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  • Milton American Legion Auxiliary Prepare Poppy Donation Boxes

    Milton American Legion Auxiliary Prepare Poppy Donation Boxes0

    Several members of the Milton American Legion Auxiliary recently met at Post 71 to prepare poppy donation boxes to distribute to local businesses. They distribute these boxes annually to solicit donations to support their programs to benefit military veterans. Patrons that donate are thanked by receiving a poppy to display in a buttonhole, on a

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  • County Hall Corner: Every Election is Worth Voting0

    I enjoy listening to Lycoming County Director of Voter Services, Forrest Lehman, every time he speaks in public. He has a passion for his office, and it is obvious that those who work for him and with him think very highly of their director. When Lehman speaks in public, mostly at the Lycoming County Commissioners

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  • Central PA Fiber Festival Takes Place This Weekend May 17th and 18th At Lycoming County Fairgrounds0

    Yarn and related things, whether made from natural wool or artificial, are not something that many people often think of for the many everyday things they contain. However, the organizers of the annual Central Pennsylvania Fiber Festival are seeking to change that through an event like their own. According to event organizers, their main goal

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  • County Hall Corner: More Than a Sheriff – Mark Lusk0

    In last week’s LION article encouraging volunteerism, I highlighted the Lycoming County Sheriff Mark Lusk’s early career that included thousands of hours of volunteer service. This was the foundation for a career in public service that will probably never be seen again. A year after graduating from Loyalsock High School in 1976, Mark Lusk joined

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  • Williamsport Sun: May 14, 1952 – Aircraft Observation Post to be Put on 24-Hour Duty Plan0

    Members of the local Ground Observation Corps will go on 24-hour duty long with aircraft spotters in this and 26 other states, it was announced by Fred H. Musheno, supervisor of the local post. The 24-hour schedule, known as Operation Skywatch, was announced recently by officials in Washington as means to increase the air defense

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  • Penn College Spring Commencement Set for May 16-170

    Pennsylvania College of Technology will hold three commencement ceremonies May 16-17 for the 885 students who have petitioned to graduate following the Spring 2025 semester. Nearly 750 students will march at the ceremonies, all of which are ticketed events to be held at the Community Arts Center. All of the ceremonies will be livestreamed. On

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  • Game Commission Announce Spraying Plans0

    In an effort to protect wildlife habitat, the Pennsylvania Game Commission plans to spray over 38,000 acres of state game lands this spring. Spongy moths previously were known by the common name gypsy moth, but the Entomological Society of America has changed the name. Spraying is planned for 16 different state game lands — 38,146

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  • Taber Museum’s Society Program to Host Photographer Arthur Sterngold0

    • May 14, 2025

    The Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society will be hosting Arthur Sterngold at the museum’s Society Program, on Sunday, May 18, 2025, at 2pm in its Community Room. Sterngold will be speaking on Using Photography to Rediscover the Physicality of Place. By special request, this is a repeat of Sterngold’s Coffee

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  • Gazette and Bulletin: May 9, 1945 – Solemnity Marks Program for V-E Day Here0

    Entirely lacking in the fanfare and excitement which greeted Armistice Day 1918, tempered with the realization that America still has a war with Japan to win and made solemn with the knowledge that hostilities have claimed the lives of hundreds of the city’s finest young men, Williamsport today marked V-E Day. More solemn than spirited,

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  • County Hall Corner: Meet Your Future First Responders0

    The decline in the number of volunteer firefighters and other first responders is well known. Our area and the rest of the Commonwealth struggle with having first responders who are aging out, and there are not enough younger ones to take their place. What should scare the entire country is that as much as we

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  • This Week’s LION: Volunteer Emeritus Mark Lusk0

    Next week’s edition of County Hall Corner will highlight the Lycoming County Sheriff Mark Lusk. Given the incredible activities he has done in the past decades, his accomplishments would be better shown in a book rather than a column. But it is worth following up on the article in this issue on fire company young

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  • Williamsport Bicycle Recycle Serving the Local Bicyclists For 10 Years0

    Bicycling for fitness and exercise has increased by leaps and bounds in recent years. In this area, the bike path makes that even more attainable. With this increasing demand, one local business has been trying for the last 10 years to help meet and aid in this increase in interest. That business is Williamsport Bicycle

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