Category Archives: Local News

FIREFIGHTERS ANSWER SATURDAY NIGHT ALARMS FOR FIRES, CRASH
Indiana County firefighters had an active Saturday night, answering two alarms for structure fires and another for a crash. The fires were in West Wheatfield Township and Cambria County. At 9:34 PM, f...
Hometown1 Mar 03, 2024

LOCAL FIRE COMPANY OFFERS TIPS CONCERNING BRUSH FIRES
As we enter another stretch of warm weather comes to our area, people may be considering burning brush or garbage once again, but conditions may still be ripe for those fires to go out of control. Ind...
Hometown2 Mar 02, 2024

THREE FIRE COMPANIES BROUGHT OUT FOR CRASH FRIDAY NIGHT
No details are available on a vehicle crash that brought three fire companies out Friday night. The crash was reported at 8:42 PM on Route 286 East in Cherryhill Township. The Clymer fire department w...
Hometown2 Mar 02, 2024

MAN SENTENCED IN CONNECTION WITH ROAD RAGE INCIDENT
A man charged in connection with a road-rage incident was sentenced yesterday in Indiana County's Court of Common Pleas. 24-year-old Miles Eggleston-Baxter of Indiana pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor c...
Hometown2 Mar 02, 2024

SENATOR PROPOSES LEGISLATION TO BAR THE STATE FROM OPENING NEW CYBER SCHOOLS
State Senator Lindsay Williams is proposing legislation that would bar the state from allowing new cyber schools to open. The Democrat from Allegheny says the state should put the brakes on new cyber ...
Hometown2 Mar 02, 2024

CAMBRIA COUNTY WOMAN CHARGED WITH HARASSMENT
Indiana Borough Police have charged a woman from Cambria County with harassment for an incident that happened last weekend. Police say that on February 25th at 2:25 PM, officers were dispatched to the...
Hometown2 Mar 02, 2024

SOCIAL MEDIA SCAM AFFECTING ZOOS NATIONWIDE
Officials with Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium are warning customers about a scam that promises to give away discounted tickets on social media. In a Facebook post, officials say a scam is affecting...
Renda Media Mar 01, 2024

PENELEC RELEASES STATISTICS ON THURSDAY OUTAGE
Penelec has released information about an outage that happened yesterday afternoon. The nine-minute outage affected 1,569 Penelec customers, most of them in Indiana Borough, with outages also reported...
Hometown2 Mar 01, 2024

PRELIMINARY ARRAIGNMENT TODAY FOR MAN CHARGED IN FATAL CRASH
UPDATE: Charges were officially filed this morning. District Attorney Robert Manzi said that four felony charges were filed against Reed Tantlinger. They are homicide by vehicle while DUI, two counts ...
Hometown2 Mar 01, 2024

PITTMAN AT ODDS WITH SHAPIRO OVER HOW ELECTION THREATS TASK FORCE CREATED
While Pennsylvania's Governor has put a new task force in place to help with election security, Senator Joe Pittman is at odds with how that task force was created. Governor Josh Shapiro yesterday ann...
Hometown2 Mar 01, 2024

RT 22 BIKE-PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE
The long-awaited bike-pedestrian bridge across Route 22 is now open! What do you think?
I love it! It will help bring more economic activity to Indiana County!
I love it! It's much needed for the safety of folks to link the trails and access both sides of that busy highway.
I love it for both of the reasons listed above (as long as they maintain it.)
It's not going to be the economic boon they're saying it will be.
Not enough people will use it to have an effect on safety.
It will not be maintained and will fall into disuse rather quickly.
Voting Ends: Jul 21, 2026 | 12:00 PM









