Craig Paylor, left, president of JLG Industries and executive vice president of JLG parent company Oshkosh Corp., and Stephen Subasic, right, JLG vice president of human resources, present an Oshkosh
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New toys, winter wear being collected for needy children
STAFF REPORT With the holiday season quickly approaching, a local organization is taking steps to ensure that area children will indeed have a very merry Christmas. More...
SPECIAL TO THE NEWS Veterans Day has passed and Christmas is just around the corner. The Franklin County Chapter of Red Cross will be collecting items for wounded warriors from now until December 11 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. More...
Hustontown High School Class of 1953 held its annual class reunion October 20 at New Fort Restaurant. More...
FORBES ROAD Breakfast Menu Monday, November 23: pretzel and cheese, cereal choice, apple, grape or orange juice. Tuesday, November 24: pizza, cereal choice, apple, grape or orange juice. More...
McConnellsburg High School Class of 1959 recently its their 50th class reunion. Members of the class who attended are pictured above. More...
Pennsylvania’s Friends of Agriculture Foundation, a division of Pennsylvania Farm Bureau (PFB), will be bringing agriculture education to Mc- Connellsburg Elementary School November 23 to December 4. More...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) – An animal welfare official says a beheaded dog and cat found in Philadelphia appear to be the result of a ritual sacrifice. More...
By Tim Stonesifer
EDGE GROVE, Pa. (AP) – You scream, I scream. Fourteenmonth old Alexis Smith, a stream of vanilla running down her chin, screams with glee. We all scream for ice cream. More...
Five prospective Allegany College of Maryland students were awarded scholarships at the recent 13th annual open house at the Bedford County Campus of ACM. More...
Stephanie Robinson, a sophomore business-marketing/financial major at Lycoming College, has been named to the Institute for Management Studies (IMS) Scholars Program. More...
HOOKSTOWN, Pa. (AP) – Authorities say a 74-year-old hunter from Ohio has been found dead in a tree stand in western Pennsylvania. Hanover Fire Chief Donald Plance says it appears that Gerald Welder, of Hudson, Ohio, died of natural causes. More...
DILLSBURG, Pa. (AP) – Scientists have met with residents of a central Pennsylvania town to reassure them about the hundreds of tiny earthquakes the area has experienced over the past year. More...
Lisa MacDonald Lackner, Missoula, Mont., daughter of Jane and Paul MacDonald, Mc- Connellsburg, recently received her doctor of philosophy degree from Walden University, Minneapolis, Minn. More...
WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) – A western Pennsylvania judge has declined a defense request to step aside rather than hear a death row inmate’s appeal in the starvation death of her 7- year-old daughter a decade ago. More...
McConnellsburg High School Class of 1979 recently held its 30th reunion. More...
By Marc Levy ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – The ranks of current and former state House Republican legislators, prosecutors allege, are littered with people whose election day efforts benefited from the illegal use of taxpayer-paid resources. More...
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