I generally attend the weekly Lycoming County Commissioners Meeting and sit in the back with my other local press colleagues. I truly appreciate how objectively honest these journalists are. Their columns are straight up and accurate. It seems like a lifetime ago when newspapers simply told what happened, and the editorial page would be the
The recent news of the death of former President Jimmy Carter at the ripe old age of 100 recalls memories of his April 24, 1976, campaign visit to Williamsport, specifically, Brandon Park. Carter was locked in a highly competitive race for the Democratic Party’s 1976 Presidential nomination against Congressman Morris Udall, Washington Senator Henry Jackson,
I was in Moscow in August 1991 with my wife and three children, and after a two-hour wait, we finally were able to get into McDonalds, which had just opened four months before, the first one in Russia. While we were enjoying our Big Macs, my oldest son, David, looked out the window and remarked
Williamsport welcomed the New Year of 1925 with the old fashioned “Hip, Hip Hurrah!” The bells and whistles of the city blew out the old year of 1924, and brought in the new year of 1925 with the usual vigor, while New Year’s shooters were in evidence throughout Williamsport. The tin horn crowd, who also
As the song goes, “You better watch out, you better not cry, better not pout, I’m telling you why — Santa Claus is coming to town.” And as we all know, Santa has a particularly unique vehicle for his midnight deliveries: a sled with flying reindeer: Dancer and Prancer (they are sisters), Comet and Cupid
To men in all parts of the world, men from Williamsport, and from every other community in the land, gifts which represent the beautiful desires of their loved ones back home, to give them wherever they are and whatever task in which war has assigned them, some bit of the joy of the Christmas season.
The year was 1964. It was a momentous and interesting year in almost every field of endeavor, from popular culture to politics and many things in between. That year’s most spectacular event in popular culture was the advent of “Beatlemania.” Four lads from Liverpool dominated that year’s music charts. In the week of April 4,
In a move that many baseball observers thought was badly overdue, feared slugger Dick Allen, along with former Pirate great Dave Parker, were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame last week. He narrowly missed in two previous tries, including one time by just one vote. Allen joins other Bowman Field alumni, Jim Bunning,
Truth to be told, there really is no way to please everyone. Take the weather, for instance. Imagine that it is summer, and it is a bright, sunny day. Is this weather good? I enjoy a nice, warm, sunny day, so I am quite happy. On the other hand, a farmer who might be desperate
Fundraising for the local Salvation Army is more than the Red Kettles you see in front of area businesses. For the past 21 years, the annual Festival of Trees has been added to it. It is a great way to see some beautifully decorated Christmas trees and support the Salvation Army by voting for your
Charles Dickens’s holiday classic A Christmas Carol is now 181 years old. In addition to furious sales during the author’s lifetime, Dickens’s “ghostly little book” has spawned thousands of stage performances, along with countless radio and audio renditions (Audible alone offers more than 100 different readings). And as for the screen: Fred Guida’s A Christmas
The Williamsport City Jazz Orchestra presents their popular annual Holiday Jazz concert on Friday, December 20 at 7:30 p.m. at Trachte Music Center at Lycoming College. Tickets are $20 available at the door, and students with ID are free. Back by popular demand, the WCJO returns to the Deane Center in Wellsboro on Saturday, December
