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3 weeks ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Rebecca Berdar
Beloved characters from the classic works of Dr. Seuss are taking over the Huntingdon Area High School stage this week when Seussical the Musical opens for a three-night run. The HAHS Music Department production, which features the talents of nearly 50 student performers and stage crew and a live orchestra, starts at 7 p.m. nightly Thursday through Saturday, April 3-5. A free showing for senior citizens is scheduled for 9 a.m. Wednesday, April 2.
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3 weeks ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Rebecca Berdar
The Shirley Township Board of Supervisors has approved a pay increase for board members in accordance with state regulations. At their monthly meeting March 27, supervisors approved the increase to align with Act 94 which took effect Dec. 1 and amends the state’s Second Class Township Code, which look effect Dec. 1. The state last updated supervisors’ pay in 1995.
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4 weeks ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Rebecca Berdar
Following the exit of its superintendent of seven years earlier this month, the Mount Union Area School District is getting ready to embark on a search for someone new to grip the helm. Board president Linda McClure said the board as a whole hasn’t yet talked about the pending search but anticipates discussion at the board’s next workshop session, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 12, in the high school library.
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4 weeks ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Rebecca Berdar
A maintenance worker at a local nursing home is facing charges for allegedly touching a 96-year-old dementia patient in an inappropriate manner. Huntingdon Borough Police, who learned of the alleged assault March 7, filed charges this week against Larry John Yoder, 65, of Miller Township, who is accused of groping a female resident at Westminster Woods. kAm*@56C[ H9@ :D 7C66 @? `_T @7 Sad[___ 32:=[ :D D4965F=65 7@C 2 AC6=:>:?2CJ 962C:?8 (65?6D52J[ pAC:= h[ @?
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4 weeks ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Rebecca Berdar
An in-home health worker is facing charges after she was found lying on the ground outside her client’s Mount Union home in an intoxicated state, according to a report from the Mount Union Borough Police Department. Alina McNemar, 61, of Lewistown, has been charged with the misdemeanor 2 offense of abuse of a care dependent person in connection to the events of March 22. kAm!@=:46 @77:46CD H6C6 5:DA2E4965 E@ 2 =@42E:@? @? $@FE9 vC66?
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4 weeks ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Rebecca Berdar
Walker Township officials are now poised to begin reviewing updated plans for the Huntingdon Area School District’s proposed solar installation at Southside Elementary School. The district met its March 21 deadline to provide the township with an updated plan, to include additional information as requested by the board of supervisors at the conclusion of a variance hearing in January. kAm%96 5:DEC:4E H2?ED E@ A=246 cha D@=2C A2?6=D @?
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4 weeks ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Rebecca Berdar
A father and son are accused of engaging in a high speed chase with a teenager through Mount Union Borough into Wayne Township, Mifflin County — a confrontation that ended in a crash outside near Newton Hamilton. State police at Lewistown filed charges March 21 against Jonathan Spriggs, 44, and his son, Tyler Spriggs, 25, both of Mount Union, in connection to the pursuit Dec.
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1 month ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Rebecca Berdar
Huntingdon County Judge George Zanic has filed a notice of his intent to reject a plea agreement for an Oneida Township man accused of sexually abusing a young girl for a period of five years. In his order, Zanic wrote that he decided to reject the agreement for a probationary penalty after reviewing Duane Somers’ pre-sentence investigation. kAm$@>6CD[ ch[ @7 ~?6:52 %@H?D9:A 6?E6C65 2 “?@ 4@?E6DE” A=62 s64] ab E@ E96 >:D56>62?@C @776?D6D @7 :?5646?E 2DD2F=E 2?5 4@CCFAE:@?
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1 month ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Rebecca Berdar
Two Mount Union residents are facing animal cruelty charges after one of their dogs, suffering from severe skin lesions and other signs of prolonged neglect, had to be euthanized, borough police report. Helen Odessa Burd, 34, and William Franklin Burd, 34, are charged with felony 3 aggravated cruelty to an animal causing serious body injury or death and related charges in connection to wounds sustained by their dog due to alleged neglect and the canine’s subsequent euthanasia.
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1 month ago | 
huntingdondailynews.com | Rebecca Berdar
An accused drug-dealer led police on a foot chase that extended into a cave under Orbisonia and is now facing a felony flight charge. Chance James Mendoza, 22, of Burnham, Mifflin County, has been in custody since March 4 in lieu of $250,000 on a combination of drug delivery offenses and chases that he sent sexually explicit material to a teen in Three Springs. He took flight into the cave under the borough when state police attempted to arrest him on the drug-related charges.
