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Ramadan inspires a Moroccan-spiced lamb-chickpea soup

After sunset during Ramadan, the daily fast customarily ends by eating dates. Then the Iftar meal begins with some kind of soup, satisfying hunger and quenching thirst at the same time. Among the soups served, one of the most common in northern Africa is chorba frik, a meaty chickpea soup ...

Beginners fly tying course offered by Susquehanna Chapter of Trout Unlimited

Susquehanna Chapter of Trout Unlimited is pleased to announce that it will be offering a beginners fly tying course on Tuesday evenings starting Jan. 31 and running through March 7. The classes will be taught by Dave Rothrock and will be limited to 20 students and cost $10 for adults to cover ...

Old Lycoming family saw, celebrated ‘Immaculate Reception’ 50 years ago

"Back then, there wasn’t instant replay.” When Rick Edler, his father Don, mother Ginny, brother Randy and sister Lynn saw Franco Harris make the famed “immaculate reception” 50 years ago today, everyone in the stands thought the pass was incomplete — until they saw fullback Harris, ...

‘Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus’

Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in ...

Local university police departments hold food for fines donation events

LOCK HAVEN — Commonwealth University police departments at Lock Haven, Bloomsburg, and Mansfield recently held Thanksgiving Food for Fines events, in which parking tickets were forgiven in exchange for donated food items At Lock Haven, approximately 40 campus parking tickets were forgiven in exchange for donated food items. Each forgiven parking ticket required a donation of five items, resulting in the collection of 200 items that were split equally between the Haven Cupboard campus food pantry for LHU students and the Lock Haven Salvation Army Food Pantry. “One of the things that ...

Family traditions make the heart and stomach full

(Editor’s Note: Newsroom Nosh is a column created by the Sun-Gazette newsroom staff from family or personal recipes.) Christmas isn’t the same without my two older cousins, Chelsea and Jaime. They are truly lights in my life and I love spending time with them. Jaime, the oldest out of all of us, is definitely the family’s baker and she loves to make holiday bark. Chelsea, the middle cousin, loves a good cocktail. Below are two of their recipes that they make around the holidays. Enjoy! Holiday Bark Saltine crackers 2 sticks of butter 1 cup brown sugar 1 bag chocolate ...