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Four Friends Vineyard & Winery, 528 Cemetery Hill Road, Montgomery, invites one and all to sit back and relax with a glass of wine or a wine slushie on their deck overlooking the vineyard and sprawling Susquehanna Valley. Visit their Facebook page or call 570-547-0881 for more information.
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David J. Moyer, third generation owner of Benjamin T. Moyer Furniture stands near his two-sided, cotton Shifman mattresses. Benjamin T. Moyer Furniture is celebrating their 90th anniversary this year. Located at 35 S. Fourth St. in Sunbury, the store has quality furniture for every room of your home.
PHOTO PROVIDED Williamsport Hearing Services, 1215 W. Southern Ave., South Williamsport, in the Save-A-Lot Plaza, offers a variety of hearing-related services including hearing aid repair, real ear measurements, hearing testing in addition to hearing aids. They also offer 30-day trials for hearing aids. Open from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, all services are performed by Sandra Chamberlin, a doctor of audiology. The wheelchair-friendly business has served patients in Pennsylvania for over 30 years and accepts most insurances. The business can be reached at 570-323-7000.
THE PURITY CANDY COMPANY
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The Purity Candy Company has been creating family traditions for over 118 years. From hand-crafted personalized Easter eggs to chocolate specialties and sweets, generations have come to us to fill their Easter baskets. Visit the factory store, 18047 Route 15 South in Allenwood, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays, and retail store at 422 Market St., Lewisburg, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays. Even beyond Easter, whether you’re looking for gifts for beloved friends and family, cherished coworkers, young kiddos or those in their golden years, there’s a Purity Candy that’s perfect for everyone. The company’s online store is always open, and they ship worldwide. www. puritycandy.com.
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NEW YORK (AP)
— The Small Business Administration said it will relocate six of its regional offices in socalled “sanctuary cities,” part of a broader Trump administration effort to crack down on cities that it deems have immigrant-friendly policies.
In a statement Thursday, SBA administrator Kelly Loeffler said offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New York City and Seattle will be relocated to “less costly, more accessible locations that better serve the small business community and comply with federal immigration law.”
No details were given about where the offices might be moving to.
There’s no legal definition for sanctuary city policies, but they generally limit cooperation by local law enforcement with federal immigration officers. Courts have repeatedly upheld the legality of sanctuary laws.
The announcement came a day after Republican members of Congress hammered four Democratic mayors Wednesday about their so-called sanctuary city policies, accusing them of endangering Americans and threatening to prosecute local officials.
The SBA was established in 1953 to offer resources to small businesses and helps administer small business and disaster recovery loans. It played a crucial role during the pandemic, helping distribute small business aid. It has at least one district office in each state, and some larger states, like Cali-
fornia and Texas, have several. Offices provide counseling, training, and other resources that provide support for small business owners.
Separately, the Loeffler said SBA loans won’t be eligible to businesses that have owners “in whole or in part” who aren’t U.S. citizens. The SBA said in an email re-
sponse to a query that it would make more details about that policy known “in coming days.”
The SBA doesn’t give out direct loans, except when they’re related to disasters, but it works with lenders to distribute loans to small businesses. The loans typically have better rates than traditional loans.
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My mom purchased her first pair of hearing aids in 2017 from Artisan and she left today with a new pair that will improve her quality of life tremendously. Jennifer and her staff are amazing, professional, kind, caring, and knowledgeable. They go the extra mile to take care of clients not just with the purchase but with caring customer service well beyond. We recommend them without reserve!
- Marianne Raymond
THE STATION HOUSE
If you’re looking for a friendly atmosphere with a taste of old-fashioned, hometown cooking, The Station House, 44 Montgomery St., Montgomery, is your place. In addition to breakfast, lunch and dinner, Station House also caters events including weddings and corporate luncheons or dinners, working with their customers to create the perfect menu. The restaurant is open Monday through Wednesday, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Thursday through Saturday, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Visit thestationhousecatering.com for more information or to put in a request for catering.
