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With schools closed and more youth involved, the Bloomsburg Fair provides lessons in leadership, responsibility and community to the several hundred children and teens showing animals this week.

Chris Boland is the director of alumni relations at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. He’s been in recovery since 2009. As National Recovery Month comes to a close, Boland wants others struggling with addiction and substance abuse disorder to know it’s never too late to get help.

Scranton Fire Chief John Judge is leaving the department to take a new position in the State College area. And, state lawmakers returned to Harrisburg on Monday with a long to-do list and a short session.

Federal Medicaid changes required by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act go into effect on Jan. 1, 2027. Pennsylvania is preparing recipients for the changes to come while also updating its own reporting system for the joint federal and state health insurance program.

Officials who oversee Northeast Pennsylvania’s largest airport thought they found a new leader to run it. But they couldn’t finalize a deal to bring in a new executive director, so they have to find someone else.