City residents who had trees removed as part of a multi-year Newberry street reconstruction and paving project will have to wait about seven and a half years before the replantings, a state transportation official said. Tree plantings, where feasible, are scheduled as part of the next major ...
Lycoming County commissioners on Thursday shared their thoughts on the possible transfer of patients from ManorCare Jersey Shore where a number of patients and personnel have been infected by coronavirus. Commissioner Scott Metzger said state government should have taken care of the ...
Dealing with a pandemic is one thing, but losing your job and your health care in addition to a pandemic is another. Geisinger professionals Terry Carpenter, director of state government programs, and John Columbo, individual sales supervisor for the Geisinger Health Plan, as well as Joe Bayura, UPMC director of product development and small group sales, have been helping those individuals who have lost their jobs and their health care insurance plans during the COVID-19 crisis. According to Carpenter and Bayura, there is a 60-day window from when individuals lost their jobs and ...
City Council allowed Mayor Derek Slaughter’s resolution, designed to keep people safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, to expire Thursday night. The reason for the 5-0 vote was to allow the state regulations to apply now that Lycoming County remains in the green phase. Slaughter’s open container ordinance will be revisited and reworked after he had some businesses call and say it was not working out as intended, he said. Some people brought alcoholic beverages to bars to enjoy the atmosphere, but did not purchase food or drinks from those establishments, he said. Slaughter told ...
Mayor Derek Slaughter said he has denied permits for all mass gatherings during July due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That would stop the proposed meeting of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement rally that was considering applying for a permit for July 18, according to Slaughter. Lycoming County remains in a green phase of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to reopen the state economy. Despite the state General Assembly voting to end Wolf’s emergency declaration, Wolf has refused to sign and it remains legally alive as a measure by Wolf and state Department of Health to control the spread of ...
For Ashlyn Bird, one of the commencement speakers at Williamsport High School, encouraging her classmates to imagine what senior year would have been like if COVID-19 had not happened was one way of helping everyone remember what was lost, while preparing to move on. “Now, let us pretend. ...
