Grammy Award-winning blues artist concludes Weis Center’s spring season
LEWISBURG — According to a press release, Bucknell University’s Weis Center for the Performing Arts will end its spring 2025 season with Grammy Award-winning blues artist Ruthie Foster at 7:30 p.m. on April 25 in the Weis Center Concert Hall, 525 Weis Drive. In January 2025, Foster ...
Dwell to offer birthday program for foster kids
Dwell recently announced the launch of its Made to Celebrate! program, “which will bring joy and smiles to children experiencing foster or kinship care on their birthdays,” a news release said. “This new initiative is designed to ensure that these children feel valued and loved, even when life feels uncertain.” Children experiencing foster or kinship care often encounter significant emotional struggles, including feelings of loss, instability, and isolation. Birthdays, typically a time of joy, can instead serve as painful reminders of separation. “Made to Celebrate! aims ...
Library to hold preschool financial exploration program
The James V. Brown Library, 19 E. Fourth St., will offer a financial program for preschoolers to introduce saving and spending. The “Preschool Financial Exploration” program will be held on April 24 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Merrill Smith, from M&T Bank, will do an introductory discussion on the importance of saving and spending. During this program, preschoolers will be encouraged to start saving and decorate a piggy bank. On Friday, May 2, participants may pick up their finished banks. This program is open to children ages 3 to 5 and will take place in the Blue Room on the ...
Workshop on planting petunias planned
During the free Golden Afternoons program at 1 p.m. Tuesday, April 8 in the Deane Center lobby at 104 Main Street in Wellsboro, the men and women attending will each plant one petunia plug in a 4.5-inch square black plastic flower pot and take it home. According to a news release, different ...
Josephine Peck: Millionaire wife, club woman and grieving mother
A beautifully done quilt, hanging on the wall in the Thomas Taber Museum on West Fourth Street, shows a snowy winter scene at 1075 West Fourth Street, on the corner of Susquehanna Street, as it may have looked prior to 1876. In the quilt, a mother and two girls are walking up the sidewalk ...