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Water truck hits construction vehicle on Route 220

No one was injured, but the front of this southbound water truck sustained extensive damage when it struck a construction-site-blocking vehicle at a worksite at Route 220 and Queneshaque Road in Woodward Township about 7:40 a.m. Thursday morning. Such blocking vehicles are a safety measure to ...

Litigation regarding the 2020 presidential election in Lycoming County continues to go through the courts. Two legal actions were taken by supporters of President Donald J. Trump, who defeated Joe Biden in the county in 2020 by a vote of 41,462 to 16,971. Trump lost to Biden in the nationwide ...

City of Williamsport seeks $797,000 transportation grant

The City of Williamsport is seeking a state transportation fund grant amounting to $796,869 and change. In order to submit it, City Council recently approved a resolution authorizing the administration to file a Multimodal Transportation Fund grant. This is to be done through the Commonwealth Financing Authority. It designates Mayor Derek Slaughter and Melanie Shutt, city grants administrator, to be the officers to execute all documents and agreements between the city and the authority to facilitate and assist in obtaining to handle it for the city. The grant is to be used for ...

YMCA’s East Lycoming Branch expanding; completion slated for January

The East Lycoming Branch of River Valley YMCA is expanding and the children and families it serves are the reason. At a groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday at 5 p.m. children wore yellow construction hats outside where the facility expansion will go. Pink tape marked the outline of where ...

State lawmakers show up for data center tour and can’t go inside

(The Center Square) — State lawmakers who are associated with a taxpayer-funded agency gathering information on the controversial data center issue showed up Tuesday for a prearranged look at a high-profile site - and weren’t allow in the data center. One of those refused entrance, ...