Tuscarora News

State budgetary woes are so serious this year that legislators are ignoring potentially bigger deficits that could hit Pennsylvania three years from now, according to state Rep.

While plans for the Tuscarora Regional Community College are at a halt, the local college committee is considering a partnership with Harrisburg Area Community College to provide services in the area.

Two people from Schuylkill County died Sunday night when the motorcycle they were on crashed.

Two people are dead after an accident in Schuylkill County. Police say it happened last night when a man and a woman were traveling on a motorcycle on Old Route 209, between the villages of Reevesdale and Tuscarora.

The driver and passenger of this motorcycle were killed after crashing on Route 209 in Schuylkill County Sunday night around 9:45 p.m. The accident happened in Schuylkill Township about a quarter-mile east of Tuscarora.

It's just after 8 a.m., and Zane Fink drops off his backpack in class and walks out to his school's fish tank.

Local superintendents and education experts agree that merging some school districts is necessary and a good idea, but it would not make sense in Franklin County.

You'll have to look closely this season to notice that Pennsylvania's state parks and forests will be just getting by.

Spring was in the air Saturday as Chambersburg Garden Club and the Tuscarora Daffodil Group presented the 73rd annual Standard Flower Show and 37th Pennsylvania State Daffodil Show at First Lutheran Church, Chambersburg.

As the deadline for plans regarding the use of federal stimulus funds creeps up, local school district administrators are getting antsy for better guidance from the state.

Local municipalities and school districts will take the first step later this year to establish a countywide wage tax office or to join a regional one.

Deanna Conner and her pupil Ashley sit down at a child-sized table to read one of Ashley's favorite books - Dora the Explorer.

Students in Franklin County are about to see more than $12 million of the federal stimulus money make its way to their schools, but school district administrators don't yet know how to spend it.

The Tuscarora School district is on track to spend $1.5 million on projects throughout the school district using existing funds.

Three of five Tuscarora School Board members will not seek re-election in the May 19 primary.

While its mission to support local education stays the same, Mifflin County 2000 Inc.

Following a state report that wind turbines could harm bats, a study of a turbine at Presque Isle State Park in Erie found no such threat to bat or bird life.

The Juniata County Commissioners reviewed the 2009 requests for community development block grant funds with SEDA-Council of Governments representatives Tuesday.

The Bradford County jury in the Steven Colegrove triple-murder trial began deliberating his fate Friday evening: Death by lethal injection or life in prison.

And now he faces the death penalty. It took jurors almost 7 hours to reach that verdict.