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Five decades of service: North Star Lodge honors longtime member

Photo submitted to the Times Observer On February 19, at the stated monthly meeting of North Star Lodge No. 241, Jack T. Collins was presented with his fifty year service emblem by Derrick P. Cross, District Deputy Grand Master. The lodge was glad to have Steve Ansell, Collins' first line ...

Warren police looking for missing teen

Warren city police are asking for the public's help finding a youth who is believed to have run away. Police say Jazmin Moore, 15, is 5-feet, 3-inches tall with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen Monday getting into a black four-door sedan in the Lexington Avenue area of Warren. ...

Tidioute Community Charter School students take part in Hearts Around The World

For weeks, Tidioute Community Charter School students ran to the mailbox each day excited to see what they’d received. The reason for their excitement came from Kulie Runyan, the school’s K-4 and special education teacher and her “Hearts Around the World” project. Runyan has led the ...

Weather concerns prompt ideas for amphitheater covering

A proposal to construct a covering over the JAZz amphitheater stage at the Soldiers and Sailors Park is expected to move before local officials in the coming months, as organizers look for ways to prevent weather-related disruptions to Music in the Park events. The project was introduced as ...

Last-minute agenda change policy still undecided

Warren County school board members agree a 24-hour notice of items on the board’s meeting agenda is preferable - but how to handle emergencies has yet to be decided. Superintendent Gary Weber shared Attorney Rachel Glasoe’s response in regards to the questions that board member John ...

New railroad safety rules get nod from state regulators

Safety lessons learned from the East Palestine train derailment may soon make it into Pennsylvania’s rule books more than three years after the accident devastated rural communities bordering central Ohio. The proposed regulations focus on trackside monitors, called wayside detectors, that ...