Labor Day weekend, the end of Grange Fair — those usually mean one thing to most Centre County parents, their children and teachers: the start of a new school year.

WINGATE — Streams of tears and fists clenched excitedly in the air marked the emotions of the Bald Eagle Area High School graduates Thursday night.

All the kid from Zion needed was one gun.

We asked children up to age 12, to pay tribute to their mom’s by drawing a sketch of them for Mother’s Day. Dozens responded, drawing mom with varying degrees of accuracy — lots of stick figures out there — and an abundance of love.

All over Pennsylvania, newspaper readers are coming up with ideas for good deeds -- the kind that will help their neighbors and friends.

Jay Allison’s “This I Believe” series, based on the 1950s radio program of the same name, has been a fixture on National Public Radio since April 2005.

TAYLOR TOWNSHIP — In a snowy graveyard, next to the mountain woods he loved, Sgt. Timothy Van Orman rested in peace.

Bald Eagle Area has joined Philipsburg-Osceola in winning a state championship.

Following are members of the Bald Eagle Area Class of 2007:

Port Matilda Elementary School pupils celebrated being the winners of Bald Eagle Area School District's Reading Madness competition on Monday. The competition was held among the district's first through sixth grades, and Port Matilda was the school whose students read the most books. During the celebration, Principal Betsy Dickey even kissed a 2-day-old fawn and a pig.

WINGATE — Bald Eagle Area High School students were evacuated Monday afternoon after a suspicious message — that later turned out to be a hoax — was found written on a boy’s bathroom stall.