COCOLAMUS — When Amy Sherman walked through the doors of East Juniata High School in Cocolamus as its new principal this fall, she wasn't stepping into unfamiliar territory. After more than two decades in the Juniata County School District, Sherman already knew many of the students, ...
MCALISTERVILLE — After four decades in the basement of the Juniata County Library, the Juniata County Historical Society has found a new temporary home and is preparing for a significant move that leaders hope will preserve and strengthen local history efforts while they continue searching for a permanent location. The historical society recently signed a two-year lease for a building at 30950 Route 35 North in McAlisterville, owned by Norma Frymoyer. While the organization will pay utility costs, there is no rent attached to the agreement, a gesture society volunteers say has ...
If you've been waiting for weather worthy of a complaint, you're going to have to keep waiting. The Juniata River Valley appears headed for a seven-day stretch of meteorological monotony featuring sunshine, sunshine and, for variety's sake, a little more sunshine. After a frosty start to the weekend that brought a freeze warning from 1 to 9 a.m. Sunday and a low of 31 degrees Saturday night, Mother Nature seems to have flipped the thermostat to "comfortable" and then walked away. Today kicks off the streak with abundant sunshine, a high of 68 and a low of 38. Winds may gust to 9 miles ...
Hit-and-run reported at Five Points in Lewistown LEWISTOWN — At 7:55 a.m. Oct. 8, Lewistown Police Department officers investigated a hit-and-run crash in the Five Points area of South Dorcas Street in Lewistown, according to a release issued on Thursday. Police said a white vehicle backed into another vehicle while stopped at a red light before fleeing the scene without exchanging information. Officers are awaiting video footage of the suspect vehicle. Lewistown man arrested on warrant, drug charges added LEWISTOWN — Levi T. Ryder, 30, of Lewistown, was taken into custody at 11 ...
(The Center Square) – Public education looks different from what it once did 50 years ago. Or 25 years ago. Or even six years ago. Back then, just before the pandemic, Janine Yass and her husband, Jeff, prominent billionaire philanthropists who support school choice programs, were donating seed money to educators experimenting with different types of learning for students. They were looking for programs that differed from the status quo, just as their Boys Latin of Philadelphia Charter School did when it opened in 2007. Twenty years later, the institution enrolls 800 students from ...
Cassandra Harris of Pittsburgh Media Partnership Newsroom The PMP Newsroom is a regional news service that focuses on government and enterprise reporting in southwestern Pennsylvania. Find out more information on foundation and corporate funders here: www.pghmediapartnership.org/sponsors Pennsylvania has fewer farms than it once did, but the average farm is getting larger — a shift occurring amid rising operating costs, shrinking profit margins and an aging generation of farmers struggling to find successors. Next to the office holding freezers full of lamb and beef on Tall Pines ...
