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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.
Nov. 10 Veterans Memorial Park wouldn’t have evolved without the kind donations and support of thousands of people over the years, according to local veterans who have overseen its development over the past quarter century. “It’s what put the park here,” said Howard Wilt, a Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War and chairman of the Veterans Memorial Park Commission.
Dec 28, 2020
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Trump surrogates Patricia and Mark McCloskey sign autographs for the crowd during a stop at the Trump campaign headquarters at the Basin Street shopping center on Wednesday morning.
Oct. 1 The suburban St. Louis couple who were thrust into the national spotlight after brandishing guns before Black Lives Matter protesters who marched into their gated neighborhood came to Williamsport to campaign in support of President Donald Trump. Mark and Patricia McCloskey made an appearance with GOP and Trump supporters at Basin Street, a supportive rally that was as much promotional as it was political, as they signed hats and shirts.
By MARIE ALBIGES and TOM LISI
Spotlight PA Dec 25, 2020
Dec 25, 2020
Thad Hall, Mercer County director of elections and voter registration, sorts through mail-in ballot applications at the Mercer County Courthouse. TANNER MONDOK | Herald
HARRISBURG â In the weeks before the general election, Sara May-Silfeeâs office was overwhelmed. Phone calls from voters were incessant. Lines of people formed outside the building to apply for and cast mail ballots. In one instance, she said, impatient voters began chants outside her office that the waiting times amounted to voter suppression.
The Monroe County elections director even got in the habit of closing her officeâs shades at night, she said, because voters would knock on the windows, as late as 9, looking for assistance.
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HARRISBURG In the weeks before the general election, Sara May-Silfee’s office was overwhelmed. Phone calls from voters were incessant. Lines of people formed outside the building to apply for and cast mail ballots. In one instance, she said, impatient voters began chants outside her office that the waiting times amounted to voter suppression.
The Monroe County elections director even got in the habit of closing her office’s shades at night, she said, because voters would knock on the windows, as late as 9, looking for assistance.
“It was a nightmare,” May-Silfee said. “Everything was a nightmare.”