North Apollo News

APOLLO * A salute to the armed forces will begin at 7 p.m. Saturday at Owens Field.

Applications available for annual art show The Covenant Center Art Show of the First United Methodist Church, Kittanning, will be held July 30 through Aug.

Ford City class sets monthly event The Ford City High School Class of 1962 hold its monthly get together beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Crooked Creek Park.

Worthington, South Buffalo and East Franklin fire departments responded to an automatic fire alarm at 405 Hogg Road at 11:29 a.m. Friday.

A magisterial district judge is paid $80,927 annually plus benefits. The judge will be elected to a six-year term.

Chuck Biedka can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4711. A North Apollo resident shot another man outside a house along Sugar Hollow Road early yesterday because he claims the victim tried to run him down after a dispute with a woman, Kiski Township police said.

Kittanning Hose Cos. 1, 4 and 6 responded to an electrical fire at the PennDOT Maintenance Building, along Willow St., at 9:25 a.m. Monday.

Chuck Biedka can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4711. A former substitute teacher at Kiski Area High School was released on non-monetary bond Wednesday after she was accused by police of taking three students on unauthorized field trips and giving them alcohol.

Residents will be asked to get into the act to fight crime. The 2-month-old Armstrong Crime Team , augments neighborhood crime watches such as the one in North Apollo to give police thousands of eyes and ears.

George Guido can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4689. The borough will hire a contractor to pave Cochran Avenue this summer from 12th Street to 16th Street.

Money and what it takes to qualify are what make running for district judge so attractive and explains why the race for Michael Gerheim's office is hotly contested, an Armstrong County attorney said.

Robin Davis of Apollo has announced her candidacy for district judge in southern Armstrong County.

Renatta Signorini can be reached via e-mail or at 724-543-1303, ext. 1319. A candidate for the office of district judge will not appear on the Republican ballot in the May primary, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Liz Hayes can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4680. Burning garbage trigged a brush fire that consumed a saw mill off Upper Mateer Road in Parks Wednesday afternoon.

Prosecutors in Pennsylvania delayed the scheduled Wednesday preliminary hearing for a Muskogee man charged with numerous sex-related charges involving a male juvenile.

Mitch Fryer can be reached via e-mail or at 724-543-1303, ext. 1342. A district judge seat in the county has attracted a large number of candidates to fill the office.

Kristy and Bill McCorkle, of North Apollo, have been trying for three years to adopt a child from China.

The Rob Shirley family of five will stay with relatives after an electrical fire damaged their house along Wright Road yesterday afternoon.

A Muskogee man, being held in Pennsylvania, faces 26 counts of oral sodomy in Muskogee County, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Renatta Signorini can be reached via e-mail or at 724-543-1303, ext. 1319. A preliminary hearing will be held Wednesday for an Oklahoma man who is accused of sexually abusing a North Apollo teen that he met on ...