Category Archives: Local News

SCHOOL BOARDS GET BUSY WITH THE NEW TERM APPROACHING
The arrival of August means the resumption of school board meetings, with school starting as soon as three weeks from now in some districts, albeit with understandable anxiety about funding in the abs...
Hometown1 Aug 03, 2025

PAVING, PIPE PROJECTS HIGHLIGHT BUSY ROADWORK SCHEDULE THIS WEEK
The roadwork schedule in and around Indiana County moves forward this week with PennDOT's scheduled completion of paving on Philadelphia Street in Indiana, and the start on Monday of the resurfacing p...
Hometown1 Aug 03, 2025

COMMON PLEAS, DISTRICT COURTS ACTIVE ON MONDAY
Monday's Indiana County Common Pleas Court schedule has seventeen cases, almost all of them for driving under the influence. There are twenty cases scheduled to come before the county's various magist...
Hometown1 Aug 03, 2025

VEHICLE FIRE, RESCUE, CRASH REPORTED BY INDIANA COUNTY 911 ON FRIDAY
Indiana County's first responders dealt with four different calls for service on Friday. Indiana Fire Association's first of two calls yesterday was for the vehicle fire on South 6th Street in White T...
Hometown2 Aug 02, 2025

INDIANA WOMAN SENTENCED IN ASSAULT CASE
An Indiana woman was sentenced yesterday in Indiana County Court for a case of assault. Court documents show 19-year-old Hailynn Magas was ordered to serve two years of probation for each charge of si...
Hometown2 Aug 02, 2025

LUXENBERG'S TO REOPEN LATER THIS MONTH
One year after it was forced to close due to water leaks, the ownership of Luxenberg's is announcing it will reopen later this month. In late August of 2024, a water line broke above the store's forme...
Hometown2 Aug 02, 2025

PA PUC ASKING RESIDENTS TO TRACK ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN WAKE OF HEAT WAVES
The state Public Utility Commission is asking state residents to prepare for higher electric bills in the wake of multiple heat waves that rolled through since the start of summer. The PUC says the hi...
Hometown2 Aug 02, 2025

PITTMAN: BUDGET GETTING CLOSE TO "CRUNCH TIME"
State Senator Joe Pittman says the Pennsylvania budget process is now down to "crunch time". The budget is now officially one month overdue, with issues like the regulation of skill games and the fina...
Hometown2 Aug 01, 2025

PASSHE CHANCELLOR TO VISIT IUP, OTHER STATE SCHOOLS NEXT SCHOOL YEAR
The Chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education is planning to visit IUP and all the system's schools this upcoming school year. In his latest blog post, Dr. Christopher Fiorentino...
Hometown2 Aug 01, 2025

COOLER MORNING LEADING INTO A PLEASANT WEEKEND
From the US National Weather Service Waking up to some cooler temperatures out there! Areas north of Pittsburgh are in the 50s with lower 60s elsewhere. Afternoon highs will be in the 70s across most ...
Renda Media Aug 01, 2025












