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Repasz Band to honor Imperial Teteques at Sunday concert

The Repasz Band will honor The Williamsport Scottish Rite Imperial Teteques Band with a concert at 7 p.m. Sunday, July 5, at the Scottish Rite Auditorium, 348 Market St., Williamsport. Founded in 1897 and lasting nearly 120 years before disbanding in 2016, the Teteques were America’s first Masonic band, an article in Milton-based newspaper the Standard-Journal said. The ensemble emerged from an 1894 brass group nicknamed the “Triple Tongued Quartet”—later abbreviated to TTQ, or “Teteques,” as a monicker for the entire band. An early Teteque supporter and benefactor was ...

Laurel Festival crowns Miss Abington as 2026 queen

“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 ...

From taunt to tradition: How Williamsport became the ‘Millionaires’

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. ...

Museum to feature portrayal of Gettysburg witness

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 reminiscences in ‘At Gettysburg: Or What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle.’ After the Civil War ended, Tillie married Mr. Alleman and moved in 1889 to Selinsgrove.” Tillie Pierce will be portrayed by Carolyn Ludwig. The Lecture Series which continues throughout the year is sponsored ...

Program portrays life of Revolutionary War soldier, painter

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 ...

Uptown Music Collective accepting scholarship applications

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 currently enrolled students, as well as new students wishing to enroll in the school for the upcoming year. All scholarships that are being offered will cover one full year at the school of music. Current scholarship stewards include Angelina’s Song, Geisinger’s Janet Weis Children’s Hospital, ...