Town’s Holiday Lights Getting “Turned On!”



County Posts Highest Jobless Rate In State

Now ranks 67th out of 67 counties

Fulton County’s unemployment rate climbed 1.7 percentage points in October, going from 8.5 percent in September to 10.2 percent in October, according to preliminary figures released by the Department of Labor and Industry last week. As a result of the 10.2 percentage rate, Fulton County now has the highest unemployment rate in the state. The seasonally adjusted data for Fulton […]

County Taxes Remain Steady

Final budget to be adopted Dec. 30

With word finally being passed down from Washington, D.C., confirming what many have already known about the country’s economic status and ongoing recession, the Fulton County commissioners have tentatively opted to hold the line on taxes for 2009 in announcing the approval of their proposed budget. In approving the 2009 proposed county budget last Thursday, commissioners Bonnie Mellott Keefer, Daniel […]

Medical Center Books Show Mixed Results

Profit for operating income, loss for net income

Fulton County Medical Center held a state-of-the-company meeting on Monday evening and although the news was not entirely good, it was not as bad as had been predicted. According to the report, the center finished the 2007-08 year with an operating income of $305,000, but had a net loss of $327,000. Figures that, according to Shana Wolfe, chief financial officer, […]

Boro, Police Reach Tentative Agreement

End-of-contract issues likely resolved in binding arbitration

With only about 20 days remaining on the McConnellsburg Police Association’s contract, council members announced last Wednesday evening that the endof contract negotiations with the union would go to binding arbitration. The first arbitration session was held December 8, 2008, and borough solicitor Carlton Walker told the “News” on Monday evening that a tentative agreement was reached. Walker said that […]

Needmore Fire Co. Receives $117,515 FEMA Assistance Grant



The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded an $117,515 Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) to the Needmore Volunteer Fire Co. Inc. to assist in the purchase of an array of personal protective equipment, including 10 45- minute SCBA units, ten spare cylinders, 10 voice-amplified face pieces, one complete air fill system, two SCBA cylinder […]

Medicare Part D Open For Enrollment

Enrollment ends December 31

Area senior citizens wanting to enroll in Medicare Part D or change their current provider still have until the conclusion of December, according to the executive director of the tri-county based Area Agency on Aging. Alan Smith, who heads the Area Agency on Aging in Fulton County as well as neighboring Huntingdon and Bedford counties, informed the “News” that agency […]

McConnellsburg Schools Among Worst In U.S. For Outside

Air Quality USA TODAY ranks schools No. 168

Central Fulton School District’s schools have been named some of the worst in the nation for having outside air with high levels of dangerous toxic chemicals. So says USA TODAY following an eight-month study of the impact of industrial pollution on air quality around schools. According to USA TODAY, the three McConnellsburg schools and the Fulton County Area Vocational-Technical School […]

Forbes Road Holds Christmas Concert



County Releases Money For Homeless Assistance

Conducts routine business during last two weeks

The Fulton County commissioners attended to an array of business matters over the last two weeks, opting to release homeless assistance monies to help local families, establishing county holidays for 2009 and even reviewing the ongoing renovation project at the Fulton County Library. The commissioners met with county projects coordinator Karen Hann to discuss the construction under way at the […]