LEWISTOWN — A large crowd of spectators gathered near the Roundhouse Road crossing in Granville Township on Wednesday afternoon to witness a once-in-a-lifetime experience to see Union Pacific’s Big Boy No. 4014. According to Granville Township Police Chief Chad Brehman, an estimated ...
It’s been a week since the deadline for a state budget passed, and public libraries, schools, and rape crisis centers are bracing for the possibility of tighter times even while the memory of last year’s 135-day budget debacle remains fresh. A repeat is a real fear for many whose funding may be interrupted if it takes too long for Democrats and Republicans in Harrisburg to make a compromise. “I don’t want to have to go through that again. I don’t want our team to have to go through that again,” said the CEO of Crime Victims’ Center of Chester County, Christine ...
STATE COLLEGE — Kish Bank has named Tracy Wilkinson as its incoming senior vice president and chief credit officer as longtime executive Ric Sarfert prepares to retire. Wilkinson joined the company June 1 and will assume the chief credit officer role as Sarfert transitions from the ...
Severe weather pummeled all but three of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties over the holiday weekend, killing three and leaving roughly 105,000 residents still without power on Monday. Gov. Josh Shapiro was joined by Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency Director Randy Padfield and PennDOT ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Workers were expected to begin stabilizing a Manhattan high-rise Tuesday evening after buckled columns and sagging floors forced evacuations in and around the midtown construction site. Construction workers at the site and people in nearby buildings — including a school, diplomatic offices and several hotels — in the busy corridor of midtown had been rushed out after firefighters were called there around 8 a.m. and found the precarious conditions. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said early Tuesday afternoon that the building remained unstable and was “an extremely ...
MIFFLINTOWN — Inside a Mifflintown warehouse, a machine waits on a crop most people still misunderstand. Feed it hemp stalks. Break them apart. Separate the useful pieces. From those stalks, Abraham Aras sees horse bedding, building materials, textiles, plastic alternatives, farm income, manufacturing jobs and, someday, a research center in Juniata County. First, though, he has to get people past one word. For many people, hemp still means marijuana. Aras, co-founder and manager of Hempatrics, knows it. Dane Walters, director of Juniata Business and Industry, knows it too. ...
