Category Archives: Local News
HOMER CITY, CLYMER AND BLAIRSVILLE TO HOLD LIGHT UP NIGHTS TONIGHT AND TOMORROW
While Downtown Indiana held its light up night two weeks ago, some other communities are gearing up for their own holiday season kickoff celebrations tonight and tomorrow. Homer City will hold its lig...
Dec 01, 2023
NEW FLORENCE MAN CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING INFANT
A man from New Florence is in Westmoreland County Jail as he was charged with the aggravated assault of an infant. The Westmoreland County District Attorney's office announced the filing of charges ag...
Dec 01, 2023
IUP PRESIDENT, ENGLISH PROFESSOR RECEIVE TOP HONORS
IUP's president and a professor in the university's English department have received some top honors. The university announced that President Dr. Michael Driscoll was named one of the commonwealth's t...
Dec 01, 2023
ELECTRIC, NATURAL GAS RATES TO GO UP TODAY
With today being December 1st, expect electricity and natural gas rates to go up. Penelec is expected to raise rates by 9.3 percent, from 9.703 cents per kilowatt-hour to 10.607 cents. Other increases...
Dec 01, 2023
INDIANA BOROUGH POLICE INVESTIGATE TWO CRASHES AT THE SAME INTERSECTION
Indiana Borough Police reported two investigations into vehicle crashes at the same intersection on consecutive days earlier this week. The first was on Wednesday in the 200 block of North 8th Street....
Dec 01, 2023
PLATINUM VISUAL SOLUTIONS TO REOPEN FORMER GREENSTEEL PLANT IN DIXONVILLE
A California-based company that makes chalkboards, whiteboards and display cases is expanding into Indiana County with the establishment of a manufacturing plant in Dixonville. Platinum Visual Solutio...
Nov 30, 2023
STARFORD MAN CHARGED WITH MARIJUANA POSSESSION IN CLYMER
Police in Clymer Borough are filing marijuana-related charges against a Starford man for an incident last week. Police say that on November 22nd, officers on foot patrol came across a white Chevy util...
Nov 30, 2023
CARDS REQUESTED FOR IUP ALUMNUS CURRENTLY IN RUSSIAN STATE PRISON
The family of an IUP Alumnus who is incarcerated in a Russian State Prison is asking for people to send him holiday cards. In a post on the Freedom for Marc Fogel Facebook page, his sister Anne said t...
Nov 30, 2023
NO MOVEMENT ON JOB SECURITY ISSUE AT PASSHE/APSCUF CONTRACT TALKS
Representatives with APSCUF, the union representing coaches in the state system are continuing to highlight job security as a main focus item during the recent negotiation session that wrapped up yest...
Nov 30, 2023
CONSERVATION MEASURES COULD COME AS BEAVER RUN RESERVOIR AT LOW LEVELS
The Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County said that if some precipitation doesn't come soon, customers in the Saltsburg area of Indiana County and other areas of Westmoreland, Allegheny, Armstron...
Nov 30, 2023
Fall Season
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