Author’s note: The year was 1971; it was a period of growth, and it was a revolution. The 26th Amendment allowed people to vote at 18. Disney World opened for business, and Apollo 14 launched to the moon. It was a busy period in time, when we were advancing as a nation. For as long as I can ...
Author’s note: I chose to write about this because my father has been one of the biggest influences on my athletic career. He accomplished a feat that not many people can say they did back in the 1980s. His story is inspiring to me and hopefully it is to many others. He left a great mark on ...
McALISTERVILLE — One man’s love for discovering his family tree has grown into a potential side business opportunity at his farm. Dan Smith is a high school biology teacher, farmer and now a budding genealogist of sorts. Other than eggs and produce, the farmer is offering the ...
Author’s note: Back in 1960, a girl named Darla had a big life changing event. She ended up finding out she was pregnant. She moved out to live in an apartment with her boyfriend on little pay. They got married a few months after the baby was born. Then, years down the road she had another ...
(First of three articles) Late December 1776. The temperature is 29 degrees and we’re sitting by a fire — but neither of us are at home. You and I are sitting near the banks of the Delaware River in Pennsylvania. We recently had one heck of a battle at Long Island where they say 800 to 1,000 of our fellow Americans were killed, but you and I managed to get out with the rest of the army across the river in a heavy fog — and thank God for that fog because it was daylight and the British were coming to annihilate this so-called army. But then fog! Gen. Tallmadge said only God ...
Winners of the Mifflin County Garden Club’s annual Christmas Decorating Contest for Lewistown residents are: ≤ Helen Buffington Award for Overall Design: Lisa Knudson, 112 N. Walnut St. ≤ Blue ribbon for Overall Design: Lisa McCullough, Rhoda Shafranich and Ahlea Hornung, 420 ...
