Ferndale News

A brigade of construction workers and earthmoving equipment soon will descend on Dale Borough.

Ferndale Area School District's board has unanimously adopted a 2009-10 budget of $10,591,007. The budget includes a tax increase of 3.5 mills, bringing the millage for 2009-10 to 63.

By TOM LAVIS TLAVIS@TRIBDEM.COM In this age of megaplex theater chains, many of the neighborhood venues have been replaced by expansive facilities featuring 20 or more screens showing the latest blockbusters.

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM History will be shown through art during a local society's display.

The trickle-down effect of a brutal economy has seeped into local registered day care facilities, reducing enrollment figures for many.

BY TOM LAVIS TLAVIS@TRIBDEM.COM The rock-strong Roxbury Bandshell on Franklin Street in Johnstown will once again be the site of a summer concert series to benefit the continued preservation of the historic structure.

The Rotary Club of Johnstown honored 68 high school seniors from the Johnstown area for their academic achievements and service to the community during its 25th annual Salute to Area Scholars on Wednesday.

Two more area businesses are claiming they were bilked out of money by a Westmoreland County man hired for advertising that never was completed.

Richard D. Speicher, the incumbent Republican Cambria County jury commissioner, is being challenged by an Ebensburg area woman for the GOP nomination for the office in the primary election.

FERNDALE, Pa. - March 10, 2009 - -- State police are investigating what could be called a hate crime in one Bucks County community.

Students at Ferndale Area High School are constructing doghouses for Habitat for Hounds, an animal-welfare organization in Johnstown.

A Ferndale nurse who survived two ship sinkings during World War II and received the Bronze Star for meritorious service has died.

BY RUTHRICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM These girls have the write stuff. Best friends Rachel Dorchak and Cayla Zahoran, both seniors at Ferndale Area High School, have joined forces to write a murder mystery for their ...

Norris Collins of Johnstown, after previously rejecting a plea bargain in a homicide case, ended up pleading guilty to third-degree murder in the fatal shooting.

Norris Collins of Johnstown, after once rejecting a plea bargain in a homicide case, ended up pleading guilty today to third-degree murder and to two unrelated drug delivery cases.

Timothy and Kristie Gerber are understandably nervous when the weather turns bad and the roads turn icy.

After 13 years and more than 140,000 miles, volunteer van driver Michael Rector of Johnstown is calling it quits.

A Johnstown man accused of killing a Ferndale man outside the Solomon Homes in the city rejected a plea deal Monday that would have enabled him to avoid a possible life sentence in prison.

The presents are opened, the cookies consumed, the wreaths and decorations put away for next year.