When Allegheny Outfitters re-opened on May 9, owner Piper VanOrd admitted both she and her team had their reservations about how best to proceed. With patrons from approximately 48 states visiting her outdoors store and planning summer excursions through her kayak and canoe livery each ...

“We are at a moment in time where we must dare to reopen.” The county’s “Move to Green Task Force” wanted to move to the “Green Phase” of Gov. Tom Wolf’s COVID-19 mitigation “no later” than June 5. “Warren County is not inclined to take any other action except in ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry has developed an unemployment dashboard. The material is broken down by county and provides weekly data regarding claims and who is making them. For the week ending May 16, there were 75 new claims in Warren County. Of those, about 59 ...

Wednesday is an annual Warren County day of giving. For 16 hours today, the eighth annual Warren Gives will collect donations, and provide a total of $40,000 in matching dollars, for Warren County organizations. It’s an unusual year. Organizers of the event considered canceling ...

Businesses can be the targets of scams, too. Conewango Police reported recently that a local contractor was approached, by text and phone, about a job. The contractor went to the location, checked out the roof to be replaced, and prepared an estimate, according to police. The caller asked ...

It seems parades are the hot thing right now — with the call for social distancing due to COVID-19. Birthday parades. Parades for students. Parades for teachers. And they are all spectacular in a time when smiles and love is even more needed. A parade held Saturday along Conewango Ave., ...

Warren County has signed off on the settlement of a property tax appeal with one of the county’s largest employers. The commissioners have approved a settlement with Whirley Industries, Inc. regarding a total of eight properties in the City of Warren. The subject properties include ...

The consensus was it’s time for Warren County to go green. On Thursday, business owners in Warren County had a chance to send their thoughts on COVID-19 shutdowns and reopenings to Gov. Tom Wolf. The Warren County Commissioners hosted a virtual town hall meeting attended by about 50 people, ...

It’s easy to be inspired by the people taking care of us right now. Most of those people were inspired to join their profession in the first place. A Physical Therapy Assistant at Warren General Hospital, Paul Bova is a perfect example. “The summer of 1999, I was playing softball in the ...

Tracy Long is a nurse at Warren General Hospital. But didn’t have a typical path to get there. “I decided to go to nursing school when I was almost 30 years old,” she said. “I was a single mom just trying to make ends meet. Initially, I wanted to become a nurse because of the financial ...

Over 15 years ago, a high school junior job-shadowed a nurse on the Critical Care Unit at Warren General Hospital. Flash forward to 2020 and that nurse is working where? The Critical Care Unit at Warren General Hospital. But the thought of a career in nursing went back far further for ...

Amanda Fraser is Warren General Hospital’s second recipient of The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. A Medical-Surgical/CCU Nurse at WGH, Fraser, RN, was recognized April 29 with the award that is part of the DAISY Foundation’s program to recognize the super-human efforts nurses ...

Many medical workers wear more than one hat. Not only are they doing their job tending to patients and saving lives, but they go home and are also a cook, a parent, a housekeeper, a spouse, an artist, a craftsman, the list goes on. Well now, those medical workers with children are also ...

Chris Sonney has seen a lot in 39 years as a registered nurse at Warren General Hospital. People come and go. The technology changes. And, once in a while, there is a new medical concern — perhaps a novel coronavirus. Her mother’s enjoyment of the field — she spent 30 years as a ...

Warren General Hospital made good use of the 75-ton crane parked on Main Avenue last week. On Friday, the crane lifted old piping and pumps out of the hospital’s boiler house and lifted new ones into position. When that work was done, the crane was used in replacing a gear box for a fan ...

Northwest Bancshares, Inc., (the “Company”), (NasdaqGS: NWBI) announced net income for the quarter ended March31, 2020, of $7.9 million, or $0.07 per diluted share. This represents a decrease of $17.1 million, or 68.3%, compared to the same quarter last year when net income was $25.0 ...

County officials will know on Friday whether Warren County will be moved to the “Yellow Phase” of Gov. Tom Wolf’s state reopening plans. The commissioners on Wednesday also wrote to the governor, asking for not only the “Yellow Phase” date to be moved up but also movement to the ...

A group of entities — including two businesses in Warren County — have taken their fight against Gov. Tom Wolf’s business closure order all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The group’s initial challenge was rejected in the state Supreme Court earlier this month. In addition to a ...

The attorney who filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of two Warren County businesses acknowledges that it’s “hard” to get a case before the court but believes he has a “good chance” given the importance of the case. The emergency application goes before Associate Justice ...

Northwest Bancshares, Inc. Completes Merger with MutualFirst Financial, Inc. Warren, Pennsylvania – April 24, 2020Northwest Bancshares, Inc. (”Northwest”) (NASDAQ: NWBI), the holding company for Northwest Bank, announced today that it has successfully completed its ...