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  • Would You Like Some Ketchup With Your Escargot?0

    A sidewalk cafe in Paris. “Waiter! Help! There are snails in my food!” shouts a clueless and bewildered American with flaming red hair. “You want me to eat these? I’m supposed to eat them?” Maybe if I had some ketchup.” This classic clip from a 1956 episode of “I Love Lucy!” shows the mindset most

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  • The Bookworm Sez: “Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School” by Kendra James

    The Bookworm Sez: “Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School” by Kendra James0

    You had three minutes to get to class. A hundred-eighty seconds to rush from room to room, always on the opposite sides of campus – do-able, as long as you didn’t have to fetch something from a locker or another spot. Do-able, if you could run fast, leap over crouching freshmen, and dodge slow-moving teachers.

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  • Stay Away From These Skincare Products

    Stay Away From These Skincare Products0

    Trying out new skincare products can be exciting, as well as trepidatious. There’s the hope of seeing the results that were promised, but for those of us who have been led astray in the past, there’s also the fear of wasting money on yet another lotion/potion that doesn’t deliver. There is also the unknown, even

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  • Deliciously Healthy Dishes from Sweet to Savory0

    Supplementing meals and snacks with powerful, versatile ingredients can take healthy eating from bland and boring to delicious and adventurous. Take your breakfasts, appetizers, dinners and desserts to new heights while maintaining nutrition goals with naturally nutritious and surprisingly versatile California Prunes. Rich and smooth with an ability to enhance both sweet and savory flavors,

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  • ‘Into the Woods’ Coming to the WAHS Stage0

    The Williamsport Area High School music department is preparing to open its first musical production in two years. “Into the Woods” is set to hit the stage beginning at 7 p.m., Friday, March 18, with a matinee performance scheduled for 1 p.m., Saturday, March 19. The musical “follows a Baker and his wife, who wish

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  • Billtown Blues Association’s Annual Audition Concert Set for March 12th0

    The Genetti Hotel ballroom will finally, once again, be filled with musicians and music fans for the annual Audition Concert “challenge” in band and solo categories. This anxiously awaited event will begin promptly at 1:00 p.m. and is expected to conclude at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday March 12th. Five bands and 3 solo/duo acts are

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  • Life is Short, Eat Cookies

    Life is Short, Eat Cookies0

    One of my fondest memories as a child was my momma’s homemade cookies. Coming home from school and having them for a snack was such a treat. She always had some delicious homemade treat made for us most weeks. Even the neighbor girls knew Susie usually had delicious baked treats inside our sweet little home

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  • Hope Enterprises Celebrates 70 Years of Serving Pennsylvania’s DisABILITY Community0

    Hope Enterprises, a non-profit provider for people with intellectual disabilities, announces its 70th anniversary. Founded in 1952 by Dr. Max E. Miller and his wife Leona, Hope Enterprises started as a school for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Parents and local leaders in the Williamsport area worked alongside the Millers to grow an organization

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  • Nine Influential Women in World History0

    Women have made a profound impact on world history, but their stories weren’t always told in great detail. From leading armies to breaking down medical barriers to heading nations, women have been at the forefront of historic events for millenia. This list of nine influential women is only the tip of the iceberg when it

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  • Optimism is Key to Getting Through Tough Times0

    I was recently on a cross-country trip with my wife and daughter and had the opportunity to stop at several art galleries along the way. As I was looking at one of the pieces, I wondered, with all of the issues going on in the world if any of it — the art, my articles,

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  • Favorite Meal

    Favorite Meal0

    Have you ever thought about if you had one last meal, what it would be and where you would go? Like, really thought about it? If I knew I had one good last meal, I know exactly what I would have. I’d go to an awesome bar with incredible food. Those kinds of bars that

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  • The Bookworm Sez: “Seven Games: A Human History” by Oliver Roeder0

    It’s your turn. Spin the spinner, roll the dice, pick a card. Move your game piece the right number of squares and don’t miscount. And if you think you’ve caught a cheater, well, check the rules. Or, as in the new book “Seven Games” by Oliver Roeder, check with a computer. It’ll surely know what’s

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