Elrama News

A 75-year-old Union Township woman was seriously injured when an occupant of a moving vehicle tried to steal her purse as she walked near her Elrama home Monday.

Jennifer Reeger is a Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 724-836-6155 or via e-mail. Conservation and clean air groups filed an appeal late last week with the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board in an attempt to force the state Department of Environmental Protection to review outdated air-quality permit renewals for coal plants ... (more)

Ringgold School District will not take quick action to close a middle school and relocate its students to aging Mon Valley buildings, the school board president announced.

You can call this the law of intended consequences: GenOn Energy Inc. plans to close five of its older coal-fired power plants in Pennsylvania over the next four years.

GenOn Energy Inc. will shut down eight old, coal-burning power plants, three in western Pennsylvania at Shawville, Clearfield County, New Castle in Lawrence County, and Elrama in northern Washington County.