Loretto News

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has approved grants to area schools and law enforcement and social services agencies to support initiatives to prevent underage and high-risk drinking.

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM "The Merchant of Venice" will be presented by Band of Brothers Shakespeare Company at 7 tonight and Saturday at Stackhouse Park, Westmont.

By TOM LAVIS TLAVIS@TRIBDEM.COM Who said the learning process only is for youngsters? More than six stress-free courses are being offered from Aug.

A pet project will be the first production of Johnstown's newest theater company.

PennDOT announced today that on Thursday work will begin to resurface various roads in Cambria County.

The former treasurer of the prison guards' union at Loretto Federal Correctional Institution is accused of embezzling more than $40,000 from the union.

By TOM LAVIS TLAVIS@TRIBDEM.COM Singer-songwriter Carole King is enjoying a resurgence and Cresson Lake Playhouse in Loretto is hoping to capitalize on this icon's popularity.

By TOM LAVIS TLAVIS@TRIBDEM.COM This summer, the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art will celebrate 30 Sun-Sational Years of its annual gala.

Charles Schwab is an industrialist who has ties to the Lehigh Valley area. Schwab, born in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Loretto, Pennsylvania, was president of Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem, Lehigh ...

Five people were placed in the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program Wednesday.

Classes in the fundamentals of acting and dance will begin in September at Cresson Lake Playhouse, 279 Shapiro Road, Loretto.

Less than a week after appointing a new dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs, Lebanon Valley College is looking for another one.

Vale Wood Farms celebrated 75 years of producing and selling milk to generations of customers in the region with hay rides, children's games and a cow-milking contest won by a Cambria County commissioner.

Rainy weather has delayed the start of the paving season for PennDOT crews in Cambria and Somerset counties, where more than $3 million will be spent to upgrade secondary state-owned roads through fall.

One Butler County community is responding to rising gasoline prices by letting some of its employees work four-day weeks.

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM Men of faith will learn how to interact with others at an annual men's conference.

The Community Foundation of Fayette County will oversee distribution of a state arts grant this year for Fayette, Washington and Greene counties.

Local students receive credit union scholarships GROVE CITY -- Grove City Area Federal Credit Union has given $500 scholarships to: * Emily Robinson of Grove City, a senior at California University of ...

The day of campaigning had barely begun and Hillary Rodham Clinton was already eyeing the whiskey.

Disposition is pending. Matthew Lonas, 25, 100 block of Cooper Avenue, Johnstown, was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault , and criminal mischief. via The Tribune-Democrat