Mayor Gilmore warns women to stay out of Brandon Park after nightfall. “You can’t tell who is lurking behind trees and bushes,” he said. This too, despite the fact that Brandon Park is well within the city limits, where citizens are supposed to have a reasonable measure of police protection. Last summer when the “Gazette
Since 1962, the Harlem Wizards have entertained and delighted audiences across the country while raising money for worthy causes. The Wizards will return to Williamsport on Thursday, January 23, at the Williamsport High School basketball court, affectionately known as the “Magic Dome.” This event will help raise funds for the Williamsport Area School District Education
City officials today discussed ways and means for providing electrical power for the weather unit which the Civil Aeronautics Administration has offered to establish at the Williamsport Airport. It appeared that the question of paying for the electricity which the equipment will use is the remaining issue to be agreed upon before the unit is
For the past year, the weekly Lycoming County Commissioner Meeting on Thursday at 10:00 a.m. is often as exciting as watching paint dry. In the past decade that I have been attending these meetings; many meetings were so wild they would have made a great rodeo show. However, these three commissioners, who are quite different
A special Thank You to everyone who helped Heroes & Horses complete our mission to remember every Veteran laid to rest at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Mackeyville, PA. This mission brought a heartfelt ceremony that allowed us to honor these Veterans and their families. With this mission, we could teach the next generation the value
Prepare for liftoff! In response to the growing need for quality early childhood education for all children ages three to five in our community, Starting Point Preschool will be launching this month. It opened its doors this past Monday in Williamsport. According to a news release from BLaST, under whose auspices the new preschool will
Union County’s great government project, the new federal penitentiary is providing work for some 400 men and is expected to bring a considerable boom to the college town. Aided by mild fall weather, the construction has progressed well within the contract schedule and the roofing of some of the buildings has started. The six dormitories
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
