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  • Thomas T. Taber Museum: Inaugurates Digital Guide0

    Lou Hunsinger, Jr.

    The Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Museum is one of the finest cultural assets in northcentral Pennsylvania. It preserves and highlights Lycoming County and the surrounding area’s rich history. In a bid to improve bringing this precious cultural asset to more people, the museum has launched a digital guide. They have

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  • Six Valentine’s Day Traditions

    Six Valentine’s Day Traditions0

    Family Features

    Valentine’s Day is a day of love nestled in the middle of February. Sweethearts use Valentine’s Day as an opportunity to show the people they care about just how deep those feelings run. A 2023 survey from the National Retail Federation found consumers expected to spend $25.9 billion on Valentine’s Day, up from $23.9 billion

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  • Williamsport Symphony Orchestra Presents “The King of Instruments: The Organ” Concert on February 13, 2024, at Community Arts Center.

    Williamsport Symphony Orchestra Presents “The King of Instruments: The Organ” Concert on February 13, 2024, at Community Arts Center.0

    Press Release

    The Williamsport Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Gerardo Edelstein is thrilled to share its upcoming concert, “The King of Instruments: The Organ,” scheduled for February 13, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. at the Community Arts Center (@caclive). Join Maestro Edelstein and the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra for an enchanting evening featuring the mesmerizing sounds of the

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  • County Hall Corner: Lady Liberty has Dropped Her Scales0

    Larry Stout

    In 1831, a young French diplomat named Alexis de Tocqueville was charged with researching this country’s penal system but found himself more enamored with our judicial system. After going about the country, he returned to France and put his observations into a book, Democracy in America, published in 1835. It would become one of the

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  • Local Artist Wins Negro League Themed Art Contest0

    Lou Hunsinger, Jr.

    Beth DeJesus England has always had a passion for art. It has been something she has loved for as long as she can remember. Her talent for art recently yielded her national recognition when she won the Jerry Malloy Negro League Baseball Research Conference’s Art Contest with her painting of the outfield of the 1924-1927

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  • Does Tea Have Medicinal Properties?0

    Family Features

    The common cold can strike at any time of year, but most people likely associate colds with winter. Colds tend to spread more easily in winter, when people typically spend more time indoors with windows closed, thus making it easier for colds and other viruses to spread. Many people have their own remedies when it

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  • Faith Q&A: Does God Exist?0

    Tim Hartzell

    This is the second article in a series called Faith Q&A. Previous articles are always available online at http://www.webbweekly.com. Does God exist? This is the primal faith question because every other faith question is predicated on its answer. This article won’t answer that question for you. It can’t. You’re the only person who can answer

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  • UPMC Physician: Awareness, Proactive Screening Has an Impact on Cervical Cancer0

    UPMC Susquehanna

    Cervical cancer is the most common gynecologic cancer among women. The American Cancer Society estimates about 13,960 new cases of invasive cervical cancer were diagnosed and about 4,310 women died from cervical cancer in 2023. Cervical cancer was once one of the most common causes of cancer death for American women. Fortunately, according to the

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  • County Hall Corner: Rethinking the Future0

    Larry Stout

    I taught an elective course on Future Studies at a business college in Europe. The students were quite interested in knowing what skills and possibilities in employment would be out there when they entered the working world. It is obviously a shaky science as we have no way of knowing the future and, at best,

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  • A Rerun?0

    Scott Lowery

    Every so often to lighten the late-night mood, I find myself tuning in to WNEP-2 to catch reruns of the old Johnny Carson late-night show. While Carson’s monologue and guests are not timely, they remain funny and entertaining. Unlike the current late-night lineup of Carson wannabes whose mission seems to be hurling unfunny insulting jabs

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  • Exercise to Improve Your Jeans and Your Genes0

    Dave Bellomo

    Most people know that exercising regularly has many benefits such as building strength and endurance, helping you maintain a healthy weight, and strengthening our bones. The list goes on and on. But did you know that it can actually improve our genes? Well, sort of. A 2022 study conducted by researchers from Washington University that

