KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette Voters wait in line at the Old Lycoming Township fire hall on Tuesday morning.

Nov. 3 — Election Day was expected to shatter expectations, as record-breaking number of votes were likely to stand in lines to cast ballots at their polling stations, according to Forrest Lehman, director of Lycoming County Voter Services.

Nov. 5 — Lycoming County Voter Services personnel kept their noses to the grindstone working through the sometimes maddening process of this post-election. “We are continuing to make progress,” Voter Services Director Forrest Lehman said.

Nov. 10 — Veterans Memorial Park wouldn’t have evolved without the kind donations and support of thousands of people over the years, according to local veterans who have overseen its development over the past quarter century. “It’s what put the park here,” said Howard Wilt, a Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War and chairman of the Veterans Memorial Park Commission.

Nov. 12 — City officials narrowed their plans on whether to relocate the administrative offices out of City Hall. The ad hoc committee on City Hall reviewed plans by Joseph Gerardi, city codes administrator, and Jon Sander, city engineer.

Nov. 13 — The Williamsport Regional Airport has seen its last commercial flight — at least for the foreseeable future.”American Airlines won’t be returning in 2021 at all,” Airport Executive Director Richard Howell said.

Nov. 17 — Elaine Decker, author of “Williamsport: Past and Present,” described the setting of what became “The Great Fire of 1871.” Decker, a guest speaker at the Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society, which recently hosted a Coffee Hour Program, captured the guests’ attention with riveting recollection and vintage pictures and a map of where the fire began and spread, a disaster that resulted in an estimated $300,000 worth of damage.

Nov. 23 — The city proposed budget calls for a 2.5 mill tax hike. It’s nearly $30 million and presented by first-year Mayor Derek Slaughter during a COVID-19 pandemic. Council President Randall J. Allison said in response the council will need to find areas to cut to maybe lower the millage rate. It would be $250 more per year for property owners with houses assessed at $100,000.

Nov. 25 — The results of whether someone is positive or negative of COVID-19 is not always clear. Dr. Rutul Dalal, infectious disease department director at UPMC Susquehanna, said a rapid test, a main type of diagnostic test for coronavirus, is not offered. Rapid tests, although often returning quicker results, are less accurate than PCR testing, he explained.

Nov. 28 — President Donald Trump’s attempt to get the courts to overturn the Pennsylvania election took another step backward as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed U.S. Middle Court Judge Matthew W. Brann’s ruling on the attempt by the Trump campaign to block ballots from being certified.