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  • Clinton County Speedway Opens Its 33rd Season Of Exciting Racing0

    For 33 years the Clinton County Speedway has provided the thrills and spills of the racing experience to race lovers here in northcentral Pennsylvania. Their 33rd season got off to a good start on Friday, April 23 and promises many more moments of excitement throughout the racing season that extends into October.  The speedway is

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  • Williamsport Sun: May 16, 1929 – The Park Hotel to Remain Open0

    The Park Hotel was open again for business on May 1. This was good news to many Williamsporters, many of whom have made this hotel their home for many years when in Williamsport. Managing Director, John F. Letton states that during the winter months many improvements have been made, the lobby having been re-decorated, and

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  • County Hall Corner: Voting Smart0

    On Tuesday, May 18th, the Pennsylvania Election Primary will be held for all registered voters who have not already voted by mail. Many voters often skip an off-year primary, but recent events have made this routine election something that should be given serious consideration. There is a lot at stake, and everyone who takes the

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  • Church Cornerstone Contents on Display at the Taber Museum0

    The contents of the cornerstone from the recently-sold Seventh Day Adventist Church in South Williamsport are now on display at the Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society, 858 West Fourth Street. “As the cornerstone was ‘unveiled’, it was with great disappointment that we found that water had gotten into the metal

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  • Williamsport Sun: May 7, 1955 – Shortway Seen as Area Boon0

    Williamsport’s Community Trade Association, optimistic over prospects for speedy legislative passage of the long-sought Keystone Shortway Turnpike bill, today acclaimed the bright industrial and business outlook the new road is expected to bring to the Williamsport area. The CTA has learned from Harrisburg sources that the Shortway legislation is expected to be voted upon and

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  • County Hall Corner: Sheriff Lusk and His Super Supporters0

    There is a saying — some people make things happen, some watch what happens, and the rest wonder what happened. Sheriff Mark Lusk makes things happen, but he does not do so alone. At the April 20th Lycoming County Commissioners’ Meeting, there was a glowing example of Sheriff Lusk’s initiative and active community support. For

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  • Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Lycoming County – Mentoring Youngsters Since 20150

    Unfortunately, we live in a time in which many families are fractured or suffer economic woes that make it difficult to provide proper parental mentoring or guidance for their children. One national organization helps fill this void, and that is Big Brothers/Big Sisters. According to their national website, Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks to change

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  • St. John’s/Newberry UMC’s School of the Arts Continues to Flourish After 25 Years0

    When Jeffrey Seeley, Music Director at St. John’s/Newberry United Methodist Church at the time, started its School of Arts (known as SOTA) in 1996, he probably could have scarcely imagined that it would be flourishing and one of this area’s most notable schools of art that incubates young artistic talent, 25 years after it was

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  • County Hall Corner: What Happened to Lady Justice’s Blindfold?0

    Overreaching is so serious it has a whole list of idioms for it, like “the straw that broke the camel’s back,” “a bridge too far,” or “going overboard,” etc. Whatever we call it, we are amid political and cultural shifts that have pushed so far out, they are the very antithesis of American culture and

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  • ICU & COVID Unit Nurses at UPMC Awarded Annual Dr. Alexander Nesbitt Commitment to Caring Award0

    The 8th annual Dr. Alexander Nesbitt Commitment to Caring Award was presented to the dedicated and hard-working nurses of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and COVID units at UPMC Susquehanna during a virtual Healthcare Decisions Day event on hospice and end-of-life care. Accepting the award on behalf of each department’s devoted staff were nurse leaders

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  • Jeff Hutchins: Giant Man for the Job

    Jeff Hutchins: Giant Man for the Job1

    Jeff Hutchins, better known by his peers as simply ‘Hutch,’ is a giant of a man with a truly giant of a job — Director of Public Safety for Lycoming County. This entire article could be filled up with just describing the responsibilities that fall under his watch. His vast area of responsibility is absolutely

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  • Companion Plants

    Companion Plants0

    Plants like to have friends around while they are growing. These friends are called companion plants, and they play an important role in the growth and quality of fruits and vegetables. My father always planted marigolds in his garden. He explained that it was to help control insects, but talking to other farmers and reading

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