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Real estate transactions

The following real estate transactions were recently recorded by Lycoming County officials. CASCADE TOWNSHIP Darren O. Mundrick to Sara C. Bobb and Riley B. Miller, $265,000, 4000 Slacks Run Road CLINTON TOWNSHIP Michael A. Welteroth to Sanguedolce LLC, $45,000, 149 Burley Drive Terry G. ...

Last informational meeting announced for county’s reassessment

Tyler Technologies, Inc., which is conducting the county’s reassessment, will hold an informational meeting at 6 p.m., May 11, at the Williamsport Area Middle School in the cafetorium, 2800 W Fourth St. Please enter the building through DOOR 22. The public is encouraged to bring any questions and concerns they might have about reassessment to the meeting as this will be the last informational meeting held to educate the public about the process.

New central processing site gets approval from County Commissioners

In order to deal with a backlog in the court system of people needing fingerprinted, the Lycoming County Commissioners approved a request from the District Attorney’s Office for a central processing center to be opened at 435 Hepburn St. in the Hepburn Plaza. Citing the need for more space, ...

Frontier forts played pivotal role in lead-up to, conclusion of revolution

Twenty-two years to the day before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a young George Washington penned his name in defeat as he surrendered for the first and only time in his storied military career. It was at Fort Necessity in the Pennsylvania mountains of present-day Fayette ...

Shooting suspect identified as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man armed with guns and knives stormed the lobby outside a high-profile journalists' dinner attended by President Donald Trump and multiple senior U.S. leaders on Saturday night, rushing toward the ballroom before Secret Service agents swarmed him and took him into ...

Cemetery, historian work on getting gravestone for Brandon Park donor

When Andrew Boyd Cummings donated his 43-acre hay field to the City of Williamsport in 1889, key stipulations were that it’d be a public park “for all time” and would be named Brandon Park, in honor of his beloved sister, Jane Brandon. Through the years it has hosted community sings, ...