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Lonoconus addresses plant removal at Bucktail

MILL HALL — Keystone Central School District Interim Superintendent Dr. Alan Lonconus and staff are working to address the removal of portions of the Bucktail’s landscaping — some of which were memorials to graduates and students at the school. Lonconus previously addressed this ...

Today is Buyers & Livestock Day at the Clinton County Fair

MACKEYVILLE — There’s a full day of action today — everything from a horseshoe tournament and a tractor pulling event, the annual Livestock Sale and the 4-H and FFA awards program, to a tribute to country music legends George Jones and Tammy Wynette — as the 2026 Clinton County Fair ...

Pa. counties face rising emergency costs. The legislature didn’t include an increase to the 911 phone fee in the budget to help them.

Pennsylvania lawmakers once again declined to increase the state’s 911 surcharge in this year’s budget, leaving counties to cover rising costs for emergency call centers on their own. The surcharge — a monthly, flat-rate phone fee Pennsylvanians pay to support emergency services — helps cover the costs of personnel, technology and maintenance of 61 call centers operating statewide. But according to 2024 data from the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania, counties end up covering almost 20% of those expenses themselves. The association advocated for increasing the ...

UPMC welcomes physical medicine and rehabilitation doctors to Williamsport

WILLIAMSPORT — UPMC welcomes Kenia Maldonado Vergara, M.D., and Patrick Roman, M.D., to UPMC Rehabilitation Institute, 700 High St., 5th Floor, Williamsport. Dr. Maldonado Vergara earned her medical degree from Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador. She completed a residency in physical medicine and rehabilitation and a brain injury fellowship at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital, White Plains, N.Y. Dr. Maldonado Vergara specializes in brain injury medicine. Dr. Roman earned his medical degree from Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Scranton, Pa. ...