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Community dinner A free community dinner will be held at the social hall of California United Methodist Church, 227 Third St., California, on Wednesday, May 6. The main course features items from JD Subs. Attendees are invited to bring a variety of side dishes or desserts to share. Dinner will ...

Ben Franklin students make history come alive

Presidents, explorers, nurses, generals, architects, scientists and plenty other notable figures stood arrayed in a rectangle at Ben Franklin Elementary/Middle School Thursday afternoon, waiting to tell their life story to whoever wanted to hear it. And many people did. The display was part ...

Pennsylvania is set to receive additional funds in opioid settlement

Pennsylvania is about to get additional money from the national opioid settlement that has so far brought more than $2 billion to the commonwealth. That’s because the $7.4 billion settlement reached with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family, the company’s proprietors, has gone into effect. ...

Portrait of Greene judge Lou Dayich unveiled

When he was sworn in as Court of Common Pleas judge 10 years ago, Lou Dayich likened it to a “passing of the baton.” It’s a race that’s gone on in the same location since the current Greene County Courthouse was built in 1851. “You can tell that when they built it, it wasn’t ...

Everybody dance: Flash mob boogies in unison at Tanger Outlets

At first, the crowd at Tanger Outlets could have been mistaken for the normal cluster that forms when some friends run into each other on a busy shopping day. It kept growing past coincidence, until more than 80 people milled around between the Coach and American Eagle stores. Then, at 2 ...