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People look over the booths at the 2021West Branch Builders Home Show at the Lycoming Mall on Friday. The show runs through Sunday.
Ty Nicholls walked into the 61st West Branch Susquehanna Builders Association Home Show Friday afternoon with his mother to get a look at the more than 110 vendors and exhibits.
Nicholls, a sophomore at the Pennsylvania College of Technology studying automotive technology, said he was interested in heating, ventilation and air conditioning experts and wanted to see what type of building specialists were inside the spacious former BonTon store at the Lycoming Mall, site of this year’s Home Show.
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. Jan. 2. The story, aptly written by veteran newspaper man Philip A. Holmes, the lead police and fire reporter for the Sun-Gazette, described how Dusty Harkey was 37 weeks pregnant when she walked into the Williamsport Regional Medical Center’s Birthplace.