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Lycoming County commissioners approved a $287,379 state grant to fund a gas pipeline extension to the Timber Run Industrial Park at their meeting this week.
Digger Specialties, Inc. is set to open a facility for employing up to 150 people at the site along Route 15 across from the county landfill.
Lycoming County Planning and Community Development Executive Director Shannon Rossman said the grant will fund a portion of the project.
She noted that additional infrastructure work will include road work for access to the site.
The Commonwealth Financing Authority approved the grant for the project in April.
In other action, commissioners approved McTish, Kunkel & Associates for inspection work at a cost of $76,734 for the first phase of the county bridge bundling construction project.
Federal
⢠The Senate voted 52-42 on the confirmation of Janet Garvin McCabe, of Indiana, to be deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. U.S. Sen. Robert Casey, D-Scranton, voted yes. U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Zionsville, voted no.
⢠The House was out of session.
State
County
⢠Lycoming County commissioners approved just over $1 million in Community Development Block Grant funding for the Franklin Township sewer project and $130,901 in CDBG money for the Muncy public library. Rick Mirabito, Tony Mussare, and Scott Metzger voted yes.
City
⢠City Council voted 4-2 to accept an $8.8 million River Valley Transit budget for 2021 and 2022. Voting against it were Bonnie Katz and Adam Yoder. Council President Randall J. Allison, Liz Miele, Vince Pulizzi and Jon Mackey were in favor. David Banks was absent. Katz and Yoder asked for more details and description similar to a proposed budget in 2019 presented to council and were not comfortable withou
The battle between Lycoming County commissioners and an elected official whose employees they voted to transfer from her office earlier this month went to court
Circles Around the Sun are coming in for a landing at SLO Brew Rock next
Thursday, May 6. These far out LA cats are consummate musicians who last year dropped their third studio full-length, a self-titled follow-up to 2018 s
Let It Wander and 2015 s
Interludes for the Dead. click to enlarge Photo Courtesy Of Circles Around The Sun
TASTY JAM Instrumental jammers Circles Around the Sun play an intimate, seated show at SLO Brew Rock, on
May 6. Before COVID-19 came along and smashed the live music industry, Circles was headlining big venues like the Brooklyn Bowl, NYC s the Beacon Theater, and LA s Echoplex. Seeing them in SLO Brew Rock is a pretty big deal, especially since this is a table-seated-only show, meaning very few people and a lot of socially distanced intimacy. In fact, no single ticket
Krista Rogers
Lycoming County commissioners have filed a lawsuit against an elected official for they what they claim has been a failure to properly carry out duties.
Commissioners at their meeting Tuesday clarified their reasons for transferring four personnel from the county Controller’s office to the budget and finance department.
The transfers approved last week drew yet another sharp rebuke from Controller Krista Rodgers who claimed the move violated county code.
Rodgers is the target of the lawsuit filed in Lycoming County Court Tuesday.
“My thought is they are grossly misrepresenting the situation,” she said following the commissioners’ meeting.