Another access point to the popular Susquehanna River Walk, the bicycle and pedestrian pathway allowing for scenic views of the levee system, greater Williamsport and its environs is a step closer to reality today. A resolution authorizing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between City of ...
Data centers were on the mind of several of those attending this month’s Lycoming County Planning Commission, with local municipal officials bouncing questions off the county’s board to try to understand how their municipalities can deal with the issue before a proposal arrives at their doorstep. For Muncy Township residents at the meeting, the proverbial fox is already in the hen house, so to speak, as a legal notice of deemed approval was already published by the developer of a proposed data center. Under the Municipalities Planning Code (MPC), there are strict timelines that ...
The Walmart located at 1015 N. Loyalsock Ave. in Montoursville, was evacuated shortly after 3:30 p.m. Friday in what has initially been deemed a “fire-related” incident. At about 3:40 p.m., a command post was set up in the parking lot near Subway across from the entrance, according to ...
With the summer break over half over, the Williamsport Area School District is looking ahead to the new school year which begins on Aug. 31 for students in grades 1-9 and Sept. 1 for those at the high school level. No one is keeping track of that time table more than Dale Crans, supervisor of maintenance and facilities in the district, who is overseeing the construction projects at the STA stadium and tennis courts. Each month Crans gives the school board an update on the construction and the projected timetable for completion. Tennis starts on Aug. 17, so the tennis courts need to ...
The tiny legs of smiling, blue-eyed Gwen Sharkey propel her baby walker about the kitchen floor as her mother wonders about devalued property, electromagnetic fields, and a potential threat to her ‘miracle baby.’ Tiffany and Erik Sharkey endured a long and stressful journey through in ...
Muncy Creek Township has yet to receive any notice or documentation it is a party in the Muncy Data Center project plan submitted by a Williamsport-based builder-developer. It was stated this week by Muncy Township Solicitor Joseph F. Orso III that “half the project is in Muncy Creek Township,” but a Muncy Creek Township supervisor said he was surprised to hear that and challenged such an assertion. “Muncy Creek Township has not received any applications, permits, requests for zoning determination, plan submittals, or any other documentation relating to a data center in its ...
