Fair Livestock Sale Grosses $142,000

Prices down from last year


Levi Truax’s grand champion steer, “Red,” brought $3.10 per pound Saturday night at the Fulton County Fair when he was sold to Donald Truax of Hustontown. It was a good market for sellers this year as Truax’s steer brought 10 cents per pound more than last year’s grand champion. Truax took home $4,135 for the 1,334- pound market Maine red […]

Design Plan To Refill Lake Revealed

Project on target for 2020 completion

Friends of Meadow Grounds Lake (FMOLG) met with a number of state officials Monday evening to get a review of the preliminary design for the rehabilitation of the dam at Meadow Grounds Lake, which was emptied in 2013 due to concerns about the dam’s structural integrity. Meadow Grounds Lake dam is one of seven high-hazard dams in Pennsylvania targeted for […]

Applauds Large Fair Exhibitor Turnout



I wrote a letter to the editor inviting readers to participate in our fair this year and you did! The red exhibit building looked great! We have so many talented gardeners, artists, photogrpahers, seamstress and other crafters. As well as our canners and bakers. Everything looked so good. It is great to know that the people of Fulton County won’t […]

Gun Control Politics Unfold In PA’s U.S. Senate Race



HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Another gun safety advocate is endorsing Pennsylvania’s Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey in his neck-and-neck race against Democratic challenger Katie McGinty. Former Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, mentioned the endorsement in a Monday editorial . They cite Toomey’s 2013 vote to expand background checks on sales at gun shows and online after […]

Donates To Camp Cadet Program



Darrin Smith of Howard L. Sipes Funeral Home Inc., Mc- Connellsburg, presented a generous grant award on behalf of Matthews Children’s Foundation to Trooper Lech of the Fulton County Camp Cadet program in the amount of $1,000. Howard L. Sipes Funeral Home Inc. is actively involved in community outreach in Fulton County, and sponsored the Fulton County Camp Cadet program […]

Southern Fulton Hires Personnel For New School Year

Approves 2016-2017 teaching, staff assignments


Southern Fulton School District held a regular board meeting last Tuesday. Board members present included Allen Morton, Eric Barnhart, Mark Mosemann, Nicole Potter (arrived at 8:26 p.m.), Richard Morgan, Timothy Mellott, and Donnie Gordon. Also present were Tara Will, superintendent; Meredith Hendershot, high school principal; Kathy Cutchall, elementary principal; Diane Younker, supervisor of special education; Terry Bard, dean of students; […]

FR Holds Special Meeting

Hires new girls basketball coach


The Forbes Road School Board held a special meeting Thursday, August 11, and following a 15-minute executive session convened for a one-half hour meeting to address a short agenda. Members of the school board present were Merrill Arnold, Kathy Baker, Brian Barton, Margaret Bolinger, Damon Schoen and Kirby Shoemaker. Absent were Byron Helsel, Stacie Keller and Chanin Rotz-Mountz. Others in […]

Donates To Historical Society



Tom Glenn of Santa Fe, N.M., recently donated a portrait of his great-grandfather, Ephraim Houck, to the local Historical Society. Ephraim, born June 6, 1848, at Little Cove, Franklin County, was the son of Jacob Swalt and Susan Houck. He was a laborer and farmer living in Ayr Township, Fulton County. He married Sophia Virginia Bechtel September 1, 1874. They […]

Eichelberger Schedules Summer Town Hall Meeting



HOLLIDAYSBURG – While busily crisscrossing the expansive 30th District to participate in summertime community events, Sen. John H. Eichelberger Jr. (R-Blair) will hold a town hall meeting Monday, August 29, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., at Hustontown Senior Center, 387 Cole Road, Hustontown, as yet another way to interact with the folks he represents. “Practically everywhere I go, people […]

Officer Shot 7 Times Gets Award For Extraordinary Courage



FOLCROFT, Pa. (AP) – A part-time rookie officer in a Philadelphia suburb has been honored for acting courageously without regard for his own safety while battling with an armed adversary after he was shot seven times in June. Christopher Dorman was shot repeatedly at point-blank range in Folcroft while responding to a report of a possible drug deal. Dorman and […]