Luzerne County’s administration wants to seek $448,000 in statewide casino gambling funding to replace lighting at both Wilkes-Barre River Common levee portal openings and repair the inoperable fountain.

County council is set to discuss the grant application at its Tuesday work session.

If approved and awarded, the Statewide Local Share Account funding through the Commonwealth Financing Authority would cover professional engineering services to evaluate, design and secure construction contracts to rehabilitate/replace the fountain and site lighting at both portals, the agenda said.

The portals and fountain were part of a project unveiled in 2009 covering a half-mile stretch along River Street between Wilkes University’s Dorothy Dickson Darte Center and the historic county courthouse int

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