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East Lycoming School District hires new superintendent

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The East Lycoming School District Board approved hiring a new superintendent who was introduced at the most recent meeting with his family at the board room. Interim Superintendent Gerald McLaughlin introduced the new superintendent. “It is my pleasure to inform you that the interview committee and board of directors have selected Dr. Gregory S. Scoggins, Ed. D. as the new superintendent for the East Lycoming School District. “Dr. Scoggins has a long career of 21 years at Milton Area School District and we are excited to have him lead our team and school district. Dr. Scoggins ...

84-year-old’s tuxedo business, passions keep him busy

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"My life has been a series of accidents,” is Tom Ryersbach’s description of how he arrived in Williamsport and stayed, but listening to the interesting turns his life has taken, it seems they are more like opportunities and not accidents. Ryersbach, who will turn 85 in November, has ...

LycoCTC getting $25,000 grant

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The Lycoming Career and Technology Center (LycoCTC) is receiving $25,000 so the school can strengthen its training programs and give students access to modern equipment they need to succeed. The award was announced by state Reps. Jamie Flick, R-South Williamsport and Joe Hamm, R-Hepburn Township. The money will be used to purchase new equipment, including an ironworker, for classrooms in a new training facility being built to keep up with the welding program enrollment and training demand. “We need to continue to give students in each career field the biggest opportunity to ...

Commissioner: Do the proper thing and clean up fire company health hazard

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Calling the situation a “major health hazard,” the Lycoming County Commissioners weighed in on the issue between the Muncy Township Volunteer Fire Company on who is responsible for the damage done when sewage backed up in the first floor of the township building where the fire company is ...

Real estate transactions

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The following real estate transactions were recently recorded by Lycoming County officials. BASTRESS TOWNSHIP Karin R. Brass to Brittany T. Naculich and Jared Wheeland, $220,000, 6553 Jacks Hollow Road CLINTON TOWNSHIP William R. Edkin and Ronald L. Person to Deal House Capital Fund II ...

Laurel Caverns — Pennsylvania’s first underground state park

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HARRISBURG — Recently Department of Conservation and Natural Resources secretary Cindy Adams Dunn and Laurel Caverns State Park manager Corie Eckman spoke with WITF’s The Spark host Asia Tabb to encourage Pennsylvanians and visitors to take a tour of the Commonwealth’s newest and first ...