Greenville News

Originally published July 9, 2009 at 7:09 a.m., updated July 9, 2009 at 8:09 a.m. GREENVILLE, Pa.

As Dillon Hamilton raced down East State Street in a soap box derby car, he looked over at his grandmother with a broad smile.

Share + Jul 5, 2009 4:36 pm US/Eastern OCRACOKE, N.C. Four people working on Independence Day fireworks shows were killed by explosions, three of them by a single blast that rocked this remote village on the Outer Banks islands.

While the news so many times concerns "gloom and doom" recently in the Mercer County area, it's nice to see that positive events locally continue to bring smiles to faces of people of all ages.

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This is the 140th anniversary of the beginning of the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, which started out as the Bear Creek Railroad.

A Crawford County man was charged Monday with breaking into Greenville's Good Shepherd Center on June 20 or 21 and stealing a safe containing more than $2,000 in cash and gift cards.

On November 2, 2007, at 0832 eastern daylight time, an experimental amateur-built Vans RV-10, , was substantially damaged when it impacted terrain near Greenville, Pennsylvania.

As Dillon Hamilton raced down East State Street in a soap box derby car, he looked over at his grandmother with a broad smile.

THERE'S nothing that creates a greater lack of trust in your school board than the kind of controversies we've witnessed lately in the Greenville and Reynolds area districts.

"The peace and quiet" is James Boyland's favorite thing about living in one of two new Arc of Mercer County group homes in Fairview Township.

Lutherans in southwestern Pennsylvania are calling on the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America not to adopt a proposal to allow individual congregations to decide whether ministers in same-sex relationships can be ordained.

Free parking on side streets and small parking lot behind the theater. www.TheGrandTheater.org ONE NIGHT ONLY! We are presenting The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with a live cast, at the Grand Theater, 252 Main Street, East Greenville, PA.

After playing 36 years in the Bessemer Golf League, Harold is sort of a golfing legend around Greenville.

Seven Hempfield Elementary School teachers have filed claims that Greenville Area School District officials attempted to intimidate and retaliate against them after they testified in support of fired teacher Jon Ross.

Club Pet Adoption will have many dogs and cats available for adoption plus vendors, a Chinese auction and refreshments.

Thirty-five prospective, new, and experienced fire chaplains completed the Basic Fire Chaplain Course held at Hermitage Fire Station on May 18-19. This was the first time the course was offered in the Pennsylvania-Ohio-West Virginia region and included participants from those states, as well as Delaware and Maryland.

If Mercer County's plan to replace the Ohl Street bridge in Greenville isn't included in the next round of state and federal funding, the new bridge won't be built until the end of 2011.

Mercer County Area Agency on Aging Inc. is offering the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program to eligible seniors.

The second annual Greenville Heritage Day is set for July 4 with activities and exhibits planned for the downtown area, local museums, Riverside Park and Thiel College.