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HARDCOVERFICTION1. "Bullseye" by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge (Little, Brown)2. "The Underground Railroad" by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)3. "Insidious" by Catherine Coulter (Gallery Books)4. "Sweet Tomorrows" by Debbie Macomber (Ballantine)5. "Truly Madly Guilty" by Liane Moriarty (Flatiron Books)6. "The Woman in Cabin 10" by Ruth Ware (Gallery/Scout Press)7. "The Black Widow" by Daniel Silva(Harper)8. "Three Sisters, Three Queens" by Phillipa Gregory (Touchstone)9. "The Girls" by Emma Cline (Random House)10. "Magic" by Danielle Steele (Delacorte)11. "Family Tree" by Susan Wiggs ...

Jam session to be held in Milroy

MILROY - A 50s open jam will be held from 7-9 p.m. Aug. 26 at Milroy Senior Center.The following musicians are scheduled to play:?Bill Bittner, Don Yantz, Charlie Arntz and others, as well as a special appearance by "Lavern and Shirley."A food booth will have hot dogs, sauerkraut, vegetable soup, barbecue, desserts, soda and more.Proceeds benefit the senior center.

Fair seeks contestants for title of ‘queen’

MIFFLINTOWN - Molly Caroline Arnold, of Mifflintown, knows her year-long reign as Juniata County Fair Queen and State Fair Queen Contest first alternate is drawing to a close.Arnold is 20 years old and attends Lancaster Bible College. She has represented the Juniata County Fair over the past year making public appearances in local parades, reading to children at Head Start, sharing her experience through public speaking and visiting nursing homes. She has been a great asset to the fair queen program.This year's contest will be held at 2 p.m. Sept. 3 on the Free Stage of the Juniata ...

Security issues explained

LEWISTOWN - Nowadays you need a password for just about everything, and people with nefarious goals are becoming more and more creative in how they figure out your passwords."Almost everything of ours, banking, email can be found online. We have to protect ourselves," Juniata County Library Director Vince Giordano said.Several times a year Giordano holds workshops at the library on various topics, and the most recent one was on password security."I have become very enthusiastic about this," he said.Giordano said the turnout for the workshop was good and they covered a lot of ...

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. Submit reunion notices to Jane Cannon Mort at The Sentinel; email jmort@lewistownsentinel.com, or call 248-6741, ext. 115The Rothrock High School Class of 1960 will hold its annual class reunion ...

Barnraising replaces burned structure for historical society

ALLENSVILLE - It takes a community to raise a barn.The Kishacoquillas Valley Historical Society's "new" barn has been constructed in Allensville, thanks to the efforts of many individuals, organizations and businesses.After suffering from a devastating fire on Oct. 9, 2014, in which many irreplaceable antiques and documents were destroyed, the society struggled with notion of whether to replace the barn. Yearning to preserve the agriculture history of Kish Valley, the society agreed to rebuild.Fred Brown, president of the KVHS Board of Directors, pursued the Ore Bank Farm barn he knew ...