Category Archives: Local News
INDIANA SCHOOL DISTRICT TO HOST EVERGREEN AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM
The Indiana School board met last night and approved several items that will help the district get ready for the school year. Among them was approval to start a chapter of the Evergreen After School C...
Jun 11, 2019
NEW ASSIGNMENTS FOR PRIESTS INCLUDE SEVERAL FROM INDIANA COUNTY
The Greensburg Catholic Diocese has not yet released its full lineup of new priest appointments, but they have provided us a list of the new assignments involving Indiana County parishes, which were a...
Jun 11, 2019
NEW ALEXANDRIA MAN WHO CAUSED FATAL CRASH TO RECEIVE EARLY PAROLE
When he sentenced Samuel Grace III for a crash that took the life of a Blairsville woman, Westmoreland County Judge Christopher Feliciani told Grace last December that his driving record "demonstrates...
Jun 11, 2019
PITTMAN SWORN IN AS 41ST DISTRICT SENATOR
State Senator Joe Pittman took his oath of office yesterday at the Capitol in Harrisburg, and his new Senate colleagues joined him in a moment of silence for Brian Henry Swatt, the 21-year-old staff m...
Jun 11, 2019
$10,000 IN REWARDS OFFERED FOR INFORMATION ON NORTHERN INDIANA COUNTY FIRES
State Police yesterday announced that a combined $10,000 in reward money has been offered for information leading to the identification and arrest of the person or persons responsible for eight suspic...
Jun 11, 2019
POLICE REPORTS: HARASSMENT, ONE-VEHICLE CRASH
PSP-INDIANA State Police have charged two Indiana County residents for their involvement in a harassment case on Saturday. Troopers say that they were called out for a reported domestic issue between ...
Jun 10, 2019
PITTMAN TO TAKE OATH OF OFFICE TODAY
He becomes a Pennsylvania state senator today, but it will be with a heavy heart that Joe Pittman takes the oath of office in Harrisburg this afternoon. One of his staff members, a former campaign wor...
Jun 10, 2019
INDIANA, PURCHASE LINE BOARDS TO MEET TONIGHT
A couple of Indiana County school boards are scheduled to meet tonight, including Indiana Area, which has an agenda full of preparatory items for the next school year. That agenda includes the applyin...
Jun 10, 2019
REVEREND LECHNAR TO BE TRANSFERRED TO KITTANNING PARISH
The Greensburg Catholic Diocese has not officially announced its latest round of priest reassignments, but Father Willie Lechnar informed his congregation at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Kent th...
Jun 10, 2019
APSCUF/STATE SYSTEM COACHES CONTRACT TALKS RESUME
With their contract set to expire June 30th, the negotiators for the State System of Higher Education and coaches at the state-owned universities last week exchanged proposals for a new deal. Contract...
Jun 10, 2019
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