Lewisburg joins Earth Month cleanup events across Susquehanna region

Volunteers across the Susquehanna Greenway collected 81,261 pounds of litter in 2025, and Lewisburg has another chance to tackle the same local problem on April 26, when Lewisburg Neighborhoods hosts a cleanup from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. The work is aimed at the places residents see every day, including parks, trails, downtown streets and river-adjacent corridors.

The Susquehanna Greenway Partnership says Cleanup Month began in 2018 as a river-town effort in Williamsport and grew from Cleanup Week into a monthlong schedule of events. That first year brought 134 volunteers and 1,245.4 pounds of trash. By 2024, the effort had expanded to 24 locations, 1,025 volunteers, 41,208 pounds collected and 25 trees planted. In 2025, 947 volunteers still pulled more than 81,000 pounds from the region’s public spaces.

Lewisburg has already shown what that kind of volunteer work can look like on the ground. In 2024, 15 Lewisburg Neighborhoods volunteers removed 300 pounds of trash from Hufnagle Park and the Bull Run neighborhood. Another 35 volunteers handled spring trail maintenance on Dale’s Ridge Trail and removed invasive species. In a separate Earth Week effort, Lewisburg River Town Team and Lewisburg Neighborhoods drew 90 volunteers who collected 45 bags of trash in the downtown district and along the Buffalo Valley Rail Trail, while 26 trees were planted near the Lewisburg AYSO soccer fields.

That local work matters because Lewisburg is not just another stop on the schedule. The borough is a Susquehanna Greenway River Town, designated in 2014, and its downtown commercial district and adjacent neighborhoods are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Cleanup work around the river, trail system and historic core helps keep the places people use most, and the places that shape Lewisburg’s identity, from showing the strain of another spring season.

The region’s April schedule starts in Selinsgrove and at Milton State Park, then moves through Williamsport, Sunbury, Bloomsburg and Danville before reaching Lewisburg. The partnership says it can help communities plan cleanups and secure no-cost supplies such as bags, gloves and safety vests, with materials supported through Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful in partnership with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, PennDOT and Keep America Beautiful. Questions can be directed to Kyle Ehmann, and residents looking for a concrete way to help can start with the April 26 Lewisburg cleanup.