Freeport News

Jerry Vondas can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7823. For more than 40 years, Johnny's Fruit Market near Crooked Creek State Park in Armstrong County was known for its quality produce and nursery.

Penn State University Electro-Optics Center in Freeport, Pa., received an $11.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide research, design, development, and delivery of sub-systems for the U.S. Navy's next-generation radars and Common Data Sensor Architecture program to support Integrated Warfare Systems 2 . The CDSA is a centralized system ...

Tom Yerace can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4675. There will not be one or two areas of the borough in a tax abatement zone - all of the borough will be included.

Brian C. Rittmeyer can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4701. The school board approved a $24.5 million budget for the 2009-10 school year Wednesday that slightly will raise taxes in Freeport and South Buffalo while lowering them in Buffalo Township.

Paul Schofield can be reached via e-mail or at 724-853-2109. Bethel Park's Joe Sedon Jr.

Brian C. Rittmeyer can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4701. The Penguins and Trib Total Media will be giving away tickets to Game Four of the Stanley Cup Final through a scavenger hunt.

I am searching for information such as newspaper articles relating to the murder of Maria Bianchi by her husband.

According to Bill Fontana, executive director of the Pennsylvania Downtown Center, over the past four years, at any one time, somewhere between 65 and 75 communities have participated annually in the Main Street Program.

George Guido can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4689. Township officials are hoping to avoid a potential problem related to planned road closings this summer.

The Apollo-Ridge School Board has fired a warning shot for districts that are thinking about taking their students out of Lenape Technical School.

Worthington-Kittanning won its Tri-County North Palomino league opener Wednesday night, cruising past Freeport, 10-0, at Worthington West Franklin Field.

Fifty suspected drug dealers were arrested in a raid throughout Armstrong County that began very early Monday morning.

Air Force Airman 1st Class Jean C. Candanedo graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

Political experience: Freeport Area SB, four years Susan Lowers Party: Cross-filed Age: 55 Residence: Market Street, Freeport Occupation: Part-time clerical Political experience: Freeport Area SB, six years Daniel Lucovich Party: Cross-filed Age: 58 Political experience: Former Freeport Area SB, four years Dr.

Three communities in Armstrong County have taken a significant step in their effort to keep businesses in town and attract new ones.

Where: Presentation - Freeport Area High School, 625 S. Pike Road, Buffalo Township; vote - Freeport Area Administration Building, 621 S. Pike Road The Freeport Area School District serves portions of Armstrong and Butler counties.

A lone bandit robbed the National City Bank branch just after noon Wednesday, prompting Freeport Area High School to be locked down briefly.

The Department of Environmental Protection will be working with residents and local agencies after high concentrations of arsenic were found in soil in the Kaufman Drive area of Butler that includes Franklin Court Apartments and Father Marinaro Park, a recreational area containing athletic fields and a skate park.

For more information about the state's Trout in the Classroom program, visit fish.state.pa.us . Click on "Learning Center" and then "Educators." Photos School of fish Eric Felack/Valley News Dispatch Michael Aubele can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4673. Lippy has faced long odds since the beginning.

Family comes first for champion driver and Leechburg native Brian Swartzlander. And it also helps him come in first on the track.