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Heller dam project helps ensure safety

So what does more than $1 million of grant investment and work done on a dam spillway mean for Lycoming County residents? Most of the time Randy Padfield, director of the state Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) says he is at disaster scenes and wading through floodwater. “It’s always ...

Real estate transactions

COGAN HOUSE TOWNSHIP Robert C. Carnes to Kirsten Crooks and David Koons, $285,000, 144 Outback Lane FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP Steven T. Krouse to Chatterton & Socci PA Holdings LLC, $4.2 million, 243/244 Grey Fox Drive HEPBURN TOWNSHIP Gertrude J. and Thomas A. Paulhamus, Julie A. Wein, ...

Application process for Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program opens soon

With winter fast approaching, the application process for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) emergency services will be opening Oct. 15 with the program beginning Nov. 2, Rachelle Abbott, president and CEO of the Lycoming-Clinton Counties Commission for Community Action (STEP), Inc., announced at the Lycoming County Commissioners this week. STEP is the weatherization provider as well as the LIHEAP emergency services provider. LIHEAP emergency services in the past was called LIHEAP Crisis, Abbott explained. Through this program, individuals can call the county ...

Lycoming County commissioners approve Public Safety Department pilot program with Lycoming Regional Police

An agreement with the Lycoming Regional Police Department (LRPD) as a partner in a pilot program which will supplement the county’s 911 radio dispatch support was approved by the Lycoming County commissioners this week. The program will be funded through 911 grant funds. Director or Public Safety Forest Rothchild told the commissioners that the program would decrease the cost of overtime and contracted staffing now utilized to fill that role. “Our newest telecommunicators, as they are moving through their phone training to their next phase, telecommunication officers often have ...

Federal Reserve official touts research efforts during visit to Penn College

Resilience, optimism and growth. These were three words that Anna Paulson, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia used for Pennsylvania College of Technology officials and business leaders Friday in a roundtable discussion and tour of the cutting-edge laboratories and ...