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LAURELTON — Fifty-five students in the Mifflinburg Area School District will receive free backpacks filled with school supplies for the upcoming school year.

MIFFLINBURG — The kitchen supervisor at a drug and alcohol treatment center in Allenwood has been charged with sexually assaulting a patient on her final day of rehab in April, according to state police in Milton.

SUNBURY — The Northumberland County Democratic Party announced Bruce Baumann as its nominee for the open position on the Shikellamy School Board Ballot in November after one candidate withdrew from the race.

HARRISBURG — With Pennsylvania’s delayed budget settled into a stalemate, opposing viewpoints expressed this week from both the governor and a top Republican in the state Senate reaffirmed that a stopgap solution is unlikely.

SUNBURY — The Sunbury Municipal Authority will hold a special meeting at 3 p.m. Monday to hire a new general manager.

SUNBURY — Sunbury City Council will try again to fill open seat on the board Monday after a judge sent the decision back to the board.

An Ohio woman fraudulently obtained thousands of dollars from the bank account of a First National Bank customer in Lewisburg and Sunbury, according to Buffalo Valley Regional Police and Sunbury City Police.

SUNBURY — A growing number of Sunbury residents have been using Lower Anthracite Transportation System, more commonly known as LATS, since April.

Astronaut James Lovell, who was commander of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission that managed to get back to earth safely after an oxygen tank explosion, has died. He was 97. NASA confirmed his death in a statement Friday. Lovell was also part of the Apollo 8 flight that became the first to circle the moon and was one of NASA’s most traveled astronauts through its early years, going into space four times. Lovell was supposed to be the fifth man to walk on the moon in 1970. But Apollo 13’s service module, carrying Lovell and two others, experienced an oxygen tank explosion.

WHITE DEER — Starting Aug. 15 a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation paving crew will begin milling the surface pavement on Old Route 15 between Route 642 in West Milton and White Deer Pike in White Deer.