Category Archives: Local News

IUP ANNOUNCES SPRING SEMESTER START UPDATE
IUP issued a spring semester update, announcing to students that classes for the spring semester will begin on Tuesday, January 19, via remote instruction. In-person instruction for classes scheduled ...
Renda Media Jan 05, 2021

STATE POLICE LOOKING FOR SUSHI THIEF
State police are asking the public to identify a thief with an appetite that stole food from an Indiana grocery store last month. Police say on December 19th, an unknown suspect went into the Indiana ...
Hometown2 Jan 05, 2021

INDIANA COUNTY UNEMPLOYMENT CONTINUES TO FALL
Indiana County's unemployment rate dropped once again in the month of November. The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry reported that the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate went down six-...
Hometown2 Jan 05, 2021

COAL TRUCK OVERTURNS ON COAL ROAD
Three fire departments were dispatched earlier this morning for a vehicle accident on Black Lick Road. Indiana County 911 reported at 7:11 this morning, Black Lick, Blairsville and Coral-Graceton fire...
Hometown2 Jan 05, 2021

REA MEMBERS BILLS FOR DECEMBER POSSIBLY MISPLACED
REA Energy has announced that because of possible misplacement of the mail by the U.S. Postal Service, some cooperative members have not received their bill for the month of December. REA said in a ne...
Hometown2 Jan 05, 2021

TWO NEW STATE REPRESENTATIVES FOR INDIANA COUNTY TO BE SWORN IN TODAY
Today is the day that members of the State House of Representatives are sworn in and today that will include two new representatives for Indiana County. Brian Smith will now represent the 66th distric...
Hometown2 Jan 05, 2021

IRMC WELCOMES FIRST CHILD OF 2021
Indiana Regional Medical Center on Monday announced its first birth of the new year. The hospital's It's A Wonderful New Life Maternity Center announced that Paisley, a baby girl, was welcomed into th...
Hometown2 Jan 05, 2021

DISTRICT JUDGE ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY FOR COUNTY COURT VACANCY
One of Indiana County's district judges has announced he wants to fill the vacancy on the Court of Common Pleas. District Judge Christopher Welch announced his candidacy today for the vacancy on the b...
Hometown2 Jan 05, 2021

FEMA EVALUATES RISK OF NATURAL DISASTERS FOR EVERY COUNTY IN U.S.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued a risk rating for every county in America for 18 types of natural disaster, and Indiana County, as one might expect, fares pretty well. The ratings c...
Hometown1 Jan 05, 2021

INDIANA MAN CHARGED WITH THEFT
State police have charged an Indiana man with stealing a backpack from a Blairsville woman last Friday at a location in Derry Township, Westmoreland County. Tyler Lenhart, 21, is accused of taking the...
Hometown1 Jan 05, 2021










