(The Center Square) – New eligibility guidelines are now in effect for free and reduced school meals for the 2026-2027 school year. On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Department of Education announced the recently released federal income eligibility guidelines from the United States Department ...
The house was nearly packed as The United States Army Field Band and Soldiers’ Chorus made a stop at the Journey Bank Community Arts Center as part of their Summer 2026 concert Monday night. The free concert, sponsored by the law firm of Casale, Bonner, Hillman and Southard, PC., and ...
The Williamsport Sun-Gazette asked several people from throughout the region their perspectives on the meaning of the United States of America ahead of the 250th Fourth of July: John Leeser, Williamsport Sun-Gazette, Publisher/Advertising Director Looking back to the bicentennial in 1976, I was just a kid growing up in Milton. The bicentennial offered parades, special events and festivities. My family went to Williamsport to see the Freedom Train. That was a major highlight for me as a teenage kid. But truth be told, I probably didn’t fully appreciate what it all meant outside of ...
The Center Square) - Pennsylvania's public-school employees' pension fund is $41 billion short of what it needs to pay promised benefits. Last year, it missed the investment benchmark that officials set, a result they said was "primarily due to performance within private equity." As of Dec. ...
For the fifth year in a row, state leaders have failed to meet the June 30 deadline for finishing an annual budget - a situation that will have little practical effect in the short term but raises the ugly specter of last year’s 135-day impasse. In 2025, even though political leaders spoke ...
A formal dedication took place Thursday for the Williamsport Lumber Yards baseball and softball complex. About a dozen or so “heavy-hitters” spoke for an hour of how a former trash dump in the 1970s, and Brownfield site, has been transformed into a seven-field youth and collegiate ...
