Brownstown News

Nancy Higgins is helping her students turn the pages to a better life. A volunteer tutor with the Cambria County Literacy Council, Higgins has been teaching English to two Vietnamese women in their 20s.

It's not a bypass, but it will have to do. Work finally has begun on long-discussed traffic improvements throughout the Route 56 corridor in Johnstown's Cambria City and West End neighborhoods.

An Ephrata woman walking on a Gettysburg sidewalk was killed Thursday during a multicar collision.

A state-imposed quarantine of firewood and wood chips from ash trees was expanded Monday to Washington and Armstrong counties, where emerald ash borer beetles have been found, state Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff said.

Vince Pagano wishes his company had done this 10 years ago. But now that Highway Equipment & Supply Co.