Oil City News

Photo by Jerry Sowden - Jim Hibbard, a maintenance inspector for the City of Oil City, takes pictures in the side yard of a property littered with trash.

Both Venango and Clarion counties have a high death rate for the disease. A growing diabetes problem in the region has prompted the Venango County Diabetes Task Force to organize a pilgrimage of sorts to ...

Changes in the income limit and payroll deduction has reduced what the city will receive.

Photo by Jerry Sowden - Justin Brink of Whalen Contracting of Franklin smoothes the edges around a seam in the new cement pad in front of the Vietnam Veterans Honor Roll in Franklin.

Photo by Jerry Sowden - Hasson Elementary fifth-grade teacher Kay Dawson pulls out the contents of one of the time capsules rescued from the corner stones of the former Oil City High School on Graff Street.

A newspaper story about Oil City's numerous public school buildings in the 1930s prompted city resident Marcy Karns to dig out an old report card that belonged to her grandmother, Pearl Brown.

Shana Kennedy, Alexis McCool, Jennifer Butchart, Rachele Siegel and teacher Tim Spuck are excited about their findings using the Spitzer Space Telescope.

Photo by Jerry Sowden - Oil City Library Director Bruce George signs on to the Pennsylvania Online World of Electronic Resources Library.

Oil City police and firefighters were called to an accident at 6:35 p.m. Thursday at Willow Street and Colbert Avenue in Siverly that involved a vehicle and a pedestrian.

The Il Colosseo Ristorante on Seneca Street apparently shut its doors a week ago.

Photo by Jerry Sowden - Office manager Colleen Karnish shares a report with Cas Karnish, branch manager of LPL Financial of Oil City.

An Oil City man was arrested Tuesday when police learned he was wanted in Elk County on more than 650 counts of forgery and other charges.

Jeremy McCray, 30, is accused of assaulting Steve Zacherl with a nai-studded board in June 2007.

Council members kick around the idea offered by first-year panelist John Bartlett.

Howard L. Fesenmyer has been a leader in fundraising efforts for the campus. An Oil City native has earned the distinction of having his name attached to a new dormitory at the University of Pittsburgh campus ...

Most local school districts are expected to receive the 3-percent minimum increase under the recently passed state budget.

There are already 80 people on a waiting list for the Warren-Forest program. Venango Technology Center plans to establish a practical nursing program in Warren.

The adventure continues for Russell's rivermen. David Whitten, a Russell carpenter, and his crew of five family members and friends, left the Buckaloons boat launch on June 21, hoping to complete a 1,980-mile ...

A meet-the-family picnic is also scheduled Friday. The winner of a fund-raising event for a Cooperstown boy battling a severe form of muscular dystrophy will be chosen at 8 p.m. Friday in Justus Park.

School real estate tax bill reductions are funded by gaming revenues. Once again, the tax man cometh - but this year, he is bearing gifts of a sort for some property owners.