LEWISTOWN — Motorists traveling through Mifflin and Juniata counties next week can expect lane closures and traffic restrictions as the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation conducts road and bridge maintenance. PennDOT announced its maintenance schedule for the week of Oct. 12, with ...
HARRISBURG — An unusual and competitive race is brewing in western Pennsylvania, featuring an independent candidate aided by a heaping of dark money. Republican Camera Bartolotta represents the 46th Senate District, a former Democratic stronghold south of Pittsburgh that stretches across a swath of hills, river valleys, and farmland, and contains old milltowns and active coal and gas development. The former businesswoman and actress has earned the ire of some local Republicans who’ve deemed her insufficiently conservative. She beat a well-funded primary challenger, bankrolled by ...
McCLURE — Pony rides, a petting area with goats and a chicken barbecue by the McClure Fire Company will be among the attractions when McClure Commons hosts its first Fall Fest on Saturday, Oct. 17. The festival runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 5 Bubb St., with approximately 35 vendors ...
LEWISTOWN — The Derry Township Board of Supervisors received a proposal from a Building Code Inspector during its meeting Monday evening. Officials claim they have been looking into available building code inspection services for permitting residential and commercial construction in the ...
BURNHAM — Dozens of community members gathered Thursday morning at the Juniata Valley YMCA to celebrate the grand reopening of the YMCA community pool. After seven weeks of construction and anticipation, the crowd arrived for the reopening during one of the first water aerobics ...
NEW BUFFALO — A 24-year-old Mifflin County woman died from injuries sustained in a single-vehicle crash late Saturday on U.S. 322 in Perry County. Callie Espigh died of multiple traumatic injuries following the crash, which occurred at about 11:52 p.m. Oct. 3 near mile marker 225.6 in Watts Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police at Newport and the Cumberland County Coroner’s Office. The coroner’s office ruled Espigh’s death accidental. State police said Espigh was traveling east on Route 322 when her vehicle left the roadway for unknown reasons. The vehicle traveled ...
