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KAREN VIBERT-KENNEDY/Sun-Gazette 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...

Get ready for touch-less screens, facial recognition and heat sensors The construction sector is pushing for faster adoption of technology Image Credit: Supplied As we start living in this strange ‘new normal’, industry experts say technology will play a greater role in this transformation. The market is set to see a renewed interest for latest tools such as intelligent building monitoring systems (BMS), touch-less access control systems, facial recognition, heat sensor, advanced HAVAC and drones, to name a few. According to Jon Sander, associate partner ...

Dec 19, 2020 March 1 — Far from imprisonment of those who have fallen behind on their child support payments, Lycoming County’s domestic relations administrators said they are working to forge responsibility into delinquent payers. “My goal is to get some money to the child,” said Judge Joy R. McCoy, who oversees domestic court issues at the county. March 5 — Legislation pending in the U.S. Congress may require the Government Accountability Office to evaluate the economic impact of a plan proposed by Major League Baseball to eliminate teams such as the Williamsport Crosscutters, on...

mmaroney@sungazette.com City Council is expected to tackle next year’s proposed $29 million budget in a remote meeting tonight. It remains unclear if council will adopt the proposed budget, but Council President Randall J. Allison said there is a consensus to get it done before the end of the year because if no budget is passed no money can be spent. Mayor Derek Slaughter’s proposed budget carries a proposed 1-mill tax hike, and he and council members said that could be reduced further with discussions tonight. One mill of real estate tax generates $860,000. A 1-mill tax increase would be...

mmaroney@sungazette.com Mayor Derek Slaughter says he is prepared to use $450,000 of an $850,000 City Hall renovation account to lower the cost on city taxpayers in his proposed $29 million 2021 budget. But an executive at the Center for Independent Living, 24 E. Third St., an agency advocating on behalf of the disabled, said she wonders if removal of half of that account might mean further delayed accessibility upgrades to City Hall. “Access to City Hall is a civil right for Williamsport city residents with disabilities and we would hope that should be a priority for the administration and...