BELSANO (AP) — Robert Gordon III can hear, and even see, the music inside a piece of wood before he transforms it into a finished violin. To demonstrate how, Gordon, a second-generation luthier, twisted a Douglas fir top to a violin made based on a Guarneri mold that was handed down to ...
WASHINGTON — America’s employers unleashed a burst of hiring in March, adding 916,000 jobs in a sign that a sustained recovery from the pandemic recession is taking hold as vaccinations accelerate, stimulus checks flow through the economy and businesses increasingly reopen. The March increase — the most since August — was nearly double February’s gain of 468,000, the Labor Department said Friday. The unemployment rate declined from 6.2% to 6%. Even with last month’s robust increase, the economy remains more than 8 million jobs short of the number it had before the ...
HARRISBURG — Shawn McCreary has measured the last year in time waiting. As a substitute teacher, there have been exactly zero opportunities for him to work since education turned remote. On a recent Tuesday, as he has done many weeks since the pandemic began, he counted more than 200 ...
The Genetti Hotel recently announced a new restaurant concept, “Windows on 4th”, coming in April. The restaurant, located inside the Genetti Hotel at the corner of 4th and William Street (formerly known as the Genetti Taphouse) will undergo a transformation which will involve a full ...
Dick’s Sporting Goods, currently located within the Lycoming Mall complex, is in the process of building a new location at the Lycoming Crossing Shopping Center, according to the Muncy Township supervisors. Dick’s follows several other businesses, notably Old Navy, in leaving the mall to ...
The Williamsport area boasts a job-recovery of 60.9 percent since the initial state shutdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry numbers. From the end of last April to January 2021, the Williamsport Metropolitan Statistical Area ...
