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Although students in the Williamsport Area School District remain in a remote platform this week, plans are to return to in-person instruction Monday, Superintendent Dr. Timothy S. Bowers revently told members of the school board. The board also confirmed the district’s 2021-22 budget will remain within the state mandated Act 1 index, meaning any possible tax increase cannot be larger than a set percentage.
“Our plan is to bring the kids back to in-person instruction…we feel comfortable doing that,” he said. “Hopefully the numbers continue to look better. They’re still higher than we like, obviously, but they are looking better.”
pcrossley@sungazette.com Masetoâs Deli & 6-Pack Owner Lisa Lusk, left, and employees Lindsey Phillips, Sherie Shirn, Kassie Short and Paige McCartney at the restaurant.KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette
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Melony Hartranft, left, husband, Sean, and daughter Aubri and Mel s Deli in Montoursville were one of several restaurants who provided lunches for students in the Montoursville Area School District during the winter and spring COVID shut-down. The deli provided peanut-butter-sandwiches, fruit, chips, milk or fruit juice boxes, and a hot sandwich, such as a hot dog or bar-b-cue for students to pick up or deliver to their homes five days a week. From mid March through May the deli, with the help from loyal customers, organizations, and the Lyter PTO provided lunches for 20-30 children a day.
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.