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Wellersburg fire hall and community center will expand to house more equipment, people
WELLERSBURG ― Wellersburg's community center will be expanding to offer more services thanks in part to grant money the fire department received. Chief Deputy Whip Guy Reschenthaler, R-PA, secured $61 million in community project funding through the passage of H.R. 4366, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024. President Joe Biden signed the legislation into law on March 9.
Rockwood dedicates new Veterans Memorial and Community Park after eight-year effort
Hundreds of community members gathered to celebrate the completion and dedication of the new Veterans Memorial and Community Park in Rockwood Saturday morning. On Memorial Day in 2016, officials say two local veterans noted a half-demolished building on main street that sat next to where memorial day events were held each year. They say they created a grassroots committee full of Rockwood residents with the goal of replacing the area with a community park.
DelFest Day One (A Gallery)
Yesterday, Thursday, May 23, DelFest commenced its multi-day gathering at Allegany County Fairgrounds in Cumberland, Md. Situated two and a half hours outside of Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, the event began with a late afternoon festival opening with a Sound Check set from namesakes, Del McCoury Band, preluding the first proper set of music provided by East Nash Grass.
PSP: woman defrauds Rockwood Borough Council of $36k
State police are investigating after a woman in Somerset County deceived members of the Rockwood Borough Council into paying her approximately $36,000 without approval, according to a press release. State police said the unidentified woman deceived members of the Rockwood Borough Council in January into paying her on numerous occasions...
Who bought and who sold property in Somerset County May 13-17?
Here are the property transfers recorded with the Somerset County Recorder of Deeds from May 13-17. Larry Yaukey to Stanley Plume, Addison Township, $12,466.20. Somerset K&S LLC to Broad Street Brothers LLC, Somerset Township, $1,016,000. Donald Fritz, executor of the estate of Margie Laverne Fritz, to August Airsman, Lincoln Township,...
Dense fog advisory for part of Pennsylvania until Sunday morning
A dense fog advisory was issued by the National Weather Service on Sunday at 3:59 a.m. in effect until 10 a.m. for Cambria, Blair, Huntingdon, Somerset, Bedford, Fulton, Franklin, Perry, Cumberland, Adams and York counties. The weather service states, "Visibility one quarter mile or less in dense fog." "Low visibility...
Somerset Search and Rescue crew assist in successful rescue of lost elderly woman
NEW BALTIMORE — An elderly woman who went missing in the woods Tuesday in the borough was found safe – thanks to a county group. The Somerset County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue Team 400 was dispatched to assist the New Baltimore Fire Department with the search for the woman. ...
New details: Woman shot at man in Somerset with toddler nearby, PSP say
SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — Police have released more details surrounding a domestic incident that included gunfire and two people being arrested on Tuesday in Somerset County. Allen Hitechew II, 39, and Melissa Monaghan, 40, were arrested after PSP was called to a residence on Lincoln Highway on May 21 on reports of the two […]
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