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Variety of charges lodged in Lycoming County district courts

Police say Loyalsock Township business operated as a house of prostitution Another massage business - Green Spa and Massage at 1208 River Ave. in Loyalsock Township - has been accused of operating as a house of prostitution, according to state police which executed a search warrant at the ...

Erasing the ravages of time: Workshop teaches headstone cleaning

The headstones, forming a concentric circle around the monument dedicated to the soldiers who fought and died in the Civil War, sits atop a hill in Wildwood Cemetery. Time and the environment have obscured the names of those brave soldiers, so the cemetery is planning a workshop to ...

Facing $1M deficit, Jersey Shore Area School District considers program, staff cuts

JERSEY SHORE — Confronting a roughly $1 million budget deficit, the Jersey Shore Area School District is considering cuts to staffing and student programs that parents and community members have criticized. After the school board directed Superintendent Brian Ulmer to identify additional savings earlier this spring, he returned last week with a package of proposed cuts totaling more than $141,000. The recommendations include leaving several vacant positions unfilled, reducing field trip and extracurricular budgets and placing the district’s swim team on a moratorium. Ulmer said ...

City of Williamsport to sell firetruck to Trout Run

A resolution was approved by Williamsport City Council authorizing the sale of fire apparatus to Trout Run Volunteer Fire Co. Williamsport Bureau of Fire Chief Tracey Harer, prior to the approval vote, said about two years ago the WBF got a new fleet of apparatus. “We had tried to sell ...

Court ruling sets up debate on taxing 'skill games

(The Center Square) – A new Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that essentially found the estimated 70,000 unregulated and untaxed "skill games" in the state to be slot machines – taxable by law at 52% – had the attention of many lawmakers on Tuesday. The long-awaited opinion covered ...