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There’s a reason historians and genealogists visit cemeteries – they are full of stories and history! A perfect example of this is the cemetery of Elkton Presbyterian Church. The list
Maryann Velez got a big surprise in her quest for a seat on Luzerne County Council: A woman Velez does not know donated $1,000 to her campaign.
Backers of pesticides crackdown receive police protection following death threats. Report: Jonathan Matthews In the run-up to a June 13 referendum in which voters will decide whether to support two measures that crack down on pesticide use in Switzerland, leading supporters of the two proposals have been on the receiving end of not just an avalanche of abuse, but even death threats. As a result, Céline Vara, a lawyer and Green Party politician who helped initiate the proposal for a ban on synthetic pesticides, is now under police protection. Franziska Herren, who initiated a clean drinking ...
On Dec. 18, Mount Nittany Health doctors administered the first COVID-19 vaccinations in Centre County. Starting with the State College-based health systems own direct care providers and staff, the effort soon expanded to other health care workers in the community. Nearly four months later, as Pennsylvania’s eligibility guidelines have expanded, 48,651 people in Centre County have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose and Mount Nittany has been the county’s largest single provider. It has administered more than 30,900 doses to community members and has another 5,000 future doses ar...
Snapshot: Christiana Carteaux Bannister February 24, 2021 The wind on her vestment says it all: Christiana Carteaux Bannister was a woman with agency. Momentum. “A spark,” says Massachusetts-based sculptor Pablo Eduardo, who was commissioned by the Rhode Island Foundation to create this bust for the State House in 2002. Christiana, born in 1819 to a Black and Indigenous family in North Kingstown, was an entrepreneur who grew her wealth as a hair doctress in Boston. There, she met a young out-of-work painter named Edward Mitchell Bannister. She took him on at her salon, housed him, married...