Greenville News

A* A benefit party for Eric and Becky Ramp West is planned for noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at West Salem Volunteer Fire Department, Route 358, Greenville.

It was a ho-hum Election Day in Mercer County, with unofficial results putting the turnout at a mere 24 percent.

A* The Thiel College Student Affiliate Chapter of the American Chemical Society is hosting its annual "Kids & Chemistry" program to spark interest in chemistry in children in grades 4-6 from local elementary schools from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday in the Academic Center, room 100, at Thiel College, 75 College Ave., Greenville.

AFTER THE HEADY 2008 when the presidential race drove up voter turnout and political involvement locally and across the nation, a simple municipal election seems like a letdown.

When the proposed Farrell budget was announced this week, it contained no pay increases for any city workers.

If money grew on trees, then Greenville Area Leisure Services Association would have no problems.

A* Penn High School class of 1957 meets at 6 p.m. Nov. 3 at Cianci's Restaurant, Mercer Road, Hempfield Township.

Greenville Symphony Orchestra will kick off its concert season Saturday in a fashion unlike any in its 81-year history.

Local hospitals aren't banning patients from having visitors, but precautions are in place to prevent spreading the flu.

It was a cold, damp eventide on the Ides of October. It was the kind of night that makes arthritic bones ache and fogs up rain-spotted windows.

A* Dr. M. Craig Beaudis, a podiatrist with Ankle and Foot Care Centers and the UPMC Horizon Center for Wound Treatment, will be a guest speaker at 7 p.m. Nov.

Today kicks off National School Bus Safety Week and a local driver is raising awareness with help from area law enforcement authorities.

If you've been suffering from flu-like symptoms for at least a few days, the chances are pretty good you have swine flu.

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

A former Sharon man recently sentenced to prison for scamming a Shenango Township widow faces charges in a similar case out of South Pymatuning Township.

With more than a half dozen charges of burglary against him - and drug charges to boot - David Mitchel McCarl's file in the courts needed its own separate box.

A Mercer County teacher and union president fired on charges of sexual harassment claims in a federal lawsuit filed Friday that the Greenville Area School Board actually fired him for being a whistle-blower. Jon Ross claims Greenville Area schools Superintendent Pat Homer had labor attorney Charles Steele reopen a dismissed charge of sexual ...

Diane Nilan sought to raise awareness about what homelessness really looks like during a presentation at Thiel College.

A western Pennsylvania family has abided by a judge's order to get rid of six hens they were keeping in their back yard to produce organic eggs.

Abigail Huff, 11, holds up Rosie, one of several hens which the Huff family had been keeping in their yard for their organic eggs.