Warren News

First United Methodist Church of Warren, 200 Market Street, will offer a "Blue Christmas" service on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 22, at 4 p.m. in the church sanctuary.

Born on December 8, 1920 in Denver, CO she was the daughter of the late William and Esther Lawson Ettinger.

Third- and fourth-grade students are focused on the computer screens in front of them, headphones on, little fingers typing away as they build up skills for a job whose demand is growing at twice the national average.

"I thought our kids wrestled hard. It was a good match," said Youngsville coach Scott Ishman.

Pitcher Masahiro Tanaka wants to move to Major League Baseball next season but his Japanese team doesn't want to let him go.

According to a press release from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture to "the animal health community" and provided to the Times Observer by Paws Along the River on Monday, a dog went under the front porch of a Turnpike Cemetery Road, Sugar Grove, home and fought with a raccoon.

It may be over six months away from when the budget for the Warren County School District has to be completed, but it isn't too early to start talking about it.

To some, the concept of inmate labor outside of a correctional institution conjures images from "Cool Hand Luke," where chain gangs cleared ditches and resurfaced roads by hand as cruel "bosses" watched over their labors under a blistering deep south sun.

Among other factors, the Affordable Care Act is detrimental to Warren General Hospital's bottom line, WGH Chief Executive Officer John Papalia said during the hospital's public board meeting last Wednesday.

Winter means time for snowmobiles and, on the Allegheny National Forest , the first of the season is opening day.

Ms. Aurora Borealis visited the Warren Public Library on Dec. 10 to share Christmas stories, songs, treats and crafts with children and their families.

The Pittsfield Wesleyan Methodist Church welcomes the public to its live Nativity on Dec. 19 and 20 from 6 to 9 p.m. each evening.

Cathedral Prep's boys swim team won every event en route to a 135-50 win over Warren, and Villa Maria outswam Warren's girls, 130-56, on Monday evening at the Warren County YMCA.

After four quarters of back-and-forth basketball, the Lady Eagles were unable to come through in the clutch against visiting Commodore Perry, as they drop to 2-3 on the year with a 38-34 non-region loss Monday at Youngsville High School.

The kindergarten, first and second graders of Allegheny Valley Elementary School will present a holiday concert on Tuesday, Dec. 17, at 6 p.m. at Sheffield Area Middle-High School auditorium.

Carol Marie Almendinger, 78, of Sheffield, passed away Saturday, December 14, 2013, with her family by her side.

Learning that you have diabetes can be overwhelming at first. There are many new things to learn and it can be difficult to know where to start.

According to a Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry press release, the Final Determination of an audit of the WIB's books, requires the member counties to repay $227,476.29 in disallowed costs run up by the WIB's fiscal agent over four years.

Warren County is part of a five-county area, along with Forest, Crawford, Venango and Clarion counties, that is currently part of a regionalization study at the behest of Gov. Tom Corbett.

The Pentagon cannot account for more than $8 trillion U.S. taxpayers have given it since 1996, according to a report by the Reuters news agency.