Mark Maroney

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May 14, 2025 Reporter [email protected] The City of Williamsport will see one less iconic structure in its Third Street “Old City” section soon and updated construction at Firetree Place, the youth activities and programs center at 600 Campbell St. The building at 33 E. Third St. will be demolished after a request was approved by city council. “The inside is deteriorated and the outside is peeling paint,” said Gary Knarr, city zoning officer. The interior asbestos will be removed before...

2 days ago | sungazette.com | Mark Maroney

May 13, 2025 Reporter [email protected] The City of Williamsport intends to repay the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) about $1.4 million due to seven years of criminal misdeeds by a former administrator, but the account officials plan to use — called the legislative contingency fund — is diminished. The remaining $20,000 in legislative contingency is not going to touch the amount of money that the city eventually needs to put towards payments to the FTA, Councilwoman Liz Miele,...

3 days ago | sungazette.com | Mark Maroney

May 12, 2025 Reporter [email protected] The City of Williamsport will soon see more pedestrian crossings and streetscape improvements in the Central Business District along West Third Street. City Council approved a resolution to have Livic Civil begin professional engineering services to design streetscape improvements along the street as presented by Bill Scott, city engineer. “From Hepburn Street going west about 150 feet,” he said. The area is in front of Jackass Brewing Co. on one...

5 days ago | sungazette.com | Mark Maroney

Several on Williamsport City Council are responding to the sentence — a year of probation — a former city administrator received upon conviction Monday in Dauphin County Court. William E. Nichols Jr., 72, pleaded guilty to felony charges of theft by failure to make required disposition of funds (F2) and tampering with public records (F3) and received a year probation from a Dauphin County judge who also thanked him for his service to the city.

5 days ago | sungazette.com | Mark Maroney

May 10, 2025 Reporter [email protected] When voters head to the primary election on May 20, they will not see R. Mark Lusk’s name on the ballot for Lycoming County Sheriff. “I was a little boy who grew up and became everything a little boy wants to be,” said the 66-year-old who said he has decided to retire from about 50 years of dedicated service to Lycoming County in the Old Lycoming Township Police Department, Old Lycoming Township Volunteer Fire Department, Lycoming County Coroner’s...