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AND THEN AGAIN……..BY Tamara Pettit

Things I want to say this Christmas and there’s no one left to remember these Christmas memories with me.  They are not your favorite traditional “Oh so Nice’ “the snow is falling” memories, but the memories which much like the famed Christmas story that Ralphie…

HALE LIONS DECEMBER SCHOLAR OF THE MONTH

Caraline Hale, 18, daughter of John and Beth Hale and sister of Samantha and Cierra Hale of New Manchester, is Oak Glen High School’s Lions Scholar of the Month for December 2022. She has an accumulative GPA of 3.958 Caraline was elected Senior Vice President.…

AND THEN AGAIN…..by Tamara Pettit

Death seems especially cruel when it comes calling during Christmas time.  It seems so unfair that the loss of a loved one would intrude into joyous memories and bright lights.   But this Christmas it did.  It was not as if death swooped up out of…

JUST MY OPINION…Tamara Pettit

Let’s make Oak Glen’s School-Based Health Site a RealityEstablishing  a School Based Health Center at Oak Glen High and Oak Glen Middle is necessary to provide the optimum scope of care for our students.  First established in 2019 at the newly-constructed Weirton Elementary, the SBHC…

NEW CUMBERLAND LIONS ENJOY BRASS ENSEMBLE

The meeting was brought to order by President Dorothy Hawkes.  Lion Pam Stiles offered the prayer and Lion Tom Stiles led the Pledge of Allegiance.    Dinner was catered by Connie’s Corner of Chester.  As this was the Club’s Christmas Party, no business was discussed.  President…

Longtime leader in the legal community passes

William Ray Kiefer was born December 30, 1949 to George William and Dorothy Solenday Kiefer in Pittsburgh, PA. Bill grew up in Forest Hills PA, and graduated from Churchill Area High School, (1967); Bethany College, (B.A. History 1971) and the University of Pittsburgh School of…

New Cumberland Christmas Parade (with thanks for copy and photos to Maureen Vulgamore) The 2022 New Cumberland Christmas Parade was led by an impressive uniformed Color Guard from the New Cumberland VFW. Councilwoman Judy Bartley was named the Grand Marshall of the parade to honor…