Category Archives: Local News

RESTAURANTS READY TO REOPEN AS INDIANA COUNTY ENTERS GREEN STATUS
As part of Governor Wolf's reopening plan, restaurants will be allowed to reopen their dining rooms in Indiana County today, but there will be some special restrictions are in place. Restaurants will ...
Hometown2 Jun 05, 2020

INDIANA SCHOOL DISTRICT GRADUATION SPECIAL TO AIR TONIGHT ON IUP-TV
Many school districts have turned to alternate ceremonies for graduation exercises this year in the wake of the Coronavirus, and while Indiana Area School District is no exception, IUP is willing to h...
Hometown2 Jun 05, 2020

GOING GREEN TODAY
Indiana County and several other counties in Pennsylvania will move from the yellow phase to the green phase today in Governor Tom Wolf's re-opening plan. Here are the updated guidelines for green:
Renda Media Jun 05, 2020

BRIEFS FILED IN PRICE APPEAL
The Nathanial Price homicide case has been quiet since last November, as Indiana County Court awaits the decision of Superior Court on an appeal of Judge Thomas Bianco's ruling that the death penalty ...
Hometown1 Jun 05, 2020

INDIANA MALL JCPENNEY STORE IS NOT ON CLOSURE LIST
Mired in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, JCPenney yesterday announced the permanent closing of 154 stores in twenty states. Four of the stores are in western Pennsylvania, but the Indiana Mall store is not one...
Hometown1 Jun 05, 2020

HOMER-CENTER SCHOOL BOARD ACCEPTS RETIREMENT FROM ELEMENTARY PRINCIPAL
At a special voting session of the Homer-Center School Board Thursday night, the board voted to accept the resignation of Elementary Principal Michael Stofa due to retirement. Stofa is the district's ...
Hometown2 Jun 04, 2020

IUP PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION ISSUES STATEMENT ENCOURAGING ANTI-RACISM
The IUP President's Commission on Diversity and Inclusion has been working behind the scenes to advance positive change at IUP, and they are speaking out about the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis...
Hometown2 Jun 04, 2020

COURT CASES TODAY INCLUDE PLEA COURT, TRIAL, MOTIONS HEARINGS
In Indiana County Court today, Judge Michael Clark will conduct Plea Court for two drug defendants. 22-year-old Bradley Scott Gable of Gibsonia, Allegheny County, is charged with possession with inten...
Hometown1 Jun 04, 2020

HEALTH SECRETARY DISCUSSES CORONAVIRUS, ANTIBODY TESTING
At Tuesday's briefing with State Health Secretary Rachel Levine, a reporter from the Altoona Mirror said he'd been told that the nearest coronavirus testing opportunity for the public was at two drug ...
Hometown1 Jun 04, 2020

NO INJURIES IN CRASH ON HUFF ROAD
State police have issued a report on an accident Tuesday afternoon on Huff Road in West Wheatfield Township. Police say 32-year-old Justin Shetler of Blairsville was southbound when he lost control of...
Hometown1 Jun 04, 2020










