NEW YORK — Dan Marshall’s toy store should be crowded this time of the year with parents and grandparents buying gifts and children trying out games. Instead, only a handful of customers are in Mischief Toy Store at any time, and their visits are short and efficient. Yet while the ...
SHAMOKIN (AP) — Most cities see dirt bikes and ATVs as a scourge of the streets, annoying on the best days, and deadly on the worst. In Shamokin, a former coal town of 6,984 in Northumberland County, foot traffic is a thing of the past, however, and city officials are banking on dirt-bike ...
With the objective of encouraging and supporting women in the brewing industry, the Pink Boots Society and D.G. Yuengling & Son Inc. have partnered to fund a scholarship and included Pennsylvania College of Technology’s brewing and fermentation science program in the initiative. The Diversity in Brewing Scholarship provides exceptional women of color in the brewing industry up to $10,000 in scholarship funds to further their brewing education. Students can apply for the scholarship through six brewing programs, including Penn College’s one-year certificate program. Two ...
Unemployment in Williamsport decreased by almost half a percentage in the month of October, showing the metropolitan area’s trend of a recovering workforce is beginning to plateau out. The Williamsport Metropolitan Statistical Area clocked in a 7.7 percent adjusted unemployment rate in October for an area labor force of 52,700 people. That tallies out to a reported 4,100 people, or 0.6 percent, without jobs in the area’s labor force were seeking employment—down by 300 people from September, according to seasonally adjusted data. “The big monkey wrench is the COVID-19 ...
Rep. Jeff Wheeland, R-Loyalsock Township, has been appointed to the Pennsylvania College of Technology Board of Directors by House Speaker Bryan Cutler. Wheeland succeeds Rep. Garth Everett, who is retiring from his seat representing the 84th District in the state House. Everett served on ...
BERLIN — German media giant Bertelsmann said Wednesday that its Penguin Random House division is buying rival Simon & Schuster in a megadeal that would reshape the U.S. publishing industry. Penguin Random House, already the largest American publisher, will buy the New York-based Simon & Schuster, whose authors include Stephen King, Hillary Clinton and John Irving, from TV and film company ViacomCBS for $2.17 billion in cash. “Simon & Schuster strengthens Bertelsmann’s footprint globally, and (particularly) in the U.S., its second-largest market,” the Guetersloh, ...
