Justin Felgar

1 week 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.

4 weeks 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.

1 month ago | punxsutawneyspirit.com | Justin Felgar

BROOKVILLE — Students from Jeff Tech were present at Monday’s Brookville school board work session to give an update on their studies. Kyle Lasher said he is a senior in the welding program at Jeff Tech. He said he started not knowing much about welding, and now he is a senior working at Brookville Equipment. He said this year he was in the team fabrication for SkillsUSA, where they built a table. He said his team placed second. He said last year he was able to take a couple of certification tests.

1 month ago | punxsutawneyspirit.com | Justin Felgar

The students of the Punxsutawney Christian School were afforded the opportunity to walk the fields of hallowed history at Gettysburg on April 4, thanks to the American Battlefield Trust’s History Field Trip Grant program. The trip provided students with hands-on learning opportunities. The grants are awarded based on a competitive, national application process, and this process demonstrated history, math, and reading teacher Deanna Venturini’s commitment to excellence in the classroom.

1 month ago | punxsutawneyspirit.com | Justin Felgar

SYKESVILLE — It was a beautiful, sunny day for the 46th annual Run or Walk for Someone Special. Carla Ferko, executive director of the Arc of Jefferson and Clearfield County, said, “We had another amazing run in the books. It is just unbelievable the turnout we have had. It is a beautiful day and so many people have come out to support us, like always. We are so beyond blessed to have the numbers that we get.