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Museum plans bus trip to NYC

The Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society is sponsoring a bus trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, on June 14. According to a news release, the trip is to view “two spectacular exhibits, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion and Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany and Co.” The bus will depart the Burger King parking lot at Maynard Street, Williamsport, at 5:30 a.m. and arrive in NYC at about 10 a.m. The bus will leave New York City at 6 p.m. and return to Williamsport at about 10 p.m. For information about ticket ...

Welcome center sign receives update

In 2007, the Tioga County Concerned Citizens Committee and the group’s partners in Upper Tioga River Watershed reclamation efforts, the Hillside Rod and Gun Club, Trout Unlimited, Susquehanna River Basin Commission and others unveiled an information sign at the Route 15 Welcome Center in ...

Museum to host ‘Joy and Memories’ coordinator

The Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society will host Brian Fagnano, founder and coordinator of Lycoming Joy and Memories, at the museum’s Society Program at 2 p.m. on May 19 in the Community Room. The lecture, sponsored by Van Campen Motors, is free and open to the public. According to a news release Lycoming Joy & Memories is a Facebook group founded by Fagnano in April of 2018. “The online group is dedicated to the light-hearted history and images of Lycoming County,” the news release said. “The group currently has 18,500 members who enjoy the ...

Brown Library to add teens’ Fortnite Club

The James V. Brown Library, 19 E. Fourth St., is beginning a Fortnite Club, which will meet monthly at the library to discuss characters, strategies, lingo, game items and Fortnite streamers. Fortnite is rated T for Teen. The game will be played using the library’s computers in the Teen area on the second floor of the Welch Children’s Wing. This is a great opportunity to network and meet people who enjoy playing Fortnite. The club will meet from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on the first Friday of each month from May through December. For more information, visit ...

Auxiliary members visit Harrisburg

American Legion Auxiliary (ALA) members from throughout Pennsylvania recently attended the Department of Pennsylvania’s American Legion Auxiliary’s Spring Conference in Harrisburg, according to a news release. The Junior Members of Pennsylvania’s ALA, along with their chairwoman, ...

South Side auxiliary to offer poppies

On National Poppy Day, May 24, American Legion Auxiliary Unit 617 will distributing poppies as a tribute to our fallen heroes between 5 and 9 p.m. The board of directors of the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 617, 901 S. Market St., South Williamsport, “hold a special place in our hearts for the parents, siblings, spouses and friends of those who served in our Great Nation,” according to the news release. “We cannot help but think of all of the men and women who have gone to fight for this Great Nation and did not return home.” “While we are all guilty of celebrating the ...