Harrison City News

Before the parachute mission encounters the Marxist-Socialist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia in a South American jungle, a group of church ladies and teenagers helped equip the troops in Harrison City.

Westmoreland County and Penn Township officials are meeting Feb. 1 with PennDOT to review a project to widen Harrison City-Export Road to provide a turning lane at the intersection with Route 130.

A Penn Township man whom authorities have been seeking since November for failing to appear at a number of probation revocation hearings was arrested on Monday near Harrison City.

According to an accident report from the state police Kiski barracks, Officer Joe Malone was driving east on Old William Penn Highway Thursday around noon while responding to an accident with reported injuries when he tried to pass a BMW.

Jewels Phraner is a Ligonier Echo staff writer and can be reached at 724-238-2111 or via e-mail. Penn Township officials are warning residents to be cautious around wild animals after a Harrison City woman was bitten by a raccoon on her porch and had to undergo a series of rabies shots.