Bloomsburg

[bloomz-burg]

noun

1. a city in E central Pennsylvania.

Example Sentences

“I spent most of my life in Pennsylvania, growing up in Bloomsburg on my family’s farm,” Mr. McCormick, now a Republican candidate for Senate, told Pittsburgh Quarterly in 2022.

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“My life’s journey — from growing up on a farm in Bloomsburg, to graduating from West Point and serving in the 82nd Airborne Division, growing a business in Pittsburgh, and serving at the highest levels of government — reflects that.”

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“I’d call that a long shot,” says Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania astronomer Michael Shepard.

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McCormick, who grew up near Bloomsburg, is the son of Pennsylvania’s first state university system chancellor.

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McCormick insists he lives in Pittsburgh, in a house he bought there in early 2022 and has stressed his hometown roots in Pennsylvania, including growing up on a Christmas tree farm near Bloomsburg that he still owns.

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