Mark Maroney

Williamsport

City Hall Reporter at Sun-Gazette

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Residents ask about safety of Muncy Creek Township solar plan

1 week ago | sungazette.com | Mark Maroney

Jun 7, 2025 Reporter [email protected] Residents who’d live near a solar array proposed in Muncy Creek Township sought to hear about the nuisance and safety risks of the plan at a continued conditional use hearing this week. These solar arrays are appearing all over Lycoming County, but Bollinger Solar’s plan includes a farm with 350,000 chickens laying eggs for local and regional use. It’s called agrivoltaic and would be a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) and solar farm....
Solar developers answer questions on proposed Muncy-area energy project

1 week ago | sungazette.com | Mark Maroney

Jun 5, 2025 Reporter [email protected] A bout half as many people attended a continued conditional-use hearing at Muncy Area Volunteer Fire Department before the Muncy Creek Township supervisors this week than they did for the seemingly more controversial proposed massive chicken farm on the same acreage along Clarkstown Road. Bollinger Solar has proposed an updated energy project consisting now of 11 separate solar arrays — down from 13 and 12 — producing a combined 33 megawatts...
ROAMbler platform connects people to great outdoors

1 week ago | sungazette.com | Mark Maroney

Jun 4, 2025 Reporter [email protected] Greater Williamsport is truly the eastern gateway to the Pennsylvania Wilds. Within a short driving distance are lakes, ponds, streams, creeks, rivers – including some waterways navigable by boat, canoe and kayak. There are quiet natural settings, hiking and biking trails, state parks for picnics and camping, ATV riding locations and vistas to see miles of distant rolling mountainsides. That’s part of the reason why Katie Caputo, who grew up as one...
Council told certification of commercial, industrial blight slower going than for residential properties in Williamsport

1 week ago | sungazette.com | Mark Maroney

Jun 4, 2025 Reporter [email protected] The City of Williamsport is steadily in the process of identifying and removing residential blight, but it is slower going — or, as City Council was updated — not happening for blighted commercial and industrial properties. As of recently, three residential properties were certified as blighted — 1158 Isabella St., 307 Almond St., and 426 Sheridan St., according to the Williamsport Redevelopment Authority public report on the city website. “We have...
‘We outgrew our old place’: New site for hardware store to bring expanded hours, bakery drive-thru

1 week ago | sungazette.com | Mark Maroney

Jun 4, 2025 Reporter [email protected] The new Barr’s ACE Hardware is almost ready for its soft opening on Monday, June 9. Serving the area since 1955, Barr’s ACE Hardware’s Williamsport relocation will be at a completely restored former Rite Aid, 511 Market St. — and there are multiple advantages for this for customers, explained Dave Hedrick, the store owner. As he looked around at what essentially was a quickly filling up the interior of a new hardware store, Hedrick was among the...
Volunteers spearhead CPR training

1 week ago | sungazette.com | Mark Maroney

Jun 3, 2025 Reporter [email protected] A tragic and preventable death of a Williamsport man who died from cardiac arrest while people watched and recorded it on phones has resulted in a way to turn bystanders into life-savers. On March 22, Tim Sloop was walking out of a store on West Fourth Street and suffered a cardiac arrest. “If somebody was there who knew this training, he might have had a chance to survive,” a volunteer for a new initiative and movement – Juvenile Uplifting...
Federal judge retires, discusses post’s ‘weight of responsibility’

1 week ago | sungazette.com | Mark Maroney

Jun 3, 2025 Reporter [email protected] After 51 years in the legal profession, U.S. Magistrate Judge William I. “Skip” Arbuckle has traded his black robe for a sailor’s jacket and boat shoes. “Thank you for this opportunity for some words of rebuttal,” Arbuckle said at his recent retirement ceremony at the Herman T. Schneebeli federal building and U.S. Courthouse at 240 W. Third St. in Williamsport. Members of the Federal Bar Association and Lycoming Law Association inside the courtroom...
Focus of Muncy Creek Township hearing on chicken farm plan turns to water issues

2 weeks ago | sungazette.com | Mark Maroney

Once again, Muncy Area Volunteer Fire Department was packed with residents for a conditional-use hearing Thursday for a proposed massive chicken-raising and egg-producing farm in Muncy Creek Township. Their primary concerns were potential ground water impact – in terms of draw and risk of possible contamination of their nearby wells and what long-term effects that operating five barns with a combined 350,000 free-range chickens might have on the water table.
Final designs for pump track at Shaw Place Park shared with community

2 weeks ago | sungazette.com | Mark Maroney

By far, the three most popular features of the final design of Shaw bike park in the City of Williamsport are the drop-offs, the beginner course and wall ride. The project, a combined pump track and skill course mountain bike track, designed by Brad Siedlecki of Pillar Design Studios, and Pump Trax USA, are expected to be completed next spring.
City of Williamsport continues paying back Federal Transit Authority funds

2 weeks ago | sungazette.com | Mark Maroney

May 28, 2025 Reporter [email protected] The City of Williamsport passed a resolution authorizing installment payments four through 11 of the Federal Transit Authority (FTA) repayment plan to be paid from its emergency fund. Jamie Livermore, city finance director, presented the resolution proposal to City Council. Council previously authorized the city to begin paying monthly $35,000 installments and a large 12th “balloon,” payment early next year. These payments cover the $1.4 million...