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The gift that keeps on giving. Christmas, more years ago than I can remember, is when it came to me. It was a toolbox crafted as a school industrial a...

OLEAN, N.Y. — Neighborhood School of Dance (NSD) is packing its bags and getting passports ready for the recently announced summer camp — Dance Around...

I freely admit to my addiction to most things related to firearms. One of my special weaknesses involves admiring “classic” rifles and shotguns. I mig...

HARRISBURG — Col. Robert Evanchick, commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police, announced Friday that 99 cadets graduated from the State Police Aca...

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine issued orders for mandatory COVID-19 testing for residents and employees of skill...

HARRISBURG — For just $1, customers at participating Wendy’s® restaurants located throughout the west/central region of Pennsylvania — including St. M...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Aging has issued reopening guidance for aging services providers located in counties that are entering the...

The COVID-19 virus has been two-fold in its effects on families. First, it has cooped many of us together in an unprecedented manner. School, work, en...

D-DAY: Today is the 76th anniversary of D-Day. We got our annual call from Bradford veteran Elmer Delucia this week reminding us of the anniversary. D...

The National Warplane Museum is sending two of its aircraft on a mission Saturday to salute area medical personnel and essential workers serving durin...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Darren Keglovits of Coudersport, Pa., successfully completed four years of challenging academic, physical and professional military t...

CAMP HILL — The Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation, the only non-profit whose mission is Pennsylvania’s state parks and forests, welcomes the f...

Bradford native Col. David W. Eaton recently retired from the U.S. Army with 30 years of service at Fort Gordon, Georgia. After graduating from The Ci...

HARRISBURG — At Monday’s daily COVID-19 press conference at the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, Sec. of Health Dr. Rachel Levine and Sec. of...

(TNS) — To honor Memorial Day and the Pittsburgh native for whom it was named, the USS Laboon, a guided missile destroyer commissioned in 1995, will b...

HARRISBURG — Two local Army National Guard members are on a unique, first-of-its-kind team formed in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. “I am normally...

SMETHPORT — Although the Memorial Day Parade in Smethport has been canceled, members of the American Legions Post 138 and Post 976 and VFW Post 2497 w...

DECORATION DAY : Memorial Day was historically known as “Decoration Day.” To honor the deceased, soldiers would decorate graves of their fallen comrad...

Memorial Day is typically the last Monday in May, set to honor those who died in active military service. In years when there is not a pandemic, that ...

For the first time in a century, the Pennsylvania National Guard canceled its annual memorial service at Boalsburg, the site of the 28th Infantry Divi...