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1 week ago | 
punxsutawneyspirit.com | Justin Felgar
BROOKVILLE — The Jefferson County commissioners reflected on last week’s primary election at Tuesday’s commissioners meeting. Commissioner Mark Humes said the election went well and all the candidates did a good job. Commissioner Jeff Pisarcik said they are in the process of tallying the official count, which includes write-ins. Pisarcik said there were some internal technical difficulties with the website on election night that did not pertain to the election.
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1 week ago | 
punxsutawneyspirit.com | Justin Felgar
BROOKVILLE — The Brookville American Legion Post 102 held the 2025 Memorial Day Service on Monday at the Jefferson County Courthouse. Frank Bartley opened the ceremony and said there is no one group more deserving of the designation of “hero” than the more than one million men and women who sacrificed their lives in defense of the nation. He said the gathering was to honor their sacrifices and celebrate the fact that throughout history, the nation has produced such men and women of honor.
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2 weeks ago | 
punxsutawneyspirit.com | Justin Felgar
PUNXSUTAWNEY — Two boxers with the Punxsy Prominence Boxing Club won their Golden Gloves matches on Saturday. Jake Adams said he thought his fight went pretty well, dominating all three rounds and getting a stoppage in the last 10 seconds. Adams said his opponent was not keeping his head up and that gave him an opportunity to land several uppercuts. He said he felt pretty good throughout the fight, despite not knowing that they were three-minute rounds.
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2 weeks ago | 
punxsutawneyspirit.com | Justin Felgar
BROOKVILLE — The Brookville Area School District said goodbye to the Class of 2025 at the 138th annual commencement ceremony on Wednesday. In her valedictorian address, Bethany Hack said the class has been preparing for this pivotal moment since their education journey began. She said the word “commencement” usually denotes an ending or a closing, but its true definition refers to a beginning or a start.
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2 weeks ago | 
punxsutawneyspirit.com | Justin Felgar
BROOKVILLE — The Brookville school board voted to approve a proposed budget without a raise in real estate taxes or the occupational assessment tax in a 5-4 vote at Tuesday’s work session. The proposed 2025-26 general fund budget is $30,522,339; the proposed 2025-26 capital reserve fund budget is $547,102; and the proposed 2025-26 food service budget is $1, 241, 290. The real estate tax millage in the proposed 2025-26 budget is 31.9647 mills, representing no tax increase.
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2 weeks ago | 
punxsutawneyspirit.com | Justin Felgar
REYNOLDSVILLE — The Jefferson County Republican Party held their spring banquet on Wednesday, a little less than a week before the primary election. Party chairman Luc Doolittle opened the proceedings and gave an update on voter registration. He said in the primary election of 2024, Jefferson County had 18,486 registered Republicans. Ahead of the primary election in 2025, that number is 19,464. He said they were able to register 978 new Republicans in the last year.
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3 weeks ago | 
punxsutawneyspirit.com | Justin Felgar
Child Evangelism Fellowship of Jefferson, Elk, and Clearfield County will hold its seventh annual Golf Scramble on Saturday, June 14, at 8 a.m. at the Beechwoods Golf Course in Falls Creek. According to a CEF press release, the tournament is purposed to provide golfers with a great day of golf, but also help reach children with the gospel. Funds generated from the event will be used for Good News Clubs, Truth Seekers and many more mission projects held during the school year and summertime.
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3 weeks ago | 
punxsutawneyspirit.com | Justin Felgar
BROOKVILLE — The Brookville Area School District Board of Directors voted down the 2025 budget on Monday in a 4-3 roll call vote. Roger Lays, Zac Petak, Justin Ransel and Luc Doolittle voted no on the budget and Amanda Mignogna, Chris Rhoades, and Erin Schiafone voted yes. Robert Victor and Herb McConnell were absent from the meeting. Business manager Shawn Arbaugh said there was one minor change in the budget in that they did receive the final homestead/farmstead tax reduction allocations.
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1 month ago | 
punxsutawneyspirit.com | Justin Felgar
PUNXSUTAWNEY — The Van Dyke and Co. Dance Studio will hold its 2025 Dance Showcase featuring the ballet “Graduation Ball.”Artistic Director Joan Van Dyke said the show is a full-length ballet with music by Johanne Strause. She said the ballet is centered on an all-girls school in Vienna that gets together with a military school once a year and puts on a ball. She said the various grade levels are represented in the ballet. She said the last time they performed the ballet was in 2001.
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1 month ago | 
punxsutawneyspirit.com | Justin Felgar
BROOKVILLE — The Brookville school board reviewed the 2025-26 preliminary budget, which included a 5.5 percent property tax increase. Business manager Shawn Arbaugh said this was an extremely difficult budgeting year due to the uncertainty with federal funding and state budget viability, projected increases in many areas including benefits, utility costs, special education funding and cyber charter tuition, and a loss of a local revenue source.
