News
Oct 13, 2022
COLUMBIA FALLS, Maine — This year’s theme for Wreaths Across America (WAA) is “Find a Way to Serve.” In keeping with this, the organization launched a...
News, Outdoors, PA State News
Jul 18, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Out of Gov. Tom Wolf’s commitment to leaving the state’s education system in better shape than he found it comes a three-year strat...
News, PA State News
Jul 08, 2022
HOMESTEAD — Educators in Armstrong and Indiana counties will soon receive innovative STEM learning tools thanks to the Allegheny Intermediate Unit’s (...
Opinion, Сolumns
May 07, 2022
UNIVERSITY PARK (AP) — When the pandemic first closed schools in March 2020, it was an emergency response that upended the typical priorities of publi...
News, PA State News
Dec 18, 2021
HARRISBURG (TNS) — A new law aims to help ease the substitute teacher shortage nearing crisis levels in many Pennsylvania schools. Gov. Tom Wolf on Fr...
News
Nov 20, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK — Twenty-six volunteers from four counties enrolled in the pilot. Led by educators from Extension's Leadership and Community Vitality ...
News, Round the Square
Sep 03, 2021
TAR SPOT: Tar spot, a fungal leaf disease, was positively identified in a cornfield in Lancaster County this week. First discovered in Pennsylvania in...
News
May 08, 2021
CARE for Children, the lead agency for Safe Kids Pennsylvania — McKean County Partner, recently joined together with the Bradford Area School District...
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 20, 2021
Educators and parents of school-aged children are once again engaged in a national debate about teaching civics in schools. Recently, though, there’s ...
Local News
Mar 04, 2021
SMETHPORT — Morgan Cady has been named the new 4-H and youth development educator with Penn State Extension, McKean County. She will be working with e...
Local News
Sep 18, 2020
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has $400,000 in grant funding available for youth and adult environmental educati...
Local News
Sep 16, 2020
CARE for Children, a non-profit organization that provides services to children of all abilities, is hosting a free professional training, “Active Pla...
Local News
Apr 28, 2020
UNIVERSITY PARK — In-person, nonessential events and programs sponsored by Penn State Extension through at least June 19 have been cancelled, postpone...
Health
Apr 27, 2020
Although every industry has been affected to some degree by the COVID-19 pandemic, few have been rocked as hard as the education sector. The pandemic ...
Coronavirus, Local News
Apr 17, 2020
UNIVERSITY PARK — Growing up has its ups and downs under normal circumstances, but the novel coronavirus is making that even more complicated, accordi...
Coronavirus, Local News
Apr 11, 2020
UNIVERSITY PARK — With stay-at-home orders in place to stop the spread of COVID-19, many families are wrestling with how to adjust to being at home al...
Local News
Apr 10, 2020
SMETHPORT — An online presentation called “Living in a Digital World” will be held at 6:30 p.m. April 28, 9:30 a.m. on April 29 and at noon April 30. ...
Local News
Apr 10, 2020
UNIVERSITY PARK — Implementing policies to spur improvements in retail activities in rural communities will be the topic of a web-based seminar presen...
Bradford, Local News, News
Mar 31, 2020
Penn State Extension has adjusted its delivery of programs and services in order to protect the health of extension personnel and the public while sti...
Bradford, Entertainment, Lifestyles
Mar 02, 2020
STATE COLLEGE — Two McKean County 4-H members were honored recently at the 2020 Pennsylvania 4-H State Leadership Conference at the Penn State Hotel a...
Nation & World, PA State News
June 15, 2025
UNIVERSITY PARK — Entire regions of trees are disappearing because of invasive pests, disease and a changing climate. The key to their ability to adap...
PA State News
June 15, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Brad Hatch grew up near Altoona and started his career as a teacher in the local school district, working his way up to assistant p...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
