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Residents question property taxes, broadband funding

Two topics arose during public comment of the monthly county commissioners meeting on Feb. 18. During public comment, a county resident raised concerns about the Warren’s common level ratio and its impact on recent property tax appeals following the county wide reassessment. The common ...

President Donald Trump’s post-State of the Union sales job begins now

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has delivered the State of the Union. Now the challenge for him is to make that message stick. His address Tuesday was a declaration of pride in the achievements of his still-young second term, as he boasted of an economic renaissance at home while ...

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. ...

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 ...

Game commission monitoring avian influenza in wild birds

This winter, avian influenza viruses have continued to circulate in wild birds across Pennsylvania, and more birds will be migrating to and through the state in the coming weeks. Strains of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus have been present in Pennsylvania’s wild birds since early ...

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 ...