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On the final day of the Venango County Fair — one that was declared as “Autism Tough Day” — it seemed fitting that a featured event was one in which every child participant was able to take home a blue ribbon.

Oil City’s BridgeFest is on tap this weekend, and the celebration is back “bigger and better than ever” this year, according to Kay Woods, one of the event’s organizers.

As the Venango County Fair winds down, there is still lots of fun to be had, especially when it comes to the Barnyard Olympics.

As the Venango County Fair continued Thursday, things were getting jumpy at the Scrubgrass Stage as contestants from as far as England participated in a frog jumping contest.

Crews will soon be demolishing a structure at 40 Pearl Ave. on Oil City’s North Side that at one time housed one of the first public schools in Oil City built in the early oil boom days right after the Civil War.

TITUSVILLE — After years of wanting to honor its military veterans, Titusville now has dozens of banners displayed along Main and Spring streets that recognize them for service to their country.

Venango County Commissioner Albert Abramovic this week was elected president of the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania (CCAP) during its annual conference and trade show in Lancaster County.

Both docile and rowdy moos filled Phillips Arena at the Venango County Fair Wednesday morning as onlookers enjoyed the display of showmanship in the open and 4-H beef show.

A new competition has brought a little extra bling to the Venango County Fair this week.

An annual bicycle ride that honors the memory of Oil City native Erick Foster, who was killed in Iraq in 2007 while serving in the U.S. Army, is planned Saturday in Oil City.

CLARION — From August 1953 through December 1987, thousands of American men and women serving in the U.S. Marine Corps passed through Camp Lejeune or the adjacent Marine Corps Aviation Station.

Rain or shine, the show will go on at the Venango County Fair this week.

Many senior citizens on a fixed income are finding it difficult making ends meet, a challenge that some of them were willing to talk about at the Senior Expo at the Clarion Mall last week.

Bubblegum competitions, several animal shows and many other activities were enough to keep fairgoers entertained for hours during Monday afternoon’s 80-degree weather at the Venango County Fair.

Franklin state police said a Rouseville man was fatally shot by a trooper after the man pointed his handgun in the direction of troopers outside his Rouseville home on Saturday morning.

The opening day of the Venango County Fair saw a full crowd on Saturday for the Toyota Rodeo.

TITUSVILLE — Ida (Minerva) Tarbell was a giant killer in a time of industrial giants. The journalist from Titusville wrote the “The History of the Standard Oil Company” — a work that eventually led to the dismemberment of the monopoly.

Hundreds of pairs of hands slapped together, signs rose in the air and supportive screams filled Franklin’s Bandstand Park after first-year competitor Kaleb Beichner, 17, of Shippenville, was declared the 13th annual Taste of Talent winner.

Eighty-plus-degrees and the sun beating down didn’t wilt the enthusiasm of the Oil City Oiler Marching Band on Friday as it concluded its five-day band camp.

TIONESTA — Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano on Friday morning said to the newspaper that keeping Polk State Center from closing would be a priority if he were to be elected.