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Where’s the money coming from? That is what the Lycoming County commissioners want to know in response to the Register and Recorder’s office requesting an additional $10,000 for legal fees for ongoing litigation against the county, which was not an approved 2026 budgeted item. The county had already approved an additional $12,000 for the department over the budgeted amount of $5,000 for legal purposes and with the request for $10,000 to be added to that, Commissioner Marc Sortman said that would bring the total to $27,000 for legal fees — $22,000 over the amount actually ...

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 ...