Lycoming County today enters the green phase under Gov. Tom Wolf’s statewide plan for reopening communities, but what does that really mean? “It’s good for the county. We are excited to go green,” Lycoming County Commissioner Scott Metzger said. County officials, he noted, worked ...
City Hall will not be fully opened as of Friday when Lycoming County enters the green phase of Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to reopen the state economy, said Mayor Derek Slaughter. The center for city business will have its Bureau of Codes open for issuing permits, Slaughter said Thursday afternoon. Others will be by appointment only, he said. “They will need to call and schedule an appointment,” Slaughter said. For city taxpayers and those who want to see the treasurer and tax collector, appointments are being made, city officials said. Mayor Derek Slaughter has allowed Nicholas ...
As counties across the state move into the green phase of Gov. Tom Wolf’s reopening plan, UPMC has seen zero positive COVID-19 cases among all of its care facilities and senior communities, UPMC officials announced in a press briefing Thursday, adding many other health care providers are seeing fewer positives and more recoveries. UPMC doctors Donald Yealy, UPMC chair of emergency medicine, and David A. Nace, UPMC Senior Communities chief medical officer, provided an update on the latest data and assured the system continues to work on possible vaccines for COVID-19. “As things ...
New state legislation to change mail-in voting is “not a sustainable solution” to accessibility, said Lycoming County’s top elections official. The delay in provisional vote tallying and the onerous process of determining if the vote has already been cast is too much for ...
Offering words of caution as Lycoming County begins reopening businesses, Dr. Rutul Dalal, medical director of infectious diseases at UPMC in the Susquehanna region, stressed that the coronavirus is not gone. “We don’t want anybody to rush in and try to do something foolish so that you know whatever hard work has been done for the last few month would go down the drain,” Dalal said. “If some people will just probably take care of certain basic things, again keeping in mind that this virus is going to be here for awhile. We have to learn to live with it and we have to learn to ...
Voter turnout was leisured Tuesday, allowing elections staff time to complete the high-volume of mail-in ballots, said county officials. With both COVID-19 restrictions and new state laws governing mail-in ballots, Forrest Lehman, director of elections and registration, said “We did as ...
