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MCSD board to meet Nov. 5 to approve sports personnel

LEWISTOWN — The Mifflin County School District Board of Directors Thursday added a special voting meeting on winter sports coaching personnel at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 5 after discussing prior basketball coaching approvals and other business. Superintendent of Schools Vance Varner said the district is awaiting completed paperwork before approving 19 coaches for various winter sports. Varner said the number includes six boys’ basketball coaches. Wade Curry, head coach for boys’ basketball at Mifflin County High School, said at Thursday's meeting that waiting until the regular Nov. ...

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Police reports

McClure woman receives warning after crash McCLURE — A 32-year-old McClure woman received a written warning following a single-vehicle crash at the intersection of Stull Road and Ulsh Gap Road at 5 p.m. Oct. 24, according to Pennsylvania State Police at Selinsgrove. Police said Allison J. Boreman was traveling west on Stull Road in a 2012 Volkswagen GTI when she failed to see a posted stop sign, traveled through the intersection and struck an embankment. Boreman was not injured. Police issued a written warning for a stop sign violation. Three children injured in Monroe Township ...

Two-alarm fire destroys building at Hilltop Pallets

McCLURE — A two-alarm fire destroyed a building Monday afternoon at Hilltop Pallets in western Snyder County's West Beaver Township. Snyder County emergency dispatch received the call at 12:19 p.m. for the fire at 261 Bannerville Hill Road, which has a McClure mailing address. Dispatch confirmed that firefighters contained the blaze but did not provide the time crews brought it under control or when the last units cleared the scene. The building was part of Hilltop Pallets, a family-owned business John Speicher founded in 2010. Dispatch did not identify the building or say how its ...

Foundation donates care packages to cancer patients

STATE COLLEGE — The Emily Whitehead Foundation recently donated 25 care packages to cancer patients at Mount Nittany Health, a hospital where the foundation's namesake received treatment as a child. The packages, known as "Believe Bundles," contain practical and comfort items selected by the foundation's patient community for individuals undergoing cancer treatment. Emily Whitehead was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at age 5 and received some of her medical care at Mount Nittany Health. After conventional treatments were unsuccessful, she became the first child in the ...

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