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Warren police investigating stolen vehicle incident

Warren City police officers are investigating a stolen vehicle incident which occurred early Sunday morning in the area of the 500 block of Prospect Street. The vehicle was later recovered following a single-vehicle crash on Perimeter Road, just across the New York state line. According to ...

Warren woman takes pride in love of quilting

Meet Sandy Trumbull, who was born in Kane and lived in Marienville and Weldbank for a very short time early in childhood. She has called Warren her home most of her life. A retired LPN after over 25 years at Warren General Hospital, Trumbull also worked at the Rouse for a time. She took ...

Tidioute boil advisory extended to November

TIDIOUTE -- A boil water advisory affecting customers of the Southwest Warren County Municipal Authority (SWCMA) is expected to remain in place into November as crews continue efforts to address filtration problems at the community’s water treatment plant. The advisory, originally issued March 18, remains active because testing showed the system’s combined filter effluent turbidity exceeded Pennsylvaina’s drinking water standard. In the authority’s latest reissue, dated Sept. 10, officials reported that a water sample collected April 15 recorded turbidity above 4.0 nephelometric ...

School board to receive presentation on generative AI Policy

The Warren County School District Board of School Directors will consider an agenda Monday that includes grant applications, curriculum updates, school safety initiatives and proposed policies governing generative artificial intelligence. Among the larger financial items is a proposed application for a $98,860 Supplemental Equipment Grant for the Warren County Career Center. The funding, if awarded, would support equipment benefiting students in the Protective Services program. The board also will consider applications for Pennsylvania Department of Education Ready to Learn funding ...

State’s controversial health regulations dropped, for now

New regulations that critics said would give the state Department of Health power to enter private homes without a warrant were withdrawn late Friday. The news comes just days after the Independent Regulatory Review Commission’s public comment period for the 502-page proposal ended. In a letter to IRRC – the commission’s acronym – Secretary of Health Debra Bogen asked for the rulemaking to be withdrawn, saying, “the Department intends to make further revisions to the proposed rulemaking and resubmit it as a new proposed rulemaking at a future date.” The regulations ...

Pennsylvania public sector worker rights rated low in new report

Pennsylvania received low marks in a new assessment of state public-sector worker rights, while two bills the report identifies as potential reforms have remained in committee for more than a year. The state was one of 15 receiving a D in the latest edition of The Battle for Worker Freedom: Grading State Public Sector Labor Laws recently released by the Commonwealth Foundation. The report examines the sway of government unions across the 50 state legislatures and grades them based on how well it protects public workers’ rights over union executives’ interests. Among its key ...