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October 15, 2024

Rep. Kelly Honors Ellwood City Resident For Earning Congressional Award

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA) recently recognized Eric Perkins, of Ellwood City, as a Congressional Award Silver Medal Recipient, during an October 1st meeting in Rep. Kelly’s Butler office. The Congressional Award is a non-partisan, voluntary, and non-competitive award program for young Americans. The Congressional Award is open to ages between 14-24. The program encourages young Americans to set goals in important areas: expedition and exploration, physical fitness, personal development, and voluntary public service. Participants are awarded with a Bronze, Silver, or Gold Certificate, as well as Medals. Perkins, 23, began working on the Congressional Award when…

October 14, 2024

Local Donation Effort For Hurricane Milton Victims Begins This Week

Less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene made landfall on September 26th plowing through the South, a second hurricane ravished the southern landscape. Hurricane Milton made landfall on October 9th on the west coast of Florida, knocking out power to more than 3 million customers and whipping up 150 tornado warnings. As the region begins to recover and rebuild, a second local donation effort by Franklin Township will be accepting items for Hurricane Milton victims beginning on October 14th. Donations will be accepted October 14– October 18 (Monday – Friday) from 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. at the Franklin Township…

October 14, 2024

ECASD to Get Weapon Detection System

The Ellwood City Area School District will be getting a very smart weapon detection system. During Thursday’s regular meeting of Ellwood City Area School District’s Board of Directors, Director and Chair of the Board’s Security Committee Claire Fauzey announced that she was “Pleased to share that the hard work and collaboration of Mr. Sovich (high school principal) and Officer Brian Speer over the last several months, the district has been able to purchase a weapon detection system that will be put into place at LHS. With much investigation of safety concerns and reviews of this device with other schools, we…

October 14, 2024

Bernstine, Brown Announce Farm-to-School Grant Awards in Lawrence County

HARRISBURG – Reps. Aaron Bernstine (R-Butler/Lawrence) and Marla Brown (R-Lawrence) are pleased to announce two recipients in Lawrence County have been awarded Farm-to-School Grants. These grants, part of a statewide initiative by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, will support projects aimed at improving access to healthy, local food and providing hands-on agricultural learning experiences for children from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. “I’m thrilled to see such vital funding come to our community,” said Brown. “These grants not only help connect children to local, healthy food but also enhance their agricultural education through hands-on experiences. This is a wonderful opportunity to…

October 13, 2024

Ellwood City Public Library Activities For Week Of October 14th

The Ellwood City Area Public Library offers a variety of weekly activities. Information is available by calling the library at 724-758-6458. NOTE The Library has partnered with Seneca Library District, Oil Creek Library District, Erie County Public Library and Crawford County Federated Library System for e-books. You can now use the Overdrive or Libby App. to borrow books from the above Libraries. Please call the library with any questions. HOURS Hours are Monday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m., Friday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. and Saturday 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m….

October 12, 2024

PHOTOS: Ellwood City Outlasts Riverside 13-9

Ellwood City survived an upset bid from cross creek rival Riverside Friday night in the annual installment of the RivEll Cup. The Wolverines picked up a hard fought 13-9 victory on the road, improving to 7-0 for the first time in 80 years. The game feature some quick scoring action early, but grinded out as both teams fought hard for offensive yards as the teams combined for only 382 yard of total offense. Neither team collected 100 yards passing. Ellwood City struck first with a touchdown after the first of three Panthers turnovers set the Wolverines up with a short…

October 11, 2024

“What’s Up, Doc?” Historical Society Public Meeting Is Monday

What’s Up, Doc? Everett Bleakney Jr., board member and past-president of the Ellwood City Area Historical Society, will be the guest speaker at the Society’s public meeting at the History Center, 310 Fifth Street, this Monday, October 14th beginning at 7:00 p.m. This entertaining presentation will be a look at the practice of medicine in Ellwood City in the ‘50s and ‘60s. An amateur historian, Bleakney is the author of “Postcard History of Ellwood City” based on his extensive postcard collection. He is currently writing a history of Wayne Township, Lawrence County, PA. A lifelong resident of the Ellwood City…

October 11, 2024

Ellwood City Women’s Network Hosting 8th Annual Girls Night Out

Ellwood City Women’s Network will be having their 8th annual Girls Night Out on November 20th at 6:00 p.m. at Shakespeares Restaurant. Tickets are $25.00 (which includes dinner) and must be purchased in advance and are available at Turner-Hyde Funeral Home and Konsignment Konnections. There will be craft vendors and a Chinese auction and 50/50 and entertainment by Vaughn Hudspath and others. All proceeds will be donated to The Divine Grace Ministerium Food Bank which helps all those in need throughout Ellwood City and beyond.