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Attorney cites case law in fight against egg farm plan

A Muncy attorney provided case law for Muncy Creek Township supervisors to review prior to their decision on conditional use for a concentrated animal feeding (CAFO) operation-solar farm. Supervisors Eric Newcomer, chair, and Harley Fry II will hold a public meeting and have a verbal decision announced June 25 at 5 p.m., with additional time through July 11 to issue a written decision on both applicants’ conditional use requests. They are looking at the application for Sunny Side Up Farms, a proposed five-barn 350,000 free-range chicken egg-laying operation and Bollinger Solar LLC, ...

Congressional candidate visits Lycoming County

A Democratic candidate looking to unseat a federal lawmaker came out swinging outside a polling station in Williamsport. Rachel Wallace told the Sun-Gazette how U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Dallas, has demonstrated an unresponsiveness that she would counter if elected in November. “Moving back ...

West Virginia born in times of division, struggle

(Editor’s note: In the spring of 1861, the United States stood at its breaking point. For years, tensions between North and South had deepened. Nowhere was that more felt than in Virginia. While leaders in Richmond voted to join the Confederacy, many residents in the mountainous western ...

Chaos around the nation in the run-up to Civil War

(Editor’s note: Information on the Civil War is well-known, but what about some of the factors that led to its start? This week, we examine some of those issues and how, after years of growing tensions, the nation went to war with itself.) The seeds of the Antebellum period in the United ...

Real estate transactions

The following real estate transactions were recently recorded by Lycoming County officials. COGAN HOUSE TOWNSHIP Charles F. and Michele D. Trimble to Lewis and Kjirsten Meixel, $260,000, 5074 Cogan House Road David A. and Kaila R. Koon and Kirsten and Timothy W. Brooks to Londyn P. and Cody ...

Williamsport City Council votes to pave two brick street sections

Two brick street sections in the City of Williamsport will be paved over after a vote taken on second reading by City Council. The brick streets to be paved are First Street, between Campbell and Walnut streets, and Wayne Avenue, between West Fourth Street and Hillside Avenue, said Bill ...