Mercer News

A* Relay For Life Mercer, PPG Reflections and Memories Relay Team, is having a Premier Design Jewelry fundraiser beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Mercer Community Church of the Nazarene, 8385 Lamor Road, Mercer.

If you were fortunate to grow up during the heydays of Conneaut Lake Park and one of the hundreds of thousands who enjoyed the thrill of riding the Blue Streak, you have a chance to help restore the great wooden coaster to its days of glory.

Mercer Area School Board has some new faces running the show after replacements were sworn in Monday following two resignations in December.

Frasier B. Zahniser, M.Ed., C.F.C.S. Extension Educator THE New Year brings promises of a healthier lifestyle for many of us.

Members of First Book-Westminster distributed books and grant money in Lawrence and Mercer counties in December.

A Mercer man arrested Jan. 11 for burglary may have been responsible for other thefts in Mercer and surrounding townships, said state police.

State police are looking for a man who shot a dog then ran over the animal with a pickup truck in western Pennsylvania.

MERCER COUNTY, Pennsylvania- A Mercer county jury awarded more than $1.5 million to the widow of a man who was killed in a motorcycle crash in 2007 involving a worker from the Mercer County Housing Authority.

First Presbyterian Church, 600 E. State St., will present The Boar's Head and Yule Log Festival at 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

If you've spent this winter cursing the ice and snow, then how about a tip of the hat to Old Man Winter - he may have helped nab a burglar on Monday.

A* The Mercer County Historical Society presents a program today on the H.L. Hunley, which was a Civil War submarine that sunk the USS Housatonic.

The search has begun for three living veterans and one deceased veteran for Mercer Memorial Day 500.

McGonigle Ambulance medic Ron Porterfield gives Mike Marquis of Mercer the H1N1flu vaccine at the free clinic at the Shenango Valley Mall.

A Lackawannock Township man had charges held to court this week by District Judge Lorinda L. Hinch, Mercer, for allegedly attacking and threatening a woman in his home.

Mercer school's hallways now open for walkers Mercer area residents looking for a warm place to walk during winter months can now use the hallways at Mercer Area Middle/High School.

We endured. 2009 definitely wasn't the best of times in Mercer County - but as more prosperous areas of the country learned what living through hard times was all about - we simply rode another wave of adversities and remained standing to welcome more in 2010.

It's that time of year again and I don't mean the winter season. The bridal season is upon us and many brides-to-be and family members are preparing for that special, very personal event.

A Mercer man is accused by Mercer police of beating up a woman and trashing her apartment early Christmas Eve morning.

Nine Mercer High School Speech Team members won awards as they opened the 2009-10 forensics season at the 25th annual Pittsburgh North Catholic Invitational.

David E. Dale/Herald Shawn Timblin of Grove City directs members of the newly-reformed handbell choir at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Mercer.