A Positive Kidney for Jeff
- Benefits, Editorials, Organ Donor
- July 17, 2019
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A Positive Kidney for Jeff0
- Benefits, Editorials, Organ Donor
- July 17, 2019
At the end of 2018, there were roughly 113,000 men, women, and children on the national transplant waiting list. 83% of those are waiting on a kidney. Jeff Burget is one of those. Jeff’s kidney issues began when he was seven from a problem related to strep throat. But in 2012, while in the hospital
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Uptown Music Collective Summer Festival0
The Uptown Music Collective is set to present its annual free Summer Music Festival on Sunday, July 21st at Williamsport’s Brandon Park Band Shell. The day’s festivities will begin at 1 pm with free music performances all day, as well as food vendors, raffles, and more. The event will culminate with an exclusive, one-time-only performance
READ MORELibrary to Offer Free Basic Computer Workshops0
- Events
- July 17, 2019
The James V. Brown Library, 19 E. Fourth St., will host weekly workshops in August for adults interested in learning more about computers and email. The basic computer classes will take place on Wednesdays in August from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in the Lowry Room and are limited to 5 people per class. Topics are: Week 1
READ MORERemembering Our Heroes (ROH) ’57 Truck Tour0
- Events
- July 17, 2019
Our 1957 Chevy Task Force 3200 began as a father and son project in 2012. I’d had a ’57 Chevy Belair coupe 40 years ago and really liked the design and look. We decided on a truck and found this one on eBay sitting in a field on a North Carolina goat farm. We drove
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The Moon, the Mets and Woodstock: The Incredible Summer of 19690
- History, Local News
- July 17, 2019
In the fall of 1969, shortly after the Miracle Mets won the World Series over the highly favored Baltimore Orioles, there was an editorial cartoon in one of the New York papers that proclaimed “The Moon and Mets In the Same Year — Incredible! ,” that sums up pretty well that summer 50 years ago
READ MORELycoming Motors – The Beginning0
- History, Local News
- July 17, 2019
In my prior article on Lycoming Motors, I gave a history of their contributions to the automobile industry. This article delves back to very beginnings of Lycoming Motors in 1845. Yes, this manufacturing entity, though evolving over many years has its origins before the Civil War. In 1845 a Miss Demorest founded what was to
READ MORECounty Hall Corner: Moving Day Ahead?0
- Government, Politics
- July 17, 2019
Lycoming County government has a big problem. Quite simply, it owns more property than it needs. Here is the inventory — the primary facility where the county commissioners and the bulk of county offices are located is the Executive Plaza building, which sits behind another county property, the Lycoming County Courthouse. The County Prison is,
READ MOREGrit: July 20, 1969 – Williamsport Eyes Trained on Apollo 110
- Local News
- July 17, 2019
As the lunar landing of Apollo 11 transcends another of man’s dreams, most of the area’s denizens of the workaday world will see it pass while on the job. City, state and federal employees will be off in respect to President Nixon’s request for a national day of participation, but most workers in non-governmental jobs
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