Category Archives: Local News

STATE SYSTEM, APSCUF SIGN FACULTY CONTRACT
State System of Higher Education Board of Governors Chair Cynthia Shapira and Dr. Kenneth Mash, the president of APSCUF, the faculty union at the state-owned universities, yesterday signed a new four-...
Hometown1 Jan 17, 2020

JOSEPHINE'S NAMED BEST PIZZA IN REGION IN POST-GAZETTE REVIEW
An Indiana pizza restaurant was recently named one of the best in the region. In today's edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, one of their staffers proclaimed that Indiana-based Josephine's Pizzari...
Hometown2 Jan 16, 2020

GREENSTEIN SAYS STATE SYSTEM IS AT A TURNING POINT
Chancellor Dan Greenstein told the Board of Governors yesterday that State System of Higher Education is "at a turning point" in deciding the course of public higher education in Pennsylvania. ...
Hometown1 Jan 16, 2020

SUPERIOR COURT KEEPS WEISS APPEAL ALIVE
The State Superior Court has ruled that Ronald Weiss's appeal may go forward, as he seeks to reverse Indiana County Judge Thomas Bianco's rejection of a motion to dismiss Weiss's murder case. I...
Hometown1 Jan 16, 2020

INDIANA COUNTY COMMISSIONERS APPROVE CDBG CONTRACT MODIFICATION
The Indiana County Commissioners on Wednesday approved a contract modification for the 2018 Community Development Block Grant Funding for Burrell Township. The modification will remove phase one of th...
Hometown2 Jan 15, 2020

THREAT AGAINST INDIANA SENIOR HIGH INVESTIGATED, PROVED TO BE UNFOUNDED
The Indiana Senior High School is in session this morning after a threat was received by the district last night. According to a news release from the Indiana School District, they received an anonymo...
Hometown2 Jan 15, 2020

NO ONE HURT IN CRASH INVOLVING INDIANA SCHOOL BUS THIS MORNING
No one was injured and no students were on board a school bus involved in a crash this morning at the intersection of Fourth and Philadelphia Streets in Indiana Borough. Few details have been released...
Hometown2 Jan 15, 2020

COURT ACTION TODAY INCLUDES MOTIONS HEARINGS, PLEA COURT
Three motions hearings for 19-year-old arson defendant Dylan Dalessio are still listed on today's Indiana County Court schedule, but they are not likely to happen. Judge Thomas Bianco last week grante...
Hometown1 Jan 15, 2020

PACE OF FLU CASES FALLS IN INDIANA COUNTY, STATEWIDE
Indiana County's total number of lab-confirmed flu cases this season increased by 34 last week, after a jump of 100 new cases the week before. The latest State Health Department report shows flu activ...
Hometown1 Jan 15, 2020

BV-SB SCHOOL BOARD APPROVES HIRING KOREN AS FACILITATOR IN REORGANIZATION TALKS
The Blairsville-Saltsburg School Board met last night to vote on hiring a former superintendent from a neighboring school district as a facilitator in the discussion for possible reconfiguration of th...
Hometown2 Jan 15, 2020










