Milroy News

Senior citizens joined together Tuesday to honor and remember those that fought for the country, during a special Veterans Day program at the Fountain Square Senior Center in Milroy.

Harry G. "Glenn" Corkins Jr., 91 of 2 Fairway Place, Lewistown, died at 2:35 a.m. Wednesday, Nov.

Barbara Treaster, 65, of Yeagertown, died on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009, at home. She was born on Nov.

Several arrests were made in connection with a theft incident on Oct. 9 at the Mifflin County Recycling Center in Milroy.

Lois Reed, 89, passed away on Sept. 22, 2009, at Valley View Haven, Belleville. Born on Jan.

A Bellefonte man who overdosed on Tuesday at Tom's Travel Center in Milroy was arrested and placed in Mifflin County Correctional Facility in lieu of bail, Mifflin County Regional Police report.

John Theodore "J.T." Rosenquist, 66, engineer, beloved husband and father, iconoclast and former VOA Power Plant supervisor, died on Sept.

Health officials have determined that dozens of Mifflin County children who become violently ill following their school lunch last week were infected with norovirus.

Joseph Ray Damicantonio, 40, of 310 Blue Rock Lane, Milroy, went to his heavenly home Sunday, Sept.

A one-vehicle accident on Sunday afternoon along Knob Ridge Road in Armagh Township claimed the life of a Milroy man, Mifflin County Regional Police report.

More than two dozen children became violently ill following lunch at a central Pennsylvania school.

Imagine the amount of roasted pork that could come from a herd of 50 240- pound pigs, and that's what Centre County Grange fairgoers consume every year at Scott's Roasting concession stand.

William A. Shank, 86, formerly of Milroy and recently a resident of the Malta Home, Granville, died at 7:45 a.m. on Aug.

A chance stop to poke around in a Huntingdon County archery shop led me to run across a flier for the Mifflin County Bowfest, a new event for archers in Milroy.

Area residents and members of community service organizations gathered on Tuesday evening around Monument Square in downtown Lewistown to celebrate National Night Out with food, games and music.

The third Dream Race Extreme is upon us at Port Royal Speedway. Previous winners are Sean Michael and Greg Hodnett.

Mifflin County has won the Babe Ruth state championship for 15-year-olds by defeating Broomhall-Newtown 7-4 in eight innings Thursday at Armagh Memorial Field in Milroy.

Luke Magno, 11, of Charlottesville, Va., and his family used a huge inflatable Jeep for shade Sunday at the All Breeds Jeep Show at the York Expo Center.

Robert E. Barlett, 66, of 180 Locke Mills Rd., Milroy, died at 10:25 p.m., Friday, July 17, 2009, at Geisinger Medical Center, Danville.

Studies show that children who read during the summer are better prepared for the upcoming school year, one local librarian says.