Venango News

Nesse Godin, a Holocaust survivor who has dedicated her adult life to teaching and sharing memories of the Holocaust, will speak in Robert W. Rhoades Center auditorium at Clarion University-Venango Campus on Monday, November 9, at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Pennsylvania environmental officials have spent the last week hunched over spreadsheets, trying to figure out how to lessen the impact of the largest budget cuts in recent memory.

Dr. William R. Brice, author of the soon-to-be published biography Myth, Legend, Reality: Edwin L. Drake and the Early Oil Industry, will be the guest speaker at the fifth annual lecture of the Barbara Morgan Harvey Center for the Study of Oil Heritage at Clarion University-Venango Campus.

A program that has led to more than 2,400 arrests for driving under the influence during the past 12 months will continue for another year, Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank E. Pawlowski said today.

Clarion University has a record enrollment of 7,391 at the end of drop/add for the Fall 2009 semester, according to figures released at a meeting of the Clarion University Council of Trustees held at Venango Campus in Oil City.

N ORTH PHILADELPHIA has experienced an explosion of building activity that is changing the face of a section of the city once considered blighted and unsafe.

The check wasn't in the mail again last week, and, the government wasn't there to help as another scheduled state subsidy payment to local public school districts went unpaid.

Low-flying aircraft will drop small packets containing rabies vaccine throughout Western Pennsylvania next week to reduce the viral disease among raccoons, state officials said.

About 500 Penelec workers are back on the job two months after striking over concerns that scheduling rules gave workers too little notice about schedule changes and overtime.

The union representing about 500 striking workers have agreed to use a federal mediator to help settle their dispute with the utility company Penelec.

Federal money that was to have been allocated for work on the Beaver Creek ponds and wetlands in Salem Township might not be there after all, according to a discussion at the June 16 meeting of the Clarion County Conservation District.

Who keeps electing those people in Harrisburg? Of all the bone-headed ideas, our state legislators are now toying with the idea of closing state parks.

One cost of erasing Pennsylvania's $3 billion-plus budget deficit could well be the closing of five state parks in the Johnstown region.

Clarion University-Venango Campus will soon acquire $400,000 in state-of-the-art medical education equipment, thanks to a $200,000 grant provided through the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.

Eric Bridges, executive director of the North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission, reported at the executive committee meeting yesterday that they have finally agreed to complete a business plan with the Precision Manufacturing Institute and Clarion University.