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Grit: March 22, 1964 – Cable Firms Move Closer to 9-Channel Completion0
- Local News
- March 20, 2019
The area’s two television cable companies are moving closer toward completion of their planned channel expansion plan. Henry E. Lockard, manager of Williamsport Cable said, work on converting the present system to 9 channels plus 3 FM music stations should be completed within the next six weeks. William Heinbach, manager of Lycoming Television at South
READ MORE60th West Branch Susquehanna Builders Association Home Show This Weekend0
- Home Improvement
- March 13, 2019
It has been a long winter, and you may be thinking about some home improvement project or projects for your home as the weather gets better. Well, this weekend’s 60th West Branch Susquehanna Builders Home Show at the Keiper Recreation Center on the campus of Lycoming College from March 15 to 17 is just the
READ MOREGazette and Bulletin: March 10, 1940 – Prisoner Shares Meals, Cell With Dog After Pet Refused to Stay Home0
“Butchey,” a two-year old police dog, accompanied his master, Powell Thornton, 918 Maple Street, to the County Jail Saturday night when Thornton delivered himself on previous court sentence to serve 45 days on a charge of drunken driving. Thornton was admitted, but as there was no commitment for the dog, it was refused admittance. This
READ MOREAdult Prom At Farrington Place To Fight Cystic Fibrosis Happens Saturday, March 230
- Fundraisers, Local News
- March 13, 2019
Cystic Fibrosis is a serious and chronic lung disease. In the past children who had the disease seldom made it out of their teens but some progress has been made. The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has been striving to find a cure for the disease and a unique fundraiser to benefit the CFF, called the “Adult
READ MOREGazette and Bulletin: March 6, 1909 – Local Men Home From Bad Trip0
- Local News
- March 6, 2019
Company I, Twelfth Regiment, accompanied by the Repasz Band, arrived home from Washington, D.C. on a special train at 9:40 o’clock Friday night. The soldiers and musicians were glad to get home, the guardsmen went directly from the Market Street station to the armory and the band paraded down Pine Street to its headquarters in the
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Spearhead: Book About World II Tank Gunner – By Local Author Released Recently0
When Adam Makos was told by a fellow Lycoming College classmate, Pete Semanoff about a gentle old man named Clarence Smoyer, who had been a tank gunner during World War II, from Semanoff’s hometown of Lehighton, Makos had no idea that it would lead to an odyssey that would bring him to Cologne, Germany and
READ MOREGazette and Bulletin: February 24, 1955 – Brotherhood Improvement Needs Cited to Club by P.D. Mitchell0
- Local News
- February 27, 2019
Inconsistencies in American democracy—with suggestions for remedying it—was the topic for P.D. Mitchell, executive director of the Bethune-Douglas Community Center, in his Brotherhood Week Address to the Williamsport Exchange Club members at the Lycoming this week. Mr. Mitchell cited two famous examples of well-known American Negroes experiencing great success and severe discrimination in their careers. The
READ MOREGrit: February 18, 1962 – Collegians, Scouts Labor to Make Fallout Shelter0
- Local News, Old News
- February 20, 2019
Yesterday and last Saturday were busy days for members of Alpha Gamma Epsilon Fraternity and Lycoming College. They were hard at work making a combination scout room and fallout shelter at the Bethune-Douglas Community Center. Assisting the collegians were a number of 12 and 13-year-old members of Troop 19, a Boy Scout group sponsored by
READ MOREGazette and Bulletin: February 12, 1929 – C.H. Eldon Recalls Lincoln0
- Old News
- February 13, 2019
“I well remember the battle of Gettysburg, the booming of the cannons and the roar of the smaller field pieces being fresh in my memory.” Among the Williamsporters who were in Gettysburg when Abraham Lincoln delivered his immortal address was Charles H. Eldon, who shared the speaking honors with Clarence L. Wannamaker at the Williamsport
READ MOREA Last Salute To Lycoming County’s “Mr. Flag”: Tony DiSalvo0
- Commemoration, Honors
- February 13, 2019
Lycoming County lost a giant in the realm of patriotism and Boy Scouting in the death last week of Tony DiSalvo, who would have turned 90 in April, more importantly it lost a good man, period. Perhaps no one in this county has been more zealous and diligent in promoting patriotism and love for his
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