“My first reaction - but I don’t think it was audible - was I incrementally screamed,” Miss Madeline Krassner, the newly crowned 2026 Pennsylvania State Laurel Queen, said, according to a news release. “I just didn’t expect it, especially with the amount of amazing women here. I am ...

Few school nicknames capture a city’s history as vividly as the Williamsport Millionaires. Today, the image of a top hat resting above white gloves, crossed by a cane and sometimes accented with a carnation, is instantly recognizable across uniforms, publications, and school organizations. ...

The Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society will host its monthly Coffee Hour of the 2026 season at 10 a.m., July 9, with an appearance by Tillie Pierce, “who witnessed the Battle of Gettysburg at the tender age of 15,” a news release said. “She later recorded her ...

This coming Tuesday, June 23, at 7:30 p.m., Robert Gleason will take the stage as Charles Willson Payne (April 15, 1741-February 22, 1827) in the Coolidge Theatre, 104 Main St., Wellsboro. Following his first-person performance will be a question and answer session with the audience. He will be ...

The Uptown Music Collective, the area’s premier nonprofit school of music, is now accepting scholarship applications for its 2026-2027 school year, which will begin in September. According to a news release, this year, the Collective is offering 13 needs- and merit-based scholarships to ...

The James V. Brown Library, 19 E. Fourth St., is offering a free program titled, “The Lost Worlds: Prehistoric Cinema,” a discussion of dino-cinema from the Jurassic Park franchise all the way to Toy Story and its sequels. The program will be presented by film critic Joseph Smith and ...