News, Round the Square
Jan 03, 2023
REMINDER: Remember, readers, the year-end chronology of news stories and necrology from 2022 will not be in today’s edition. Instead, the information ...
News
Mar 29, 2022
The McKean County State Health Center has more COVID home test kits to distribute for free this week and next. The center, at 84-90 Boylston St., will...
News
Dec 01, 2021
More than 60 new cases of COVID-19 and four deaths were reported in the region as of Tuesday, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. As o...
News
Aug 24, 2021
McKean County is considered to be at substantial risk of transmission of COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID D...
News
Aug 07, 2021
Potter County’s rate of positivity for COVID-19 is rising again, and only about 26% of the county’s population are fully vaccinated. All four local co...
News
Jul 10, 2021
The numbers of new cases of the COVID-19 virus are dwindling in the local region. In the last week, McKean County has seen four new cases of COVID-19,...
News
Jun 30, 2021
Two local counties are showing a zero percent positivity rate for COVID-19, while two others are showing improvement. On Tuesday, data for Elk and Cam...
News
Jun 23, 2021
All four local counties have reached the low level of community transmission of COVID-19. On Tuesday, a report given by Gov. Tom Wolf and Acting Secre...
News
Jun 16, 2021
Potter County was the only county in the state listed in the substantial level of community transmission for COVID-19 as of Tuesday. The county’s posi...
News
Jun 09, 2021
McKean County is the only one in Pennsylvania to be listed in the category of substantial community spread of COVID-19. In the weekly status report is...
News
May 19, 2021
The region’s rates of positivity for COVID-19 remain highest in the state, but the numbers of additional cases of the virus are down across the region...
News, Online Features
May 13, 2021
McKean County has the highest percent positivity in Pennsylvania at 16.2%, and remains listed at substantial risk of community spread, according to th...
News
May 04, 2021
The percent positivity for Pennsylvania is at 7.6%, with trends starting to come down. This percentage is for the week of April 23-29. The trend in th...
News
Apr 28, 2021
McKean and Potter counties are ranked as substantial risk for community transmission of COVID-19, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. ...
News
Apr 20, 2021
McKean and Elk Counties are among 55 counties at substantial risk of community transmission of COVID-19 Tuesday. In the weekly update, Governor Tom Wo...
Local News
Apr 14, 2021
The latest virus figures from the Pennsylvania Department of Health showed that COVID-19 remains a problem in the local region. The weekly update prov...
Bradford, Local News, News
Apr 07, 2021
Elk County is the only local county to have seen a drop in the number of new cases of COVID-19, but remains at substantial risk of community transmiss...
Bradford, Local News, News
Mar 30, 2021
Elk County is back in the category of “substantial level” of community transmission of COVID-19, noted a status update from state officials on Monday....
Bradford, Local News, News
Mar 16, 2021
As the grip that COVID-19 has on Pennsylvanians is slowly loosening, so soon will state-imposed restrictions. Gov. Tom Wolf announced on Monday that s...
Local News
Mar 10, 2021
Cameron and Potter counties were both listed in the low level of community transmission for COVID-19 based on the past week’s numbers, while Elk and M...
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...
Local Sports, Sports
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...
