Arona News

For years, Kris Praskovich of Banksville has refused to buy Halloween costumes for her kids, opting instead for making the costumes herself.

A $1.84 million stimulus grant for Arona's state-mandated sewer project likely will leave customers with an estimated bill of less than $50 a month, borough officials said Thursday.

Workers are straightening and smoothing the Pennsylvania Turnpike between Irwin and New Stanton during the next two years as part of a statewide effort to rehabilitate the 60-year-old highway and bring it to modern interstate standards.

Two men, both in their 20s, died in one-car accidents in Hempfield, one early this morning and the other last evening.

A man was flown by emergency medical helicopter after a one-vehicle accident Friday night in Hempfield.