Local news headlines
Friday, Feb. 12, 1999
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The full text of these stories is NOT online (unless you see the headline is a link). Posting headlines is our first step toward increased posting of local news and photos.
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- HEMPFIELD TOWNSHIP:
Members: We'll rebuild church
- CRAWFORD COUNTY:
Volant man is found dead in truck
- SANDY LAKE:
Man's hand severed at Clinch-Tite
- MERCER COUNTY:
Songer: Increasing interim chief's pay breaks precedent
- FARRELL:
Building to become maintenance office
- HARRISBURG:
Gambling coalition defies odds
- MERCER COUNTY:
County is committed to acting on plan
- HERMITAGE:
Firm offers e-ternal tributes on Internet
- GROVE CITY:
Is casting company eyeing Cooper?
- MERCER COUNTY:
Commissioners seek DEP recycling grant
- MERCER COUNTY:
6 bids for painting come in but no one wants to clean up mess
- MERCER COUNTY:
Housing Authority puts own cash into home ownership program
- MERCER COUNTY:
New position to oversee social and recreational programming
- AKRON:
Greenville native among 24 people charged in raid at Ohio escort services
- HEMPFIELD TOWNSHIP:
David A. Geisel announces township supervisor candidacy
- GROVE CITY:
Wishing to formally announce run for county commissioner
- HARRISBURG:
Rep. Wilt announces new Web site, e-mail addresses: http://www.repwilt.com ; repwilt@repwilt.com
Today's death record
(Full texts of obituaries are not online yet but will be soon, with eventual postings back to January 1996)
- Elizabeth A. "Lib" Allen, 86, of 115 W. Chestnut St., Grove City.
- James A. Benson, 76, of 8017 Warren Sharon Road, Masury.
- Mabel E. Bollenbacher, 88, formerly of 311 Quartermile Road, Hempfield Township.
- Linda Jo Crosby, 57, of 1465 Bolde Drive, Apartment 1A, Hermitage.
- Lillian F. Nelson Edeburn, 87, of 140 S. Otter St., Mercer.
- Walter Martin Jr., 81, of 528 N. 8th St., Reading, Pa., formerly of Farrell.
- James N. Oakes, 61, of 1335 Brent Road, Springfield Township.
- Arthur T. Stafford, 85, of 779 E. Liberty St., Hubbard.
- Lillian A. Leyshon Thorn, 81, of 410 Vogan Drive, Mercer.
- Frances Clarese Vechnak, 62, Hermitage.
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