Someone is about to get— a whole lot richer!
A winning $1 MILLION THE PRICE IS RIGHT scratch-off ticket was sold in Lancaster County, according to the Pennsylvania Lottery.
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The newly crowned Pennsylvania dairy promotion team, from left, are Kelly Bliss, first alternate state dairy princess, state dairy princess Mikayla Davis, and second alternate state dairy princess Crystal Bomgardner.
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Just how healthy is the county where you live?
That’s exactly what’s behind an annual report that ranks America’s counties based on their overall health.
This county-by-county comparison was just released Wednesday. In Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania alone, the report finds the good and the bad, and what counties can do to improve their health scores.
Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania is considered by many a good place to live. But a new health report tells a different story for several counties. Take for instance the home of some 316,000 people. Luzerne County ranks 60th out of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties in a new report by the University of Wisconsin population health institute.
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The National Weather Service in State College has issued a freeze warning in Lancaster County and other parts of central Pennsylvania in anticipation of frigid temperatures early tomorrow morning.
Widespread freezing temperatures in the upper-20s and lower-30s are expected between about 1 a.m. and 8 a.m., NWS said in a weather message Wednesday.
Some urban centers and larger towns may not dip into freezing temperatures, but a majority of the region including Lancaster, Dauphin, York and Lebanon counties should freeze up for at least an hour during that period.
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Pennsylvania’s forests are growing two to three times faster than they can be harvested, creating large potential for economic growth, officials say.
This figure is measured in board feet of lumber, which the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture says is growing at a rate of 2 billion feet per year, or 2.4 times the harvest rate.
Former PA Rep. Matt Gabler, the current executive director of the Pennsylvania Forests Products Association, made this comment while discussing the economic possibilities for expanding the harvesting rate of the industry.
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LANCASTER, Pa. — Eggs and poultry product prices may be on their way to record highs as the avian flu sweeps across the nation and central Pennsylvania.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that, as of April 22, there have been four affected commercial flocks in Pennsylvania, affecting a total of 3,500,400 birds.
Backyard flocks in the Commonwealth have yet to show any signs of infection, the USDA said.
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Hershey High School has once again come out on top among public high schools in the Harrisburg region in U.S. News & World Report’s annual performance ranking.
The 2022 edition of the assessment looked at 17,843 high schools across the United States, including the vast majority of the nation’s public high schools as well as some publicly supported charter and magnet schools.
U.S. News’ rankings are based on several weighted factors, including state assessment and college placement scores, graduation rates, and the performance differential for minority students and students in poverty.
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YORK COUNTY, Pa. — Several programs in South Central Pennsylvania help train service dogs for veterans and first responders. Trainers often heard from others with disabilities who could benefit from having a service dog, but had to tell them they were ineligible for those programs.
Last summer, four service dog trainers formed 4 Paws 4 a Cause, dedicated to helping people help themselves by training their own service dog.
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YORK COUNTY, Pa. — Jackie Bieber believes her daughter Shawn had been looking for help with depression when she landed in one of the darkest places on the internet. Shawn Shatto, 25, struggled with anxiety and felt miserable at her Amazon warehouse job. She found a website about suicide.
Shortly after joining the website in 2019, Shawn took her life.
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More than 20% of the households in central Pennsylvania receiving food assistance have at least one member who served or is serving in the military.
That statistic from the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank is no surprise to Justin Slep, director of the Franklin County Office of Veteran Affairs. Providing access to fresh, nutritious food has been on his project list for two or three years.
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Bradford County — A hydrogen explosion and multiple injuries are being reported at the Global Tungsten & Powders facility in Towanda, Pa. following a dispatch for emergency responders in the morning on April 21.
According to reports from WETM, five victims were transported to surrounding hospitals, including four to Towanda Memorial Hospital and one to Robert Packer Hospital. WETM reports no severe injuries; the hospitalizations were precautionary.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Why is Central PA so flood-prone?
