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Police: Danville Woman tried to cut man's throat with utility knife
DANVILLE – A Danville woman has been charged with assault for allegedly trying to cut a man’s throat with a utility knife.
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"Penny War" donates droves of livestock to needy families
Eighth-grader Jamie Breyfogle counts out some of the $1,030 she and her middle school classmates raised to help send livestock to impoverished families.
Thanks to one eighth-grade girl, 26 flocks of fowl, a goat, a pig, a sheep and a llama to needy families around the world.
The livestock, supplied through the charity Heifer International, provides people in impoverished regions with goods such as eggs, wool and meat that they can use to earn a living.
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Kayakers raise $1,500 for children's hospital at Geisinger
Carol Staib, Catawissa goes towards the end of Sunday's river float to benefit theJanet Weis Children's Hospital.
RIVERSIDE — Roughly 75 kayakers raised approximately $1,500 for Danville’s Janet Weis Children’s Hospital through a Susquehanna River trek.
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Art teacher leaves last legacy at Liberty Valley
Retiring Liberty Valley art teacher Sandy Bruce props up one of the 96 ceiling tiles she and her class painted for the ceiling of the art room.
After more than a decade, retiring art teacher Sandy Bruce has finally run out of wall space at Liberty Valley Intermediate School. That’s why her students’ final piece will be on the ceiling.
Bruce, who has been with the school district since 1987, has spent her last eleven years organizing legacy projects for Liberty Valley’s outgoing fifth-grade classes. These projects stay within the school to beautify it and as a memento of that class. This year’s project, Bruce’s final for the school, consisted of painting concentric circles on the art room’s ceiling tiles.
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Danville man uses tragedy to fuel fire safety awareness
After a personal tragedy, a Danville man is making it his mission to ensure area households are protected against fires.
Keith Kopelcheck’s friend Jon Shaw died in a 2005 house fire, when Kopelcheck was going to college at Slippery Rock University. He remembers coming back from spring break and finding out about Shaw’s death in a newspaper article.
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Danville Main Street featured in encore of TV program
TV channel PCN’s encore presentation of the “Discover Main Street PA” program featuring Danville and Manheim was pre-empted the morning of June 3 in order to air live coverage of a special legislative meeting about the Pennsylvania budget. The encore presentation will now air at 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 6.
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Flood control work along Mahoning Creek to start soon
DANVILLE — A Williamsport firm is the apparent low-bidder to construct the missing part of Danville’s flood protection system over Mahoning Creek that could have prevented millions of dollars in damage in 2011.
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Shingles vaccines to be given June 25
DANVILLE – The Montour County State Health Center will administer Shingles vaccines to any eligible residents 50 and older from 9 a.m. to noon June 25 in the Montour Senior Center, 500 W. Mahoning St.
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Seniors can receive food vouchers
DANVILLE – Vouchers for farmers markets will be distributed from 9 to 11 a.m. June 10 in the Montour County Senior Center, 500 W. Mahoning St.
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Horse perishes in barn fire
EXCHANGE — The family horse perished in a fire that leveled a barn containing hay bales Monday evening in Anthony Township, Montour County.
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Police: Danville Woman tried to cut man's throat with utility knife
