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A new year calls for new resolutions, goals and aspirations. Here are some ways you can improve yourself and your mindset to help set up this year to be the best one yet.

With presents unwrapped and with most schools closed for winter break through next week, it’s now time to keep the family active until the normal routine of work and school.

Still looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of unique Northeast and Central Pennsylvania food or experiences.

Grab your hats, gloves and jackets and prepare to celebrate the holidays in the Poconos with this year’s Hawley Winterfest.

Bundle up, grab a cup of hot cocoa, and brighten your spirits at a holiday lights display this season. Here is a selection of attractions from Northeast and Central Pennsylvania to the Lehigh Valley.

The 10th annual Middleswarth Potato Chip Eating Contest at Sabatini’s in Exeter will challenge participants to eat as many chips as they can in five minutes.

Lackawanna College opened its holiday pop-up bar, Misfits, on Wednesday. It will be open Wednesday through Saturday from 5-11 p.m. until Dec. 20.

Creepy characters will come to life in the stacks of the Bloomsburg Public Library this weekend when the historic building transforms into a haunted library. And, candidates for Lackawanna County Commissioner meet for a debate.

The Bloomsburg Public Library will transform into the Haunted Library this weekend, with 'night librarians' leading tours through the shelves and halls where the literary characters who come to life at night wait around every corner.

The Dunmore Cemetery Tour brings characters of the past to life this Sunday, and Butler Township will host a fall festival and parade on Saturday. Those events and more are in this week's list of things to do.