The PA Wilds Center for Entrepreneurship, Inc. recently announced the recipients of the 2025 Champions of the PA Wilds awards.
COUDERSPORT — A pharmacy owner announced that he plans to begin a delivery service for prescriptions to Coudersport and hopes to open a storefront by this fall.
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State police here will sponsor a child passenger safety seat check event Friday, May 23 at the UPMC Cole parking lot, 1001 East 2nd Street. The goal is to increase safety belt/child safety seat use rates throughout the Commonwealth. The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and should tak…
Unofficial election results are in for various races in Potter County, with residents casting votes on May 20 in the county’s 32 precincts.
The longest-serving United States Postal Service employee in the Coudersport office has turned her sign to “Closed†after 34 years and four months as a USPS employee.
Recent Obituaries
Our next big “fun thing†to do will be manning a water station at the God’s Country Marathon — and I might add that this will be the 50th year for this race.
There I was, standing over the spring gobbler I’d just harvested doing what turkey hunters do, deciding the birds age.
It’s hard to believe that summer is just about four weeks away. Despite some damp and dreary days, our crews have racked up a credible amount of time maintaining the trails. Around 800 hours h…
Growing up in rural Pennsylvania was a true blessing for me. As a kid I definitely wasn’t bored as I was either fishing a stream or one of the farm ponds that dotted the countryside.
Excitement is building as one of the oldest and most challenging distance running events in the eastern United States celebrates its golden anniversary. The God’s Country Marathon, scheduled f…
Dahlias are among the most vibrant and versatile flowering plants, adored by gardeners and enthusiasts alike for their spectacular blooms and diverse color palette. Native to Central America, particularly Mexico, these herbaceous perennials in the aster family (Asteraceae), have captured hea…
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FRIDAY, MAY 30
Our next big “fun thing†to do will be manning a water station at the God’s Country Marathon — and I might add that this will be the 50th year for this race.
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COUDERSPORT — Moms are having a moment in Coudersport.
Athens, Pa. — Winners of March's BLaST IU 17 Regional Media and Design Competition, representing Athens, Southern Tioga, and Wyalusing Area School Districts competed at the state level on May 20 and 21 at Elizabethtown College.
Prospective Pennsylvania Homebuyers Face 62.9% Mortgage Payment Increase Compared to Three Years Ago
With mortgage rates nearly double what they were three years ago, the typical monthly payment for a U.S. home has jumped 59%—an increase of almost $700. The spike is even worse in some locations, where payments have soared more than 80% since 2022. The 2025 edition of Construction Coverage’s U.S. Cities Most Impacted by High Interest Rates report explores where buyers have been hit hardest by the jump in borrowing costs. Researchers ranked locations by the percentage change in the hypothetical monthly mortgage payment for a median-priced home between February 2022 and February 2025 (the latest three-year period with available data).
CONDADO CHESTER, PA.- Una maestra de educación especial acusada de tener relaciones sexuales con un estudiante... irá a juicio en el condado Chester.
EASTON, PA.- La policÃa de Easton busca a un hombre a quien acusan de posesión de arma de fuego como ex-convicto y posesión de droga con intención de distribuirla.
WASHINGTON, DC.- La Bolsa de Valores de Nueva York celebró hoy después de que un panel de tres jueces del Tribunal de Comercio Internacional bloqueó el plan del presidente Donald Trump, de imponer aranceles masivos a las importaciones provenientes de múltiples paÃses.Â
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State police here will sponsor a child passenger safety seat check event Friday, May 23 at the UPMC Cole parking lot, 1001 East 2nd Street. The goal is to increase safety belt/child safety sea…
“It’s all about a circular economy,†said Luca Pandolfi, founder of Woodland Biomass Innovations—a company that is developing a process to “run your car on wood†by transforming woody biomass into 87 octane gasoline.
UGI Utilities, Inc. announced its purchased gas cost rates will not change on June 1. An increase is projected on December 1.
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As the weather warms, the Community Blood Bank is inviting donors to “paddle into summer†by giving blood in May. From May 1-31, every blood donor will be automatically entered into a raffle to win a pair of kayaks.
UPMC’s three regional critical access hospitals, UPMC Muncy, UPMC Wellsboro, and UPMC Cole, have been named among the cleanest hospitals in the United States by earning 5-star ratings from Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services’ Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and …
UPMC’s three regional critical access hospitals, UPMC Muncy, UPMC Wellsboro and UPMC Cole, have been named among the cleanest hospitals in the United States with 5-star ratings for cleanliness from Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services’ Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Provi…
In recognition of National Skin Cancer and Melanoma Awareness Month, UPMC is offering free skin cancer screenings in May. These screenings are offered by appointment only at the following locations and times:
UPMC Health Plan has announced that it has earned seven Stevie awards for 2025 —including Customer Service Award of the Year—Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Related Industries category.
They say love is blind.
It does rain in California. Often.
Wants fish stocked in Galeton
President Trump flew to the Middle East this week and announced more than a trillion dollars’ worth of economic deals between the U.S. and countries like Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
