Zelienople News

Nineteen years ago I received a telephone call. "Your sister went in for an eye exam; they found a brain tumor and rushed her to surgery to remove it." After a long and hard-fought recovery, she's now cancer free and busy working and raising her three kids, but it was quite a scary time for all of us, especially her.

A pall hung in the hallways of the Seneca Valley School District as the year wound to a close.

Sometimes his well-organized desk, with all items arranged at right angles, make Jeff Hinkelman smile because he realizes the habit comes from his grandfather, William Roxer.

Regis Philibin and Kelly Ripa are on a nationwide search for the best grill recipe, and one Butler County chef is in the running for the top prize.

Have you ever wondered how many states among the 50 United have cities or towns with duplicate names? A trusty atlas proves that Clinton tops the list with 24, followed by Springfield with 23, two each in Pennsylvania and Virginia.

That's the best way to describe J.S. Dill's July 2 auction. With tons of guns, pinball machines, vintage porcelain gas station signs and a 1993 "triple black" Mercedes Benz 500SL roadster, Dill's pre-Independence Day sale should attract a decidedly male crowd to the company's Zelienople showroom.

Some of Aaron Wollerton's fondest memories are of attending Vacation Bible School at the Zelienople Church of the Nazarene.

No divine lights of inspiration. No crashing thunderbolts. No revelations on the road to Zelienople, or wherever one travels to for insight in Western Pennsylvania.

Two sales involving households from one of the area's wealthiest neighborhoods are generating a bit of buzz at a pair of local auction houses, with one sale in Zelienople and another on site.

PennDOT District 9 announced the award of another transportation stimulus project in Somerset County that is funded with federal funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act .

The U.S. Postal Service has notified customers in Harmony, Butler County, that it will suspend operations of the post office there -- at least temporarily -- at the close of business June 30.

State legislators have announced nearly $3 million in funding to help improve 16 airports in Pennsylvania.

A number of local airports are among those receiving a chunk of $3 million. The money will be used to improve safety and facility maintenance.

Rick Wills can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7944. For nearly a year, layoffs, foreclosures and bailouts have dominated the headlines.

The Pennsylvania Department of Treasury is looking for a few Finders, several Keepers and a handful of Losers.

In this July 3, 2008 file photo, five-year-old Taylor Yost stands on her chair at the breakfast table to pour milk onto her cereal in Zelienople, Pa.

The latest Crawford County highway project is receiving the same attention from Allegheny College that the SR 6/19/322 area has been getting since the 1990s.

State Rep. Tim Solobay, D-Washington, has introduced a bill which would put the state Public Utilities Commission in charge of municipal electric companies like Middletown's, with the same oversight it has over public utilities like Met-Ed and PP&L. As it is now, municipalities "are free to raise electric rates at will," Solobay said.

A Homer City woman, working as part of a tree-trimming crew, was killed when she was struck by a sport utility vehicle in a multi-vehicle accident along Route 422 on Thursday afternoon.

A viewing and funeral are scheduled for the Mount St. Mary's University student who was fatally struck by a pickup truck on Tuesday afternoon while jogging on Old Emmitsburg Road.