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    529 Day Promotion awards total more than $33,000
    Local News, News, PA State News
    529 Day Promotion awards total more than $33,000
    Apr 30, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Treasurer Stacy Garrity encourages families to save for education with this year’s 529 Day promotion. Families who save with the PA 529 C...
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    Social Security Matters: Will benefit increase if I keep working after applying
    Business, Local News, News
    Social Security Matters: Will benefit increase if I keep working after applying
    RUSSELL GLOOR 
    Apr 11, 2025
    DEAR RUSTY: I am going to be 67 in a few weeks and I plan on working for another year or two. According to Social Security, they count the best 35 yea...
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    Social Security Matters: Will Medicare premium change after selling investment property?
    Business, Local News, News
    Social Security Matters: Will Medicare premium change after selling investment property?
    RUSSELL GLOOR 
    Mar 21, 2025
    DEAR RUSTY: I have questions concerning the deduction of money from my Social Security benefit amount as it relates to the sale of investment property...
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    What you need to know about Social Security policy changes
    Nation & World, News
    What you need to know about Social Security policy changes
    TOM FONTAINE The Tribune-Review, Greensburg 
    Mar 20, 2025
    (TNS) — Several significant policy changes affecting Social Security recipients and applicants get underway this month. One of the changes is designed...
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    High Point Federal Credit Union to open March 17
    Business, Headlines, Local News, ...
    High Point Federal Credit Union to open March 17
    Mar 07, 2025
    High Point Federal Credit Union’s new Bradford branch is scheduled to open March 17, at 1035 E. Main St. The new, full-service branch will provide loa...
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    Failing bank CEOs took in millions
    Opinion, Сolumns
    Failing bank CEOs took in millions
    Mar 06, 2025
    The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was forced to spend $31.6 billion to protect customers at three failed banks in early 2023. While taxpayers ...
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    Social Security Matters: Claiming benefits with a health savings account
    Business, Local News, News
    Social Security Matters: Claiming benefits with a health savings account
    RUSSELL GLOOR 
    Feb 15, 2025
    DEAR RUSTY: I have reached my full retirement age (66 plus 8 months) and plan to apply for Social Security this month, but I’ve seen articles that say...
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    Garrity announces fee cuts for PA 529 accounts
    Local News, News, PA State News
    Garrity announces fee cuts for PA 529 accounts
    Jan 21, 2025
    HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced two new fee cuts for the Morningstar Gold Rated PA 529 Investment Plan (IP) as a result of...
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    Social Security Matters: When to claim and taxation of benefits
    Business, Local News, News
    Social Security Matters: When to claim and taxation of benefits
    RUSSELL GLOOR 
    Jan 17, 2025
    DEAR RUSTY: I am 65 and currently working full time. Can I apply for and start receiving my Social Security benefit? I'd expect to have to pay income ...
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    700K Pa. residents will see medical debt barred from credit scores under Biden rule
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    700K Pa. residents will see medical debt barred from credit scores under Biden rule
    AMY WORDEN pennlive.com 
    Jan 09, 2025
    (TNS)—Millions of Americans with medical debt, including nearly 700,000 Pennsylvanians, will no longer have to fear their debt will tarnish their cred...
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    Social Security Matters: Can I get back Medicare taxes paid?
    Business, Local News, News
    Social Security Matters: Can I get back Medicare taxes paid?
    RUSSELL GLOOR 
    Jan 03, 2025
    DEAR RUSTY: I'm 72 years old with 20 years of military service. I am retired collecting Social Security, my military pension and state retirement bene...
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    Social Security Matters: Can wife claim now and get half my benefit later?
    Business, News
    Social Security Matters: Can wife claim now and get half my benefit later?
    RUSSELL GLOOR 
    Dec 27, 2024
    DEAR RUSTY: My wife will reach her full Social Security benefit at 66.5 years of age which is just under 2 years away for her now. If she were to begi...
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    After months of efforts to keep it open, Sharon hospital to close Jan. 6, eliminating 700 jobs
    Business, News, PA State News
    After months of efforts to keep it open, Sharon hospital to close Jan. 6, eliminating 700 jobs
    KRIS B. MAMULA Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
    Dec 18, 2024
    PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A bankrupt Mercer County hospital is slated to close in less than three weeks, throwing 699 employees out of work, after efforts to...
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    Northwest to acquire Penns Woods Bancorp Inc.
    Business, Local News, News
    Northwest to acquire Penns Woods Bancorp Inc.
    Dec 17, 2024
    COLUMBUS, Ohio — Northwest Bancshares Inc. (Northwest), the bank holding company for Northwest Bank, and Penns Woods Bancorp Inc. (Penns Woods), the m...
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    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    PA State News
    Pa. charter school CEOs earn more money than superintendents and oversee fewer students
    By OLIVER MORRISON  pennlive.com 
    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...
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    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    PA State News
    Pa. is supposed to ‘immediately’ suspend teachers charged with serious crimes. That doesn’t always happen.
    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...
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    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    Local News, Nation & World
    No Kings rally in Veterans Square
    By SAVANNAH BARR s.barr@bradfordera.com 
    June 14, 2025
    Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
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    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    Advocates, lawmakers push to limit solitary confinement in Pa. prisons
    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...
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    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Local Sports
    Varischetti Game to Showcase Local Players June 27
    Jo Wankel 
    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...
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    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Local Sports, Sports
    State tourism officials: In 2026, Pa. will be the ‘epicenter of the sports world’
    Jo Wankel 
    June 14, 2025
    (TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
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