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Music Club to offer Christmas concert Sunday

The Williamsport Music Club invites the community to attend its Christmas Music by Candlelight program, at 4 p.m., Dec. 8 at Pine Street United Methodist Church, 441 Pine St., Williamsport. Kristin Ivers, Pennsylvania Federation of Music Clubs president, is chair of the program, which will ...

How to make new shrubs with hardwood cuttings

Our gardens may be preparing for their winter slumbers, but that doesn’t mean we have to rest: It’s time to make free shrubs! The easiest way to propagate woody plants like dogwood, forsythia, hydrangea, rhododendron and viburnum, among others, is by taking hardwood cuttings in late fall ...

Church to host Christmas performance

The Cantata Choir and Orchestra of First United Methodist Church of Muncy will present Mary McDonald and Joel Raney’s Christmas choral experience “ Sing Christmas” in two performances, at 10:45 a.m. and at 2 p.m., Dec. 15. According to a news release, this unique Christmas event ...

Library’s ‘own a day’ program a unique gift

The holiday season is just around the corner, and if you’re struggling to find the perfect gift for that person who seems to have it all, the James V. Brown Library, 19 E. Fourth St., has a meaningful solution. Did you know you can give a gift that not only honors someone special but also ...

Wellsboro’s ‘Dickens of a Christmas’ coming

The 40th Annual Dickens of a Christmas is next Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 6, 7 and 8 in Wellsboro. Hamilton-Gibson Productions will present A Dickens of a Concert Friday night at 7:30 p.m. and six performances of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” at the Deane Center’s two theaters ...

Local writer to discuss beloved classic, ‘A Christmas Carol’

The James V. Brown Library, 19 E. Fourth St., will host the free program, “A Merry Christmas Carol: Dickens’s Holiday Novel,” at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 17. The program will be presented by Joseph W. Smith III, a local retired English teacher, speaker, film critic, journalist and author who ...