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PUC issues 811 Day reminder on digging

HARRISBURG – Whether planting a tree, installing a mailbox, building a deck, or beginning a larger construction project, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) is reminding Pennsylvanians that one simple step can help prevent injuries, protect essential services, and avoid costly damage: contact Pennsylvania One Call by dialing 811 before digging. Observed each year on Aug. 11 (8/11), National 811 Day serves as a reminder that safe excavation begins long before the first shovel enters the ground. A free request to have underground utility lines located and marked helps ...

Another page turner

Saturday, Aug. 15 is Northwest Bank Day at the 95th Annual Warren County Fair in Pittsfield, and It also marks nine years that Northwest has partnered with Warren’s nonprofit Free Books for Kids Town to give away books to children at the fair. Free books will be at Northwest’s sponsor ...

Fire Department awarded $100,000 for generator project

The City of Warren Fire Department has been awarded a $100,000 grant through the Pennsylvania Office of the State Fire Commissioner's Municipal Fire Department Capital Grant Program to help fund a generator replacement project that will improve emergency operations during power outages. The grant, announced as part of the Shapiro administration's latest round of municipal fire department and emergency services training center funding, is the maximum amount available through the competitive program. The statewide initiative distributed $900,000 to departments and training centers for ...

Senate Democrats host food cost hearing

State Senate Democrats are taking aim at the rising cost of groceries in the commonwealth. The party’s Policy Committee recently held a hearing that examined the status of grocery affordability for Pennsylvanians and food production-related pressures including rising input costs such as ...

City man pleads guilty to prison contraband charge

A Warren man already serving a sentence at the Huntingdon Correctional Facility has pleaded guilty to a felony charge filed in February 2025. Joseph A. Krall, 42, was charged Feb. 21 by Warren City Police with second-degree felony contraband/controlled substances in a prison. Krall pleaded guilty to the charge recently in the Court of Common Pleas during an appearance before President Judge Gregory Hammond. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 28. Warren County Prison staff had requested an officer to report to the facility for controlled substances. According to the affidavit of ...

Ball’s Jamestown connection, churches part of tours

JAMESTOWN — Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown and lived in various places returning to Jamestown in her teen years. Learn about her downtown Jamestown stories on the tour that begins at the Fenton History Center at 10 a.m. Saturday. The tour guide is Joni Blackman, executive director of the Fenton History Center. The other tour on Saturday is of three churches in Jamestown. Beginning at the Jamestown Free Methodist church on 515 E. Seventh St. and traveling to the First Congregational and First Presbyterian churches. The tour begins at 10 a.m. and the tour guide is Cindy Dustin, a ...