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Tax exemptions granted to seven Lycoming County properties

Exemption requests by seven county properties were approved by the Lycoming County commissioners, acting as the Board of Assessments, at last week’s meeting, including one for an unusual reason. The owner of the former Lycoming Presbyterian Church property on Arch Street, Alysia Fischer, ...

Safety, quality top priorities for Lycoming Engines

“Building every engine as if we will fly it ourselves.” That is the core quality and safety motto of Lycoming Engines, 652 Oliver St. in Williamsport. With an employee base of 600, many of them military veterans, America’s leading manufacturer of piston aircraft engines offered the ...

Halloween happenings in Williamsport

Cooper Glagola, 6, of Williamsport, smiles as he, his mother and brother walk along West Fourth Street during the Halloween Trick or Treat & Fall Festival in downtown Williamsport recently. Hundreds turned out for the annual event, which featured more than 40 stops where kids of all ages ...

Developers get approval to start work on data center in Gregg Township

ALLENWOOD — The Gregg Township Board of Supervisors recently granted conditional use approval to PNK Group to begin developing a data center in the Commercial Manufacturing Zoning District at the Great Stream Commons industrial park in Union County, according to reporting by the Daily Item. “After Supervisors David Masser, Arthur Masser and Michael Keiser unanimously approved the motion, nearly 60 residents erupted in anger,” the Daily Item reported. “Some screamed at the elected officials, questioned their morality, called them derogatory names and wished them ill ...