Mifflinburg News

The upper Northumberland County town's fireworks display tonight is possible largely because its Borough Council closed the community swimming pool, freeing up funds for other recreational activities.

The budget-threatened Joseph Priestley House, in Northumberland, and R.B. Winter State Park, near Mifflinburg, will be open today, even though Pennsylvania begins its fiscal year without a spending plan.

The National Weather Service has issued the following weather statement this morning: A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL NORTHUMBERLAND... NORTHERN SNYDER... UNION AND WESTERN MONTOUR COUNTIES THROUGH 11 AM EDT... AT 1003 AM EDT... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MIFFLINBURG... MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

Six hundred rockets and $7,000 went up in smoke as Lewisburg's weeklong Fourth of July celebration continued Friday night with a spectacular fireworks show at Wolfe Field.

Members of the board working to re-establish a public dental health clinic in Sunbury include, back row from left, JoAnn Lawer, Selinsgrove, and Dr.

Kevin Boyd of Perryville, MD, left, and Merrily Pierce of Wash. D.C. map out the trips home after finishing the North Branch Susquehanna Sojourn on Tuesday at Shikellamy State Park.

A former Milton man was who fled the area with a woman he reportedly assaulted in a parking lot was arrested in North Carolina after police tracked his movements by calling his victim on her cell phone.

A violent, head-on collision on Route 15 in Clinton Township, Lycoming County, claimed the life of a 57-year-old Williamsport man and Union County native.

In an ironic twist, Pennsylvania's state park system - imperiled by 2009-2010 budget proposals - is one of four finalists for the 2009 National Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Park and Recreation Management.

As the salvage work clearing a nine-mile path for the Union County's Rails to Trail project linking Mifflinburg to Lewisburg nears an end, and design and development begins, many Union County citizens Wednesday night expressed concerns about the overall cost of the project at a time of economic downturn.

Mia Sera, 3, plays on a swing at the Shikellamy State Park Marina on Thursday afternoon.

About the Rails-to-Trails path planned between Mifflinburg and Lewisburg, it might be said: This hike has been hobbled by controversy since its first steps.

R.B. Winter State Park may not be out of the woods yet. While the state House Appropriations Committee on Monday rejected a $27.3 billion Senate Republican budget proposal that included deep cuts but avoided tax increases, the park's future still remains cloudy, a Valley lawmaker says.

Scott Debo, of Sunbury, hands over a load of black powder to runner Noah Shipman, also of Sunbury, for Battalion B of the 1st Pennsylvanian Artillery's cannon during an Civil War living history reenactment in Mifflinburg on Saturday.

A program that allows people to buy groceries at a half-off price is drawing more and more people to Valley churches.

Acting Union County Sheriff Ernest Ritter is asking the public for help in locating three fugitives.

Captain says troubled fire company a separate entity By Jaime North The Daily Item GLEN IRON - A week into its annual fundraising membership drive, the Union County West End Ambulance Association is finding it difficult to distance itself from the West End Fire Company's ongoing $37,757 embezzlement scandal, its captain says.

Liz Rohde/The Daily ItemJim Dreese, left, of Selinsgrove, and Stan Keister, of Mifflinburg, talk as they fish Friday at R.B. Winter State Park.

Before Gov. Edward Rendell and state lawmakers order the closing of state parks, including R.B. Winter in Union County, they ought to demonstrate that all alternatives for resolving the budget crisis have been explored.

The summertime outdoor music season kicks off this evening with the Folk Justice Band, holding forth in Lincoln Park, Milton, from 6:30-8 p.m. Milton's Music in the Park series, which has been around longer than just about any other in the area, takes place at Lincoln Park, at the intersection of Broadway and Front Street.