Two cited after domestic dispute JUNIATA TERRACE — Two people were cited following a domestic dispute in Juniata Terrace, according to Pennsylvania State Police Lewistown. Police responded at 12:43 a.m. July 23 to a residence on Terrace Boulevard. The incident involved a 25-year-old ...
MUNICH (AP) — Munich's Oktoberfest kicked off Saturday with the city's mayor tapping the first keg of beer and opening the 191st edition of the world's largest folk festival. Mayor Dominik Krause put the first keg on tap with only two strokes and the traditional cry of "O'zapft is" — or "It's been tapped." Thousands of revelers — the women dressed in Bavarian dirndls, the men in lederhosen — stormed the beer tents on Munich's Theresienwiese fairground in the morning to get a good spot on the benches. To the sounds of brass music and the taste of freshly tapped beer, they soon ...
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 ...
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 ...
