Central City News

Renatta Signorini is a Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 724-837-5374 or via e-mail. The recent purchase of a 1993 tanker truck is offered as evidence that Windber Fire Department is getting back on its feet.

A pharmacy was burglarized three times and a vacant store along a busy intersection was rummaged through for copper wire early one evening.

A busload of Windber firefighters crowded into the courtroom Tuesday at the sentencing of a former company member who admitted he took nearly $820,000 from the organization's coffers.

Members of the Scalp Level/Paint fire department voted against a merger with the Windber fire department on Friday evening.

Shawn Hostetler, 18, is helping the Somerset County Technology Center push the classroom into a virtual world where paper is eliminated from most of the daily aspects of schooling.

For 31 years Mike's Market along Rock Cut Road provided a grocery store to residents in the Central City area.