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MILLMONT — Christ’s United Lutheran 4 Bells Church, located west of Mifflinburg, will host a drive-thru pot pie sale on Nov. 1.

SELINSGROVE — Ahmed Lachhab, a Susquehanna University associate professor of earth and environmental sciences, has received a Getty Foundation grant to support his participation at an international conference in Athens, Greece.

Editor’s note: This is the seventh in a series of stories featuring high school marching bands from across the region. They will publish on Fridays in The Daily Item.

SUNBURY — Scammers are sending letters to Sunbury homes asking for donations for the police department.

SUNBURY — Shikellamy school board members voted in favor Thursday of firing the now former band director and teacher accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student.

LEWISBURG — Lewisburg Area School Board members said goodbye to Superintendent Cathy Moser and promoted Assistant Superintendent Vincent Hoover during Thursday night’s public meeting.

MIDDLEBURG — A Shamokin Dam man faces a lengthy prison term after pleading guilty Thursday to assaulting a woman.

A Pennsylvania state trooper remains hospitalized in serious condition and another was treated and discharged after they were both shot by a man suspected of stealing clothing from a store before leading police on a high-speed chase. The suspect in the Wednesday evening shooting near Chambersburg was identified as 31-year-old Lamar Lorenzo Foy. Investigators say he was shot and killed when troopers returned fire. Two woman in the van are charged with retail theft and drug offenses. Troopers Thomas Pack and Lucas Amarose are recovering from multiple gunshot wounds.

Geisinger and Evangelical Community Hospital have agreed to a $28.5 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit in which former employees alleged that the health systems had a no-poach agreement.

LEWISBURG — The Buffalo Valley Regional Police Commission deleted a sentence from its new immigration policy that barred officers from running a driver’s license query for passengers during a traffic stop.