LEWISTOWN Tori Foltz had her heart set on becoming a nurse, but she admits she wasn’t if it was going to happen. Until she enrolled in the Practical Nursing program at the Mifflin County Academy of Science and Technology in Lewistown. “I’ve been in multiple programs before this nursing program, and this is the […]
LEWISTOWN The Mifflin County Academy of Science and Technology in Lewistown will soon be undergoing changes, with its upcoming expansion project. Before that construction project gets underway, the Academy rolled out a redesigned website, www.theacademy.net. The site now offers improved navigation, enables the school to post videos promoting from different programs and allows online […]
Editor’s Note: This is the second of two stories focusing on the Mifflin County Farm Bureau’s Measure the Candidates Night on Tuesday. LEWISTOWN Much like the students he served in public education for nearly half a century, current Mifflin County School Board member E. Terry Styers does his homework when making a decision that […]
LEWISTOWN If you think all banquets are just sit-down dinners with monotone speakers, then you’ve never attended a Big Valley FFA Banquet. They served a delicious dinner and did have a guest speaker at the May 5 event – Colleen Filson, who achieved the gold standard American FFA Degree, which she received during the […]
LEWISTOWN The first-round picks featured Wednesday at the Mifflin County Academy of Science and Technology in Lewistown weren’t known for their accomplishments on the football field or baseball diamond. These 21 all-stars paved the way to their future in the beauty salons, machine shops and computer labs of the vocational-technical school. And Wednesday morning […]