Category Archives: Local News

THREE CALLS REPORTED BY INDIANA COUNTY 911 ON LABOR DAY
After a busy weekend, Indiana County First Responders had a relatively quiet Labor Day with only three calls for service. The first call of the day was at 6:02 AM along Penrose Hollow Road in West Whe...
Hometown2 Sep 03, 2024

CDBG, SANITARY AUTHORITY RESOLUTIONS ON DRAFT AGENDA FOR CENTER TWP. SUPERVISORS
Center Township Supervisors have some resolutions on tonight's agenda. One of them deals with the 2024 Community Development Block Grant Application as the supervisors will look to approve the three-y...
Hometown2 Sep 03, 2024

IUP, PENNWEST CLARION GRADS ESTABLISH SCHOLARSHIPS
Graduates from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and PennWest Clarion have teamed up to establish a social studies scholarship at IUP. Thomas and Virginia Schott have given IUP $25,000 to establish t...
Hometown2 Sep 03, 2024

SPIRIT AIRLINES ADDS FLIGHT TO MYRTLE BEACH FROM ARNOLD PALMER AIRPORT
Spirit Airlines will run another flight to Myrtle Beach out of the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Westmoreland County. This marks the first time that Spirit has run two flights from the airport nea...
Hometown2 Sep 03, 2024

OX HILL FAIR UNDERWAY
The Ox Hill Fair is now underway and earlier this week, officials named the 2024 fair queen and alternates. This year's Ox Hill Fair Queen is Katrina Hoffman from Marion Center, while runner up was Ma...
Hometown2 Sep 03, 2024

CLOSURES IN EFFECT FOR LABOR DAY
Today is Labor Day, a day that was set aside by the federal government to celebrate the working people and the union movement in America. As today is a national holiday, there are some closures in eff...
Hometown2 Sep 02, 2024

PAVING PROJECT STARTS TODAY IN LUCERNEMINES
While Labor Day is traditionally a day off, there will be some road crews at work today in Center Township as a paving project gets underway today. The paving project will include 12 streets in Lucern...
Hometown2 Sep 02, 2024

CAR AND STRUCTURE FIRES REPORTED ON SUNDAY BY INDIANA COUNTY 911
First responders were busy on Sunday with seven calls for service, according to Indiana County 911. It started at 12:26 AM when Commodore Fire Crews were called out for utility lines down along Rice R...
Hometown2 Sep 02, 2024

UPDATE: RUNAWAY TEEN FOUND
A runaway teen has been found safe. Troopers were searching this weekend for 16-year-old Dyllan Ryan of Burrell Township, who was seen leaving his home August 29th around 11:00 AM. Police believed at ...
Hometown2 Sep 02, 2024

COURT WEIGHS IN ON BATTLE FOR INCLUSION ON STATE'S PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT
A Commonwealth Court judge on Friday ruled that independent candidate Cornel West must be excluded from Pennsylvania's presidential ballot. Judge Renee Cohn Jubelier sided with the Pennsylvania Secret...
Hometown1 Sep 02, 2024

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











