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 ...
(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 ...
U.S. Congressman Glenn “GT” Thompson recently toured a high-tech facility in Lycoming County where maritime hardware, such as what is used by US Navy submarines, is researched and made. For Thompson, the tour of QorTek, located at the former Woodward Township Elementary School building ...
The community’s Juneteenth celebration continued Saturday morning with the YWCA's Race Against Racism at Brandon Park. Nearly 100 walkers and runners were up bright and early to commemorate the end of slavery throughout the U.S. and the continued efforts to ensure equality for all.
Woodward Township’s elementary school building sat empty for years. “It was a heartache for the township,” said Jeffrey Stroehmann, township supervisor who recently toured the Lycoming County headquarters of QorTek, a high-tech business that produces and tests maritime hardware and ...
A halfway house for reentrants — those who served their time in prison — will be relocated into a current church building on Grier Street in Williamsport. In about 14 months, the Transition Living Centers’ three facilities in town will relocate to Well Church, 522 Grier St. That will happen after the city Zoning Hearing Board held a public hearing and voted 2-1 this week to grant the facility that aims to reduce recidivism rates by housing inmates who have served time and are on parole and are overseen by caseworkers and staff, with two variances it requested in a hearing, ...
