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City of Williamsport secures another $175,000 for housing aid

The City of Williamsport will get $175,000 in the city portion of Pennsylvania Housing Assistance Rehabilitation Enhancement funds. This is in addition to the Lycoming County PHARE funding. The funds are derived from the natural gas impact fees. Credit for finding the extra funding went to ...

Muncy Township citizens worry as fire department relocates

PENNSDALE – The lack of movement in cleaning up the Muncy township Fire Department headquarters that were left contaminated when a sewer backed up earlier this year is causing panic in township residents because the fire department is moving its equipment to Muncy Creek Township until the ...

Muncy Township data center plan submission discussed

PENNSDALE — Although data centers were not on the Muncy Township Supervisors’ Board agenda, a large group of people from the township and surrounding communities showed up anticipating what had been described on social media as a town hall on the topic only to find out that was not the ...

Muncy Bridge to open at the end of summer

Muncy’s Carpenter Street Bridge, closed since early spring, is expected to open to traffic by Sept. 1, according to borough officials. Repair work targeting a deteriorating section of the bridge is scheduled for August, Borough Manager Charles Hall announced at a recent council ...

State revolutionized energy extraction with new techniques, technology

(Editor’s note: America would not be the nation it is today without its vast stores of natural resources. But those resources would have done us little good without individuals and companies willing to take risks. Much of that happened in Western Pennsylvania, where leading developments in ...