Category Archives: Local News
PENNDOT DETAILS UPCOMING ROAD AND BRIDGE PROJECTS
PennDOT yesterday issued a host of releases detailing traffic restrictions coming soon for projects across the five counties covered by the District 10 Regional Office. Five of those releases involve ...
Bill Berry Jun 27, 2018
GT THOMPSON TO MAKE CAMPAIGN STOP IN INDIANA COUNTY
Pennsylvania's new 15th Congressional District includes all or part of fourteen counties, stretching as far south as Indiana and Cambria counties and as far north as Warren and McKean counties, on the...
Bill Berry Jun 27, 2018
HEARING FOR WOMAN CHARGED WITH HITTING DAUGHTER WITH CAR
A preliminary hearing is scheduled today for a Blairsville woman accused of intentionally hitting her daughter with her car. Blairsville Borough Police filed charges of aggravated assault, aggravated ...
Bill Berry Jun 27, 2018
BSSD APPROVES 2018-19 BUDGET, SCHOOL CALENDAR
The Blairsville-Saltsburg school board approved the final budget, and the school calendar, for the 2018-19 school year. The board approved the $31,388,596 budget with an anticipated $31,400,000 in exp...
Bill Berry Jun 26, 2018
STATE POLICE INVESTIGATING THEFT AT STORE ON ROUTE 22
Few details are available on a theft that happened at a location on Route 22 just outside of Blairsville. This happened at the Subway restaurant located inside Accent Quik Mart on Route 22 this mornin...
Bill Berry Jun 26, 2018
INDIANA COUNTY UNEMPLOYMENT DIPS ONE PERCENTAGE POINT
Indiana County's unemployment rate in the month of May went down by a full percentage point. According to the state Department of Labor and Industry, unemployment in Indiana County fell to 4.3%. That ...
Bill Berry Jun 26, 2018
INDIANA SCHOOL BOARD HOLDS LINE ON TAXES
The Indiana School Board passed a budget last night that held the line on taxes. By a unanimous vote, the $55,595,698 budget was approved, with property taxes remaining at 15.36 mils. A motion to incr...
Bill Berry Jun 26, 2018
COOK HOMICIDE CASE MOVES FORWARD
Indiana County President Judge William Martin last week ruled that 64-year-old Charles Cook can proceed to trial for the 1991 murder of 76-year-old Myrtle McGill at her home in Indiana. Martin schedul...
Bill Berry Jun 26, 2018
CRIME REPORTS: VANDALISM, HARASSMENT, THEFT
BRUSH VALLEY TOWNSHIP State police are investigating a criminal mischief incident in Brush Valley Township. Police say someone tampered with the wires on two machines at a farm owned by Jason Bowers o...
Bill Berry Jun 26, 2018
INDIANA MAN TO FACE TRIAL FOR ALLEGED SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN
An Indiana man yesterday waived his preliminary hearing and will face trial on twenty charges involving the alleged sexual assault of two young children in New Alexandria. 33-year-old Wolfgang Michael...
Bill Berry Jun 26, 2018

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