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- Editorials
- January 25, 2023
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Hello Lycoming County …0
- Editorials
- January 25, 2023
It’s a great day with a lot of new things happening here at Webb Communications. First is the launching of a county-wide, weekly newspaper that will go to 50,000 residences in the county each week. The publication is one intended to be “by the people” of Lycoming County and “for the people” of Lycoming County.
READ MORETwenty Years in the Books and Moving Right Along0
- Editorials
- January 25, 2023
It is great to see my Dad’s picture back on page 2. Beginning with his words “Hello Lycoming County,” the Webb Weekly was launched two decades ago this week. As I read his first column below and looked through the issues from over the years, it brought back a lot of memories. Many made me
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Happy Anniversary!0
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- January 25, 2023
January 22, 2003, we published the first issue of Webb Weekly. As you can see on the cover, our cover story that was about the upcoming Super Bowl. Man, have we covered a lot since then. Going back through and looking at past issues this week has been a trip, to say the least. The
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Trouble, Tragedy & Timing0
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- January 18, 2023
I want to begin with a serious safety and driving issue I only see getting worse. I will mention the specific routes I drive several times during the course of the day, but I have witnessed this problem across our area. As people are so quick to twist things in today’s world, I will make
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Protect the Puppies!0
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- January 18, 2023
It’s been a bit of a rough week and let me tell you why. My poor pupper, Bulleit, had to have surgery. He tore his Cruciate ligament and had to have it repaired. As of this writing, he’s four days post-op. He’s doing really well, but it has been a lot to deal with this
READ MOREA Remarkable Recovery in Progress0
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- January 11, 2023
What a week it was to open the New Year. Buffalo Bills’ safety Damar Hamlin in the biggest football game of the NFL season before a national audience, suffered cardiac arrest upon being hit. This showed the risk versus reward and love of the game — but to what extent that every football player faces.
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Principles of First Aid Everyone Should Know0
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- January 11, 2023
Emergencies can strike at any time. This became more than evident with the tragedy that we saw last Monday night with Damar Hamlin during Monday Night Football. I encourage everyone to take a basic first aid/CPR class. You never know when that skill may be needed. But this seems like a good time to go
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Facing 2023 Together0
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- January 4, 2023
Happy New Year to everyone! Before I get to my thoughts for this week, a heartfelt thank you to everyone that helped in filling the Red Kettle in the front of the office and carried on the work of Dave Sechler. Together we raised $12,570 for The Salvation Army Williamsport and their great efforts locally.
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Happy New Year!0
- Editorials
- January 4, 2023
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. ~ Mark Twain I mentioned last week that
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The Community Theater League Entertainment for All Ages0
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- January 4, 2023
The Community Theatre League (CTL) was founded in 1976. They had a vision of, “creating a true community-driven organization focused on making, promoting, and supporting the performing arts.” They hoped to encourage local participation, so it was decided that there would be no membership dues or annual meetings and that auditions would be open to
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Happy New Year!0
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- December 28, 2022
This is easily my favorite issue of the year, it’s hard not to get a little choked up thinking about all the fantastic organizations that my co-workers and I get to support this week, from furbabies to actual babies to families and vets and the great outdoors! This week’s issue is just one of the
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A Wish of Joy, Love, and Compassion0
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- December 21, 2022
It’s a couple of days before Christmas, and all through the house, there is so much stirring, I hope the cat gets the mouse. I’m sure there’s a lot of this going on all over our little neck of Penn’s Woods as the kids are now home from college, family members have traveled home for