THE LIGHT BARN
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For over 46 years, The Light Barn in Selinsgrove has been a trusted source for all your lighting needs. If you need ceiling lights, pendants, wall sconces, flush and semi-flush mounts, recessed and track lighting, outdoor lights or ceiling fans, they’ve got it. If you need repairs or special bulbs, lighting parts or shades, they’ve got you covered. Be sure to join their loyalty program for big savings, too. Visit The Light Barn on Route 522, Selinsgrove.
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RIVERSIDE ROADHOUSE
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Open yearround and seven days a week, Riverside Roadhouse sits at the center of Riverside Campground, 125 S. Main St., Montgomery. In addition to farm-to-table cuisine, the restaurant also offers live entertainment, and patio dining during warmer weather. Chef Winston Blick has created a menu with a southern flair that prides itself on sourcing local ingredients, including the chicken and beef that is smoked on-site.
Riverside Roadhouse ready for spring
By LORENA BENIQUEZ
Sun-Gazette Correspondent
Riverside Roadhouse in Montgomery is ramping up for warmer temperatures, when they open up their pato for dining and their outdoor stage for live music.
Located at 125 S. Main Street, Riverside Roadhouse is the cultural center of the Riverside Campground that sits alongside the Susquehanna River. The Gabe Stillman Band and Clyde Frog will be just two of the featured bands this spring/summer season.
“When we bring in these live bands, it is a show. We open up all the bars outside and when you get here, there will be 90 campers with a band in the center,” said Devin O’Rourke, who is co-owner of the restaurant with his wife, Tina O’Rourke.
Then there is the food. Chef Winston Blick creates American cuisine with
locally sourced meat. His work won him national acclaim, when he was featured twice on Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.”
“All our beef is raised only five miles from here. It has a southern flair, with waffles and chicken. We smoke chicken, meat and fish,” said Devin. “The level of the food we provide - you just don’t expect that at a campground.”
While the Roadhouse has had visitors from all 50 states, Devin said some locals have yet to discover the restaurant.
“The majority of our business is from people out of the area because a lot of people still don’t know we exist,” Devin admits.
The restaurant is open seven days a week and 12 months of the year. For more information and daily specials, visit their Facebook page. For the live music schedule, visit their campground website at riverside-campground.com.
CNY DRONE SERVICES
Beat spongy moth infestation with drone-delivered remedy
Living in north central Pennsylvania, you may know that spongy months — formerly called gypsy moths — show up en masse starting in the spring and remove the leaves from trees and other plants.
“They literally swarm,” said Rick Jordan, operations manager of CNY Drone Services. “You’ll have huge masses all over the trees. It’s estimated to be about a million caterpillars per acre during an outbreak.”
All plant life is at risk from this infestation, but the creatures primarily feed on leafy trees, he said.
“They will eventually attack all the pine trees,” Jordan said. “They’ll drop down and start eating all the shrubs and things like that, and when they start getting hungry enough, they can actually drop down and start eating your grass, too. So it gets pretty bad. During a very bad outbreak, there’s so many of them that you can literally hear them chewing on the leaves.”
Additionally, their waste dropping sounds like it’s raining, he said.
“They poop so much that it will actually leave a coating on people’s yards, their driveways, all over their houses, their patios, their pools, and it’s just literally covered in a film of poop,” Jordan said.
Fortunately, you can protect your trees and property with a specialized insecticide, delivered by drone from CNY Drone Services to nsure a targeted, thorough treatment without harming your land or family.
“It’s safe for organic use, like on organically grown fruits or vegetables,” Jordan said. “You can use this and still maintain your organic growth, basically. It’s extremely safe for pets, wildlife, even humans. It will only target or only have an effect on the gypsy moths, on that family of caterpillars.”
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Insecticides are the only way to manage a spongy moth infestation, as other deterrents are temporary — meaning when the moths are done with the neighbor’s trees, they’ll come back to yours, Jordan said.
