Road rally kicks off historic Goose Day festivities
LEWISTOWN — With 48 years under its belt and Goose Day getting bigger and bigger with each passing year, it comes as no surprise that this year’s Goose Road Rally had 118 participants who filled 31 vehicles on Sunday. “The road rally brings the community together, and I was so happy to ...
Museum Day brings Mifflin County’s past into view
LEWISTOWN — At the Hoopes School, Sandy Deadmon has found a way to explain 19th-century classroom technology to children raised on touchscreens. She hands them a slate and tells them, “Here’s your iPad.” Then comes the chalk, which serves as the keyboard. The eraser, she explains, is the delete button. It usually takes only a moment for the comparison to work. Children begin writing. They look around the one-room schoolhouse, built in 1873, and start asking questions about a school with no cafeteria or auditorium, no indoor plumbing, and no bus waiting outside. “They like ...
Meet Earth's newest wild cat species, the first named in over a century
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A previously unknown cat species has been identified in plain sight: at a wildlife sanctuary in Bolivia, where the small, spotted feline had been living for years. The discovery, reported Thursday in the journal Current Biology, marks the first time scientists have named and described a new living wild cat species in more than a century. Bolivian biologist Paola Nogales-Ascarrunz, a National Geographic explorer and one of the study's lead authors, said a colleague who thought the cat looked unusual invited her to examine it at the sanctuary in the country's ...
Ukraine fires over 1,000 drones at Russia, including 'largest ever' attack on Moscow
The Associated Press Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia overnight, including hundreds that were launched toward Moscow, officials said Sunday, as the Kremlin was wrapping up the third and last day of its parliamentary elections. Moscow's mayor described the wave of ...