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 ...
Following a week when another young person in the community lost their life to gun violence, Lycoming County Commissioner Scott Metzger urged the cooperation of local leaders to help “identify and develop strategies and solutions together.” “A beautiful summer afternoon, we have kids swimming in the public pool, and we have youth over in the park…unfortunately we hear the sounds of gunfire. This is all too common now, not acceptable…a life lost, two other lives injured, and a family shattered,” said of the incident which took place near Memorial Park. “We’d like to ...
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Heat as oppressive as British colonial rule is bearing down on the eastern U.S. heading into the long Fourth of July weekend, prompting some communities to cancel, postpone or otherwise alter their Independence Day plans. Dangerous, record-breaking heat will continue across much of the central and eastern U.S. through Friday and will continue along the East Coast through the weekend, the National Weather Service said Thursday. Temperatures in the high 90s Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius) were forecast for the Northeast; Philadelphia and Boston could top 100. ...
Although it may be small in terms of the number of people who live there year round, the Village of English Center is big in terms of community spirit, and that was evident as a group of residents — young and old, some waving flags — walked across the refurbished suspension bridge, which ...
