Crime, News
Dec 28, 2022
On Friday, Dec. 16 Fretz Area Middle School was placed on a short lockdown procedure as the City of Bradford Police Department and the Bradford Area S...
News
Nov 08, 2022
HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) was joined Monday by the Pennsylvania State Police, the Pennsylvania Department o...
News
Nov 03, 2022
HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania General Assembly members from both chambers and both parties on Wednesday heralded the introduction of a mental health pilot...
Opinion, Сolumns
Oct 17, 2022
Pennsylvania school districts have banned at least 459 books this school year, more than districts in every state other than Texas and Florida, accord...
News, PA State News
Sep 27, 2022
Officials at a Pennsylvania school district asked a middle school teacher to take down a rainbow flag — a symbol of support for the LGBTQ community — ...
News, Online Features
Aug 27, 2022
Break out the masks and the hand sanitizer, McKean County has been elevated to the high community risk status for COVID-19 — again. The CDC made the c...
News
May 13, 2022
The Bradford Area School District heard from Business Manager Judy Bodamer pertaining to the 2022-2023 budget, as well as from a representative of Nut...
News
Apr 09, 2022
(Editor’s note: This is being reprinted due to an error in the information originally submitted) COUDERSPORT — The Potter County Education Council has...
News
Apr 03, 2022
DUKE CENTER, Pa. — The principal at Otto-Eldred Junior/Senior High School is leaving the district to take another position. The school district posted...
News
Mar 16, 2022
Vaping is a rising trend in society, with 11% of Americans vaping, according to a 2020 Gallup poll. With this rise, a trend of injury to teens has som...
Opinion, Сolumns
Feb 18, 2022
In a combination of overstatement and bad timing, the Legislature’s nonpartisan Independent Fiscal Office needlessly has complicated the simple questi...
Opinion, Сolumns
Jan 10, 2022
In March 2020, kids went home from school on Friday and didn’t come back for months. Some didn’t walk through the school doors in person until August ...
News
Nov 17, 2021
The McKean County Department of Emergency Management is working with Universal Primary Care, located in Bradford, and local school districts to help g...
Opinion, Сolumns
Nov 15, 2021
ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Pennsylvania’s public education system went on trial Friday. Six school districts are teaming with several parents and a few advocac...
News
Nov 12, 2021
Wednesday’s ruling by the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, which voted 4-1 to overturn the mask mandate set by Acting Pennsylvania Secretary of Health...
News
Oct 08, 2021
Recent stories have warned of potential shortages of canned foods or meats due to increased prices for aluminum and processing plants operating at les...
News
Sep 09, 2021
SMETHPORT — Following a 33-minute executive session that was called to discuss legal contracts and personnel, Smethport Borough Council agreed unanimo...
Lifestyle, News
Sep 02, 2021
The Bradford Area High School and Bradford Central Christian High School class of 1980 are planning the 40 plus 1 Reunion on Saturday Oct. 16 at the P...
News
Aug 31, 2021
Floyd C. Fretz Middle School had a second confirmed case of COVID-19 reported Monday. The case follows Friday’s announcement of a positive case. The s...
Opinion, Сolumns
Aug 23, 2021
How is it that a commonsense health protocol — the wearing of a mask — has become a figurative hill to die on when refusing to wear a mask actually co...
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...
