Local News

TURBOTVILLE — H&P Construction will be the contractor for the Warrior Run Junior Senior High School auditorium renovation project.

LEWISBURG — The township supervisors in East Buffalo Township awarded a contract to a firm from Ohio to provide a new bridge over Turtle Creek.

Gov. Josh Shapiro is threatening potential legal action against the Trump administration after it slashed millions of dollars in federal funding for food banks across Pennsylvania.

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Senate took steps Tuesday to enact separate legislation that would ban safe injection sites for drug use and institute a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for anyone who sells fentanyl that results in a fatal overdose.

LEWISBURG — The Buffalo Valley Trail Authority is seeking support from local municipalities and government bodies for a long-awaited rail trail crossing over Route 15 in Union County.

LEWISBURG — Geisinger said it will work with East Buffalo Township to resolve the issues regarding the Danville-based health care provider’s proposed $32 million cancer center.

MIFFLINBURG — One of the men involved in the theft of copper pipe and wiring at the former Laurelton Center is headed to Union County Court.Michael Shawn Klingensmith, 60, of Furer Drive, Sarver, waived his right to preliminary hearings on Tuesday in front of Mifflinburg District Judge Jeffrey Mensch on both of his cases.

LEWISBURG — A Sunbury man set for trial in Union County Court this week instead pleaded no contest to a felony count of sexual assault.

SUNBURY — A Sunbury man faces felony corruption of minors and indecent assault charges after city police say the man inappropriately touched a 10-year-old.

DANVILLE — Montour County is under a burn ban for the next 30 days.