Category Archives: Local News

I-ACT TO DETAIL PLANS FOR UPCOMING WEEK
IUP students return from Spring Break this week, with classes set to resume tomorrow and the unsanctioned IUPatty's event upcoming next weekend. In the past, IUPatty's has been a handful for law enfor...
Hometown1 Mar 16, 2025

HOUSE TO RETURN TO SESSION IN HARRISBURG
The state House is back at work this week following three weeks of budget hearings. One of the more prominent bills on the agenda would create a Rural Healthcare Grant Program that would provide finan...
Hometown1 Mar 16, 2025

MARGINAL CHANCE OF RAIN TODAY ... BUT TOMORROW?
From the US National Weather Service Here is the latest forecast for today. Above average temperatures will continue. There will also be chances for showers and a few thunderstorms. The best chance is...
Renda Media Mar 15, 2025

IUP HOSTS PUBLIC LANGUAGE CONFERENCE
Indiana University of Pennsylvania's English Graduate Organization will host its 2025 Conference, Landscapes of Language and Literature, on March 21 and 22. The event is free and open to the public, o...
Hometown4 Mar 15, 2025

SAINT PATRICKS DAY PARADE TODAY
Indiana will celebrate St. Patrick's Day today from 11 am to noon with the 2025 Downtown Indiana St. Patrick's Day Parade along Philadelphia Street. The parade will run between 5th and 9th Streets, gi...
Hometown4 Mar 15, 2025

STRUCTURE FIRE DESTROYS BANKS TOWNSHIP HOME
A structure fire destroyed a home on Hemlock Lake Road yesterday morning in Banks Township. Around 9:24 am, Glen Campbell, Commodore, Rossiter, Big Run and Mahaffey Fire departments, Citizens and Indi...
Hometown4 Mar 15, 2025

PENNSYLVANIA STARTS INVASIVE PLANT REPLACEMENT PROGRAM
Pennsylvania homeowners will have a chance to fight invasive species of plants that may be growing on their property. Non-native trees and shrubs, like callery pear, tree-of-heaven, and Japanese barbe...
Hometown4 Mar 15, 2025

PA CYBER SCHOOLS TO SEE REFORM
Last year, Pennsylvania invested significant funding in public education, including over a billion dollars in new K-12 funding for the third consecutive year. This includes many Pennsylvania cyber cha...
Hometown4 Mar 15, 2025 Yuri Samoilov / CC

INDIANA BOROUGH POLICE REPORT TWO INCIDENTS
An Indiana man was charged with retail theft this past Thursday around 3:18 am. Indiana Borough Police responded to a report of a man trespassing in a convenience store in the 300 block of Philadelphi...
Hometown4 Mar 15, 2025

STATE UNEMPLOYMENT SEES SLIGHT UPTICK IN JANUARY
Pennsylvania's unemployment rate went up slightly in January. The Department of Labor and Industry reports Pennsylvania's rate rose one-tenth of a percentage point to 3.8 percent over the month of Jan...
Renda Media Mar 14, 2025

America 250
The America250 celebration is coming up. Are you doing anything special?
Yes! Can't wait for the Friday night parade and Saturday's YMCA Star Spangled Celebration at Mack Park!
We'll do our typical picnic and sparklers thing!
We're traveling to some great U.S. historical sites, such as Philadelphia or Washington, D.C.
Nothing special. Just a typical weekend at our house.
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