(Editor's Note: The following article is from the Williamsport Sun-Gazette’s archives.) Some places inspire memories that are more feeling than fact. The Memorial Park Zoo was such a place. It boomed during the late 1920’s and early 1930’s when its cages were filled with a variety of ...
As students head to school, and walk home, the City of Williamsport has begun working with a firm to study ways to create safe streets for them and all segments of the population. The Safe Streets for All (SS4A) plan is a comprehensive initiative focused on creating a city-wide Comprehensive Road Safety Action Plan. Backed by a $356,458 federal grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation, the plan aims to eliminate traffic fatalities and serious injuries by adopting a Vision Zero approach. The initiative is designed to deliver small, actionable, and rapid projects that ...
A plan for a solar agrivoltaic project with access from Spook Hollow Road in Piatt Township was approved by the Lycoming County Planning Commission at their monthly meeting. The project, which is known as the Bailey Land Development, is on land which is owned by the Bailey Family Irrevocable Trust and Craig and Trudy Bailey. The solar facility is being constructed by Pivot Energy. It will be located on a 12-acre leased area and have 5,250 solar panels which will create 2.5 megawatts.The project will be enclosed by an eight-foot fence and sheep will graze in the solar array. The ...
Sometimes the sacrifices that nurses make to follow their calling are overlooked — the long hours, the life or death situations they encounter, family holidays and events that are missed. But the Clinton-Lycoming Nurse Honor Guard wants to make sure those who have dedicated their lives to ...
The fate of skill games in Pennsylvania could soon be decided by lawmakers and organizations that need the income from the games continuing to operate and are worried that it won’t be there soon. “The revenue we receive from these machines helps us pay operational expenses and keeps our ...
(The Center Square) – Regulating Flock cameras and other automated license plate reading systems, or ALPRs, has drawn the attention of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. On Friday, Gov. Josh Shapiro made his position on this technology clear. “I would welcome bipartisan legislation ...