“It’s virtually impossible to actually kill all of the caterpillars in an area in order to stop the outbreak, so it’s a case of managing the impact of them,” he said. Drone delivery offers better coverage than other methods because it gives an even covering, especially on residential plots that would benefit from aerial application but are too small to use delivery by airplane or helicopter, he said. Drone delivery is also beneficial because it can reach the underside of trees to get to the caterpillars that are feeding on lower leaves.
“We’re also saturating the entire habitat of the caterpillars, so there’s essentially no safe place for them to be chewing on leaves,” Jordan said.
Because the chemical in the insecticide has limited availability, don’t delay scheduling an appointment.
“Our insecticide is only produced once a year, and it has a shelf life, so it’s not like we can just stockpile this stuff and then use it next year,” Jordan said.
To help with both the cost and effectiveness of treatment, you can work with neighbors to schedule treatment together so as to treat a larger area and minimize cost per household.
“It essentially comes down to, save your trees,” Jordan said. “The cost of our treatment versus the cost of hiring a company to come do a tree removal because your tree died, it’s a drop in the well. Most of these trees are irreplaceable, why leave it up to chance?
For more information https://cnydroneservices.com/, email info@cnydroneservices.com or call 315-351-6516.
ARTISAN HEARING
Owner of Artisan Hearing Tech thanks community for 10 years in business
By LORENA BENIQUEZ Sun-Gazette Correspondent
Artisan Hearing Technologies is celebrating their 10th year in business as well as thanking the community for voting Artisan Hearing Technologies as No. 1 for best services in the audiology section of the Readers’ Choice Awards.
“The past 10 years of serving the Williamsport area has been nothing but an honor,” said Jen Burget, who is a certified Hearing instrument specialist and the owner of Artisan Hearing Technologies LLC.
Artisan Hearing Technologies has grown in the last 10 years from one office to three. The three locations throughout the region are in South Williamsport at 508B, W. Southern Ave., Wellsboro at 5 E. Suite 107, and in Mifflinburg at 150 E. Chestnut St.
Artisan Hearing Technologies provides the newest technology and audiology equipment to best serve your diagnostic evaluation and hearing aid needs.
One of Artisan’s prime tech tools is a real ear measurement (REM) machine. This is a piece of equipment that allows you to see what you are hearing. They provide their audiological evaluation in a large soundproof booth. They provide video otoscopy, otoscopic inspection, tympanometric measurements, anacoustic reflex screenings, and otoacoustic emissions testing.
They can determine whether you have earwax or middle ear fluid causing your hearing loss, or if your hearing loss is a sensorineural hearing loss, which is nerve damage that can only be fixed by hearing aid. In addition, they have top of the line hearing aid cleaning equipment, and cutting edge ear scanning, elim-
inating the need for an impression when getting a custom fitted earpiece by using a 3-D scanner. In addition to hearing assessments, Artisan exceeds their services to include things like earwax removal, hearing aid fittings, counseling, cell phone app use, assistant listening devices, tinnitus management, hearing protection, hearing aid repairs in office, swimmers, plugs, motor, motorcycle plugs, musicians plugs, and racing plugs. Electronic hearing protection, electronic noise, counseling Bluetooth earbuds. Artisan Hearing Technologies also works with over-the-counter hearing aids.
Artisan Hearing Technologies is truly concerned about your hearing. They believe that your hearing is a quality of life issue, Burget and her team are dedicated to providing you with the best guidance possible. Burget has been collecting old hearing aids for over 15 years. She has been working in this industry for 20 years in total.
She invites you to come in and take a look at her hearing aid museum.
Artisan Hearing Technologies is always educating our area on Hearing healthcare, and Hearing protection.
“Protect your hearing now or come see me later,” said Burget.
“When you get a hearing aid, you are starting your hearing journey, and we are here to help guide you,” said Burget. “We can help you choose the hearing aid that would best suit you, your lifestyle and your budget. We will check your insurance for you, we will evaluate And counsel you on your hearing loss. We can talk about over-the-counter hearing aids or prescription hearing aids.”
Burget and her professional staff commit to continue providing you with the best service and hearing health care in the future.
“We are truly honored for the local support and wonderful people that have come through our door that have now become our family over the years,” said Burget.
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