In a continuation of requirements leftover from the pandemic, the Williamsport Area School Board approved the district’s health and safety plan with one change: Masking by students will now have to be prescribed by a physician, physician’s assistant or a nurse practitioner. This ...
A Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm working on behalf of Williamsport is expected to present a summary of accomplishments for 2024 and proposals in 2025 to city council tonight. As city officials weigh whether to renew the contract for Keller Partners & Co., the firm’s ...
Williamsport during the early 1900s was one of the largest manufacturing centers in the nation for a variety of products. These included furniture, doors, paint, leather, sewing machines, silk, shoes, sandpaper and matches. One product is missing from this list. “An industry whose ...
The battle over the future of the construction of a new school complex for Montgomery Area junior and senior high school students heated up recently as the school board filed a lawsuit against Clinton Township for allegedly throwing what it considers repeated roadblocks in the project. In late ...
HARRISBURG — President-elect Donald Trump is underscoring his intention to block the purchase of U.S. Steel by Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel Corp., and he’s pledging to use tax incentives and tariffs to strengthen the iconic American steelmaker. Trump had vowed early in the ...
UNITY TOWNSHIP, Pa. (AP) — Rescuers are contemplating the safest way to search for a woman who apparently fell into a sinkhole while looking for her lost cat above an old coal mine in Pennsylvania. They said Wednesday that the crumbling mine was complicating efforts and endangering workers. ...