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Variety of charges lodged in district courts

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Driver faces numerous charges following hit-run crash in city With a 3-year-old child belted in the front passenger seat of the 1996 Ford pickup truck, driver Roland Alexander Zerbe, 30, of 820 Fifth Ave., struck two parked vehicles in the 700 block of Fifth Avenue about 9:45 p.m. and fled the ...

Area sees its second rollover in two days

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The area saw its second rollover incident in as many days when a Dodge Durango hauling a Grand Design Imagine XLS RV traveling in the eastern lane of Hastings Street made contact with a GMC Canyon V6 pickup truck traveling in the western lane just before the Market Street Bridge at its ...

A look back at the 1936 flood

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The central Pennsylvania region is no stranger to extreme weather events, with flooding being one of the most prevalent. In fact, the area recently commemorated the anniversary of the January 1996 flood, but 59 years, nine months and 28 days prior, on March 17, Lycoming County and much of ...

Electricity consumer protection a work in progress for lawmakers

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(The Center Square) – Higher supply prices and weather-driven swings in energy use contributed to high electric bills for many Pennsylvanians over the past year, prompting lawmakers and energy stakeholders to take a closer look at whether state policies and retail electric choice programs ...

Lycoming County sheriff, prisoners team up to save lives

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(Editor's Note: The following article was published in the Williamsport Sun in March 1936) Thirty-one persons were trapped in a building on fire in the block between Laurel and William streets during the flood of 1936. The fire was the result of an explosion. At the time of the fire flood ...

Lycoming County commissioners reveal library funding chart

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In an effort to be transparent about how taxpayer dollars are being spent, the Lycoming County commissioners included a chart showing the quarterly draw downs of county funding by libraries in the county library system. The chart details what is allotted to each of the six libraries in the ...