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NORTHUMBERLAND — The Priestley-Forsyth Memorial Library will celebrate its 100th anniversary at 1 p.m. Sunday at Front Street Station in Northumberland.

Over the past 20 years, genetic testing and the understanding of genetic mutations have helped advance treatment options for breast cancer patients and their families.

Tourism generated $619 million in visitor spending across the four Susquehanna Valley counties of Union, Snyder, Montour and Northumberland, according to the latest data released by Tourism Economics, a company that works with the Pennsylvania State Visitors Bureau.

CHESTER SPRINGS — A newly unveiled strategic plan to support and expand agriculture in Pennsylvania will guide efforts to develop more jobs and expand market access, help new farmers transition into existing farmland and operations, and drive out funding to help with large equipment purchases, the Shapiro administration announced.

MILTON — Milton Borough has assumed a conservatorship over the property at 18 N. Arch St., owned by Bishop William Jackson, New Life Evangelistic Church of New Jersey.

MILTON — A poverty simulation Thursday for 60 people offered a sobering look at how quickly financial struggles can spiral into eviction, legal trouble and other hardships.

HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro looks to join a freshly filed challenge with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission demanding reforms to PPL Electric Utilities’ rate structure to protect residential and business customers from absorbing the costs of onloading and operating hyperscale data centers.

MILTON — A recently retired Danville Area School District math teacher has opened Once Upon a Whisk, a bakery at 54 S. Front St. in Milton.

The Mifflinburg marching band is stepping on the gas for its halftime show this year.

LEWISBURG — The Buffalo Valley Regional Police Department’s headquarters will see a 3 percent increase in rent in the new year.