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How to Travel on a Budget and Still Have Fun 0
Webb Weekly
- Travel
- May 23, 2018
Many people are passionate about traveling. Travel, whether it’s domestic or international, can be an invaluable way to experience other cultures, meet new people and get a sense of history. As valuable as travel can be, many people feel they cannot afford to travel. However, there are ways to travel on a budget and still
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Detecting & Treating Hearing Loss in Children 0
Webb Weekly
- Health, Hearing
- May 23, 2018
May marks Better Hearing Month, which is dedicated to raising awareness regarding hearing loss and treatment as well as proactively protecting your hearing. Hearing loss is sometimes more difficult to diagnose in children. Parents are in the best position to detect hearing loss in their children, but it is not always noticeable right away. How
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Summer Heat Facts and Safety 0
Webb Weekly
- Advice, Heat
- May 23, 2018
For many people, summertime is synonymous with trips to the beach, water sports and recreation. Even though summer warmth is a welcome break from winter weather for many people, State Farm warns that heat is one of the leading causes of weather-related fatalities, resulting in hundreds of deaths each year in the United States alone.
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Here’s Something Out of the Blue 0
Gerry Ayers
- Cars, Commentary
- May 23, 2018
Rational decisions sometimes can’t be made during irrational times. Especially when it involves men and women who truly love the machines that take us through life, or in many cases, BACK in life. This isn’t like we haven’t met before; by now it’s a weekly event (celebration), of how I can haunt you or taunt
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This Week’s LION: Tim and Beth Schoener: A Home Away from Home 1
Larry Stout
- Community
- May 23, 2018
There is a large home located in the vicinity of Penn College. It’s in a rather lovely residential neighborhood in the city of Williamsport, but something odd was happening there. The neighbors wondered why there were dozens of cars parked around the place every Thursday night. What could possibly be going on there week after
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Three Memorial Day Weekend Travel Tips 0
Webb Weekly
- Memorial Day, Travel
- May 23, 2018
Memorial Day weekend is one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. In 2017, the automotive group AAA estimated that 40 million Americans would travel 50 miles or more on Memorial Day weekend. Those estimates also projected that 34.6 million vehicles would be used to make those trips. Often referred to as “the unofficial
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Stop Sand from Spoiling Summer Fun 0
Webb Weekly
- Advice, Sand
- May 23, 2018
Few things are as synonymous with summer recreation as a day at the beach enjoying the sun, sand and surf. Whiling away the hours at the coast is an ideal way to get fresh air and enjoy family or solitary time and also can be an entertaining way to exercise and learn about marine life.
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Enjoy More Time Outdoors With Easy Tricks 0
Webb Weekly
- Advice, Dining
- May 23, 2018
In centuries past, humans spent much of their time in nature, hunting, foraging and living life without the comforts of extensive shelters. Fast-forward several centuries, and the tables have turned dramatically. The Environmental Protection Agency says the average person spends 93 percent of his life indoors, with 87 percent of the time inside of a
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The Roving Sportsman: The Saga Continues…0
Jon Pries
- Hunting, Outdoors
- May 23, 2018
After a trip with a hunting buddy to New York State on the first Sunday of the spring gobbler season, which ended in a clean miss for my friend, my enthusiasm had been renewed. Although there had been little reason to hunt here locally due to the lack of sightings or seeing fresh signs of
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The Great Sock Abyss 0
Melinda Wentzel
- Family
- May 23, 2018
Some time ago my daughter cleaned her bedroom, and in so doing resurrected an embarrassment of items that she had ostensibly given up for dead. Things that she hadn’t seen in such a long period of time that she forgot about them almost entirely. There was a pair of iPhone earbuds that had been MIA
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Waterlogged Baseballs 0
Jamie Spencer
- Baseball, Sports
- May 23, 2018
Let me apologize for missing last week’s deadline. I am what they call an unreliable part-time scribe that was temporarily without an electronic device. I slipped on a rock, and my phone ended up in the middle of Lycoming Creek. We were both submerged in three feet of water for five minutes straight. I was
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County Hall Corner: Law Library for All 0
Larry Stout
- County
- May 23, 2018
Law libraries were established in the United States before there was even a United States. Even though the first colleges in Colonial America were founded primarily for religious purposes, they also quickly realized that preparing men to practice law was a necessity for the developing nation. To practice law means to understand and know it,
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Through The Years … Grit – December 31, 1967: Police Order ‘Crackdown’ as Road Deaths Mount 0
Lou Hunsinger, Jr.
- History, Local News
- May 23, 2018
The addition of 10 troopers — 9 recent graduates of the state police academy will augment the traffic patrols in the 9-county area of Troop F over the New Year’s weekend. The increase follows Commissioner Frank McKetta’s orders to crack down on all violations of the traffic laws this weekend, especially drinking drivers and speeders.
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A Memorial Day Follow Up 0
Lou Hunsinger, Jr.
- Veterans
- May 23, 2018
Webb Weekly does not often follow up on stories we have previously run, but we believe because the original story exemplifies the spirit of recognition and appreciation of those in uniform who gave their lives to keep this country free, we thought it wholly appropriate to do a follow-up. In our April 25 issue, we
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Bass, Birds and Benefits 0
Jim Webb
- Community, Editorials
- May 16, 2018
It’s great to see the mountains that line the West Branch Valley aglow in that special spring-green foliage. At times, it didn’t seem like spring was ever going to get here — let alone summer. We truly live in one of the most beautiful places on God’s green earth, and it’s great to see everybody
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The Power of the Media…0
Steph Nordstrom
- Editorials
- May 16, 2018
In a time when the media is taking a beating — being accused of being ‘fake,’ and often slanting to the left or right for their own benefit, it’s very existence threatened, let’s take a minute and put it to good use. No other print news in the area has the coverage that Webb Weekly
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Engaging Landlords to Help Homeless Individuals 0
Press Release
- Community, Homelessness
- May 16, 2018
Local landlords can help end homelessness in Lycoming County by participating in the YWCA Northcentral PA’s new Housing Location Services. Informational sessions for interested landlords are on set for Monday, May 21 with sessions at 2-4 p.m. and 5-7 p.m. at the YWCA, 815 W. Fourth St. To register for one of the sessions, visit
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County Hall Corner: Goodbye to a Wonderful Warden 0
Larry Stout
- Local News
- May 16, 2018
Retirement is often a bittersweet event. In one sense, it is joyous for an individual who has labored for decades in worthwhile service to an organization to be rewarded, but it is also sad for the colleagues to know that this individual will no longer be around. That emotion was in full swing at the
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Fishing a Tandem Rig 0
Ken Hunter
- Fishing, Outdoors
- May 16, 2018
Over the past month or so, I’ve been writing pieces about improving your fish catching rate by becoming a more versatile fisherman; one of those improvements involved learning new techniques and presentations. I mentioned that fishing a tandem fly rig was something I had been reading about, but had not yet tried — that is
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Gazette and Bulletin: May 15, 1948: Jewish Residents Exult Over News of Israel State 0
Lou Hunsinger, Jr.
- History
- May 16, 2018
Jewish residents of Williamsport received word of the creation of the new state of Israel and of its recognition by the United States government with high emotions. Already, celebrations are being planned, and many toasts and congratulations on the event passed among the city’s Jewish residents as the news became known. Rabbi Samuel Biinder said
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