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Concert series coming to Wellsboro

The Wellsboro Community Concert Association’s 77th season featuring six concerts will open next Saturday, Sept. 27. Each concert will be presented at 7:30 p.m. in the Deane Center’s Coolidge Theatre, 104 Main St., Wellsboro. WCCA’s 2025-26 season begins with a concert on Saturday, Sept. 27 by Unspoken Tradition, a North Carolina-based quintet that is “a fast-rising voice for a new generation of roots music,” a news release said. “This five-member group performs original bluegrass at sold out shows nationwide. Their 2022 album, ‘Imaginary Lines,’ features seven Top 20 ...

Goose Day coming to Lewistown

“For more than two centuries, Goose Day has brought luck, laughter, and plenty of goose to the Juniata River Valley—and this year’s celebration promises to be bigger, quirkier, and goose-ier than ever,” a news release said. “From September 26–29, the region will be bursting with ...

Photographer to share tips for covering youth sports

The Susquehanna Valley Shutterbugs will highlight tips for photographing youth sports at their regular meeting at 7 p.m. on Sept. 22 at the Thomas T. Taber Museum, 858 W. Fourth St., Williamsport. The program, led by freelance photographer Ralph Wilson, will provide tips and suggestions geared towards parents, grandparents, students and fans that can help capture action and sideline images with the equipment they have on hand. According to a news release, Wilson will talk briefly about what makes a good sports photo, camera and lens selection along with shooting angles for local high ...

Beech Creek/Marsh Creek Watershed Museum to celebrate 25th anniversary

BEECH CREEK — The Beech Creek/Marsh Creek Watershed and the many communities this waterway crosses through has a rich and unique history. That history has been on display, ever growing and changing, at the Beech Creek/Marsh Creek Watershed Heritage Museum since 2000. The museum is located ...

Church to offer blueberry festival in late September

A Fall Blueberry Festival Kickoff will be held from noon to 3 p.m. Sept. 28 at St. Luke Lutheran Church, 1400 Market St., Williamsport. The festivities will follow the 10:30 a.m. “Pre-School Sunday” service which will have a special presentation by the Church’s Bell Choir and honor the children. The Festival includes live music by the Blues-Berry Band, a group of talented musicians including church members and friends, hot dogs, chips, drinks, and blueberry treats, a pie baking contest, games for children of all ages, and information about Scout Troop 12 and Cub Scout Pack 12, ...

Museum program focuses on women’s suffrage movement

The Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society will host a lecture by Amanda Owen at 2 p.m., Sept. 21. Owen is the executive director of the Justice Bell Foundation, a nonprofit organization located in Ardmore, in Delaware County. “Our mission is to educate, inspire and mobilize current and future voters,” Owen said, according to a news release. “As part of our mission, we present an inspiring Pennsylvania story about the Justice Bell, an icon of the women’s suffrage movement, to the public.” The Justice Bell traveled through Lycoming County August ...