McConnellsburg Giant Foods presented checks totalling over $9,000 to five area schools on May 22 as part of its A-Plus Rewards program. The program lets shoppers register to have a percentage of their total grocery bill benefit a local school.
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For vocational scholarships, community organizations
By Chanin Rotz-Mountz STAFF WRITER
Having gotten his first taste of the building industry at the young age of 14, Clair R. Miller has spent decades both learning and teaching the tricks of his trade. More...
Retirement delayed for Byron Helsel; to serve as director of elementar y education
By Chanin Rotz-Mountz STAFF WRITER
Mulling over the proposed retirement of Forbes Road Elementary Principal Byron Helsel, school board members gathered behind closed doors for 90 minutes Monday night and emerged with a different decision that simply altered the school administrator' More...
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Fulton County 4-H members will be out in force on Saturday, June 6, from 9 a.m. to noon to collect nonperishable food items and/or donations for the Fulton County Food Basket. More...
STAFF REPORT
Judges Douglas W. Herman and Richard J. Walsh of the 39th Judicial District of the Court of Common Pleas presided over court sessions held on Tuesday, May 12 and 19, at the Fulton County Courthouse. More...
PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Pittsburgh-area college says it barred a student from publicizing a pro-gun group because she didn't follow the proper channels. More...
SPRING GROVE, Pa. (AP) - Classes were a little late in opening in one south-central Pennsylvania school district because someone had flattened the tires on dozens of school buses. More...
Members of the Allied Health class from the Fulton County Area Vocational Technical School recently took a field trip to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. More...
Motorcycle Safety Month is rolling to a stop, but ensuring the safest ride possible is a yearround necessity - and not just for motorcyclists. More...
They're checking in to sleep, but not at the Holiday Day Inn Express. These two patients are checking in at Fulton County Medical Center's new sleep and breathing disorder center. Lee S. Zeger Jr. More...
Libby Skiles, daughter of Toby and DeVonna Skiles, caught this 19-inch palomino while fishing with father. More...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A Pennsylvania woman accused in an abduction hoax that ended in Florida and involved her 9- year-old daughter is staying with relatives following her release from a county prison, her lawyer said. More...
Three students from the Fulton County Area Vocational Technical School's drafting and design program participated in the American Design & Drafting certification examination on May 8, 2009. More...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police say the step-grandson of boxing great Joe Frazier has been fatally shot in a North Philadelphia bar. Police say 25-year-old Peter Lyde Jr. More...
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PITTSBURGH (AP) - The FBI in Pittsburgh is investigating an apparent hoax in which a man called a hospital and claimed to have shot two people. Millvale police say the call was placed to UPMC South Side hospital about 5:30 p.m. Sunday. More...
Sarah Gobin, a sophomore at LaGrange College, Leesburg, Ga., has received a $1,500 scholarship, according to Francisco Toves, a store director at the MCLB Albany Commissary. More...
Forbes Road Junior Class of 2010 had the honor of visiting Arlington National Cemetery and the gravesite of Fulton County resident Lance Cpl. Steven Szwydek on April 21, 2009. More...
Annette Hull, Needmore has achieved commended honors at Mercersburg Academy for the 2009 spring term. Distinguished honors students have a grade point average of 90 or higher. Commended honors students have a grade point average of 85 or higher. More...
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Police have arrested a Pittsburgh homicide suspect at his high school prom and taken him to their headquarters in a white tuxedo. More...
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