Category Archives: Local News

FIRST RESPONDERS CALLED OUT FOR VEHICLE CRASH, CO ALARMS
Only four emergency calls were reported on Sunday. Indiana County 911 reported the first call was a Carbon Monoxide Alarm activation on Getty Avenue in White Township. Indiana Fire Association was cal...
Hometown2 Oct 30, 2023

MAN CHARGED IN JANUARY FATAL CRASH TO BE SENTENCED TODAY
A sentencing hearing will be held in Indiana County Court today for a man charged with killing someone in a vehicle accident in January of this year. Court documents show that a sentencing hearing is ...
Hometown2 Oct 30, 2023

IUP ANNOUNCES OPENING OF "COMMON GOODS" POPUP AT INDIANA THEATER
IUP has announced that their 3D Design and Digital Fabircation class will open their "Common Goods" popup store, this time in the ticket booth of the Indiana Theater building. The Common Goods items s...
Hometown2 Oct 30, 2023

MOTORCYCLIST KILLED IN WESTMORELAND COUNTY
A Westmoreland County motorcyclist was killed in an accident early yesterday in Derry Township. 35-year-old James A. Trice III, who lived in Derry Township, crashed his Harley Davidson shortly after 1...
Hometown1 Oct 29, 2023

DEFENDANT ADVOCACY GROUP JOINS WEISS TEAM
For the first time in more than a year, there has been some movement in the murder trial of Ronald Weiss, the now-75-year-old man found guilty in 1997 of the 1979 murder of 16-year-old Barbara Bruzda ...
Hometown1 Oct 29, 2023

DEADLINE APPROACHES FOR MAIL-IN BALLOTS
Another election deadline is approaching this week. Registered voters have until the end of business at five o'clock on Tuesday afternoon to apply to vote by mail. There are two types of ballots with ...
Hometown1 Oct 29, 2023

PENNDOT PUBLIC PLANS DISPLAYS TO BE HELD THIS WEEK
PennDOT will host a public plans display this Wednesday for three future Indiana County bridge projects: Route 119 over Route 8001 Northbound and Southbound in White Township 119 over Stoney Run in Ce...
Hometown1 Oct 29, 2023

COACH NEGOTIATIONS RESUME ON MONDAY
Another round of talks on a new contract for coaches at state-owned universities is scheduled for Monday. Negotiators for APSCUF and the State System of Higher education last met on October 17th and d...
Hometown1 Oct 29, 2023

NEGOTIATIONS TO CONTINUE BETWEEN APSCUF, PASSHE
Bargaining teams representing the State System of Higher Education and the faculty's union met Thursday and Friday for negotiation sessions. Progress was made as both PASSHE and APSCUF negotiators dis...
Hometown2 Oct 28, 2023

MULTIPLE EMERGENCY CALLS REPORTED FRIDAY
Multiple calls were reported by Indiana County 911 on Friday. Saltsburg and Tunnelton fire departments were called into Westmoreland County twice yesterday: the first was for an automatic fire alarm o...
Hometown2 Oct 28, 2023

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.
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