The Montoursville Area School Board approved the return to a five-day, in-person schedule. The action was taken at a special meeting Thursday night. In a statement to parents, Christina Bason, district superintendent, said that elementary will return on Oct. 12 and middle and high school ...

To reduce the spread of COVID-19 and influenza, doctors with UPMC said Tuesday in a conference with reporters the best methods would be to continue to wear facial coverings, social distance, wash hands or sanitize them and avoid large crowds, especially indoors. “This is the current vaccine ...

Calling it “our generation’s moon shot,” medical experts with UPMC Pittsburgh Tuesday said a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 before the end of the year would not likely be discovered and distributed. “It is our generation’s moon shot,” said Dr. Graham Snyder, medical director of ...

Lycoming County commissioners no sooner renewed the county’s Declaration of Disaster Emergency before launching into a discussion about the gravity of the COVID-19 pandemic. The declaration allows the county to apply for emergency funding connected to the coronavirus for another 90 ...

JERSEY SHORE — When the second marking period begins Nov. 2, students in the Jersey Shore Area School District will have just two instruction options available as the board approved eliminating the hybrid model of instruction at their meeting Monday night. Instruction for students K-12 will ...

Gov. Wolf’s directive handed down earlier this month to allow restaurants to increase indoor dining capacity has drawn less than an outpouring of enthusiasm from local establishments. “There’s no real difference in business yet,” Zack Aulenbach, manager of Cracker Barrel, 260 S. ...