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Venango County Human Services Administrator Marie Plumer said the closing of Turning Point and the Freedom Center in 2018 meant the loss of approximately 120 beds, leaving the 15-bed Oil Region Recovery in Franklin as the only detox, inpatient facility in the county.

HARRISBURG (AP) — Heart surgeon-turned-TV celebrity Dr. Mehmet Oz and former hedge fund CEO David McCormick spent Wednesday essentially tied in Pennsylvania’s hotly contested race for the Republican nomination to fill an open U.S. Senate seat. It’s also expected to be among the party’s most …

Oil City School District leaders have been asked to consider renaming the high school football field in honor of “once in a lifetime” teacher and coach Duane “Pat” Patterson.

U.S. House members Glenn Thompson and Mike Kelly, and state House representatives R. Lee James, Donna Oberlander and Kathy Rapp, all incumbent Republicans whose districts encompass the tri-county area, were unopposed Tuesday on GOP ballots in the state primary election.

HARRISBURG (AP) — John Fetterman, days after a stroke sent him to the hospital, easily won Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate primary Tuesday — notching a major victory for his party’s left flank.

Despite a sunny and pleasant day, there was only a trickling of people showing up in the Oil City and Cranberry precincts around lunchtime on Tuesday to cast their votes in the primary election.

HARRISBURG (AP) — Doug Mastriano won the Republican nomination for Pennsylvania governor on Tuesday, beating eight other candidates and a party establishment that had tried to head off his nomination over fears that he is too extreme to win the general election in the presidential battleground.

Primary election day in Pennsylvania is finally here, and the ballots voters will cast today are highlighted by the crowded, competitive battles for governor and a U.S. Senate seat.

Charles Jetter remembers his uncle, Bob Keating, who served in the Navy for 26 years, as a quiet, soft-spoken man with a smile on his face who came to town at Christmas time, to the delight of his family in Oil City.

SCRANTON (AP) — The last full day of campaigning in Pennsylvania’s contested primaries for governor and U.S. Senate began Monday with a top Senate candidate in the hospital and establishment Republicans trying to stave off victories by candidates they worry will be unelectable in the fall.

After more than 50 years on the music scene, local musicians Frank Feroz, Jim Kelley and Neal Williams are gearing up for a “farewell performance” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 24, at the Oil City Boat Club on Rockmere Road.

People of all ages gathered Saturday under Veterans Memorial Bridge near Justus Park for the Oil City FAM Jam, a jamboree that featured art, music and food.

In the closing hours of the primary election cycle, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick came to Venango County looking for votes, as the race between him, Mehmet Oz and Kathy Barnette has gotten much national attention during the past of couple of weeks.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The white 18-year-old who fatally shot 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket researched the local demographics and arrived a day in advance to conduct reconnaissance with the intent of killing as many Black people as possible, officials said Sunday.

With just over three weeks left in the school year, Oil City Middle School students were rewarded Friday for their hard work.

The annual Our Community Salutes recognition dinner and program that honors local military-bound high school graduates is returning as an in-person event this year after two years of being held virtually.

Oil City elementary students were literally glowing Wednesday evening as they walked into the art show at Seventh Street School.

A new playground was installed Thursday at Two Mile Run County Park.

Letter carriers in Franklin, Oil City and across the area are asking residents to lend a hand Saturday as the Help Stamp Out Hunger food drive resumes after a COVID-forced two-year absence.

Labor shortages have delayed one building project in Clarion County but not the renovation at the new Emergency Management center.

The Oil City Arts Council is gearing up for its first FAM Jam: Food trucks, Art and Music Jamboree that will be held from 2 to 8 p.m. Saturday in Justus Park.

CLARION — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro said, if elected, he would visit Polk State Center before making any decision on the future of the facility, despite the fact that the current administration of Tom Wolf plans to have it shut down before the end of the year.

When Franklin teacher Shawn Hawke received a call during her lunch break several weeks ago informing her she had won a contest, she assumed a scammer was trying to contact her so she almost hung up the phone.

Meghan Dunham is beginning her third month as executive director of Community Services of Venango County.

The Carl S. Brozeski bandshell in Oil City’s Justus Park, where sweet sounds and many memories held sway the past five decades, came down Tuesday morning to make way for a larger stage.

Ben Barrett’s Valley Grove Elementary School gifted students are working on ongoing projects in which they create what the class looks like for themselves.

When gubernatorial candidate Nche Zama visited Franklin last month, Polk Borough Council President Jim Miller made him aware of Polk State Center, along with the Wolf administration’s plan to close it later this year.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation is at a 40-year high. Stock prices are sinking. The Federal Reserve is making borrowing much costlier. And the economy actually shrank in the first three months of this year.

Oil City public works employees began demolishing the Carl S. Brozeski bandshell in Oil City’s Justus Park on Monday.