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Times Leader staffers won four awards in the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association’s Keystone Press Awards for 2016, the association announced Thursday.

The winners:

• Joe Dolinsky, first place for beat reporting with his coverage of the Luzerne County courts.

• DJ Eberle, second place in the sports story category for a piece on Hazleton’s love for native son and Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon.

• Sean McKeag, second place in the features photo category for a picture of snow tubing.

• Tom Venesky, honorable mention in the sports/outdoors column category for a selection of his outdoors columns.

“It’s an honor to win one Keystone award, let alone four,” Executive Editor Tim Farkas said. “These awards are the result of the incredibly hard work that our news team puts in every day.”

The Times Leader competed in Division II for daily and Sunday newspapers with circulations of 30,000 to 74,999.

The Times Leader Media Group’s weekly papers also took home three awards.

Bill Tarutis earned an honorable mention for the Sunday Dispatch in the sports photo category for a picture from a tennis camp. The Sunday Dispatch competed in the weekly circulation category of 5,000 to 9,999.

The Abington Journal’s Liz Baumeister took home two awards — first place in the news photo category for a picture of the Dalton carnival, and an honorable mention in the personality profile category for a story about a local author.

The Journal competed in the weekly under-5,000 circulation category.

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