Category Archives: Local News

PEOPLES GAS RATES TO DECREASE
With overall energy prices falling worldwide, Peoples Natural Gas Company has filed a 2.5 percent rate decrease request with the state Public Utility Commission. The new natural gas rates would take e...
Hometown1 Mar 25, 2020

CLEARFIELD COUNTY PATIENT TESTS POSITIVE FOR COVID-19
With the confirmation of one Covid-19 case in Clearfield County yesterday, all of Indiana County's contiguous counties except one now have at least one infected patient. Only Indiana County and neighb...
Hometown1 Mar 25, 2020

FIRST CASE OF CORONAVIRUS REPORTED IN ARMSTRONG COUNTY
Armstrong County Memorial Hosptial has reported the county's first case of coronavirus. In a post on their Facebook page, ACMH reported that as of Tuesday, the hospital has its first Covid-19 case in-...
Hometown2 Mar 24, 2020

BLAIRSVILLE-SALTSBURG SCHOOL BOARD TO HOLD MEETING ON VIDEO CHAT TONIGHT
The Blairsville-Saltsburg School Board will hold their monthly regular meeting tonight, but they will hold it over video chat. Due to coronavirus concerns, the district will use Zoom Video Chat to hol...
Hometown2 Mar 24, 2020

SHEETZ STOPS SALES OF SELF-SERVE COFFEE, DRINKS AND PASTRIES AMID CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS
Sheetz announced some changes at its stores due to coronavirus concerns. On Monday, the convenience store chain announced that it would stop all self-serve coffee and drink service and the availabilit...
Hometown2 Mar 24, 2020

COVID-19 NOW CONFIRMED IN CAMBRIA COUNTY
Another of Indiana County's neighboring counties has a person with the Covid-19 virus. Cambria County now has one case, a patient currently being treated in quarantine at Conemaugh Memorial Medical Ce...
Hometown1 Mar 24, 2020

NEW DATE SET FOR BROWN'S HOMICIDE BY VEHICLE TRIAL
There is a new trial date for James Brown, the 35-year-old Rossiter man charged with homicide by vehicle for a fiery July 2018 crash in Home. Brown is accused of being the driver who crashed into Pike...
Hometown1 Mar 24, 2020

INDIANA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER THANKFUL FOR SUPPORT, DONATIONS
Area Companies and organizations have stepped up with support of area hospitals, including Indiana Regional Medical Center. Renda Broadcasting News talked to Jim Barker, spokesperson for Rosebud Minin...
Renda Media Mar 23, 2020

MAN WHO ENGAGED POLICE IN A STANDOFF IN COMMODORE SENTENCED
One person was sentenced today in Indiana County Court for charges connected with an incident in Commodore last July. Indiana County President Judge Thomas Bianco sentenced 66-year-old Garry Faber of ...
Hometown2 Mar 23, 2020

TWO BRUSH FIRES REPORTED ON SUNDAY
The number of brush fires this season in Indiana County has gone up to twenty-six after two were reported yesterday in northern Indiana County. The fires were reported on Sunday, with the first call c...
Hometown2 Mar 23, 2020

Konnor Griffin
Konnor Griffin is a Bucco! Are you going to go watch him play?
You bet! He's going to put them in the playoffs!
Sure will, but he's not going to make them much better.
Maybe a few games, but he's going to struggle.
Nope! The Pirates have been too bad for too long.
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