What's new at the fair this year?

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.

Rain or shine, the show will go on at 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.

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.

Laura Blake, president of Venango Catholic Schools in Oil City since 2019, has been named assistant superintendent of Catholic schools for the Diocese of Erie. She will replace Sam Signorino, who is retiring at the end of summer after nine years with the diocese, according to a news release …

ASHLAND TWP. — Timothy Thompson takes what other people discard, turns it into cash and then uses that cash to help others.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano made a campaign swing through Franklin on Thursday night, drawing a standing-room only crowd of more than 100 people to Allegheny River Retreat Center (ARRC) that welcomed both him and his wife, Rebbie.

The Toyota Rodeo and Mega Mud Trucks DOT will be back at the Venango County Fair this year after a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic, according to Fair Board President Brad Deeter, and Venango County Commissioner Albert Abramovic will ride a bull at the rodeo.

Franklin state police said no one was injured when a post-World War II era, single-engine plane landed in a field in Seneca, and then veered into an area of trees and bushes.

Neither the rescheduled date nor the muggy air could keep the crowd away from Franklin’s Bandstand Park on Wednesday night for the final regular round of Taste of Talent.

Franklin state police said no one was injured when a post-World War II era, single-engine plane landed in a field in Seneca, and then veered into an area of trees and bushes.

The Franklin General Authority has been involved with a number of water-system projects in the community over the past four months. Recently, the authority sat down with the newspaper to provide updates on the upgrades.