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GOSHEN — Three Goshen College students are currently or have recently taken part in and archival project with Mennonite Church USA.

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Marywood South will come back to life as Valhalla Veterans Services and the Jarett Yoder Foundation develop a Heroes Resource Center where veterans and first responders can receive counseling, develop skills and take classes. It will be open to active military, veterans and first responders, including firefighters, emergency medical service workers and police officers. JASON FARMER — SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE

Mar. 10—SCRANTON — Diane Yoder arrived in town Saturday to begin converting the newly purchased Marywood South campus into the Patriot Resource Center at Marywood. The new facility will assist veterans and community first-responders in need. Nearly three dozen local veterans greeted her, ready to lend helping hands to her organization, the Jarett Yoder Foundation that bought the property, she ...

After being on the market for more than five years, the former Scranton School for the Deaf has been sold. The campus will be taken over by a veterans charity.

Steven Lee Mathiason Steven Lee Mathiason, 66, of Grand Forks, ND, passed away peacefully on Sunday, February 14, 2021 at 4000 Valley Senior Living on 42nd Woodside Village. Steve was born in Grand Forks, ND, on May 21, 1954, the son of Elmer & Irene (Brenna) Mathiason. Steve attended grade school at Americus 23 in rural Thompson. He graduated from Thompson Public School in 1972. As a boy Steve was involved in the 4H Club where he showed his cows alongside his dad. He went on to farm wi...

In a parking lot near Reading Area Community College, the sound of the national anthem Saturday morning came through loud and clear in the mist along the Schuylkill River. As veterans snapped to attention and saluted the colors, Ed McCaffrey belted out "The Star-Spangled Banner" a cappella at the start of the Reading-based Veterans Coalition of Pennsylvania’s monthly Stand Down gathering. In classic God-and-country fashion, Scott Birmingham invoked a blessing and wished the 50 or so people...