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Highly charged memories of an era-defining industrial dispute are being rekindled by a new exhibition at Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries.

Artists, writers and film-makers have long been inspired by the stories – and myths – of the 1984-5 strike. But how do those most affected by its legacy feel about the portrayals?

Thousands of miners were locked in a bitter dispute with Margaret Thatcher's government.

Hollidaysburg Area School District acting superintendent Darren McLaurin will resign from the position Friday, less than five months after assuming the role. McLaurin’s resignation was accepted during a Wednesday night Hollidaysburg Area School Board meeting. Current interim special education director Rodney Green will fill the vacant post until incoming superintendent Curtis Whitesel arrives in April. […]

Were walking down Memory Lane with the miners this week.

The decision by Blair County voters to not retain President Judge Elizabeth Doyle for another 10-year term and the death of former Congressman Bud Shuster were voted the top local stories of 2023 by the Mirror newsroom. The news staff voted in December on the top stories from a ballot that included the most prominent […]

Robert Gildea, Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Oxford, spent years recording hundreds of “voices from the deep” across the former coalfields for a new book

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HOLLIDAYSBURG — The Hollidaysburg Area School Board hired Darren McLaurin as acting superintendent on Wednesday night to fill in for outgoing Superintendent R

I am writing to express my concern about the process for selecting a new superintendent for Hollidaysburg Area School District. Since the superintendent will