Under the golden glow of Monday’s sunshine through the red and yellow leaves that continue to cling to their branches, Arnie McDonald, a grounds and maintenance worker at Grove Hill Cemetery in More...
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The Franklin School Board on Monday unanimously rejected a request for an easement for a high-speed telecommunication transmission line.
The board heard the request at its work session last week from Thomas Musgrove of Atwell-Hicks, a land acquisition firm based in Cranberry Township, Butler County. More...
Oil City Superintendent Joe Carrico says people are needed to help staff two clinics that are being planned in the county.
By MATT CARROLL Staff writer
Oil City Area School Board on Monday put out the call for volunteers for upcoming H1N1 flu vaccine clinics in Venango County.
Superintendent Joe Carrico said volunteers are needed to help staff two clinics that are being planned in the county. More...
Health insurance profits barely exceeded 2 percent of revenues in the last annual measure.
In the health care debate, Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making “immoral” and “obscene” returns while “the bodies pile up.”
But in pillorying insurers over profits, the critics are on shaky ground. Ledgers tell a different reality. More...
STRATTANVILLE — Clarion-Limestone’s music department received a reviving boost Oct. 21 with the hiring of a part-time music instructor to partly fill a position left vacant since 2008-09. More...
I-80 ACCIDENT
— State police are investigating a three-vehicle crash around 10:07 a.m. Saturday on Interstate 80 in Clarion County.
Police said Daniel Firth, 62, Tallmadge, Ohio, was traveling east on I-80 on a 2002 Honda motorcycle when he attempted to pass an unknown white vehicle. More...
But the health care plan may not have enough votes to pass
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health care legislation heading for the Senate floor will give millions of Americans the option of purchasing governmentrun insurance coverage, Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Monday, although he stopped short of claiming the 60 votes needed to pass a plan steeped in controversy. More...
The following deeds have been filed at the Clarion County Courthouse. Sale prices are listed except in the case of nominal amounts such as $1.
Ethel MacBeth to Jeanne L. Bortner, Farmington Township, tract.
Gordon and Donna Hawk to William and Maxine Stockdill, Piney Township, parcel, $1,600. More...
Editor:
Christopher Packer (Oct. 13 letter, “Health care claims are simply mythical”) continues to follow the Republican Party of No; no responsible bipartisanship whatever. Their constricted compassion requires opposition to essential universal health care reform and all forms of needy assistance for the poor, the disabled and the elderly. More...
Tying for first place in the Mixed Division in the Andrew White Memorial Golf Scramble were (from left): Don Greggs, Sue Hoobler, Dorothy Hagerty and Steve Knight. More...
The controversial slugger joins Tony La Russa’s staff in St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mark McGwire is back in baseball, reunited with Tony La Russa as the St. Louis Cardinals’ hitting coach.
La Russa agreed to return for a 15th year as manager Monday with a one-year contract, the first time he hasn’t had a multiyear deal with the team. All of his coaches will return except for Hal McRae, who will be replaced by the former star. More...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, who is fighting for his political survival, proposed Monday an immediate interest rate freeze on existing balances for the estimated 700 million credit cards in circulation. More...
Local musicians present selections at state music clubs conference
