Category Archives: Local News
PASSHE OPERATIONS "UNSUSTAINABLE", TO BE REVIEWED
State System of Higher Education Chancellor Frank Brogan told the Board of Governors yesterday that the state-owned universities' operations are "unsustainable", and said all options will be considere...
Bill Berry Jan 27, 2017
DRIVER IDENTIFIED IN FATAL CRASH NEAR DERRY
More information has come in concerning a fatal car crash last night in Derry Township. Westmoreland County Coroner Kenneth Bacha said 52-year-old Scott Geary of Derry Township died in the crash that ...
Bill Berry Jan 26, 2017
BV-SB SCHOOL BOARD APPROVES BUSINESS MANAGER CONTRACT
The Blairsville-Saltsburg School Board approved the contract for their new business manager at their special meeting on Wednesday. The new business manager, Gary A. Zuchelli, was not present at the me...
Bill Berry Jan 26, 2017
WHITE TOWNSHIP SUPERVISORS RECEIVE PETITION FOR NO PARKING ON PART OF MAPLE STREET
The White Township Supervisors heard from some citizens requesting some "no parking" signs for a portion of Maple Street last night. The township received a petition from landowners on the Maple Stree...
Bill Berry Jan 26, 2017
SPECIAL MEETING FOR WHITE TOWNSHIP PLANNING COMMISSION
The White Township Planning Commission will hold a special meeting tonight concerning the proposed changes to Ben Franklin Elementary School. Tonight's meeting, according to assistant township manager...
Bill Berry Jan 26, 2017
DRIVER CHARGED WITH POSSESSING LIQUID LSD
State police took a Lancaster County man into custody last week when they found liquid LSD on him during a traffic stop in Blairsville. 23-year-old Zachary Tyler Swope of East Petersburg is charged wi...
Bill Berry Jan 26, 2017
FORMER SCHOOL BUS DRIVER CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION OF MINORS
A former United High School bus driver was charged yesterday with 34 counts of corruption of minors for having an improper relationship last year with a 16-year-old girl who rode his bus. 30-year-old ...
Bill Berry Jan 26, 2017
FEW DETAILS IN FATAL DERRY TOWNSHIP CRASH
Authorities have not yet released the identity of the person who was killed last night in a single-vehicle crash late last night in Derry Township. The accident happened at around 11:15 PM when the ve...
Bill Berry Jan 26, 2017
FORMER SCHOOL BUS DRIVER CHARGED WITH CORRUPTING MINOR
A Homer City man has been charged with corruption of a minor during the time that he was a school bus driver for Tri-County Transportation. William Samuel Cassatt Jr., 30, allegedly had an inappropria...
Bill Berry Jan 25, 2017
NEW HEARING FOR SHEETZ
It looks like the fight for a liquor license for the Homer City Sheetz location is not done yet as an Indiana County Judge has ordered a new public hearing on the issue. The order for the new hearing ...
Bill Berry Jan 25, 2017