Loretto News

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM A fundraiser for an art museum will go green to raise cash.

Emmett T. Lang, 86, of Westmont carries a lucky charm in his wallet and readily admits to being a superstitious man.

By TOM LAVIS TLAVIS@TRIBDEM.COM If a person could bottle the energy in a production of "High School Musical 2," fuel shortages would be a thing of the past.

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM Friendly City PolkaFest will be held tonight through Sunday at St.

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM Summer camps at area colleges and learning centers will keep kids active and interested until school begins again.

BY RUTHRICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM The songs of two of the icons of musical theater will take center stage in this musical revue.

Admission: $17 for adults, $10 for children younger than 12. Tickets are available at the door.

Greater Johnstown/Cambria County Convention & Visitors Bureau has announced that the 2009-2010 edition of the official Johnstown and Cambria County Visitors Guide is now available.

An Everett woman is recovering from a shotgun blast to the face fired by a man who, police say, then fatally shot himself.

The cleanup of the mess left by Wesley A. Snyder's Ponzi scheme - which left 800 mortgage customers owed $29 million - still is under way, but there have been two major developments behind the scenes.

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM Monsignor Arnold L. Gaus, pastor of Holy Name Roman Catholic Church in Ebensburg, will celebrate his 50th anniversary in the priesthood during an anniversary Mass at 4 p.m. May 9 at the church, 500 N. Julian St.

BY TOM LAVIS TLAVIS@TRIBDEM.COM The Cresson Lake Playhouse season opens with a real sleeper.

City police are investigating an armed robbery in which a delivery man for a wholesale floral company reported that two men - one armed with a handgun - approached him early Saturday and demanded money.

A longtime Loretto-area forester believes 10 to 15 acres of land appear to have been timbered recently on a Gallitzin Township property, where a controversial logging deal has residents fuming.

Star Productions is staging one of Agatha Christie's mysteries that offers an unusual twist: A mystery with a smile.

Pennsylvania's high costs to attend a public university may be a bane to many residents, but it could be a boon to veterans.

A former Rhode Island state senator at the center of an investigation into State House corruption is scheduled to be released Friday from federal prison.

St. Joseph's College has named F. Dennis Riegelnegg as its next president. Riegelnegg will take office July 1 as the Rensselaer college's third lay president and the 17th president of SJC, succeeding the eight-year tenure of Ernest R. Mills III.

The St. Josepha s College Board of Trustees has named Dr. F. Dennis Riegelnegg as the Collegea s next president, culminating a seven-month search.

A Northern Cambria woman was treated after she was injured in a one-vehicle accident in Indiana County early Thursday.