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Both Penns Valley Area High School and Philipsburg-Osceola Area High School held their homecoming parades on Wednesday.

"POHS, POHS, our alma mater dear, your sons and daughters raise a song to honor your own fair name. We thank you for the happy days we spent as students here. Long shall we cherish your ideals as the years bring us joy and fame."

There is something about fall that makes people want to come together and share a cup of coffee, linger over tables of things other people have made with their own hands, and talk to friends and strangers.

PHILIPSBURG — Could 34 jobs in Philipsburg have been saved? The Moshannon Valley Economic Develoment Partnership never found out.

When I was a kid, every trip to State College started the same way. As soon as we started down North Atherton Street, my stepfather would say the same thing: “I remember when all this was farm.”

PHILIPSBURG — For 34 employees of a Philipsburg manufacturer, the Christmas season will be starting with an unemployment check.

There’s a new way to perform in Philipsburg.

Philipsburg-Osceola Area school board members will vote tonight whether or not to reduce ticket prices for district students at high school sporting events.

Almost a year after the Comet grocer checked out its last customer, a new owner has bought the property on Route 53 and is looking to open a grocery market there next month.

In Philipsburg, most streets that run north and south are numbered, while most that run east and west are named for trees.

PHILIPSBURG — The new home of the Holt Memorial Library in Philipsburg announced funding and received checks from donors at an open house Wednesday.

PHILIPSBURG — The land that could someday be home to a Rush Township landfill was approved for subdivision last night, but efforts by some supervisors to build roadblocks to the process became "a bridge too far," by their own admission.