WILLIAMSPORT — Pennsylvania College of Technology and Greater Lycoming Habitat for Humanity joined on Thursday at the site of a Habitat home to observe the national day of mourning for President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at 100 years old. The nonprofits, working together to build a ...
Happy New Year! We’re starting 2025 with our annual membership meeting on Jan. 22 at the Poorman Gallery from 12-1 p.m. We’ll give the annual reports, state of the CCHS, dedication of our new informational sign, offer a light lunch and elect members of the Board of Directors. All five outgoing board members have agreed to remain on. They are Jim Berkebile, Carol Hanna, Janine Bruno, Kathy Arndt and Lou Widmann. Larry Ferree has agreed to serve the remaining year of Lynda Carey’s term. We will also introduce Annie Snyder’s “Strawberries,” which is on track for cleaning this ...
WILLIAMSPORT — “Powering Pennsylvania” is the theme for the 109th Pennsylvania Farm Show, and Pennsylvania College of Technology will be in attendance, sharing its empowering possibilities. Set for Jan. 4-11 at the Farm Show Complex & Expo Center in Harrisburg, the largest indoor ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Jason LaCroix felt privileged to work from home, especially as a father to two young children. He needed flexibility when his son, then 6, suffered a brain injury and spent 35 days in intensive care. LaCroix, a senior systems engineer based in Atlanta, took time off and then worked from home while managing his son's care and appointments. But LaCroix was laid off last February from that job, where he'd been working remotely for five years. His new role requires him to spend four days a week in a company office and commute for three hours a day. “I want to be ...
The death of an Oregon house cat and a pet food recall are raising questions about the ongoing outbreak of bird flu and how people can protect their pets. Bird flu has been spreading for years in wild birds, chickens, turkeys and many other animals. It was first confirmed in U.S. dairy cattle in March. The virus has been causing sporadic, mostly mild illnesses in people in the U.S., and nearly all of those infected worked on dairy or poultry farms. When the virus is found, every bird on a farm is killed to limit the spread of the disease. Oregon health officials traced the cat’s ...
UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State Extension educators recently completed a grant-funded project that tackled workforce retention, pesticide safety and food safety challenges for specialty crop farmers. Led by Linda Falcone, leadership and community vitality extension educator, and Maria Gorgo-Simcox, a bilingual horticulture extension educator, the program addressed issues such as high turnover, labor shortages and compliance with food safety regulations, all compounded by language barriers. Latinos make up 75% of the agricultural workforce in the U.S., Gorgo-Simcox noted, with many ...
