ALTOONA - There's no place like home, or as P&J Productions likes to call it, the Benzel Stage at the Mishler Theatre, where "The Wizard of Oz" will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 16 and 17, and at 2 p.m. on Oct. 18. "It's a beautiful theater, and it's a relatively small theater so that ...
LEWISTOWN - In 2015, Amy Morgan watched her friend Mary Pollock finish a breast cancer walk and made a promise. The next time, and every time after that, she would cross the finish line with her. Pollock had survived breast cancer. Morgan had lost both her parents to other forms of the ...
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(The Center Square) - A multi-year push to legalize so-called "skill games" being operating in clubs, bars, and other small organizations around Pennsylvania may be over, and Rep. Russ Diamond said Monday "there are lots of people to blame and most of them work in the Capitol." The statement from Diamond, a Lebanon County Republican, came after the Supreme Court on Friday denied formal requests to extend a deadline it set for Tuesday allowing the machines to operate legally. After Tuesday, the court's stay on its previously issued order that found the devices to be illegal slot machines ...
MEXICO, Pa. — The history of Pennsylvania’s Soldiers’ Orphan Schools Program, including the former McAlisterville Soldiers’ Orphan School in Juniata County, will be the focus of the Juniata County Historical Society’s fall dinner Wednesday. Guest speaker William Peck Jr., a lay historian of the Pennsylvania Soldiers’ Orphan Schools Program, will present an overview of the program, which operated from 1864 to 2009. Peck has been associated with Scotland School for Veterans Children throughout his life and will discuss the McAlisterville school along with similar orphan ...
Public drunkenness citation issued after street encounter LEWISTOWN — Samuel L. Deppen, 34, of Lewistown, was cited for public drunkenness after Lewistown Police Department officers observed him swatting at passing vehicles on Valley Street in Lewistown, according to a release issued on Thursday. At 4:09 p.m. Oct. 4, police found Deppen, who appeared unsteady and told officers he was seeing "lights and shadows." Deppen admitted consuming rum and a preliminary breath test indicated impairment. Officers transported him home and cited him for public drunkenness, police said. Lewistown ...
