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Local pastoral team reflects on experiences

BELLEVILLE — Since its founding in 1868, Maple Grove Mennonite Church has always been viewed as a progressive faith community. It was the first area Mennonite church to establish a Sunday School program in 1871. The first to launch a program on a Lewistown radio station in 1947. The first ...

Anabaptism celebration to be held May 16-18

ALLENSVILLE — This year, all over the world, people will be celebrating the 500th anniversary of Anabaptism in various ways. Anabaptist is a Greek term meaning “rebaptizer.” The people of this faith believed that the Christian needed to make their own choice to follow Jesus and then be ...

Religion briefs

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Operating committee approves Academy’s budget for 2025-26

LEWISTOWN — The operating committee at the Mifflin County Academy of Science and Technology unanimously approved the school’s $3.97 million general fund budget for the 2025-26 school year on Thursday night during its monthly meeting at the Academy, located at 700 Pitt St. in ...

East Broad Top Railroad seeks recognition

ROCKHILL FURNACE — Steam billows across the Appalachian hillsides as a narrow-gauge locomotive winds through the Pennsylvania countryside, its whistle echoing across valleys unchanged since the 1870s. The East Broad Top Railroad, a nine-mile journey through time, stands among America’s ...