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This week, undergraduate students can sign up to take graduate level courses across various departments.

Children from families in need were the big winners Saturday when hundreds of unwrapped toys were collected during the Westmoreland County Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots’ annual mini-railcar caravan at stops in Mt. Pleasant, Scottdale, Tarrs, Ruffs Dale, Hunker, Youngwood and Hempfield. Among the hundreds who donated toys where

Labor Day parade in Newark canceled

The annual Labor Day parade begins at noon Monday with a new route due to road construction. The parade starts on King Avenue by Newark High School.

David McElfresh, a Derry Area High School Class of 2021 graduate and Yale University freshman, was recently chosen to work on an extensive research project as part of the International

College is for making memories and new friends, but one group at Yale University was brought together in an unexpected way. It was a happy mistake that led to...

Letters: Newark readers discuss natural burials, Utica mascot and more Newark Advocate Natural burials at Maple Grove deserve a referendum I am writing in reference to the Township Trustees decision to allow unembalmed bodies to be buried in Granville at Maple Grove Cemetery. Residents should vote on such a unsavory decision. It shouldnt be forced on us. Maple Grove is an established cemetery with strict rules for decades on proper burials. I have a family plot there and decomposing bodie...

Only 8.7% of the students who took the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 test earlier this school year scored a perfect 5, and Derry Area High School senior David McElfresh was one of them. He also finished in the 19% of the students who scored a perfect 5 in the Calculus AB test. “We are very proud of him,” said Jennifer Welty, a teacher in the Derry Area School District’s gifted supports program. McElfresh, 17, the son of Michael and Kim McElfresh of Derry Borough, has been an ...