Friday, Sept. 24 at 6:45 p.m.
Join us to celebrate the Class of 2034 and all our friends at Ready Set Go Kindergarten and Friends at the Cumberland Drive-In Theatre! We’ll watch Wild Kratts: Cats and Dogs as well as get some great tips to start the school year off right. While supplies last, children also receive a fun giveaway bag. This is a free, family event, but a ticket is required to secure your parking spot.
Program Highlights
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Season 10 of Death in Paradise replay
The smash-hit whodunit returns
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The Cannabis Question
NOVA investigates the story of cannabis in the U.S.
By Fred Vigeant -
Citizen Hearst
Explore the life of William Randolph Hearst. The model for Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane, he controlled a vast media empire, wielded unprecedented power and influence, and forever transformed the media’s role in American life and politics.
By Fred Vigeant -
Get Ready For Alma’s Way on PBS Kids
By Fred Vigeant
News
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Matt Rourke
A CDC panel backs booster shots for older adults, a step toward making them available
The advisory committee’s recommendation expands on the FDA’s authorization of Pfizer vaccine boosters for people 65 and up. Both regulatory moves will inform the U.S. plan to dispense extra doses.
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Matt Smith
Wolf admin sues Pa. Senate Republicans over bid to collect private voter information
The complaint argues GOP senators are unlawfully pursuing a review based on “a disproven narrative” designed to undermine faith in the results of the 2020 election.
By Angela Couloumbis/Spotlight PA and Danielle Ohl/Spotlight PA -
Andy Manis
Republican-led election reviews take shape in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
Leaders of the Pennsylvania and Wisconsin reviews had visited the widely discredited Arizona election review and now are helming similar GOP-led investigations in their home states.
By Sam Dunklau/WITF and Laurel White/Wisconsin Public Radio -
sarowen
Pa. prosecutor charged with violently raping woman in her home
Somerset County District Attorney Jeffrey Lynn Thomas was accused of attacking the woman in her home.
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Office of Gov. Tom Wolf
State presses Philadelphia agency over elder abuse, neglect
Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration became so concerned about how three cases of neglect or abuse of older people were handled in Philadelphia that it is ordering improvements at an agency there.
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Matt Rourke
Shapiro remains lone Dem among crowded field for 2022 Pa. governor’s race
The Republican side of the race is especially competitive, with seven — and possibly more — candidates duking it out to capture voters’ attention.
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Min Xian
Some Central Pa. hospitals see uptick in COVID-19 hospitalizations, especially among the unvaccinated
“About a month ago, Penn Highlands hospitals were caring for just a handful of COVID-19 positive inpatients, but now we’re caring for almost 40 per day.” -
Justin Berl
‘We’re not panicking’; Steelers regrouping after loss
The key to Pittsburgh’s ability to hang around in what looks to be a very competitive AFC North is how quickly the pieces start fitting together.By Will Graves/The Associated Press -
Quinn Glabicki for Spotlight PA / PublicSource
Pa. lawmakers know a dementia care crisis is coming. Will they agree on a response?
“The problem is now. It’s today. It’s not coming, it’s here.”
We are not separate from each other. But we don’t always believe it, and we don’t always practice it.
In Transforming Health’s 2021 Summer Read You Belong: A Call for Connection, meditation expert Sebene Selassie explores the ways we separate (and thus suffer), and offers a map back to belonging.
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