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Hollidaysburg teacher Carol Scarbro shares love of learning with students

The path to becoming a teacher was never clear for Hollidaysburg resident Carol Scarbro. Until she was required to student teach for a college elective, using the elementary teacher’s angles lesson, she crafted aerodynamic paper planes with two disinterested students. She was then ...

Regional identities shape Pennsylvanians

Ask Pennsylvanians to name where in the state they hail from, and you’ll get a range of responses. Linda McKee, a DuBois resident who grew up in Titusville, divides the commonwealth into six neat regions: northwest, north-central, northeast, southeast, south-central and southwest. So for ...

Court refuses to hear Four Quarters case

In an unusual move, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has refused to hear a Bedford County case because only part of a lawsuit brought against the Four Quarters Interfaith Sanctuary in Artemas has been resolved. An opinion issued Thursday by the Pennsylvania Superior Court indicated that ...

Bedford receives $3.4M for development, training

Bedford County has received $3.38 million in Pennsylvania Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program funding for workforce training and housing development. The funding includes $2 million for the Bedford County Technical Center to expand its workforce training facilities and $1.38 million for the Bedford County Development Association to prepare infrastructure for a new workforce housing neighborhood near the Bette Brown Slayton Business Park. The investments are part of the county’s Train and Retain initiative, which aims to address two major challenges facing local employers: ...

Farmers can apply for aid due to spring freeze

Fruit growers impacted by a late-April freeze will soon be able to apply for assistance from the state government. “Starting on Monday, the Department of Agriculture, under Secretary Redding's leadership, will begin to accept applications for growers in all 67 counties who were affected by ...

State labor force hits record 6.65 million

The number of people working in Pennsylvania hit a new record high in July, the state Department of Labor and Industry reported Friday. There were almost 150,000 more employed in the state in July than there were in the same month in 2025. Employment was up 19,000 just compared to June. The ...