education

PORT ALLEGANY — The Port Allegany School District announced that it will offer Project Lead The Way’s (PLTW) PreK-5 program, PLTW Launch. The opportun...

SMETHPORT — Masks/facial coverings and social distancing will be optional for students and staff while in school this coming school year in Smethport,...

Change can be hard and it can be scary. But, it also can be promising. Because with change comes opportunity. That’s the spirit that must be tapped as...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Eight area graduating seniors recently received scholarships from the Big 30 Athletic Fund at Cattaraugus Region Community Foundation. E...

SMETHPORT — Smethport Rotarians hosted the 2021-22 McKean County Fair Queen candidates and the reigning fair queen at a noon meeting Tuesday at Chico’...

The calendar may say July but staff at Bradford Regional Medical Center and Olean (N.Y.) General Hospital are planning for back to school. As part of ...

(Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series sharing the findings of a June 2021 study on suicide in rural Pennsylvania). A study, publishe...

The question on whether children in the Bradford Area School District will be required to wear masks — or not — this fall still remains unanswered as ...

The Pink Langianese Scholarship Fund, administered by The McKean County Community Foundation, recently awarded $500 to Ryan Cottillion. Ryan is a 2021...

After Sally Costik received a number of calls inquiring about the possibility of resuming the Creative Women Workshop at Crook Farm, she checked with ...

WARREN — Northern PA Regional College is announcing its fall 2021 semester courses, and registration is open now. Nearly 30 courses are being offered ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Appalachian Regional Commission invites proposals from organizations within the Appalachian Region, including non-profits, inst...

For the past couple of years, volunteers with the Crook Farm School Program have missed seeing area school children who visited the historic Bradford ...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — Star Wars music played softly overhead Tuesday as a group of students worked on creating their own rockets that they hoped to launch ...

ALLEGANY, N.Y. — A new summer partnership between the Allegany-Limestone Central School District and the Olean YMCA has given students ages 5 to 12 an...

An optimistic people, perhaps especially when it comes to the benefits of education, Americans aren’t used to anything resembling the idea that a year...

As a small, church-operated program for children, Ascension Preschool had been pulling in a steady group of children until the pandemic struck in 2020...

Over the past several months, there’s been a considerable amount of discussion about a proposal put forth by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher E...

For the past several days, the high-pitched whir of small drones could be heard over Callahan Park, much to the interest of all who looked skyward. Th...

New technology means new opportunities that were not available to past generations. Smethport Area High School graduate Tamara “Tami-Girl” Linnan want...