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  • Dream Week0

    Steph Nordstrom

    The timing for Martin Luther King Jr. Day can be a little awkward for our publication. Because we come out on Wednesday, we are either really early or too late. But that doesn’t mean that we skip it. Next week brings us MLK Dream Week, presented by STEP AmeriCorps, Penn College, Lycoming College, the Central

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  • The Bookworm Sez: “The Lost Tomb and Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder” by Douglas Preston

    The Bookworm Sez: “The Lost Tomb and Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder” by Douglas Preston0

    Terri Schlichenmeyer

    It was a dinosaur bone. Not really but it was fun thinking that it was, even for a while. You were just seven years old then, and the truth (it was a simple rock) didn’t deter you from digging some more. It never stopped you from dreaming of ancient treasure or the rarest of relics.

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  • Another Christmas Grouch Gets Cured: Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers”0

    Joseph W. Smith III
    • January 10, 2024

    Ever notice the way Christmas stories often have some grouchy crab who hates all goodness and badly needs redemption? I suppose Ebenezer Scrooge would be the founding chairman of this group — though we might also go back to the murderous King Herod in the Bible’s original nativity tale. And of course, there’s Dr. Seuss’s

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  • UPMC Expert: Can Cold Weather Make You Sick?0

    UPMC Susquehanna

    You may associate the cold weather with being sick or catching a cold. Contrary to the old saying, the weather is not directly responsible for making you sick, but it can affect your body. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), millions of people in the U.S. develop the common cold each

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  • Lessons Not Resolutions0

    Dave Bellomo

    For most people around the world, the new year is a time for rebirth, new hope, and a chance to do things differently — a clean slate. New Year’s resolutions are also very popular, but statistics show that very few people actually keep their resolutions for long. Just compare the attendance of any gym in

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  • Let’s Call it 20240

    Jim Webb

    Happy New Year! Three easy words to say — let’s hope and pray they ring true for 2024. I wish everyone a healthy, happy, and prosperous New Year. The year 2024. I have trouble wrapping my thoughts around that, even though I’ve been blessed to live my way there for over half a century. It

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  • Dollars & Sense0

    Scott Lowery

    Welcome to 2024! Ready or not, it is here. Hopefully, this past holiday week’s festivities went well, and Santa treated you kindly. Perhaps not if you are an MLB baseball fan of teams other than the Dodgers. Possibly, it can be put thusly: it’s the week after Christmas, and all through the town, if you

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  • County Hall Corner: The Very Unique PA State Rep Jamie Flick0

    Larry Stout

    No matter how much a person may have studied or prepared for a new job or occupation, the cold water of reality hits almost immediately. Sooner than later, many ask themselves, “Dear God, what have I got myself into?” In previous columns, I have noted my own awakening to serving in local government. For this

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  • The Bookworm Sez: History Books Winter 2023 by various authors

    The Bookworm Sez: History Books Winter 2023 by various authors0

    Terri Schlichenmeyer

    You remember winters like this. Short, cloudy days, long stormy nights, both perfect for curling up with a warm blanket and reading until it’s time for bed — and then reading there, too. So this winter, why not cuddle with one of these great unique history books…? For readers who love to compare life a

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  • Fishing Boots for Christmas0

    Scott Lowery

    Exchange week. Party week. Travel week. Rest-up week. Whatever these December days between Christmas and New Year’s may be called where you reside, you can be assured of one thing when it comes to the media; its broadcasts and pages will be filled with a lot of ‘year-in-review’ lookbacks. With so much increased violence, corruption,

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  • FAST MAZ

    FAST MAZ0

    Jamie Spencer

    Marilouise Mazzante and I have been friends for a long time. We first met my sophomore year at Williamsport High. I was in her classroom for honors History. Maz was outstanding, passionate, and tough. I learned a great deal, and she is easily in my top five. She was a fantastic teacher. A terrific motivator

