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As school administrators look forward to the 2021-22 school year, they understand the need to support students who have been impacted by more than a y...

RIDGWAY — Dickinson Center has announced a free Kindergarten Readiness Program to be held from June 14 through July 29. The program is by Dickinson Ce...

SMETHPORT — The Smethport Area School Board spent considerable time at Tuesday’s meeting discussing the second draft of the 2021-22 budget that wipes ...

My oldest granddaughter is an 18-year-old senior at a school in south-central North Carolina. It was supposed to be a special time with the countdown ...

SMETHPORT (EC) — Brock Benson, who currently serves as superintendent of the Kane Area School District, on Monday was named executive director of the ...

April is National Poetry Month, and to celebrate, the Elk County Council on the Arts decided to host a crowdsourced poem with submissions from around ...

Rainbow Corner Preschool, part of CARE for Children, is celebrating its young learners during The Week of the Young Child this week. The week is highl...

Taxpayers who contribute $5 billion a year toward the state government’s pension costs, and an amount equal to 34% of each school district’s payroll f...

SMETHPORT — Tri-County Fire School classes were held this weekend at the fire school in East Smethport and the Hilltop Volunteer Fire Department in Cy...

President Joe Biden’s massive American Jobs Plan is likely to come in two parts: a traditional transportation package as well as a domestic package th...

A lot has changed at University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in the past decade, including the demographics of the students who matriculate there. At The...

The nation is awash in harmful civics ignorance these days, as verified by multiple national studies and as even a cursory visit to social media sites...

SHINGLEHOUSE — This year, the Oswayo Valley Elementary School Heart Heroes raised over $5,828 for the American Heart Association during the Kids’ Hear...

Pennsylvania, like the rest of the nation, is experiencing a shortage of substitute teachers. State house lawmakers are ushering a bill to hopeful pas...

School districts were hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, but help is on the way. Gov. Tom Wolf announced Monday that nearly $5 billion in relief funds...

SHINGLEHOUSE — The Oswayo Valley School District was able to purchase 20 ukuleles for the elementary school. Ukuleles offer students the opportunity t...

LIFELONG LEARNER: Local resident Alex Freeman dropped by the newsroom recently to share the tale of his great-aunt, Mrs. Jane Ware of Smethport, who w...

JOHNSONBURG — Due to the number of COVID-19 cases at Johnsonburg High School, the school will have remote instruction through the rest of the week. Al...

Educators and parents of school-aged children are once again engaged in a national debate about teaching civics in schools. Recently, though, there’s ...

Families, students and staff members of the Bradford Area Christian Academy (BACA) have been working on a variety of projects to help serve the commun...