Mountain Echo News Today

"President Teddy Roosevelt visited Santa Cruz in 1903, so the town was dressed up to disguise some of the eye sores detracting from its beauty, such as barn-like bath houses and unattractive utilitarian-looking stores," writes Local History columnist Ross Eric Gibson. "As a result, Fred Swanton began the 'New Santa Cruz Movement' to finance festivals, public events and picturesque buildings like his Neptune Casino, to improve the promotional appeal of Santa Cruz."

Jodie Marie will be playing a very special, intimate show with backing vocalists singing three-part harmonies.

Mount Holly Springs is an island unto itself, feeding into Carlisle Area School District but surrounded by the South Middleton School District.

"Joseph W. Peery built a mill in the 1860s at the junction of Boulder Creek and Bear Creek," writes Ross Eric Gibson. "The mill town that grew up was called Boulder, or Boulder Creek, with a Boulder Creek Hotel, general store and crude cabins. Then Peery built a new mill to the south in 1868. Meanwhile, Boulder Creek established a school district in 1871, and a post office in 1872 with Peery as postmaster."

A Pembrokeshire singer lauded by the Guardian for her ‘velvety and bittersweet’ sound will be playing the baby grand at Wales’ first art hotel…

In his latest Local History column, Ross Eric Gibson writes about Hotel Ben Lomond.

Longtime Daily Journal writer and Farmington Press Editor Kevin R. Jenkins has been named editor of the Daily Journal by Greg Hoskins, Better Newspapers Inc. publisher.

CRANBERRY LAKE — A Cranberry Lake native who’s now a nationally touring musician will return home to perform a free show on July 31 at the Clifton Community Pavilion.

Mount St. Marys University will host its 213th commencement exercises in four ceremonies on Saturday, May 15 and Sunday, May 16 at Waldron Family Stadium. The ceremonies will celebrate the achievements of 560 total graduates. To ensure the health and safety of the Mount community, the university quadrupled the number of ceremonies from one to four, moved the events outdoors and limited the number of guests permitted per graduate. Masks are required, and physical distancing protocols will be fol...

I’ve got a few follow-ups on last week’s article on moonshine on the Susquehanna. Shickshinny Area Historical Society had a copy of a Mountain Echo article detailing the bust of a 10-still moonshining operation on Ryman’s Island, also known as Bald Eagle Island, by Mocanaqua in January 1923. The paper almost certainly got the name of the alleged moonshiner wrong, historian