Sharpsville News

Shenango Valley Metropolitan Planning Organization has granted the Mercer County Trails Association $229,000 to help build the Trout Island Trail.

Two out of three of Mercer County's vacant district judge posts will be filled Monday when the men who all but won them in the May primary are sworn in.

Conservative Pittsburgh-based radio talk show host Jerry Bowyer speaks at a TEA party Saturday in Mercer.

A Sharpsville electrical contractor denied that it owed anything to the electrical workers union, but has paid in full what money the union said was owed.

Noah Spaulding of Greenville won Saturday's Great American Super Kids Soap Box Derby for special needs children in Sharon.

Someone broke into Sharpsville's American Legion and High Street Pub & Grill over the weekend and made out with hundreds of dollars in cash, police Chief Keith Falasco said Monday.

The "Valley Girls" - from left, Shirley Pears, Frances Williams, Delores Patrizi, Cara McFarland, Lois Tamplin and Toni Martin, line dance at the Sharpsville Area Historical Society's annual strawberry social Sunday.

Russell Penn of Second Baptist Church, Spearman Avenue, Farrell. * Mercer County Amateur Radio Club will be demonstrating amateur radio at the Corps of Engineer's public boat launch grounds at Clark, today and Sunday.

A Sharpsville bridge crossing the Shenango River may soon be named after a local fallen hero, Sgt.

Another church is the victim of burglars in Mercer County. The Shenango Valley Baptist Church on Neshannock Road was burglarized sometime over the weekend.

Get out your wallet or pick up your telephone: Seventh Street Elementary School is officially for sale in Sharpsville.

An appeals court has agreed that a local judge should not have declared a mistrial in the case of a man convicted of drunken driving.

PennDOT District 10 has announced that work has started on another construction project in Armstrong County financed with federal funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act .

If you happened to pass our office last Saturday you might have noticed an unusual sight as this year's class of the National Safe Tractor and Machinery Operator Program were taking their final examinations.

Items include all things birds - houses, feeders, food, binoculars, etc. Info: 724-794-2473. * Vincent Methodist Church, Walnut Street, Jackson Center, will host a ham loaf and scalloped potato dinner at noon Sunday.

Soprano Corinne Morini of Ellwood City and Jason Budd, a bass-baritone from Hubbard, are two of the singers who will perform in the opera 'Don Pasquale,' in the restored Pierce Opera House, on the top floor of the National City Building in Sharpsville.

A former Sharon man who fractured a Sharpsville man's face and stole $900 from him fumed briefly over being sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison.

CeeCee is a 7-month-old Shih Tzu who's affectionate, has lots of energy and gets along with other pets.

It will include a tour of Carousel Magic to see carousel horses being carved and a visit to Malabar Farm and Kingwood Center to see the magnificent gardens.

There's going to be a familiar face guiding FNB Corp. The Hermitage-based company on Tuesday announced Sharpsville native Steve Gurgovits will permanently take the post of chief executive officer and president.