Seven Springs News

There's not as much water as there used to be in Laurel Hill Creek, said Clair Saylor, who has lived along the pools and riffles of the pretty little trout stream for all of his 64 years.

Indian Creek Baptist Church, 1276 Mill Run Road in Mill Run, is preparing for its annual July 4th Homecoming Picnic.

The search for four missing teenagers ends almost five hours later with their safe discovery.

Yvette Raymond enjoys the many free summer festivities offered in the area. And since the Park Place woman can't afford a vacation this summer, she plans to take in more of them this year, such as the jazz concert last week at Schenley Plaza.

Zoning regulations and traffic restrictions are among the keys to preserving a key Somerset County corridor that is bracing for rapid development, a new study says.

An Acme man is in prison after taking police on a two-county vehicle pursuit this week.

A South Carolina man must pay for a chalet he set on fire near a southwestern Pennsylvania ski resort in 1996.

A former Somerset man living a new life in South Carolina for the past decade was in Greensburg on Monday to plead guilty to setting fire to a chalet near Seven Springs Mountain Resort in 1996.

SNPJ Button Box Band rehearses and jams with other instrumentalists Monday evenings at the SNPJ Lodge in North Strabane.

Paul Peirce can be reached via e-mail or at 724-850-2860. Middlecreek Township's decades-old dry spell in Somerset County is about to end.

Bob Frye covers the outdoors for the Tribune-Review. He can be reached via e-mail . * Fish and Boat Commissioners are -- for the first time -- bringing their quarterly meeting in Somerset County.

State and Allegheny County health officials said at least six measles cases in western Pennsylvania have been traced to a traveler from India who infected the patients last month.

Emergency personnel from across the region who attended a conference at Seven Springs Mountain Resort may have come in contact with an individual infected with measles.

Health officials say they have pinpointed the source of the recent measles outbreak in Western Pennsylvania -- a traveler from India who entered the country in early March.

Water wars brewing in a scenic Somerset County valley earned one of Pennsylvania's highestquality streams a designation as one of America's most endangered rivers.

As the deadline for plans regarding the use of federal stimulus funds creeps up, local school district administrators are getting antsy for better guidance from the state.

Sitting as a gateway to the Laurel Highlands and the vast recreational opportunities that it offers, Donegal Township is the throughway that sees thousands pass on a regular basis.

The parents of a Rostraver man who died in a 2008 fire in a Seven Springs Mountain Resort condominium have filed suit alleging negligence.

John Stephen "Chips" Radich has been gone from the mid-Monongahela Valley for more than 40 years.

In Somerset a midnight run to the store or a late night meal may not be as easy to come by as in other towns, due to few 24-hour establishments.