McVeytown News

Ruth A. Smith, 78, a resident of The Malta Home, Granville, and formerly of 280 Crossover Drive, Lewistown, died Friday, Nov.

David J. Shaffer, 43, of 4290 state Route 103 south, , McVeytown, died at 9:17 a.m. on Sunday, Nov.

Dave Hill, of the Penn State Agriculture Program, explains some of the common accidents associated with a corn picking machine during a farm rescue training program held Saturday morning in McVeytown.

Walter C. "Charlie" Kratzer Jr., 56, of 204 Sechrist Rd., McVeytown, died at 8 a.m. Tuesday, Oct.

Earl B. "Buck" Fink Sr., 90, of Granville, died at 11:45 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009, at the Malta Home.

Pennsylvania State Police Huntingdon said a McVeytown woman died on Oct. 22, following a head on collision with another car on state Route 22 at Mill Stone Manor in Henderson Township.

A Mount Union woman is hoping to make Christmas a little fuller for area kids in shelters this year.

Wedding fever is in the air for brides-to-be and their fiances as The Sentinel held the 2009 Bridal Expo on Sunday at the Lewistown Country Club.

Kristen D. Bratton wanted to bring the spirit of colonial America to the Juniata Valley, so she opened Black Horse Floorcloths and Accessories, a shop that sells historical decorative art.

Mildred Ammon Wilson, age 95, of McVeytown, passed away Monday, Sept. 15, 2009, at Valley View Haven.

A woman from Alexandria currently serving a state sentence for her role in a robbery at a Uni-Mart in Belleville and who was recently charged in yet another robbery case in Mifflin County, waived her right to a preliminary hearing on Wednesday in Magisterial District Judge Jack Miller's office.

Alexis Wilson, 4, of McVeytown, looks back to wave to her parents as she passes by on an amusement ride Tuesday evening at the 2009 McClure Bean Soup Fair in McClure.

Rebecca Smith, center, great niece of the Laidlaw family who once lived in the Canal House, shows Walter and Kay Smith, of McVeytown, photos of the house when her mother, Jane Smith, lived there as a child, Saturday during the Community Partnerships RC&D Pennsylvania Canal Celebration at the Lewistown Narrows Canal Park.

Police charge a Mifflin County man with charges in connection with an accident on I-81 in Carlisle.

Two people were killed Saturday as a result of a head-on collision along state Route 22 in McVeytown, Pennsylvania State Police Lewistown report.

Two people were killed Saturday as a result of a head-on collision along state Route 22 in McVeytown, Pennsylvania State Police Lewistown report.

Legislators in Harrisburg are debating the practicality of a bill that would require municipalities that rely on state police for protection to start paying for the service.

In what started out as a fact-finding mission to come up with ways to increase county revenue that turned into a mini-controversy, the Mifflin County Commissioners on Thursday unanimously voted not to house state prison inmates in the Mifflin County Correctional Facility or its annex building.

Michael E. Flasher, 19, of Fairview Road, McVeytown, died at 5:50 a.m. Thursday, July 9, 2009, following an automobile accident along U.S. Highway 522 South in Granville Township.

A four-vehicle accident early Thursday morning along U.S. 522 claimed the lives of two local people, Mifflin County Coroner Dan Lynch said.