22 Years Ago - June 21

(The Nifty at 90 series in today’s newspaper spotlights Marshall “Moose” Mansfield of Oil City. The article was submitted by his family.)

Paul and JoAnne Meagher of Oil City celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Friday.

Virgil L. and B. Jane Flick of Tionesta will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary today.

LUCINDA — After a two-year pandemic pause with only online activities, the 83rd annual St. Joseph 4th of July celebration will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday on the parish grounds in Lucinda.

Clayton “Butch” and Sandra Homer of Franklin will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Friday.

Jack and Wanda Corbett of 420 Meadville Pike, Franklin, will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary Thursday.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2022 round of the Northwest Commission’s Greenways Block Grant Program for eligible projects within the Northwest Pennsylvania Greenways Region of Clarion, Crawford, Erie, Forest, Lawrence, Mercer, Venango and Warren counties.

PITTSBURGH — The average price of gasoline in the tri-county area this week is, for the most part, above the western Pennsylvania average of $4.98, according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report, but down overall from the previous week.

(The Nifty at 90 series in today’s newspaper spotlights Ruth Anne Feely Thompson of Franklin. The article was submitted by her daughter, Jan Tackett.)

Franklin’s Fourth of July Festivities Week is moving into full swing, and Monday’s highlight was the popular pet show at Bandstand Park sponsored by the Venango County Humane Society.

For the past four years, the Knight Cruisers have been holding a cruise for a cause. The cause is the Clarion Hospital’s Cancer Center’s sunshine fund.

Ronald Dolecki, an Oil City native and Army veteran, stepped on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Thursday to receive a Prisoner of War medal after 18 years of fighting to earn the recognition.

With two first floor tenants, Movie Stop and Raymond James, moving out of the old Welker & Maxwell building on Oil City’s South Side, the owner of the structure has plans for a fix-up.