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Good Day and Happy Anniversary to Nathan and Leah Pecht, of Snow Shoe! Happy Birthday to Kyle Moore, of Blanchard; Corinne Becker, of Renovo; and Wyatt Lowery! Word of the Day Cavalcade — noun — A procession of riders or vehicles. Quote of the Day “Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.” — Mark Twain Benefit Auction Old School Market at East End Mountain Road in Mill Hall, the former Rote Elementary, will have a benefit auction for David Fisher starting at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 27. Donations of good, clean and working items are needed and can ...

Covenant Cafe to hold pizza party in Riverview Park on Aug. 18

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LOCK HAVEN — The Covenant Cafe, an activity group for those in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias, will be meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 18, from 1 to 3 p.m., at Riverview Park in Woodward Township. Participants can meet at the park at 1 p.m. and those who wish to carpool can meet at Covenant United Methodist Church, 44 W. Main St., Lock Haven. If the weather is inclement, the meeting will be held at the church. The group will have a pizza party followed by a drumming activity led by volunteer Kitty Oechler and a game of “Granny Pants” led by volunteer Deb ...

Blues ‘enthusiast’ Morgan Freeman’s album covers 100 years of the genre

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NEW YORK (AP) — It happened out of necessity. Academy Award-winner Morgan Freeman was in Clarksdale, Mississippi, 25 years ago when some out-of-towners asked where they could hear blues music. Musicians were abundant; venues were not. “There was no place where we could guarantee that you could go in and hear it,” he told The Associated Press. “So, we had to establish that.” Freeman and his business partners, then-Mayor Bill Luckett and Howard Stovall, were inspired to open a juke joint in Clarksdale called Ground Zero Blues Club. Then, much more recently, they created ...

Trump’s vaccine order hands some MAHA voters a win

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NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump pivoted the nation’s attention back to vaccines this week with an executive order that aims to scale back the childhood immunization schedule and space out shots into separate visits. After acting to overhaul the nation’s vaccine policy and ...