featured
Elkland Borough Council adopted the 2021 budget after failing to do so by the Dec. 31, 2020 deadline.
Osceola Township supervisors agreed to address a safety issue at the Jan. 14 monthly meeting.
featured
Nelson Township supervisors addressed road conditions during the Jan. 11 meeting, resulting in one road being closed to local traffic only.
Crashes
featured
Do you know a parent or guardian who could use free diapers? First Presbyterian Church in Wellsboro has re-launched the community outreach ministry, Diapers for Darlings, founded by Living Word Fellowship on Charleston Road.
featured
MANSFIELD — Mansfield borough residents had the opportunity to participate in a meeting with PennDOT regarding the “Main Street Highway Reconstruction Project” here Wednesday evening.
MANSFIELD — During the council’s first meeting since the snowstorm that hit Tioga County in mid-December, Borough Manager Chris McGann said the crews did as good a job as they possibly could, given the circumstances.
featured
The Tioga County COVID-19 Task Force is partnering with the Laurel Health Centers, Guthrie and UPMC to ensure the COVID-19 vaccine is available to Tioga County residents as soon as possible.
featured
Northern Tioga School District announced that Williamson High School in Tioga is moving to remote learning Jan. 20 through Jan. 25. Students are expected to return to in-person instruction on Jan. 26.
featured
Two Wellsboro residents are working with a statewide organization to combat what they say would be judicial district gerrymandering in Pennsylvania.
featured
Ives Run Campground between Tioga and Middlebury Center was the third-highest revenue-grossing campground in the U.S. last year.
featured
ELKLAND — An Elkland man hopes a model he built of what used to be the world’s largest tannery will spark memories among those who worked there.
featured
The 144th Annual Wellsboro High School Alumni Banquet, originally scheduled for May 29, has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Monday, residents and staff at Broad Acres Nursing Home in Wellsboro received their second and final dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Jordan Christian Garris, 17, of Sayre, died in a head-on crash with a pick-up truck Wednesday, Jan. 20 on Route 220, Ulster Township, Bradford County.
featured
MANSFIELD — Three of the four signs welcoming visitors into Mansfield got a facelift over the holiday season.
featured
WELLSBORO — Attendance is up and spirits are high in the Wellsboro schools.
featured
WELLSBORO — The borough here is seeking at least $7,000 in fines against a family that is keeping domestic fowl in the borough in violation of the borough’s 28-year-old ordinance.
featured
WELLSBORO — Councilman Lou Prevost pledges to continue his efforts to amend state law regarding the employment of jake brakes.
National News
BUCKS COUNT >> State Senator Steve Santarsiero (D-10) is hosting a telephone town hall on Thursday, January 28 at 7 p.m.
(The Center Square) – The manufacturer of Dixie brand cups has announced plans to consolidate manufacturing operations to a single site located in Kentucky and close down a plant in Pennsylvania.
(The Center Square) – A new report finds residents in Pennsylvania struggle with obesity, suicide and racial disparities in health outcomes, and the pandemic’s impact on all three could make the problems worse.
Only weeks after public calls for his resignation for his continued claims of election fraud after the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, U.S. Rep. Scott Perry is again in the hot seat, with elected officials now calling for him to resign in light of a recent New York Times report regarding his alleged behind-the-scenes work to help Donald Trump’s election theft claims.
Pennsylvania needs to adopt additional road safety laws, including in seat belt enforcement and teen driving restrictions, the organization Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety urged lawmakers in its 18th Annual Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws report it released this month.
We finally made it.
The Cowanesque Valley Indians boys cross country team boasted a top-to-bottom consistency that no other area team matched in the 2020 season, and were led by senior Seth Neal who finished off …
TIOGA — The Williamson Lady Warriors (1-5) fell just short of taking down the Troy Lady Trojans (2-1) on Saturday, Jan. 16 as they lost their third game of the season by a score of 27-22.
Two 2019 Mansfield Destroyers are returning. The Mansfield Destroyers are very excited to have Kyle Smith and Connor Hong returning for the summer of 2021.
Female Athlete of the Week
C&N (Citizens & Northern Corporation, NASDAQ: CZNC), the leading financial services company in the region, announced that Doris Merrick has been named to the C&N Wealth Management team as vice president and senior trust tax officer based in Wellsboro.
Truck-Lite Co., LLC, a worldwide leader in LED lighting and visibility systems, has completed expansion efforts at its Coudersport and McElhattan, facilities. The completion of each 15,000+ square-foot addition comes amid the recent acquisition of ECCO Safety Group by Clarience Technologies,…
Lauren Mariani is joining First Citizens Community Bank to lead its branch customer service efforts in the southcentral Pennsylvania region.
On Dec. 16, 2020, the Northern Tier Industry & Education Consortium’s educational coordinator, Carrie Bradley, virtually presented some of NTIEC’s recent successes to PA Career Ready Coalition, a department within the Department of Education.
featured
The Tioga County COVID-19 Task Force is partnering with the Laurel Health Centers, Guthrie and UPMC to ensure the COVID-19 vaccine is available to Tioga County residents as soon as possible.
Miracle-Ear of Wellsboro, a part of the nationwide hearing solution franchise, partnered with the Miracle-Ear Foundation to provide Marston “Marty” Watters the gift of sound.
To date in December, there have been 795 new positive cases of COVID-19. From Dec. 16-22, these zip codes have seen new confirmed positive cases:
The Annual Medicare Open Enrollment has ended, and the Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period will begin Jan. 1, 2021. Medicare beneficiaries can switch from one Medicare Advantage Plan (excluding Medical Savings Accounts, cost plans and PACE) to another Medicare Advantage Plan, or to Ori…
“The pandemic has worsened stress, as boundaries between home and work have been blurred,” says Dr. Alex Dimitriu, founder of Menlo Park Psychiatry & Sleep Medicine in Menlo Park, California. “Kids, pets, home life and other distractions now interfere with people’s attempts to work. The lack of social contacts or vacations to punctuate our lives have also added stress during COVID. Working remotely, through video visits and little in-person interaction has also significantly limited the multimodal ways we used to work — when we worked in person. For many, COVID had become Groundhog Day, with each day melting into the next, and this is hard.”
