HAZARDOUS ROAD CONDITIONS IN THE REGION proved too much for some drivers as the Lycoming County 911 dispatch center handled several crash calls on Saturday afte
A 17-year-old Montoursville Area School District student was flown to Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, with critical injuries he suffered Wednesday morning w
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A black iron kettle used to boil hog parts to make sausage, liver pudding and scrapple. KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette
A wooden block table used for butchering. KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette
A brown paper bag from Smithgail & Ging Neats Packers, which was orginally established in downtown Williamsport in 1932. KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette
These were the days when city butchers knew the products the customers wanted. That is what Don Waltman, a retired butcher and owner of Waltman Meats, 338 Court St., said about his shop and its predecessor, Smithgall & Ging Meat Packers. Waltman, 77, decided to retire a month ago, after operating the store at 338 Court St. for 49 years and a stand at Lewisburg farmers market for 52 years.
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Many organizations each year do projects to ensure wild trout are in abundance in streams, lakes and rivers.
Before the opening day of trout season on April 17, members of the Susquehanna Chapter of Trout Unlimited met for their annual watershed summit.
Reducing acid mind drainage by removing two old coal refuse culm piles that were causing water impairment near Mildred and Loyalsock Creek was a project discussed.
Acid mine drainage destroys the aquatic life, turning streams orange with toxic chemicals from mining, said Marc Lewis, spokesman for the Loyalsock Creek Watershed Association.
The Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation is helping to monitor the upper reaches of the creek. Water quality and the effluent from two abandoned mine discharge treatment systems are being looked at as is gas withdraw impacts, Lewis said.