Lilly News

For anyone seeking to escape traffic snarls and the hustle and bustle of holiday shopping this weekend, the Colonial Tea at Historic Hanna's Town was the place to be.

A long-running boundary dispute between Portage and Washington townships appears to have been resolved during an informal meeting Wednesday.

Janet Miller was concerned that her family doctor ran out of seasonal flu vaccine before she could bring in her 84-year-old father, Earl Miller of Lilly.

The parental advice that hard work and tireless effort pays off can be testified to by a Lilly man whose hundreds of hours in writing and compiling a bicentennial history book is bringing statewide recognition to the entire community.

Among election races in the Mainline area are: A*A duel between a sitting supervisor and a former officeholder in Portage Township.

We're all guilty of it sometimes. We work more than we visit. We let chores take precedence.

Construction in both directions is causing long delays on Interstate 279. Northbound traffic from the city is particularly heavy.

Local police departments are asking the public to pay close attention to strange cars in their communities and report suspicious behavior following a spike in break-ins of homes, vehicles and even garden sheds.

The Plum Borough School District could be a dispensing site for the H1N1, or swine flu, vaccine.

Police presence has dissipated and the activity on Forbes has been reduced to students coming out to look at the damage done.

EDWARDSVILLE: An Active Aging program, "Movement IS Life," by ManorCare and Dr. Leonard will take place at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Edwardsville Senior Center, 57 Russell St.

Poladian Palladium Studios, 207 Church St. in Easton, will host a night of film, music and art appreciation from 6 to 11 p.m. Saturday.

The state budget impasse is having a trickle-down effect on the Plum Borough School District.

Share + Aug 28, 2009 7:02 pm US/Eastern Reporting Dave Crawley MILL RUN The architectural masterpiece called Fallingwater lures visitors worldwide to the Fayette County community of Mill Run.

Keeping a son's memory alive through helpingothers is what a Portage couple has accomplished through a charity motorycle ride.

No more med carts. No more nurses' stations. No more call bells. By 2011, the institutional, hospital-style of skilled nursing care at Maple Farm Nursing Center could be a thing of the past.

A five-legged puppy is officially out of show business. And just to be sure, the seven-week old dog had her extra limb removed on Thursday.

Fire caused an estimated $60,000 damage to a 2 1/2-story home in the 600 block of Orchard Street in Portage late Wednesday afternoon.

A local man's entry won best in show during the Wheels & Wings event held Thursday.

Lillian Lantford pauses during the tedious cleanup of her muddy home on Larimer Avenue in Turtle Creek yesterday afternoon.