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Another legal challenge has been filed by the attorney representing Muncy Township and its board of supervisors Wednesday. Joseph F. Orso III, an attorney with Rudinski, Orso & Associates, 339 Market St., presented a copy of a motion to stay enforcement, serving it on counsel for ...

Police officer suffers serious injuries in fall while pursuing suspect

JERSEY SHORE — A disturbance on North Main Street late Saturday night landed Jessica E. Barger in the Lycoming County Prison, and Lycoming Regional police Sgt. Brian Fioretti in an emergency room with serious upper body injuries, according to court documents. Officers were dispatched to an apartment at 225 N. Main St. about 10:30 p.m. to check on the welfare of a woman, later identified as Barger, who reportedly “was on methamphetamine and believed people were trying to kill her,” it was stated in an affidavit. When they entered the home, officers spotted in a bedroom suspected ...

Mourning Amish community lays mother, 6 children to rest in Clinton County

SALONA — A quiet procession of seven horse-drawn buggies carried the bodies of Sarah Stoltzfus, 34, and her six children to their final resting place Wednesday, three days after they were killed in a fast-moving house fire. The seven victims of one of the deadliest fires in Clinton ...

New principal named at Lycoming Valley Intermediate School

As of July 1, Lycoming Valley Intermediate School (LVIS) will have a new principal as David J. Michaels, the current principal at Curtin Intermediate, assumes the position of full-time principal following the retirement of Timothy P. Fausnaught after 17 years of service with the district. The ...

FAMVEST files to dismiss bid to stop Bush House demolition

The saga of what will happen to the historic Bush House Estate in Muncy Township has gone a further step in Lycoming County Court this week. FAMVEST Acquisitions has filed a motion to dismiss Alvico LTD’s request for a preliminary injunction, an attempt by the plaintiff to stop the house from being demolished, which the defendant said it intends to do to make room for a gateway of future development at The District, site of the former Lycoming Mall. The motion is in response to Bush House Estates filing a complaint and seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent new owners, Famvest ...