Category Archives: Local News

2025 PRIMARY ELECTION TO BE HELD TODAY
Today is the day to cast ballots for the 2025 primary election. This year, the elections focus on the municipal races, including borough council, school board and township supervisor positions. Some l...
Hometown2 May 20, 2025

RIVER VALLEY SCHOOL BOARD TO CONSIDER PRELIMINARY BUDGET TONIGHT
The River Valley School Board will meet tonight and next year's tentative budget is on the agenda. The budget's expenditures come to $36,719,961, with total revenue coming to $35,681,183. No word yet ...
Hometown2 May 20, 2025

INDIANA BOROUGH COUNCIL TO HOLD WORK SESSION TONIGHT
Indiana Borough Council will meet tonight for a work session before their regularly scheduled committee meetings. Two items are on the work session agenda: a motion to approve the cooperative agreemen...
Hometown2 May 20, 2025

WOMAN CHARGED IN CRASH INTO HOME SENTENCED YESTERDAY
A woman charged in connection with a crash in 2019 was sentenced yesterday in Indiana County Court. Indiana County President Judge Thomas Bianco ordered 44-year-old Shaylena Daniels of Home to serve b...
Hometown2 May 20, 2025

DISORDERLY CONDUCT, ASSAULT AMONG INCIDENTS REPORTED BY INDIANA BOROUGH POLICE
Indiana Borough Police charged two people in connection with some disorderly conduct on May 10th. Officers were sent out to the 600 block of Philadelphia Street for reports of two people being disrupt...
Hometown2 May 20, 2025

JURY SELECTION SET FOR TODAY IN INDIANA COUNTY COURT
Jury selection is scheduled for multiple cases today in Indiana County Court, including one for a man charged in connection with a domestic dispute in Blairsville. Blairsville police accused 53-year-o...
Hometown2 May 19, 2025

BIG LOTS IN INDIANA TO REOPEN JUNE 5TH
Indiana's Big Lots is one of five locations in the region that will reopen soon. The store in the Indiana West shopping plaza in White Township is scheduled to go back in business on June 5th. They wi...
Hometown2 May 19, 2025

TWO INDIANA COUNTY FARMS TO RECEIVE PA AG DEPT. MONEY FOR FRESH FOOD PROGRAMS
Two Indiana County farms will each receive a share of $3.4 million to be given to 34 entities from the state department of Agriculture to help connect fresh, healthy and affordable food to low-income ...
Hometown2 May 19, 2025

PENNSYLVANIA'S GOVERNOR, U.S. SENATORS REACTING TO NEWS OF PRESIDENT BIDEN'S CANCER
Pennsylvania's U.S. Senators are reacting to the news that former President Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. Democratic Senator John Fetterman said Biden has been a fighter ...
Hometown2 May 19, 2025 President Joe Biden poses for his official portrait Wednesday, March 3, 2021, in the Library of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)

A LOOK AT THE WEEK AHEAD
From the US National Weather Service Taking a look at this week, expect seasonable and dry at the start of the week. By Tuesday afternoon/evening, rain will return. Below average temperatures expected...
Renda Media May 18, 2025

Voter ID
Pennsylvania is one of fifteen states that does not require any form of identification in order to vote. Meanwhile, eight states require photo ID in order to vote with no exceptions. What should Pennsylvania do?
Keep it the way it is. No ID of any kind required.
Some sort of ID required
Photo ID, with exceptions for religious purposes
Strict photo ID, no exceptions
Voting Ends: Feb 24, 2026 | 12:00 PM











