Around The County

From staff reports The annual Venango County Youth Field Day will be held Saturday, June 18, at the Izaak Walton grounds on Deep Hollow Road….

From staff reports Pennsylvania State Police Troop E Memorial Day ceremonies were held Tuesday at the Lawrence Park headquarters in Erie County to honor and…

From staff reports “This is my favorite thing, I’m having so much fun,” said Oil City High School junior Leah Fox (right) as she visited…

From staff reports Child Development Centers has been awarded a $110,000 grant from the Samuel and Edith Justus Charitable Trust that will help fund the…

By SAXON DAUGHERTY Staff writer Experts are predicting a minimal presence of cicadas in the tri-county area this spring. After completing a 17-year lifecycle underground,…

Venango County sheriff’s deputy Dan Lauer adjusts a helmet for bike rodeo participant Camerin Shotts, 7, grandson of Todd Shotts of Seneca. Safe Kids-Clarion/Venango provided…

From staff reports CLARION – Two generations of Clarion County families have teamed up to provide the latest $50,000 capital gift to the Clarion County…

The Allegheny-Clarion Valley High School prom will begin at 5 p.m. Saturday, May 14. Members of the prom court include: (front, from left) Jill Caldwell,…

By SAXON DAUGHERTY  Staff writer Oil City celebrated Arbor Day Friday by being recognized as a Tree City USA community for the 19th consecutive year….

By SAXON DAUGHERTY  Staff writer The wait is now over for Pennsylvania turkey hunters, as today marks the opening day of spring gobbler season across…

From staff reports CLARION – Seneca Rocks Audubon Society will sponsor a program titled “Summer’s Dazzling Gift” on fireflies at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 11,…

From staff reports SHIPPENVILLE -The Clarion County Career Center Police Science students will be conducting a 5K color run on Saturday, May 21, at the…

By SALLY BELL Staff writer Cranberry Township is looking for volunteers to help maintain flower plots at Morrison Park. The announcement was made at a…

From staff reports Mr. Gauche (Elliott Eisenman) listens to Droopy the Clown (Chase Anderson) try out to be co-anchor with Roxanne (Lauren Ronchi) while Cyrano…

From staff reports The Steelers Footballers Basketball Team will be at Keystone High School to play against school faculty and senior basketball players. There will be six…

From staff reports Paint Venango County Purple, the kickoff event for Relay for Life, will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Cranberry Mall. There…

From staff reports The Oil City Library will close at 4:30 p.m. Friday in preparation for the Oil City Uncorked Wine Walk starting at 5…

From staff reports This week’s visit by the Harlem Wizards to Oil City High School raised about $8,500 for the Hasson Heights Elementary School playground…

From staff reports SENECA – West Park Rehab will open a new physical therapy clinic in Seneca. The new location, at 3233 State Route 257…

Christian Life Academy in Seneca held their annual Open House and Art show on Friday, April 22, 2016.  Each year, CLA art teacher Cristy McCandless…

Hasson Heights Community Church’s Moving With Purpose runners are headed to the Pittsburgh Marathon on May 1. The runners include the marathon relay team of Sue Flockerzi-Clark…

From staff reports The Oil City Main Street Program is seeking vendors for the Oil City Farmers’ Market. Vendors who sell locally grown fresh fruit,…

From staff reports VA Butler Healthcare started a new group program for women veterans recovering from mental health illnesses this week. The program is called…

From staff reports The owner of Specialty Fabrication and Powder Coating and president of Specialty Fitness Systems has plans for the former Franklin Press building…

The threatening skies Friday afternoon didn’t keep Kobe Goodman from playing a little catch with his friend Jayson Weilacher in a field just off Carroll…

By SAXON DAUGHERTY Staff writer Oil City’s youth have an opportunity to gear up for summer next Saturday at a bike rodeo organized by PennDOT,…

From staff reports The world famous Harlem Wizards will face off against the Hasson Hornets at 6 p.m. Monday at Oil City High School. The…

From staff reports The Venango Youth Choir will perform a musical titled “Mother Goose Rhymes” at 4 p.m. Sunday at Good Hope Lutheran Church, 800…

From staff reports The Crawford Health Improvement Coalition (CHIC) plans a screening of the documentary, “Someone You Love: The HPV Epidemic,” Wednesday at Colestock Auditorium….

From staff reports Venango Catholic High School won the annual Venango-Forest County Teen Driver Competition on Wednesday at the Rocky Grove Fire Department building. Eighteen…

Cornplanter volunteer firefighters Dave Corle and Jamie Carson soak the ground around a brush fire that broke out Wednesday afternoon at the residence of Sharon…

Oil City and Franklin GEMS clubs took a field trip to Slippery Rock university to visit the Computer Science Dept, learn about robots, and explore…

From staff reports Franklin High School students (from left) Ben Nettles, Amy Mook, Tyra McGarvie and Damon Lewis were escorted to the National Honor Society…

By SALLY BELL Staff writer A Franklin youngster is back in school after a two-month hospitalization for a brain tumor. Jessica Bookwalter, 6, started back…

A plea was put out on Facebook on Monday night by Jamie Bimber Kase about a cat who had been stuck for 3 days on…

From staff reports  Former Marine and Titusville native Davey Lind will speak at 7 p.m. today at the Bruce Shorts Post 5958 Veterans of Foreign…

From staff reports Clarion PAWS posted a Facebook message for help for several cats. “As happens so often, a couple cats get ‘dumped’ on someone’s…

West Forest 4th grade students and 10th grade Academic Science students had the opportunity to stock trout on Wednesday, April 13, 2016.  The students spent…

Thirteen Boy Scouts from Troop 111 in Seneca took advantage of the beautiful weather Sunday, April 17, 2016, to clean up their section of Route…

Chris Duffy returns to this area every year for opening day of Trout season. The Pittsburgh native now lives in Greenville, South Carolina, but says…

By JON HAAG Staff writer Droves of Oil City residents flocked to a set of screenings in the Rhodes Auditorium on the Venango College Campus….

By JON HAAG Staff writer Barry L. Mitchell of Oil City has amassed a massive collection of roughly 5,000 license plates in the past 12…

Andy Bell plays the tuba during the second practice of the Franklin Silver Cornet Band in the band room on the second floor of Franklin’s…

By RICH JACKSON Staff writer A decision is expected before April 21 on the lawsuit Pennsylvania Independent Petroleum Producers have filed against the state. The…

By E. CURTIS HANNA  Staff writer Franklin High School will again be the site of First Presbyterian Church’s Connect2Christ Spring Jam – a night of…

By SALLY BELL Staff writer A new mental health treatment program for adolescents has come to Venango County. The Regional Counseling Center of Oil City…

By JON HAAG Staff writer The Focus on Our Future Collaborative Board heard a series of presentations from local agencies Thursday during a gathering at…

From staff reports The Oil City High School music department presents its sixth annual Night of A Cappella at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the high…

Area families are taking advantage of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission’s Mentored Youth Trout Days program. The program takes place before the traditional rush of…