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Age-old rituals embraced at Malhotra wedding

EDITOR’S NOTE: In 2010 and 2011, Drs. Rajeshwar and Shashpal Malhotra, of Lewistown, shared a glimpse of their Indian culture’s celebration of marriage by inviting coverage of the weddings of their daughters, Monica to Karthik Jayaraman, and Anita to Anant Viswanath. Our coverage this ...

Reunions

Editor’s note: A list of upcoming reunions is published weekly on the Entertainment page. Missing classmate requests are published once and repeated only if updated. Brief reports of reunions and class reunion photos with the people identified in the order in which they appear are accepted for publication in the Living section. The deadline for submitting notices is one week before publication. ¯ The Kish Class of 1968 is looking for the following classmates: Carol Barger, Paula Hile, Wendell Hockenbrock, Lucinda Haywood, Joyce (Hafer) Stringfellow, Pat (Rebuck) Walls, Lucinda ...

Local train robbery subject of student’s documentary

HUNTINGDON — The legend of the Great Train Robbery of 1909 in the Lewistown Narrows will be revisited in a film debuting in Huntingdon on Monday. Matt Gaynor, of Jacobus, York County, a senior at Juniata College studying integrated media arts and film production, wrote and directed the ...

Bonson awarded prestigious fellowship

EMMITSBURG, Md. — Sarah Bonson graduated from Mount St. Mary’s University last May with the highest scholastic average through her four years at the university, a Clare Boothe Luce Scholarship, and membership in the George Henry Miles Honor Society and multiple science honor organizations. ...

Sparks in the Park

When I was a young fifth grader at East Derry Elementary (1975), Mr. McClenahen tried very hard to teach us about the American Civil War. We went to Gettysburg and toured all the battlefields, sat through the electric map presentation, walked up the rotunda and looked at the murals and ...

HOMETOWN Cravings

LEWISTOWN — Everyone has a favorite food that they crave and, for many of those people, there’s only one place to get it. Earlier this year, the Juniata River Valley Visitors Bureau asked the public via this newspaper and several social media sites for the one food they crave that ...