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City Council voted for an amended lease agreement Thursday with Cutting Edge Baseball (the Williamsport Crosscutters,) the city and Major League Baseball.
Mayor Derek Slaughter presented the amended lease agreement, which indicates the Crosscutters season begins a bit earlier this year on May 24 and sets the Major League Baseball commitment for the MLB Little League Classic to run through 2023 at Bowman Field.
The Classic is held during the Little League World Series, allowing the Little League World Series participants and their families to view a season-counting game with two Major League Baseball teams playing. Before the game players interact.
Williamsport’s zoning laws have been amended, making it easier on developers who want to bring small business into the city commercial districts. Recent cha
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It will be another year at the helm of City Council for two veteran council members.
Council reelected Randall J. Allison, president, and Liz Miele vice president, at its recent reorganizational meeting.
The roll call vote was 7-0 on the nominations and elections of Allison and Miele.
“We know it is a team effort,” Allison said after the vote. “We have really seen it this past year,” he said. “It has taken every single member of council to be totally engaged and involved,” he said.
Miele noted how Allison did yeoman’s work guiding the council through a
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Voters wait in line at the Old Lycoming Township fire hall on Tuesday morning.
Nov. 3 Election Day was expected to shatter expectations, as record-breaking number of votes were likely to stand in lines to cast ballots at their polling stations, according to Forrest Lehman, director of Lycoming County Voter Services.
Nov. 5 Lycoming County Voter Services personnel kept their noses to the grindstone working through the sometimes maddening process of this post-election. “We are continuing to make progress,” Voter Services Director Forrest Lehman said.
Nov. 10 Veterans Memorial Park wouldn’t have evolved without the kind donations and support of thousands of people over the years, according to local veterans who have overseen its development over the past quarter century. “It’s what put the park here,” said Howard Wilt, a Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War and chairman of the Veterans Memorial Park Commission.