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  • A Christmas Wish of Hope, Love, and Compassion0

    Jim Webb

    A very Merry Christmas to everyone! Let’s all be careful out there while enjoying all that is a blessed Holiday Season. Please remember to say thank you to all that prepare the perfectly delicious Christmas feast. Absolutely no political discussions until after the New Year. And let’s keep the conversation around the table joyous and

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  • A Partridge in a … Perdrix? Unwrapping Holiday Words, Pt. 20

    Joseph W. Smith III

    This week’s Weird Words continues its holiday theme with another dozen terms we rarely use at other times of year. Our previous installment focused on religious vocab like manger, noel and Kris Kringle; here are 12 more, with a slightly secular slant. (Remember, in this space we’re concerned not so much with traditions as with

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  • The Bookworm Sez: Winter Books on the Royal Family by various authors0

    Terri Schlichenmeyer

    Chances are, you do not live in a castle. You don’t have a moat or a drawbridge or even a guard in a high furry hat. The only throne you have is, well, never mind. The point is, you’re probably not royalty but you can surely read about those who are… About that castle: you

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  • Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!0

    Andrea McElroy

    While driving to go to look at Christmas lights, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer came on the radio, and Kenzy started to sing, but not the correct words. She sang, Oh, my momma, she is famous She does work from her computer! It goes in the paper, and people love her She gets lots of

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  • “It’s Time for Carols and Kris Kringle”: Weird Words for the Holidays0

    Joseph W. Smith III

    With the holidays upon us, Webb’s Weird Words returns to its fall-season focus on etymology — that is, word origins. This week and next, I’ll unpack two dozen terms we rarely use except at Christmastime: words like noel, manger, poinsettia and egg nog, for example. Our first batch below is largely religious, with secular terms

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  • Remembering the Reason and Celebrating the Season0

    Jim Webb

    A tip of my Webb Weekly cap with the American Flag on the side to the greatest generation. “Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy— the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” ~ President Franklin D.

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  • Coaching for Dollars0

    Scott Lowery

    With the utmost respect for Thomas Jefferson and his fellow Declaration of Independence signees, as the month-long college bowl season is about to commence — we hold these truths to be self-evident: Ohio State can’t beat Michigan, Penn State can’t beat either one, and some college boosters and administrations are shelling out millions of dollars

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  • A Golden Surprise0

    Scott Lowery

    Even the more casual viewers of sports, especially at the college and professional levels, have noticed the increasing amount of ‘bling’ hanging around the necks of players. Following South Williamsport’s football team’s win over Muncy for the District IV Class A championship, the Mountaineers trainer, Chelsey Rieppel, was kidded about the added hardware she is

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  • Williamsport Sun: November 26, 1940 – Start of Initial Work for Flood Levee0

    Lou Hunsinger, Jr.

    A half century of effort to secure flood control for Williamsport culminated today with the groundbreaking ceremonies marking the beginning of work on the first unit of the five-million-dollar local project. Several hundred persons braved the freezing weather to witness the program. After congratulatory addresses from a specially constructed platform in the field between Fourth

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  • Thanksgiving Day Across America

    Thanksgiving Day Across America0

    Jim Webb

    I wish everyone a very happy, healthy, and blessed Thanksgiving. Before we fly right through Thanksgiving into the Christmas season, please make sure you take the time to re  ect and give a heartfelt thanks for all your blessings. Explain to the children what Thanksgiving is all about. Give God and his son, Jesus Christ, some

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  • The Bookworm Sez: Books on Hollywood, Movies, and TV by various authors

    The Bookworm Sez: Books on Hollywood, Movies, and TV by various authors0

    Terri Schlichenmeyer

    Pass the salt, please. Did you remember to add lots of butter? Of course, you did. What’s popcorn without butter and salt? What’s a movie without popcorn? And what’s a movie without these great books about Hollywood and TV? It’s been said that the great director Alfred Hitchcock was obsessed with having beautiful blonde women

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