The recent election of Montoursville’s Mike Mussina to the National Baseball Hall of Fame has lifted him to the stratosphere of baseball immortality. The Williamsport area is no stranger to playing host to baseball immortals, over the past 140 years Williamsport has hosted 92 members of the Baseball Hall of Fame as either active players
I have been receiving more reports of sportsmen finding recently shed antlers. It seems that the bucks are dropping antlers a bit earlier than normal for some reason. While we seem to be in the throes of winter, there are the occasional warmer days that entice us to spend some time outdoors – doing something
As many of my readers probably already know I am also a wildlife artist and illustrator. As a wildlife artist, I have painted and sketched quite a variety of critters like our commonly seen deer, turkeys, bears, and songbirds. My wildlife art has taken me to some interesting, maybe even strange places like black bear
Last year was a tough year for eight-year-old Isaiah Grossnickle of the Cogan Station area. He was gravely ill and spent a period of time in a coma and is just now starting to get back on his feet. That tough year ended on a high note on December 8 when he won a bicycle
Years ago, Ron “CI” Insinger, a freshly graduated college student looking for a job, was offered two choices. The Sullivan County graduate was offered the head coaching job at Canton, and a coaching position at Loyalsock. The decision might have been a difficult one at the time, but the final choice changed the course of
OK y’all. You know how this works. We’ve got a lot of ground to cover and not a lot of space to do it. So pitter-patter, let’s get at ‘er! Here are this year’s Super Bowl Predictions from around the area! I asked my BF Steve first, and since he’s not much of a football
Trace McSorley breaks to his left runs away from a defender and throws a perfect ball downfield to a receiver as nearly 110,000 fans cheer in celebration. As the crowd becomes more and more raucous with each successful play and drive, a small group of players stand together on the sideline and exchange looks. If
With January past its midpoint and Old Man Winter tightening his grip as best he can, one begins to wonder just what to do to pass the time. Well, the clock is running, and there really isn’t anything you can do about the weather except wait it out in hopes that spring just might come
It wasn’t heaven, and it wasn’t Iowa, it was just the Genetti Hotel, but it seemed like baseball heaven for area baseball fans when Williamsport Crosscutters’ 13th Annual Hot Stove League Banquet was held recently. On a cold, winter night there were visions of action on warm, summer baseball diamonds as an outstanding array of
Needless to say, black bears have been the topic of a lot of conversations around these parts in recent weeks — especially in light of the attack that took place a few weeks back. I’m sure everybody in the area is aware that a bear viciously attacked and badly injured a woman just south of
Although having attended numerous events at Bucknell University’s Sojka Pavilion and the Bryce Jordan Center at Penn State over the years a recent January weekend provided my first-ever trip to the two quality edifices on back-to-back days. A ‘spur-of-the-moment’ Saturday visit to Sojka to take in the Bucknell/American University men’s basketball game was followed the
Stop the presses. The basketball hoops are coming back to Memorial Park. Props to Mayor Campana and his staff for making this happen. Wait. Did I just say that? OK, I have been very critical of Gabe and his “recreational” decisions in the past. I chimed in on the Williamsport Outlaws, a short-lived outdoor minor
