Conneaut Lake News

Santa Express train rides canceled in Bellefonte The Bellefonte Historical Railroad has canceled this year's Santa Express train rides scheduled for Dec.

Not far from here, in northwestern Pennsylvania, you'll find a century-old hotel.

Conneaut Lake Park's Ghost Lake commemorates the Hotel Conneaut's haunted past. Ghost Lake also features an amusement park.

Resting 30 miles South of Edinboro sits something that isA trulyA terrifying . An abandoned amusement park.

The former Sipco Molding Technologies building, which once housed one of Meadville's prominent tool and die mold companies, will be sold at a sheriff's sale Nov.

Women's Expo 2009 was so crowded by Monday afternoon that visitors had to park in the grass next to Hickory VFW in Hermitage.

The Westminster College men's and women's cross country teams competed at the Slippery Rock Invitational on Saturday at the Coopers Lake Campground.

An afternoon stroll is set for 1 to 2:30 p.m. Sunday, starting at the information shelter of McKeever Environmental Learning Center, 55 McKeever Lane, near Sandy Lake.

Jerry Vondas can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7823. When Peg Brennan's family helped her cut her 100th birthday cake at Conneaut Lake a year ago, they were celebrating the life of a spirited woman who swam across the lake as a teenager.

Police are trying to figure out how a toddler wandered away from a family gathering and drowned in a northwestern Pennsylvania pond.

Mary Jones of Greenville flies down the waterslide at Conneaut Lake Park on Saturday.

A crew from A&E Television is looking for ghosts at a landmark hotel in Crawford County.

Mary Jones of Greenville flies down the waterslide at Conneaut Lake Park on Saturday.

A crew from A&E Television is looking for ghosts at a landmark hotel in northwestern Pennsylvania.

As soon as he walked into Conneaut Lake Park - even before the rides were running - John Caruthers sought out the Tumblebug.

Jul. 16--CONNEAUT LAKE PARK -- She came. She saw. And she's coming back. "I've never been here before -- and I can't wait to come back," Kerry Richards, executive secretary of the FFA Foundation of Pennsylvania, said Wednesday, comfortably settled in on the verandah of Conneaut Lake Park's famed Hotel Conneaut.

Work began this week to repair and paint a bridge on state Route 3010 near Oak Hall, the state Department of Transportation said.

* 7:30 p.m. Friday on the shores of Brittain Lake at Westminster; free concert by the River City Brass Band followed by fireworks.

Mercer County Master Gardeners will offer free open tours of their gardens at the Mercer County 4-H Park, on Route 19 north of Mercer, from 10 a.m. to noon June 27.

Matthew Severo, 9, of Meadville, takes his 6-year-old sister, Charli, for a spin on the Tubes of Fun ride at Conneaut Lake Park's Kiddeland Saturday afternoon.