Well, we all live in flood plain. Yep, the Susquehanna River is the focal point, and everything drains into it. Smaller rivers like the Juniata, all the big creeks like the Swatara, Conodoguinet and the yellow breaches and all the little creeks and tributaries that carry water from your neighborhood back to the Susquehanna.
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Central Pennsylvania’s stunning landscape ranges from rolling hills dotted with farms to mountains with burbling streams and crashing waterfalls. Water isn’t the only thing flowing through PA. This bucolic backdrop is home to a bustling beer scene brimming with taprooms and breweries dappled throughout parts of Amish countryside.
“Central PA is a trove of unique natural areas, small towns and micro-cultures,” says Tim Yarrington, professor at Penn College in Williamsport and co-founder of and head of brewery operations at Elk Creek Cafe and Aleworks in Millheim. His advice: Take the long way through the middle of the state. “Get off the highways, skip the strip malls and seek the independently owned businesses on the smaller roads that are so vital to their communities.”
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Earth Day falls on April 22, with this year’s theme focusing on investing in our planet.
Earth Day was implemented in 1970 to bring attention to environmental concerns. Over one billion people celebrate each year to raise awareness and give back to the planet, according to earthday.org.
Typically, people celebrate by participating in activities like picking up litter, planting trees and recycling. Check out the list below to see how you can give back this Earth Day.
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Bloomsburg, Pa. – The old saying, “birds of a feather, flock together,” rings a bit too true in Bloomsburg where the local Canadian geese have created a messy situation. So messy that town officials have voted to euthanize the entire flock this summer.
The nearly 40 geese who reside year-round in Bloomsburg Town Park are well-known by locals. While some enjoy watching the birds, other have been frustrated by the significant amount of waste the birds leave on park walkways and fields.
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PA (WOLF) — Severe weather has caused thousands of customers to lose power in northeastern and central Pennsylvania.
Over 29,000 customers are without power following the snowstorm that hit the area Monday night into Tuesday.
As of 8:45 AM, over 8,000 outages were reported across Columbia and Lycoming Counties. According to PPL’s outage map, most of these outages are said to be fixed by 2 PM.
About 2,000 UGI customers in northern Luzerne County and sections of Wyoming county are also in the dark according to UGI’s map. There’s currently no estimated time as to when UGI customers will have power restored.
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A winter weather advisory remains in effect until 8 p.m. Monday for western counties in the Susquehanna Valley.
A total of one to three inches of snow is possible, with the heaviest snow at higher elevations.
The rest of the area is seeing mainly rain with some wet flakes mixed in.
The wintry precipitation and rain will come to an end overnight. Temperatures will drop into the mid-30s by the morning.
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Wedding season is around the corner, and this year is said to be one of the biggest for weddings, as brides and grooms reschedule their plans that had been canceled due to COVID.
According to the New York Times, the world may see roughly 2.5 billion weddings this year, and trends have changed from large elaborate celebrations, to smaller and more imitate gatherings.
Wedding venues are also changing and getting more creative as some couples shy away from country clubs and banquet halls, to garden and museum ceremonies.
Central Pennsylvanians are in luck − there are plenty of unusual venues to host weddings including 200-year-old barns, renovated cigar warehouses and more. The options are endless. Here are 10 to start with.
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Solar energy could soon become the primary source of electricity at the city of Erie’s main firehouse.
Mayor Joe Schember’s administration is exploring a plan that would result in the installation of more than 200 electricity-generating solar panels on the roof of the Erie Central Fire Station, 208 W. 12th St.
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Harrisburg, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture confirmed the state’s first positive case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in domestic poultry, in a flock of commercial layer chickens on a Lancaster County poultry farm.
The department has quarantined the farm and all commercial poultry facilities within a 10-kilometer radius of the infected flock.
While there is no risk to the public, and poultry and eggs are safe to eat if cooked properly, HPAI is highly infectious and can be fatal to domestic birds, including chickens, ducks, geese, quail, pheasants, guinea fowl, and turkeys.
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