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Editorials

Kindness, selflessness still disasters’ important lessons

Four tractor-trailers. About 590 miles. Between 17 and 18 hours on the road. A local family, seeing the devastation left in the wake of hurricanes in North Carolina and neighboring states, took it upon themselves to organize the collection of needed supplies and to drive those supplies to the ...

What other newspapers are saying: Disaster relief contends with misinformation

Dubbed the deadliest hurricane to hit the United States since Maria in 2017, Helene has already claimed more than 200 lives, with many more still unaccounted for. Making matters worse, only a small fraction of households in the hardest-hit counties had flood insurance. Policies are not cheap, ...

Career training an important part of education

Montoursville Area School Board is mulling its role in financially contributing to the Lycoming Career and Technology Center, which offers career training — in some ways what traditionally was known as vocational-technical training — to students in much of Lycoming County. We have no ...

Issue of speed enforcement requires patience

Pennsylvania Act 38 of 2023, which is keeping speed cameras in place in Philadelphia and which expanded their use there, also directed the state Local Government Commission to deliver a report within two years making recommendations about whether and how to allow other municipalities to install ...

Dinner a reminder of organization’s important work

North Central Sight Services recently hosted its “Feast for the Eyes,” as reported in Tuesday’s edition of the Williamsport Sun-Gazette. The event invites diners to experience a meal blindfolded or with other device that limit eyesight or simulate impaired vision. “By no means do we ...