Kittanning News

The second annual Kittanning Junior High School fall fest will be held 5:30-8:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Kittanning Junior High School gymnasium, 210 N. McKean St., Kittanning.

What: 'Radio T.B.S. ' When: 7:30 p.m. today-Saturday Admission: $10; $8 for age 12 and younger, and 65 and older Details: 724-763-3680; online Tickets on sale at the door and at Quality Inn Royle, Butler Road, West Kittanning, and Baer Beauty, Fourth Ave., Ford City Directions: Route 422 West toward Butler.

Borough council tabled its current annual contribution of $9,817.50 to Town and Country Transit and requested a meeting with the general manager to air concerns regarding the agency's operations.

Armstrong School District H1N1 vaccine clinics will be open from 5-8 p.m. at the following locations: Tuesday -- Ford City High School, for Lenape, Kittanning Township and Ford City students Wednesday -- West Shamokin High School, for West Shamokin, Shannock Valley, Elderton and Dayton students Thursday -- Kittanning High School, for Kittanning and ...

Renatta Signorini can be reached via e-mail or at 724-543-1303, ext. 1319. Learning about Kittanning's past and people was the most interesting part of putting together a photographic timeline of the borough's beginnings for writer Diane Acerni.

Higher than average accident statistics and less-than-perfect lines of sight have led PennDOT to come up with three options for fixing a two-mile stretch of Route 422.

Armstrong School District administrators are looking at ways to recoup a $543,000 shortfall they had planned on receiving this year.

The Free Methodist Church of Kittanning celebrates its 125th anniversary Saturday and Sunday with a sacred concert at 7 p.m. Saturday and worship celebration at 9:30 a.m. Sunday.

Republican David Lancos wanted to be mayor of this town. He was rebuffed by the voters, and now wants to be a constable in the borough.

All Susan Johns had to do was talk about her son Zack Zion. Johns, of Ford City, did that in speaking out against drugs to a group of 13- to 18-year-olds at Adelphoi Village in Kittanning on Thursday during the anti-drug observance known as Red Ribbon Week.

Work began yesterday morning in Kittanning Riverfront Park on an erosion control project that is expected to decrease the damage left behind by winter's high waters.

A Kittanning Township man accused of assaulting a Ford City police officer waived his right to a preliminary hearing Wednesday.

Share + Oct 19, 2009 7:13 am US/Eastern BOGGS TOWNSHIP A memorial in Allegheny Township, Westmoreland County, was first dedicated in 2007, to remember the men and women from the area who gave their lives in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Brian C. Rittmeyer can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4701. Monday, October 19, 2009 After his son was killed in Afghanistan in 2008, it would have been easy for Bob Girdano to shut himself off to the world, his friend Al Pulice said Sunday.

On March 26, 1970, shortly before dusk, a lone troop of the Army's 11th Armored Cavalry "Blackhorse" Regiment chugged through a bomb-splintered jungle along the Cambodian border to form a line of steel.

Two men in their 50s died Saturday evening in a two-vehicle accident on Route 28/66 in Armstrong County.

Two people have died following a two-vehicle crash in Boggs, Armstrong County early this evening.

Volunteers got a roof on a Habitat for Humanity house this weekend during a "blitz build," which executive director Donnie Gutherie said is great progress.

Borough police are charging a Ford City man with robbing a Vandergrift convenience store after they found clothes he allegedly wore discarded in the trash outside of the house where he was staying.

A North Buffalo resident escaped a fire at her two-story home Monday afternoon after jumping from an upstairs window, according to West Kittanning fire chief Bernie Bowser.