Natrona Heights News

Mary Ann Thomas can be reached via e-mail or at 412-782-2121 x1510. Barbara Morris is painfully aware of the cost of new eyeglasses.

The leaves have fallen along with the temperatures. Colder, darker days are on their way, and that brings up the need to get the house and property ready for winter.

It is a tradition that started before the James 5:16 Center in Tarentum was a registered boxing club, and it continues today.

Pediatrician Richard Lace had such an impact on his young patients that even after they grew up, they remembered the better aspects of visiting his office, such as receiving a piece of Juicy Fruit gum before walking out the door.

Silence is golden?: When we learned last month the Flabeg Corp. had sold its Brackenridge plant site to neighboring Tomson Scrap, we were understandably concerned.

There's a little more than the predictable ghouls and goblins running around or hanging by a noose at the Tour-Ed mine in Fawn.

Rex Rutkoski can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4664. Call them an oldies act if you wish, but Vinny "Yo' Vinny" Adinolfi believes that good music transcends time.

The gymnasium in the Walter Dlubak Athletic Center on Montana Avenue in Harrison was transformed into a house of worship with Roman Catholic Bishop David Zubik celebrating Mass there yesterday.

A Slippery Rock University student died early today of bacterial meningitis, school spokesman karl Schwab said.

Many men don't like to ask for directions. And some hate it when their female companions try to navigate a leisurely weekend drive.

The North Side couple, who have been together since middle school, might go out to dinner or coffee, go shopping, or do other fun things together.

Visitors to Harrison Hills Park soon will have a dedicated place to climb, make music, paint trees, run up and down hills and gaze into a wooded canopy.

More than a dozen children gathered Sunday for a sermon geared toward a young crowd during worship at a Kittanning church.

Ed Bednar credits his doctor, and the good relationship he has with her, for saving his life.

The sudden death of a gentle and beloved police chief has staggered the emergency medical community in southwestern Butler County.

Local job seekers can interview with regional companies at the second annual Alle-Kiski Job Fair from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday, Oct.

In just three years, Taylor Swift has gone from being a fledgling teen country singer who grew up on a Pennsylvania tree farm to a household name.

Where: Riverside Drive Park, at Riverside Drive and Fifth Street, Freeport, near senior citizens' high-rise. Admission: Free Details: 724-295-6551; www.freeportren.com River of dreams The Kiski and Allegheny rivers add to the festival fun.

NATRONA HEIGHTS, Pa. a ' On crisp fall mornings in the Allegheny River valley, the fog that hangs over Highlands High School usually burns off by the first bell.

Nearly a year after an investigation by USA Today discovered two potentially toxic metals in the air surrounding Highlands High School in Natrona Heights, Allegheny County health officials have been keeping a close eye on the area as well.