HUGHESVILLE — Police and corrections officers are using a glove with a non-lethal electric pulse to prevent injury, reduce incidents and de-escalate situations quickly. Jeff Niklaus formerly of Huntersville in Lycoming County now near Lexington, Kentucky has the business, Compliant ...
The SEDA-Council of Governments has elected its 2024 officers for the board of directors. Lycoming County Commissioner Scott Metzger will serve as president. Snyder County Commissioner Joe Kantz has been elected 1st vice president and Clinton County Commissioner Jeff Snyder will serve as 2nd ...
The Pennsylvania Council on Financial Literacy, through Brighter Financial Futures, recently announced that due to the sponsorship of Woodlands Bank, all students in grades 3-12 can participate in the Spring Semester Personal Budgeting and Investing Challenges free of charge. “Through our hands-on simulations, students have fun while learning how to budget, pay monthly bills, spend wisely, build credit and invest in the market,” a news release said. “Students with the highest scores in the Personal Budgeting Challenge and the highest portfolio values in the Investing Challenge ...
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s been a great year for stock markets around the world. Wall Street’s rally has been front and center, with the U.S. stock market the world’s largest and its clear leader in performance in recent years. The S&P 500 is on track to return more than 20% for the third ...
(The Center Square) — Truck parking has been a thorny problem in Pennsylvania, and a PennDOT commission has almost two dozen ideas for how to improve it statewide. During a meeting of the State Transportation Advisory Committee on Thursday, recommendations include state incentives for ...
(The Center Square) — Even with some pandemic-era payments that drove down consumer debt, Pennsylvanians are more in the red than before. Data compiled by the Independent Fiscal Office show that an 11% drop in credit card debt in 2020 “has completely reversed.” Significant growth in credit card debt in 2022 and 2023 has left residents more in debt and then some. “Balances are now 12.4% higher than pre-pandemic,” the IFO noted. Though economic impact payments helped drive down debt, the relief was only temporary. A February update noted that the bottom 25% of Americans ...
