Lewis Run News

Work to replace a structurally deficient bridge in Lewis Run will get underway next week.

Following the service he returned to his life long career as a driller for Fitzgerald Drilling.

A suspended Catholic priest will spend two years on probation - and his bishop already has said that the priest's felony conviction will keep him out of active ministry - for his inappropriate relationship with a 15-year-old northwestern Pennsylvania boy.

The Rev. Samuel Slocum, 60 - a native of Smethport, Pa., who studied for the priesthood at Christ the King Seminary in East Aurora - was ordered by Senior Court of Common Pleas Judge William F. Morgan in Smethport to serve two years on probation on his Jan.

Hundreds of men and women who are serving or have served the nation gathered Thursday inside the Youngstown Air Reserve Station hoping to find gainful work in the burgeoning Utica Shale drilling industry.