Cranberry News

Auxiliary equipment manufacturer The Conair Group, of Cranberry, Pa., has launched an online store for selling machines and spare parts.

Cranberry, PA Small crowd, BIG fun. That's not usually how the equation works, but tonight made my long drive to West Virginia and then here totally worth it.

Citing slumping machinery sales, Sweden's Rapid Granulator AB has filed for financial restructuring, according to a local news report.

Oct. 30--Cranberry supervisors are poised to approve a new hotel. Supervisors last night held a public hearing on an application from Hampton developer James West for Mallards Landing.

City Council members, angered by allegations that members of Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's administration have read their e-mails, discussed for nearly two hours today legislation designed to protect the privacy of city employees.

Five Below said Thursday it will open three stores in the Pittsburgh area next week - its first in that market.

The 2010 Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year Award recipient, Michelle Switala, right, hugs one of her students, Tom Robinson, during the presentation ceremony yesterday in Harrisburg.

I am a Mom of two lovely kids and the job of raising them is the hardest, most rewarding experience that I have ever had.

State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe can't seem to help himself when it comes to embarrassing his long-suffering constituents in southern Butler County.

Portrayed as a puppetmaster by a mayoral challenger, Cranberry businessman John Verbanac yesterday called the accusations that he's exercised undue influence over Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl "a little bit tiring." Mr.

State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, R-Cranberry, called a group of veterans traitors who "promote the leftist propaganda of global warming and climate change," during their Pennsylvania bus tour.

ATTENTION East and Central Pennsylvania YOUth Trainings Postponed Western Pennsylvania training in Cranberry is still occurring on November 13th-14th The Leadership Development Institutes for YOUth planned for October 30-31 in State College and November 6-7 in Plymouth Meeting have been postponed until after the beginning of the new year.

The distance between the Camp Horne Road interchange of Interstate 279 to the merge area with Interstate 79 is less than five miles, but it took Jeff Milanovich 21/2 hours to cover it yesterday afternoon.

Cranberry Township is honored with the state's most prestigious planning award for its 25 year community plan.

Less than one year after a classmate's death in a car accident, Shaler Area High School seniors Courtney Sobolak and Tara Caprino have spearheaded an effort to keep her memory alive while trying to prevent another student death in their school.

George Lantzy turned his 18-wheeler into a lifesaver and became a hero. Lantzy, 50, of Turtle Creek was among four people honored Tuesday during the American Red Cross Southwestern Pennsylvania Chapter's Heroes Breakfast in the Rivers Club in Oxford Centre, Downtown.

Money's tight all over for local governments. Rather than do obviously constituent-unfriendly things like raising taxes or fees, they're turning to innovative, not at all creepy ideas, such as selling off naming rights to local parks.

Business and tourism experts Monday began counting the economic ripples emanating from the two-day Group of 20 economic summit.

For Michael Bosco Jr., George Verbanic and George Lantzy, it was a split-second reaction.

Rep. Daryl Metcalfe held up a House resolution that designated October as "Domestic Violence Awareness" month because he thought it included language to "advance the homosexual agenda." His objections last week temporarily blocked the resolution - H.R. 105 - and touched off a furor among critics.