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Gold Award recipient assists homeless shelter

Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pennsylvania is honored to announce Brylea Starr, from Lycoming County, has earned the Girl Scout Gold Award and is now part of the 2025 Gold Award class. The Gold Award is the greatest achievement a Girl Scout can earn. It is available to high school Girl Scouts ...

Car show features Model T, quiz game

The 30th car show and picnic was held at Johnny’s Custom Shop and Museum near Salladasburg in early September. The gathering including tours of his shop and large collection of toys, gas pumps, pedal cars and racing memorabilia he has collected over the last 65 years. “There are no ...

Lecture at museum to focus on Picture Rocks’ history

The Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society will host Richard Sprout to recount the history of Picture Rocks in his lecture, “Picture Rocks in pictures past and present” at the Taber Coffee Hour at 10 a.m., Oct. 10 in its Community Room. According to a news ...

Clinton County man marks end to term as Kiwanis’ Pennsylvania governor

LOCK HAVEN - It has been one busy but very fulfilling year for Conrad Schlesinger. And anyone who knows the Woolrich native and retired Woolrich Inc. executive knows that he likes to be busy. They should also know that he has a dry, yet endearing sense of humor. You know, when you’re ...

Lycoming County 4-Hers compete in state Junior Horse and Dressage Show

The 10th annual Pennsylvania State 4-H Junior Horse Championship and 4th annual Pennsylvania State 4-H Dressage Championship Shows were held this summer at the Centre County Grange Fairgrounds in Centre Hall, Pennsylvania. According to a news release, more than 130 4-H members from across Pennsylvania exhibited horses in performance, dressage and in hand classes for the weekend. The Junior Horse Championship Show is the premier competition of the year for most 4-H horse members enrolled in junior horse projects. Events include breed conformation and futurity classes for yearling to ...

Fall cleanup in the garden doesn’t mean what it used to

Cleaning up the garden — or “putting the garden to bed” — has traditionally been a fall endeavor. In recent years, however, as information about the migrating or hibernating habits of birds, pollinators and other beneficial wildlife has seeped into the mainstream, many gardeners are ...