Lewistown News

Sentinel photo by BRADLEY KREITZER Steve Burk, right, and Ma Tracey carry a cross down East Third Street during the annual Stations of the Cross walk Friday afternoon in Lewistown.

Sentinel photo by BUFFIE BOYER The Easter Bunny gives Victoria Zimmerman, of Lewistown, a hug Thursday as the bunny welcomed visitors to City Hook and Ladder's Easter flower sale along Valley Street.

Mennonite Central Committee is requesting donations to support the people of South Sudan who are suffering trauma and extreme hunger as they flee an armed conflict in their new nation.

To assist with keeping an eye on the Mifflin County School District, Robert Haines patrols two of the schools in the district.

Pennsylvania State Police Lewistown are investigating a vandalism act that occurred sometime overnight Thursday into Friday at Juniata Mennonite School.

Betty H. Stewart, 89, formerly of Elm Drive, Lewistown, died at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2014, at Malta Home, Granville.

Deputy Secretary for the state Department of Community and Economic Development Champ Holman stopped Thursday in Lewistown as part of a three-day on-the-road kickoff of Gov. Tom Corbett's "Jobs1st" initiative.

Students at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, have been buying tickets for the prom, griping about make-up days because of snow cancellations this winter, studying for tests and, in general, behaving like most teenagers.

The garage full of items that remained after a series of yard sales, came in handy when Ashley McClenahan, a member of the Miles Township Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary , spearheaded a donation drive for those who lost their homes in a March 27 fire in Juniata Terrace, Mifflin County.

Joe Henry Kline, 94, of McClure, passed away on Saturday, April 5, 2014, at the Lebanon Valley Home in Annville.

"Kishacoquillas is a Delaware name, meaning 'snakes are already in their dens,' Steve Runkle told a crowd of at least 75 gathered at the Allensville Community Hall on March 25. "And there were a lot of rattlesnakes and copperheads in the lower Susquehanna basin at that time .'

Born Sept. 21, 1953, in Lewistown, he was the son of the late Aurie A. and Betty M. Snook.

Sentinel photo by BRADLEY KREITZER Kylie Miller, 11, blows out the candles on her birthday cake during a party held at the City Hook and Ladder banquet hall Thursday evening in Lewistown.

I see where they said that 6 million people had signed up for Obamacare. What happened to the other 24-25 million that they passed Obamacare to begin with? And what about the 6 million that lost their insurance? So, I think they're breaking even right about now.

Domestic dispute - 10:30 p.m. - March 30 - Police said an altercation involving five people occurred at 19 Montgomery Ave., Lewistown Borough.

Born July 21, 1935, in Lewistown, he was the son of the late William R. Frazee Sr. and Marie Frazee.

The tiny Mifflin County borough outside Lewistown lost home after home - 25 in all and $6 million in damage.

Dorine Barnes is unsure she will be able to return to the damaged home she lived in for the past 58 years.

It has been more than 12 hours since flames ripped through a row of homes in the Juniata Terrace, a small community near Lewistown in Mifflin County.

Fire crews are fighting a six-alarm fire in Juniata Terrace, Mifflin County, according to a report from The Sentinel.