Category Archives: Local News
STATE SYSTEM TO REQUEST $73 MILLION BOOST IN FUNDING
The State System of Higher Education's Board of Governors yesterday affirmed its commitment to developing a plan to redesign the System, focusing on three priorities: ensuring student success, leverag...
Oct 20, 2017
SAM SMITH NAMED TO STATE SYSTEM BOARD OF GOVERNORS
The State Senate yesterday unanimously confirmed former State House Speaker Sam Smith to replace Jonathan Mack on the Board of Governors of the State System of Higher Education. Senator Don White made...
Oct 20, 2017
HEARING TONIGHT FOR BV-SB SUPERINTENDENT WILL BE PRIVATE
The Blairsville-Saltsburg School Board will meet tonight for a hearing concerning their suspended superintendent Tammy Whitfield. Whitfield has been on suspension for nearly a year, most of that unpai...
Oct 19, 2017
BV-SB SHOWS SUPPORT FOR PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE OVER RT. 22
Last night, the Blairsville-Saltsburg School Board voiced their support for a pedestrian bridge over Route 22. Board Member Rick Harper brought up the item during last night's school board meeting. Th...
Oct 19, 2017
WHITE: CHIP PROGRAM SHOULD NOT PAY FOR SEX CHANGES
The Senate Banking & Insurance Committee yesterday approved legislation that would extend the life of the state's Children's Health Insurance Program - also knows as the CHIP Program – while...
Oct 19, 2017
TRIAL DATE SET IN DARBY RAPE CASE
As of yesterday, 21-year-old Matthew Darby remained in custody in South Carolina, with his attorney saying he will be extradited back to Pennsylvania before the end of the month. Meanwhile, investigat...
Oct 19, 2017
POLICE REPORT CRASHES IN WHITE, WEST WHEATFIELD TOWNSHIPS
WHITE TOWNSHIP No one was inured yesterday afternoon in a crash on Wayne Avenue in White Township. State police say 64-year-old Brent Culp of Indiana was stopped at a red light when he was rear-ended ...
Oct 19, 2017
PRICE'S MOTIONS HEARING CONTINUED
Indiana County Judge Thomas Bianco yesterday granted a defense motion to postpone a motions hearing for Nathan Price, the 18-year-old man accused along with Justin Stevenson of murdering a Cherryhill ...
Oct 19, 2017
SAMUEL E. RURA, 91
Samuel E. Rura, 91, Coral died Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at AristaCare at Hillsdale Park. He was the son of the late August and Anna (Smith) Rura and was born July 9, 1926 in Indiana. Sam was a memb...
Oct 19, 2017
PATRICIA JOAN YANOSCHICK, 83
Patricia Joan Yanoschick, age 83, of Graceton died October 18, 2017. She was born November 12, 1933 in Indiana, Pa and was the daughter of Andrew and Helen Palmer Kundla. She enjoyed spending time wit...
Oct 19, 2017
Indiana County Fair
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