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YARD SALES If your town, community or housing development is having yard sales please let me know. Individual yard sales will not be listed, only specific towns or communities. — April 24-25 will be the Rote Community Yard Sales. — Howard Community Yard Sale dates are May 1-2. — Howard Fire Company’s Annual Indoor Yard Sale will be on May 7-9. Donations can be dropped off at the fire hall beginning on Monday morning, May 4. — Milesburg Community Yard Sales will be on May 15-16. — Centre Hall Community Yard Sale dates are June 26-27. BREAKFAST & BASKET ...

Harry the Hynerpeton’s Harrisburg Hustle

HARRISBURG — It wasn’t your typical day at the Pennsylvania State Capitol. A group of students from Bucktail High School in Renovo walked through the Senate chamber doors accompanied by an unlikely guest: a life-sized replica of Hynerpeton bassetti, a 360-million-year-old amphibian ...

Alzheimer’s Caregiver’s Support Group to meet April 14

LOCK HAVEN — The Alzheimer’s and Caregivers’ Support Group will meet Tuesday, April 14, from 7-8 p.m., at Covenant United Methodist Church, 44 W. Main St., Lock Haven. Natashya Boyd, Marketing Development Representative with Help at Home, a home care agency, will be the guest speaker. Help at Home is a non-medical home care agency located in Williamsport and serving Clinton County and surrounding areas. Natashya will talk about the services the agency can provide, available payer sources and will answer questions from the group. Caregivers, especially those who are caring for ...

Around the Town

Good Day and Happy 92nd Birthday to Richard “Dick” Bowes, of Beech Creek! Happy Birthday to Robert Smith, of Jersey Shore; Paul Vance, of Castanea! Word of the Day Besotted — adj. — strongly infatuated. Quote of the Day “Encourage your child to have muddy, grassy or sandy feet by the end of each day, that’s the childhood they deserve.” — Penny Whitehouse Class of LHHS/ICHS 1955 LHHS and ICHS Class of 1955 will have their monthly get together on Wednesday, April 29 at 12 p.m. at Brown’s Hill Tavern. All classmates and their guests are ...

Local student shares research into PFAS as part of project

(Editor’s Note: This article was submitted by Brian Sikorski, a 7th grade student from State College Friends School, as part of a research project.) PFAS, or polyflouroalkyl substances, are often used in everyday things like waterproof couches and nonstick frying pans because of their heat and water-resistant properties. These properties also make them useful in things like firefighting foam, often used in airports and military bases to extinguish fires that ordinary retardants can’t. Although this foam is helpful to put out fires, it often pollutes nearby wells with PFAS ...