Patrolman Gregory Drollinger of the Watsontown Police Department teaches Mathew Kilgus, 12, of Dewart, safe biking skills Saturday on a course laid out behind the Warrior Run Area Fire Department. The police department joined forces with the fire company to sponsor a Bike Safety Rodeo/Derby. In addition to teaching bicycle safety, officers and fire department volunteers fitted kids with bicycle helmets provided by Evangelical Community Hospital.

Pennsylvania taxpayers pay more than $15 million a year to maintain, service, insure and fuel about 3,650 vehicles used full time by state employees, a newspaper reported.
The annual cost of vehicles used by cabinet officers, deputy secretaries, chief counsels, bureau directors, state troopers and others totals about $15.6 million, The Patriot-News of Harrisburg reported Sunday.

In a house with kids in it, there’s never a dull moment. There’s always a sippy cup to fill, a dispute to mitigate, a favorite story to read or game to play.
Some local mothers were afforded the chance to relax and spend a little quality time with their kids Friday afternoon in Kristin Barr’s kindergarten class at Montandon Elementary School.

Looking for a little something different to give Mom this Mother’s Day? Why not take her to a concert or on a river cruise?
The 43rd annual Lewisburg Music Recital by students of Ruth Blankenship will be presented as a Mother’s Day musicale at the Slifer House Museum, starting at 2 p.m. on Sunday.

Ashley Marr of Watsontown helps her 2-year-old son Carter pick a duck from the duck pond during Friday evening’s fair at the White Deer Elementary School. Kids who picked the lucky duck won a prize.

MILTON — They waited a long time for this trip, and it was worth it.
The junior class of Meadowbrook Christian School recently returned home from a 10-day excursion to the Dominican Republic, in the area of the capital city Santo Domingo. They left April 18, and stayed at the Juan Tomas Bible Center, or the “goat farm” as the kids put it.

LEWISBURG — For taxpayers in the Lewisburg Area School District, it’s that time of year again.
LASD has increased the amount collected from local properties every year for at least the last seven and next year will be no different.
The school board reviewed a tentative budget Thursday evening that calls for a .97-mill real estate tax increase.

LEWISBURG —  Mark Temple, a social studies teacher with the Lewisburg Area School District, was hired as the district’s new athletic director (AD).
Superintendent Dr. Mark DiRocco said Temple is a graduate of Lewisburg Area High School and has been a social studies teacher in the district for three years.

LEWISBURG — A Milton man who alleges he was sexually abused as a youth by Jack Harclerode testified against the former Bucknell University professor during a preliminary hearing Thursday afternoon in the Union County courthouse.
According to reports, the unidentified 28-year-old said he was abused by Harclerode three years in the 1990s in an office at Bucknell University.

WHITE DEER — If you visit Faith Chapel United Methodist Church, White Deer, on the second or fourth Thursday evening of the month you’ll likely hear laughter echoing from the building.
The giggles will be coming from members of the Green Pride 4-H Club. The organization is open to boys and girls age 7 to 18.

MIFFLINBURG — A group of Mifflinburg residents are rallying to save a 150-year-old building from being reduced to rubble.
Around 20 concerned citizens met Wednesday morning to discuss possible options for saving the Mifflinburg borough building.

TURBOTVILLE — Three local men have been charged with vandalism and criminal mischief after allegedly trashing soccer fields at the Moser Sports Complex and behind the Warrior Run High School near Turbotville in March.

MILTON — It would be hard for them to definitively measure their success of thwarting inactivity, but they feel it’s doing a lot good for the students of the Milton Area School District.
Wednesday was the latest district-wide attempt to promote exercise and healthy living, this time by participating in the annual ACES (All Children Exercise Simultaneously) event. Millions of children in the U.S. and more than 50 countries were expected to take part in the special walk first started by Len Saunders, a phys ed teacher from New Jersey in 1989.

MILTON — May is the musical month in Milton.
Concerts are taking center stage over the course of the next several days.
On Friday, Team Cambodia plans to bring its fundraising efforts to fruition with Concert for Cambodia from 7 to 11 p.m. in the Milton Area High School auditorium. It was moved there because of rain in the forecast.