As funding remains flat and patron demands expand, public libraries in Pennsylvania need more help to maintain services for the communities that rely on them. Libraries have become not just gateways to books and the internet, but spaces for families, adults, and teens to socialize with ...
Monday, July 20: — Howard Area Lions Food Bank distribution, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the former Beech Creek Elementary School. Bring a sturdy box and any empty egg cartons you have. Volunteers are asked to help with filling boxes in the basement and getting them up the steps to cars. — Drawing class at Friendship Community Center in Beech Creek. Class is free for those age 12 and older and runs from 4:30-6 p.m. Those who want to learn to draw are invited, as well as those with more experience who would like to learn to enhance their drawing skills and techniques. The drawing ...
MILL HALL — Keystone Central School District Interim-Superintendent Dr. Alan Lonconus has been busy getting up-to-date after taking on the role in early July. Lonoconus has returned to the district after previously serving in an interim capacity in 2018. He is filling the spot left vacant by Dr. Francis Redmon in late June. At its voting session last week, Lonconus said it’s been a “steep learning curve these last three weeks.” “A lot has changed since I’ve been here in 2018. There’s a lot of things that are obviously similar but a little bit different,” he said ...
Commonwealth University has named Cait Finn as the new director of the Zeigler Institute for Professional Development (ZIPD), bringing more than 15 years of experience in leadership development, professional coaching, higher education, athletics and organizational consulting to the ...
MILL HALL — The Keystone Central School District Board of Directors unanimously approved hiring a consulting firm to conduct the search for its next superintendent. During its voting session last week, Board President Elisabeth Lynch said the board heard presentations during an executive session one day prior from proposed consultants — which included Templeton Advantage and BLaST Intermediate Unit 17. Though Dr. Christina Steinbacher-Reed, executive director for BLaST IU17, was unable to attend Thursday’s voting session, Tom Templeton, founder and creative director of ...
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened on Friday to prosecute election officials in states that don’t “participate in securing the elections” ahead of the November midterms. Election officials who do not comply with administration directives to enhance security of ...
