Marienville News

Photo by Natasha Mattis Melaine Lowrie, a high school student, Athena Pack, Christy Weaver, John Valimont and Sam Sears are immersed in the pit searching for artifacts.

Senior center lunches this week will include macaroni and cheese?Monday, salsa chicken Tuesday, spaghetti Wednesday and stuffed peppers Thursday.

Area Agency on Aging will serve the following menu at Conewango Towers, Warren Senior Center and Warren Senior Community Center June 15-19: Monday, hamburger gravy; Tuesday, chicken tenders; Wednesday, hot turkey sandwich; Thursday, spaghetti; and Friday, fish.

A Safe Driving Renewal course designed by American Association of Retired Persons will be offered at Warren Community Center, 905 Fourth Ave., from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 16, with certified instructor Al Harrison.

David D. Wigley, president of the United Postal Worker Union Local 227 in New Castle and many of the employees at the post office believe the study is the first step in closing the processing center.

Sun Ra told of having a mystical experience in his youth in which he was transported to Saturn and instructed to speak to the world in troubled times to come.

Photo by Ted Lutz These three eighth-grade students at the Kane Middle School attended the Kane Borough Council meeting Monday to voice concerns about the skate/bike park.

Aqua America Inc. said Monday that its Pennsylvania subsidiary has acquired the Clarendon Water Co.

Conditions are right for fires in the Allegheny National Forest. "In the last week we've had eight fires, all over the forest," ANF Fire Management Officer Peter To said on Monday.

Allegheny National Forest officials spent Monday night listening to public comments, trying to make sure they missed nothing when it came to preparing a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement to its 2007 revised Forest Plan.

Photo by Ted Lutz A youth rides his bicycle on one of the ramps at the skate/bike park in Kane.

According to Allegheny National Forest officials, they are not part of the Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics .

The Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force has apprehended a juvenile from the city's West End who was wanted in connection with the December shooting and robbing of a Yellow Cab driver.

Allegheny National Forest officials didn't have answers to some of the questions posed at Monday night's meeting.

Area Agency on Aging will serve the following menu at Conewango Towers, Warren Senior Center and Warren Senior Community Center April 20-24: Monday, hamloaf; Tuesday, beef tips; Wednesday, chicken and biscuits; Thursday, goulash; and Friday, shepard's pie, Eligible participants must be 60 or older.

Ralph John Godenschwager, 78, Marienville, joined our Lord on April 5, 2009, at UPMC Northwest Hospital in Seneca, after a courageous battle with cancer.

It took a little looking around, but the county sheriff's department will be receiving a new vehicle soon.

Police in Washington County today filed charges in a 10-year-old home invasion and rape.

Forest Supervisor Leanne Marten is proposing to sell the Marienville Compound, formerly the Marienville Ranger District Office, via a competitive sale process for an amount that is at least equal to the market ...