News, Online Features
Jan 10, 2023
For 11 months out of the year business progresses as usual during the Bradford Area School District board meetings; however, at Monday night’s meeting...
News, PA State News
Jan 02, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — Parent Stephanie Jamison feels like she’s playing defense anticipating the next accusations that will confront the Souderton Area...
News, PA State News
Apr 20, 2022
DILLSBURG (TNS) — A near-unanimous school board vote Tuesday night struck down a proposal to create an After School Satan Club at the Northern York El...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 11, 2022
As I write, the recently inaugurated Republican governor of Virginia is engaged in a Twitter war with a mouthy high school kid. And losing. It’s like ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 05, 2022
I’m so old I can remember when people calling themselves “conservative” thought “cancel culture” was a bad thing. Oh wait, that was last week. More re...
News, PA State News
Feb 01, 2022
HARRISBURG (TNS) — A school superintendent with three DUI arrests on his resume has a new top job after a divided Allegheny County school board voted ...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 11, 2022
The old legal maxim is that everything which is not forbidden is permitted. Many public-health experts apparently have their own version of this rule ...
News
Aug 13, 2021
When classes begin at Bradford Area School District campuses Aug. 23, there may be some students who opt to do their lessons online through the Virtua...
News
May 01, 2021
RIDGWAY — The Elk County Democratic Committee will host its monthly meeting beginning at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Because of current COVID-19 concerns, the m...
Local News
Jan 19, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK — Penn State Extension is offering a web-based seminar for anyone who has ever thought about serving on a school board, borough counci...
Local News
Jan 12, 2021
With Bradford schools returning to in-person instruction on Monday, Superintendent Katy Pude addressed the decision at Monday evening’s school board m...
Local News
Dec 10, 2020
SMETHPORT — Smethport Area School District Superintendent David London plans to retire next summer. The school board accepted his letter of resignatio...
Bradford, Local News, News
Dec 03, 2020
ELDRED — The Otto-Eldred School Board met Tuesday evening for a regular scheduled board meeting. The board started out their evening with reorganizati...
Bradford, Local News, News
Nov 28, 2020
Current substantial risk levels in McKean County have required school districts to make a choice on how to proceed with student education. Port Allega...
High School, Local Sports, Sports
Nov 10, 2020
The Bradford Board of Education approved the beginning of winter sports at Monday night’s meeting. As it was in the fall, Bradford will compete in the...
Bradford, Local News, News
Oct 12, 2020
The Port Allegany Education Support Professionals Association, the union that represents the support staff employees in the Port Allegany School Distr...
High School, Local Sports, Sports
Aug 25, 2020
RIDGWAY — Schools in Elk, McKean, Potter and Cameron counties could be playing fall sports in a quasi-bubble, according to a press release from the Ri...
Editorials
Aug 04, 2020
If the COVID-19 crisis produces any positive long-term cultural changes, one is likely to be a greater appreciation for access to education. As public...
Local News
Nov 26, 2019
RIDGWAY — Ridgway Area School District’s administration and school board has announced the pending formation of the Ridgway Elker Advancement Foundati...
Local News
Oct 15, 2019
A variety of matters from a grant application to school bus safety were addressed during a meeting of the Bradford Area School Board Monday. The distr...
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...
