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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, ...

Lock Haven man jailed following two hit-run crashes

JERSEY SHORE - After causing one accident on North Lincoln Avenue late Tuesday night , motorist Nichols Anthony Richart fled the scene in his SUV only to crash first into a parked car and then a utility pole as he swerved to avoid striking a Domino’s Pizza tractor-trailer truck whose ...