The Longest Day is an Alzheimer’s Association fundraiser typically held on or near the Summer Solstice, the lightest and the longest day of the year. Its purpose is to shed light on the darkness of Alzheimer’s disease, to raise awareness, and to also raise funds to fight this devastating disease. Longest Day participants raise funds
Recently, I wrote an article about the mission group Transform Jersey Shore Area (TJSA). The purpose of the group was to take on home projects within the Jersey Shore community, such as painting, minor carpentry, and yard work, to help those who, for various reasons, are unable to help themselves. The idea of this type
Having grown up in the Upstate New York countryside and then raising my family in North Central Pennsylvania, I’ve realized that small-town people care for their own. Let’s be honest: if every time we’re in a jam, we wait for some big agency to come and bail us out, we might be waiting for a
The Big Brothers Big Sisters Program of Northeast Pennsylvania (BBBS NEPA), serving Lycoming County, is pleased to announce the first annual scholarship designated in memory of long-time BBBS Lycoming Advisory Board Member Jeffrey Yates, who passed away in January of this year. A local attorney, Yates was an active board member who was steadfast in
When I think about springtime in the Northeast, a lot of memories and sensations come to mind. The smells of rain and freshly cut grass. The feeling of sunshine on my face after being generally cooped up through winter. Baseball is also something many of us can relate to in one way or another. Recently,
The 2025 World Happiness Report came out earlier this year, and the results were both interesting and mixed. The World Happiness Report, published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford in 2012, combines data related to well-being from over 1,000 people surveyed in each country and from over 140 countries around the
