The James V. Brown Library, 19 E. Fourth St., is one of 200 libraries nationwide to receive a $10,000 grant through ALA’s American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Libraries opportunity. The American Library Association (ALA) has awarded $2 million in humanities funding to libraries ...

Heavy snows, wind, ice and rain. That’s winter. It’s not uncommon to see a lot of limbs down on properties after serious winter storms. Cleanup takes care of the debris, but an arborist should make a careful inspection of the trees and shrubs on their client’s property to ensure that the ...

Lycoming County Brotherhood Alliance will honor five community members for their service at its annual citation banquet May 4 — two with the Ray Keyes Sports Award, three with Pickelner Brotherhood Citation Awards. It will be the first citation banquet since 2019. Ann Weiss will be the ...

Ann Weiss is the daughter of two survivors from Poland, a region that is now in Ukraine. Author, and Founder/Director of Eyes from the Ashes Educational Foundation, Weiss has interviewed hundred of Holocaust Survivors in an effort to identify pre-war photos found in a locked room in Auschwitz, ...

Nurses have always been heroic. Their work during the current pandemic reminds us of that every day. A century ago, a young woman from Jersey Shore cared for patients in Philadelphia during the Spanish Flu epidemic and then joined the American Red Cross and travelled to Siberia to care for ...

TOKYO — People across Japan are celebrating the peak cherry blossom viewing season this week without COVID-19 restrictions in place for the first time in two years. But many are limiting their viewing to strolling under the trees rather than drinking and eating in traditional party ...