Category Archives: Local News

STATE SYSTEM COACHES APPROVE NEW CONTRACT
State System of Higher Education coaches who are members of APSCUF have approved the tentative four-year contract agreement. The deal announced on December 10th still needs to be ratified by the State...
Hometown1 Feb 07, 2020

RAILROAD REPAIR CREWS FIX RAILS AT CROSSING IN SOUTHERN INDIANA COUNTY
Crews from Norfolk-Southern Railroad were out yesterday in Southern Indiana County to make emergency repairs to a stretch of railroad. PennDOT said that the repairs were for a rail at the crossing at ...
Hometown2 Feb 06, 2020

BLAIRSVILLE RESIDENTS SUBMIT APPLICATION FOR HGTV'S "HOME TOWN RESCUE"
A member of Blairsville Borough Council and the president of the Blairsville Underground Railroad Association are spearheading efforts to bring a cable TV network program to Blairsville and makeover t...
Hometown2 Feb 06, 2020

POLICE: DRIVER OVERDOSED IN BURRELL TOWNSHIP
State police say drug charges are pending against a McIntyre man who was found passed out in his parked vehicle on Main Street in Burrell Township on Sunday night. Police got a call shortly bef...
Hometown1 Feb 06, 2020

BURGLARY SUSPECT, TWO DRUG SUSPECTS CAUGHT IN CLYMER
Clymer Borough Police say they have taken into custody an Indiana man who was wanted on a felony burglary warrant, and during the arrest they apprehended two others for suspected drug offenses. ...
Hometown1 Feb 06, 2020

BLAIR FOUND GUILTY OF DELIVERING DRUGS THAT KILLED DERRY WOMAN
In Westmoreland County Court yesterday, a jury found 23-year-old Dylan Blair of Saltsburg guilty of drug delivery resulting in death and two counts of delivery of a controlled substance for selling fe...
Hometown1 Feb 06, 2020

INDIANA BOROUGH RECEIVES SOLAR AWARD
Indiana Borough received an award for solar energy last night during the borough council's agenda planning session. The borough last night officially received their SolSmart silver designation yesterd...
Hometown2 Feb 05, 2020

FLU CASES ON THE RISE AGAIN IN INDIANA COUNTY
The number of lab-confirmed flu cases in Indiana County rose to 445 for the season in the past week. That's an increase of 86 cases from the previous week, when it had gone up by 56 from the week befo...
Hometown1 Feb 05, 2020

WITNESS IN BLAIR TRIAL SAYS HE WARNED VICTIM ABOUT FENTANYL-LACED HEROIN
Day Two of the Dylan Blair trial yesterday featured testimony by a friend of Michelle Spillar, who said he witnessed Blair selling Spillar the drugs that prosecutors contend killed her on the day afte...
Hometown1 Feb 05, 2020

POLICE SEEK SHELOCTA MAN ON DRUG CHARGES
State police are seeking the public's help in locating a Shelocta man who is wanted for possession with intent to deliver suspected crystal methamphetamine after an incident Sunday evening in White To...
Hometown1 Feb 05, 2020










