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Mayor Urges Public to Attend Council Meeting, Welcome Kohl's

By Gabriel J. Campana
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1 year 16 weeks ago

The City of Williamsport has been waiting for many years for a major department store to become an anchor in downtown Williamsport.  The time has come!  We are so fortunate that Kohl’s Department Store has chosen Williamsport, PA to be one of their sites for a store opening in October, 2011.  more»

ATVs vs Wildlife: Why Can’t We Have Both on Northumberland County Land?

By David F. Kaleta
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1 year 24 weeks ago

Dear Editor,

In this letter Habitat for Wildlife outlines reasons why motorized and non-motorized recreation doesn't mix and offers a solution in the form of a compromise. We also question if a 6,000 acre OHV/ATV park goes through, would we just be trading local dollars for out of town dollars?

Please read and share this letter but most importantly, act. more»

Keep Our Forests Wild

By David Masur, PennEnvironment Director
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1 year 38 weeks ago

A few weeks ago, I asked you to help us protect Pennsylvania's great state forests -- places like Sproul State Forest and the Tioga State Forest -- from being sold off to the highest bidder and opened up for dangerous gas drilling. more»

The Needs of the People in Lycoming County

By Pastor Ken Weiss
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1 year 48 weeks ago

Letter to the Editor

I write to you about a crisis of huge proportions. While the needs of the people of Haiti continue to deserve our attention and support, this crisis is right here at home. It is a crisis of the needs of the people in Lycoming County and how one organization tries to help our neighbors in need.  more»

Our Last Chance

By David Masur, PennEnvironment Director
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1 year 48 weeks ago

For months, the historic push for federal action on clean energy and global warming has been stalled in the Senate -- but that's about to change. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has given legislators two weeks to draft clean energy legislation that repowers our economy with clean energy jobs, tackles global warming and reduces our dependence on foreign oil. more»

Grateful for my Pennsylvania life

By Grace Emma
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2 years 10 weeks ago

I grew up in Tarrytown,NY, a highly populated suburb of New York City.  I have now lived in the Williamsport area for 12 years and I'm still in awe. I still yell out like a little kid, "a cow, I see a cow!" anytime I drive by a farm. more»

The time for public comment is now

By Barb Jarmoska
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2 years 11 weeks ago

Dear Friends and Fellow PA residents,

Many of you join me in your concerns about what the gas well industry, now moving into our state with warp speed, will do to our way of life here in Pennsylvania. more»

We’ve got a lot of questions

By Barbara Jarmoska
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2 years 11 weeks ago

I was at the Genetti Hotel in Williamsport on Wednesday, November 18th for the public hearing held by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regarding Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) of pollutants entering the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.  www.epa.gov/chesapeakebaytmdl more»

Cut Through the Rhetoric

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I do not consider myself to be an environmental activist.  However, I do hope that we go slow with the setting of standards and approvals for the natural gas industry to follow.   When we first moved to Williamsport in the early 70's I still vividly remember our first drive through the heart of the strip mining region in central PA.   The black gashes of earth, the streams running iron colored and the general sense of devestation of the landscape and the people was hard to take.   We both wondered what type of state would allow this to happen. more»

Pass the Budget Now

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This is a brief letter I had sent to Congress, Senate, and House on Sept. 30, 2009. I am a 37-year-old Child Care Director and I am very concerned for the many families who have been more than patient with this state budget issue. My family has recently (18 months ago) purchased a century-old stone church that was vacant and also an educational building on the same 3-acre complex. We manage a child care facility of approx 125 children and we've also opened up for the greater community an indoor children's playland. more»

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