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BLAIRSVILLE BOROUGH COUNCIL TO CONSIDER 2025 BUDGET TONIGHT
Blairsville Borough Council will consider approving the 2025 budget tonight during the council's monthly meeting. The budget approved for advertisement last month came out to $2,466,548, and required ...
Hometown2 Dec 17, 2024

INDIANA POLICE REPORTS: WARRANT ARREST, HARASSMENT
INDIANA BOROUGH Indiana Borough Police arrested a man wanted on warrants from Elk County on Friday. Police say that around 8:00 PM, officers were called out to an apartment in the 600 block of Water S...
Hometown2 Dec 17, 2024

OVER $3000 RAISED IN DAY ONE OF TEDDY BEAR FUND DRIVE COLLECTION WEEK
Today is the second day of the Teddy Bear Fund Drive Collection Week. Day one was a great success as volunteers collected $3683 in the first day at the 700 Shop at the intersection of Seventh and Phil...
Hometown2 Dec 17, 2024

MARION CENTER BOARD RECEIVES FIRST DRAFT OF 2025-26 BUDGET, APPROVES ACT 1 RESOLUTION
Monday night, the Marion Center School Board received a first draft of next year's budget from Business Manager Richard Martini. Martini said that the first draft of the budget does contain a deficit,...
Hometown2 Dec 16, 2024

THREE-VEHICLE CRASH IN BURRELL TOWNSHIP YIELDS NO INJURIES
No one was hurt in a crash this afternoon in Burrell Township. Indiana County 911 sent Blairsville and Black Lick firefighters, Citizens' Ambulance and state police to Old William Penn Highway near IR...
Renda Media Dec 16, 2024

DONATION SCAM TARGETS CITIZENS' AMBULANCE SUPPORTERS
Indiana County residents are warned of another scam making its rounds. Officials with Citizens' Ambulance Service said in a Facebook post that someone is impersonating them, asking residents for donat...
Renda Media Dec 16, 2024

DROUGHT WATCH CONTINUES IN INDIANA COUNTY
While we have received some rainfall over the weekend, it has not been enough to remove a drought watch status from Indiana County. Indiana, like 32 other counties in the state, is under a drought wat...
Hometown2 Dec 16, 2024

IUP TO RECEIVE GRANT FROM PA DEPT. OF EDUCATION FOR "IT'S ON US" PROGRAM
Over $1.6 million in grant money has been distributed among post-secondary schools throughout Pennsylvania, including IUP, to help combat sexual assault on campuses. The money is through the "It's On ...
Hometown2 Dec 16, 2024

MAN DUE IN DISTRICT COURT FOR ATTEMPTED ARSON CHARGES TODAY
A man charged with trying to set fires earlier this year is due in district court today. This marks the fifth attempted preliminary hearing for 46-year-old Casey Bush of Blairsville. He faces two coun...
Hometown2 Dec 16, 2024

SEMI ROLLOVER REPORTED IN NORTH MAHONING TOWNSHIP THIS MORNING
After an active Saturday for first responders, crews had only two calls for service over the last 24 hours. One of those calls was about a vehicle accident this morning in Rochester Mills. Indiana Cou...
Hometown2 Dec 16, 2024












