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LEWISBURG — Registration for the annual Brandon Kramm Memorial Golf Tournament is open.

DANVILLE— Geisinger is rolling out a new entrance security screening initiative at all of its hospitals over the next year as part of an ongoing investment in patient and employee safety.

LEWISBURG — The Borough of Lewisburg is developing additional materials to support the third phase of its transportation Safety Action Plan, which is nearing completion.

KULPMONT — A photograph presentation for Anthracite Heritage Month will be held in Kulpmont on March 21.

MIDDLEBURG — The state is investing $6.6 million in emergency medical services (EMS) agencies across the commonwealth to recruit, train and equip first responders and improve call responses. A majority of the funding from the EMS Operating Fund will be distributed to the state’s 13 Regional EMS Councils, which oversee Pennsylvania’s EMS agencies and assist more than 2.2 million Pennsylvanians every year.Seven Mountains EMS Council, which serves Northumberland, Snyder, Union, Montour, Juniata, Mifflin, Columbia, Centre and Clinton counties, will receive $294,701."EMS professionals are called

DANVILLE — More than 30 entrepreneurs and regional business consultants helped celebrate the 10th National SBDC Day on Wednesday at StartUp Danville.

ARCHBALD, LACKAWANNA COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU)— There was a large turnout in Archbald Thursday for a hearing on another proposed data center project in the borough. This is now the sixth proposal the borough has received in the last year, and locals say they're not happy about it. Hundreds packed the auditorium at Valley View High School [...]

MOUNT CARMEL BOROUGH, NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — A Saturday night fire in Mount Carmel was determined by Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) to be an arson. Crews responded around 8:15 p.m. to the former Columbia Building Supply on South Spruce Street, where PSP say a fire was lit using an accelerant around a stove. The building [...]

(WBRE/WYOU) — The ringleader of a more than $3 million bank fraud scheme was sentenced Wednesday for his involvement, officials say. Jeremy Antuan Boria Fraticelli, 23, of Dover, led 23 others in tricking bank customers to make withdrawals into funnel accounts, according to the office of Attorney General Dave Sunday. Fraticelli was sentenced one to [...]

(WBRE/WYOU) — Entrance security screenings using metal detectors will be implemented at all Geisinger hospitals over the next year, according to a Geisinger release. The first screenings will be implemented Monday, March 30 at Geisinger Medical Center. “Our hospitals are places of healing,” Sean McGinley, associate vice president of Police and Security Operations for Geisinger [...]