Category Archives: Local News
IUP SOLICITS BID FOR DESIGN OF NEW CULINARY FACILITY
IUP has put out for bid the design of its new Academy of Culinary Arts in Punxsutawney. The university announced last September that two properties adjoining the Fairman Centre at the corner of West M...
Apr 25, 2019
GASOLINE RETAILERS PROTEST BI-DIRECTIONAL PIPELINE PLAN
A group of gasoline suppliers in Pennsylvania has filed a formal protest of a plan to reversing gas pipeline flow in western Pennsylvania. Buckeye Partners, based in Houston, Texas, wants to bring fue...
Apr 25, 2019
WALTERS ACCUSED OF ATTACKING FELLOW TORRANCE PATIENT
There are new charges against Todd Walters today. The Indiana man charged with killing his mother four years ago is accused of attacking a fellow patient at Torrance State Hospital last week. State po...
Apr 25, 2019
BLAIRSVILLE-SALTSBURG SCHOOL BOARD APPROVES BLAIRSVILLE FOOTBALL COACH, REJECTS ESCO PROJECT CONTRACTOR
The Blairsville-Saltsburg School Board approved a project to build a new concession stand for the football field. The new concession stand will replace an old stand that, in the words of School Board ...
Apr 24, 2019
SSHE CHANCELLOR VISITS IUP TO CONTINUE SSHE REDESIGN DISCUSSION
The Chancellor for the State System of Higher Education was at IUP on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the state system re-design as part of a second tour of all of the state system schools. Daniel Greens...
Apr 24, 2019
FAIRMAN, JONES TAKE THEIR MURDER CONVICTIONS TO SUPREME COURT
Turned away by State Superior Court, 39-year-old Shaun Fairman of Washington Township and 33-year-old Deandre Payton Jones Jr. of Baltimore, Maryland have asked the State Supreme Court to consider the...
Apr 24, 2019
CULVERT REPLACEMENT PROJECT BEGINS TODAY ON OLD 119
A bridge replacement project begins today on Old Route 119 in White Township, and it will mean delays for motorists. Temporary signals will control the flow of traffic and a ten-foot vehicle width res...
Apr 24, 2019
POLICE REPORTS: FIGHT, CAR CRASH
PSP-INDIANA One person had suspected minor injuries in a car crash early Sunday Morning in Center Township. Police say that the crash was at the intersection of Route 119 and Power Plant Road. 24-year...
Apr 23, 2019
GREENSTEIN TO VISIT IUP TODAY
Chancellor Dan Greenstein returns to IUP today for a second round of discussions on the State System of Higher Education Redesign. Greenstein announced last week that he would visit all fourteen state...
Apr 23, 2019
LAWMAKERS SAY FETTERMAN'S MARIJUANA TOUR IS A "SHAM"
A group of four Republican state representatives from Franklin County says in a joint statement that Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman's "listening tour" of all 67 counties is "cover to push an agend...
Apr 23, 2019
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