2006 when the Susque- Sunday for an unusual weekend session, dy of Allegheny County said Democrats bate. hanna River exceeded 28 feet, Brozena said. as Republicans who control the Legisla- wantabillthatwouldraisesignificantrev- Senate Appropriations Chairman “Some portions of the levee are already 12 WEATHER ture ground slowly toward enacting a enue and include environmental safe- state budget before the new fiscal year be- guards. SeeBUDGET, Page 12A SeeLEVEE, Page 12A Hailey Russ Partly sunny. High 82, low 57. Details, Page 8B ing space robots. And Hollywood has been kind enough to wings would seem to be a fitting tribute. THINGS provide the 10-year-old boy in all of us with another Transfor- mers movie so we can ohhh and ahhh at all the metallic may- >> PAST IS PRESENT: Few historical sites in the U.S. hem. “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” opens this Wednesday carry the significance that the Gettysburg Battlefield site does. YOU NEED at a theater near you. It promises to be big, loud, action- Thousands of Americans died on those fields and hills in packed, three dimensional and fun. And best of all, there’s no southern Pennsylvania, and a stronger nation was forged from rainbow unicorns in it. the carnage. And every year, on the anniversary of the three- TO KNOW day battle, the site plays host to a re-enactment of the events >> WING NUTS: If you believe the legend, of 1863. History will be re-made this weekend in Gettysburg, 5 THIS WEEK many moons ago, the owners at a beginning on Friday and lasting until Sunday. 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There will be streak of 24 ⁄3 scoreless innings. Hold on tight, baseball fans, al Chicken Wing Day. It’s this is why they call it the Big Leagues. this Friday, July 1. And sky-lighting, cloud-shattering shows while there are no “rules” galore this weekend as well. If you’d like >> MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: Little girls have for observing the occa- to know where, just keep your newspa- 6 09815 10011 their dollies and their rainbow unicorns, but little boys ... ahh, sion, scarfing down a per tuned to The Times Leader and little boys like big ol’ metal-fisted, carburetor-crunching, fight- dozen or so extra spicy we’ll let you know. 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