This year, Verla Bryant, of Wellsboro, is marking her 50th year of involvement with the Laurel Festival Pet Parade, one year as co-chair and 49 years as chair. “In 1974, I was a senior in high school, and Jack Rymell was looking for someone to take his place as Pet Parade chairman. He ...
The Dollar General Literacy Foundation recently awarded James V. Brown Library, 19 E. Fourth St., a $3,000 grant to support the Summer Learning Program. This local grant is a part of the Foundation’s largest, one-day literacy donation of more than $13 million throughout the 47 states in ...
The Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society will host the Rev. Charles (Chuck) Johnson and his wife, Donna, at the June Coffee Hour, Thursday, June 8, at 10 a.m. The talk, free and open to the public, will be held in the Community Room of the museum, according to a ...
The James V. Brown Library, 19 E. Fourth St., will kick off the 2023 Summer Learning Program with a special event from 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday, June 1. This year’s theme, “All Together Now,” explores the power of kindness, friendship, and community. The Summer Learning Program is an ...
In light of some hardships within the Belle Vernon Area School District during the school year, groups of elementary students were treated to a unique form of animal-based therapy recently. Bella Terra Stables of Murrysville provides equine-assisted therapy to groups of all ages and has been ...
“So, who is she?” I asked this question of my husband’s late Grandmother Tobias as we sat in her living room one afternoon. We were visiting and listening to Grandmother Tobias talk about her childhood, growing up in Mont Clare, Montgomery County. She was showing us the photograph ...
