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  • Quilt Like Your Great Granny Quilted: A Quilting Class at the Taber Museum0

    Press Release

    A series of five classes exploring the heritage techniques of hand piecing, hand applique and hand quilting will be offered at the Taber Museum on Saturdays, September 17, 24, October 1, 8, and 15. Each class will be held from 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m., with a lunch break during the time. The classes will

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  • September is Library Card Sign-Up Month0

    Press Release

    September is Library Card Sign-Up Month, a time when the James V. Brown Library joins the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries nationwide to remind parents, caregivers and students that signing up for a library card is the first step on the path to academic achievement and lifelong learning. Libraries play a crucial role in

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  • Be Safe. Be Kind.0

    Steph Nordstrom

    The weather may beg to differ, but summer is winding down. You can already feel the chill in the air in the morning, and the sun is setting earlier every day. The kids (for the most part) are all back in school, so it’s time to talk about the not-so-fun stuff — internet safety, bullying,

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  • Five Ways to Support Teachers this Year0

    Family Features
    • August 31, 2022

    Throughout the pandemic, teachers have gone above and beyond for their students, becoming not just educators, but also counselors, role models and friends to their students by supporting their overall well-being. Even so, only 52% of teachers feel valued by their communities, according to PDK International, a professional association for educators. What’s more, teachers are

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  • Uptown Music Collective Awards $17,325 in Scholarships For the Upcoming School Year

    Uptown Music Collective Awards $17,325 in Scholarships For the Upcoming School Year0

    Press Release

    The Uptown Music Collective is pleased to announce the awarding of 11 scholarships for the non-profit school of music’s 2022-2023 school year. Totaling $17,325, an additional $4,725 has also been added to the Collective’s Financial Aid Fund. Funding was made possible through the generous donations of the local community, including both individual and corporate donors.

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  • Library Offers Back-to-School Resources0

    Press Release

    As the first day of school approaches, is your child prepared for the academic year? Libraries across Pennsylvania grow students’ school readiness, social, cognitive and emotional skills. Developing a passion for reading is crucial, according to Jim Trelease, author of the best-seller, “The Read-Aloud Handbook.” “Students who read the most, read the best, achieve the

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  • Seven Study Tips for High School Students

    Seven Study Tips for High School Students0

    Family Features

    Assessments such as quizzes and exams help educators recognize areas where students are excelling and where they might need a little extra help. In addition to tests in the classroom, high schoolers generally take standardized testing for state or provincial assessment purposes. Testing may come easier to some students than others, but having solid study

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  • WASD Students to Receive Free Breakfast, Lunch Through Community Eligibility Provision Program0

    Webb Weekly

    By participating in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) Program, Williamsport Area School District will offer free breakfast and lunch to all students during the 2022-2023 school year. Families of students enrolled in and who attend district schools are able to benefit from the program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, without having to pay

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  • Who’s Calling the Shots on National Defense and Diplomacy?0

    Jim Webb

    Since we don’t have term limits in Washington, you would think President Biden and all his cronies would understand just how fragile America’s freedom truly is. They lived through 9/11 in 2001. They witnessed the horror of that day and felt the emotions of our Nation being attacked and shaken to its very core. This

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  • WAHS Teacher Set to Publish Second Book Through Amsterdam University Press0

    Press Release

    Williamsport Area High School Spanish teacher Dr. Inti Yanes-Fernandez is set to publish his second book, “The Cid and King Arthur as Hegemonic Myths: Political Myth-Making and Intericonicity in the Christianization of the Iberian Peninsula and Britain,” through Amsterdam University Press. The book, which will be released in 2023, examines the formation and development of

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  • Fundraising Campaign to Renovate Montoursville’s Flight 800 Memorial Gardens Being Conducted0

    Lou Hunsinger, Jr.

    July 17, 1996, is one of the darkest days in local history. That is the day that 16 Montoursville High School students and five adult chaperones were killed in the explosion and crash of TWA Flight 800. In an effort to reverentially commemorate and remember them, a special Flight 800 Memorial Gardens was erected in

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  • Coming Home0

    Scott Lowery

    Paying no mind to the contents of author Thomas Wolfe’s 1940 novel You Can’t Go Home Again, newly appointed St. John Neumann basketball coach Louis Roskowski has done just that and is brimming with enthusiasm and anticipation as he takes over the reins of the Golden Knights boys’ program. Roskowski grew up in Williamsport, playing

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  • WAHS Teacher Named Outstanding Secondary Art Educator0

    Press Release

    Williamsport Area High School art teacher Dr. Andrea McDonough has been selected as a 2022 Pennsylvania Art Education Association Outstanding Secondary Art Educator. “To be selected and named by the state committee is an incredible honor and one that I will be forever grateful for,” said McDonough, who has worked for 16 years at WASD

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  • Williamsport Sun: August 3, 1930 – Russian Mission Visits Muncy to Study Machinery0

    Lou Hunsinger, Jr.

    Peter A. Kozmin, professor at the Moscow College of Flour Milling, Grain Director and Grain Industries of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, heads a party spending several days in Muncy in the interest in the grain industry of his native land. He is associated with a school of about 1,500 students. He is accompanied

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  • ACES Dominican Plate Dinner To Be Held Monday, August 10

    Lou Hunsinger, Jr.

    The Dominican Republic is one of the poorest countries in Latin America, and its needs are great. One organization that tries to aid in the effort to alleviate this poverty is ACES North American. The organization is a Williamsport-based not-for-profit working specifically in the Dominican Republic on projects highlighting health and education. ACES is currently

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  • Improve Reading Comprehension0

    Steph Nordstrom

    I know! I know! It’s summer! Why are we thinking about reading comprehension? We are supposed to be swimming and vacationing and all that! But the ‘Summer Slide’ is real, and according to Scholastic, kids lose significant knowledge in reading and math over summer break, which tends to have a snowball effect as they experience

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