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jbergmueller@sungazette.com The Muncy Borough Council is in the early stages of finding a new borough hall to seat its operations. The current borough hall is a historic building in a floodplain and is not accessible to disabled residents. So, the borough council is working on finding the best location for a borough hall — either through construction, expansion or renovation. An option standing at the fore of the borough’s conversation is purchasing the Muncy Area Volunteer Fire Company�...

Pennsylvania lawmakers collected $726,877 from taxpayers in per diem payments during the pandemic. House Democrats received the most. but the leading senator was from the Lehigh Valley.

Within weeks of the first coronavirus cases last spring, as large swaths of Pennsylvania’s economy shut down, the state legislature followed suit, allowing

They collected $726,877 from taxpayers in per diem payments, in addition to being among the highest paid in the country. House Democrats received the most.

They collected $726,877 from taxpayers in per diem payments, in addition to being among the highest paid in the country. House Democrats received the most.

jbergmueller@sungazette.com Three months after releasing its former borough manager from his contract, the Muncy Borough Council has decided to hire a new borough manager under a part-time arrangement. Charley Hall, a former 25-year district administrator to former state representatives Brett Feese and Garth Everett, will assume the $28-an-hour position and will work 20 to 35 hours as needed by the borough, according to Ed Feigles, the borough council president and acting borough manager. T...

mreuther@sungazette.com The Williamsport Municipal Airport Authority took care of infrastructure-related business and other matters at its monthly meeting Thursday. The board approved a $65,499 payment for pavement work of the apron project. Airport Executive Director Richard Howell reported the work by DGR Excavating LLC is mostly done. An agreement with LR Kimball for rehabilitation of the taxiway lighting was approved. That work is expected to get under way in the spring. The Authority appro...

Dec 28, 2020 KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette Trump surrogates Patricia and Mark McCloskey sign autographs for the crowd during a stop at the Trump campaign headquarters at the Basin Street shopping center on Wednesday morning. Oct. 1 — The suburban St. Louis couple who were thrust into the national spotlight after brandishing guns before Black Lives Matter protesters who marched into their gated neighborhood came to Williamsport to campaign in support of President Donald Trump. Mark and Pat...

Who, in their right mind, saw it coming? After a relatively quiet, rather “normal” first quarter, we all learned of a “new normal” that would reshape just about every aspect of daily life — for those lucky enough survive the global pandemic known as COVID-19. But first a little happiness arrived before the sorrow. Following the New Year’s celebrations and promise to commit to resolutions, the first baby of the year was born at UPMC Susquehanna. The baby arrived shortly before 5 a.m....

State Senate GOP Leader Calls For Special Review Of 2020 Election Credit: PA Internet News Service In one of his first acts in his new leadership post, Sen. President Pro Tempore Jake Corman moved on Monday to convene a panel of lawmakers to review the 2020 election and offer reforms to the state’s election code.  The special committee that Corman, R-Centre, outlined in a memo to his colleagues would consist of five Republican senators, including Corman, and four Democrats. While his offi...