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Autumn Leaf Festival
Randy Booth of Arizona, a former Clarion resident, (top photo) looks at his choices of stromboli in the front window of an Autumn Leaf Festival food booth Monday in Memorial Park along Main Street in Clarion. Booth was picking up a little late-afternoon lunch. The festival continues all week. More...
Planners take OC council to task
Panel refuses to act on amendment regulating log piles
By JUDITH O. ETZEL Staff writer

Oil City Planning Commission to Oil City Council: get serious That’s the essence of a come-uppance letter sent by the longtime and all-volunteer city commission to Oil City Council. What sparked the letter was council’s on-again, off-again discussions last spring on how to regulate outdoor wood burners. More...

Union responds to Cranberry comments
It wants to clarify its position on hiring out-of-state contractors.

An operating engineers union that maintains a local office in Oil City has issued a statement in response to published comments made at last week’s Cranberry School Board work session relating to the high school track improvement project and the company hired to do the work. More...

Contract awarded to raze old OC hospital
The demolition work is expected to take six months, and will also include two other properties.
By JUDITH O. ETZEL Staff writer

A local firm has won the bid to raze the former Oil City hospital and adjacent hospital-owned buildings. Bert Klapec Inc. of 673 N. Seneca St., Oil City, was awarded the demolition bid by UPMC Northwest, the successor to the Oil City and Franklin hospitals. More...

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• article has image Crime victims get helping hand from stimulus funds
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The government’s economic stimulus money isn’t just for hard hats, contractors and teachers. It’s also keeping battered women’s advocates on the job and compensating crime victims for lost wages and uncovered medical costs. More...
• Money includes $225 million to combat violence against women
• article has image Income gap widens as poor take hit
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 Community News
• article has image Pageant.
Hannah Smerker (right) was crowned Miss Teen and Paige Schwabenbauer (left) was crowned Miss Junior Teen at Saturday’s Autumn Leaf Festival Pageant. More...
• Creative Cookbook contest deadline nears
• Resource officer may return to Keystone
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 AP News
• article has image Rendell sets new budget deadline, despite barriers
HARRISBURG (AP) — Negotiators continued to haggle over the details holding up Pennsylvania’s state budget Monday, 10 days after Gov. Ed Rendell and top-ranking lawmakers trumpeted a breakthrough agreement they said would soon end a threemonth old impasse. More...
• State Farm says deer crashes are most likely in W.Va.
• Homeless Ga. sex offenders directed to woods
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 Letters/Columns
• Poland was betrayed by president’s decision
Editor: President Obama’s decision to scrap land-based missile defense in Eastern Europe is remarkable. The Czech Republic and Poland where the systems were to be based were not consulted and were thrown under the bus to mollify the Russians who invaded Georgia last year. It seems the U.S. under Obama treats it adversaries better than its friends and allies. More...
• It was nice to return to hometown
• Community effort helped make it happen
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 Sports
• article has image Brown to speak at annual Hayrake banquet
Greg Brown, known as the “Voice of the Pirates,” will be the featured speaker at the 21st Annual Hayrake Baseball League banquet, which will be held on Saturday, Oct. 10, at the Oil City VFW. A social hour will begin at 6 p.m. and dinner will be served at 7 p.m. More...
• article has image Panthers nip Bobcats, 2-1
• article has image Bulldogs place second in D-9 championships
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 AP Sports
• article has image Bucs, LaRoche crush Dodgers
Andy LaRoche belts .. two doubles, two homers and a single in the 11-1 romp.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Former Dodgers prospect Andy LaRoche homered twice, doubled twice and singled, driving in six runs as the last-place Pittsburgh Pirates again prevented Los Angeles from clinching the NL West with an 11-1 romp Monday. More...
• article has image Searching for answers
• article has image Cowboys rally past Panthers
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