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December 24, 2018

Library Activities For The Week Of December 24

The Ellwood City Area Public Library offers a variety of weekly activities. Information is available by calling the library at 724-758-6458. Activities taking place this week include: MONDAY, DECEMBER 24 The Library will be closed in observance of Christmas Eve. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25 The Library will be closed in observance of Christmas. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26 10:00 a.m. – “Coloring for Adults,” a weekly program that is free and open to the public. It is designed to help reduce stresses of everyday life. All adults are welcome. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27 6:00 p.m. – “Adult Knitting Group,” which meets weekly to work…

December 21, 2018

North Side Positive Action Program Recognizes Local Heroes

On Monday, children at North Side Elementary school present Ellwood City’s police and fireman as a part of their December Positive Action Program. The idea for this to become a program came from a simple comment made by Dawn Santagata’s granddaughter. “My daughter mentioned to me that my granddaughter had asked her if she should be afraid of the police,” Santagata said. She proceeded to explain that the children only hear the negatives about the police; they hear about the cases on the television, on the radio, and even what their parents have to say involving the police. She began…

December 20, 2018

Holy Redeemer To Host Local Group “One Voice”

On Friday, local group “One Voice” will be performing at the Holy Redeemer Church in Ellwood City.  The event is scheduled to begin at 7:00pm The program is titled “Oh Come Let Us Adore Him” and is said to be an advent Christmas program. There will be readings and music as well as One Voice’s performance. Holy Redeemer Church is located at 415 4th Street in Ellwood City. The group has been active this month, recently playing live holiday inspired music at local coffee shop National Grind as well as at Chewton Church for a live Nativity Scene performance and a…

December 20, 2018

Ellwood City School District Choir Performs At Community Plaza

On Wednesday, the Ellwood City Area School District Concert Choir gathered and sang Christmas carols at the Community Plaza. The brief concert began approximately 10:30am and was under the direction of Senior High Choral Director, Felicia Greco. This past Sunday the music department held its Annual Christmas Gift Concert at Lincoln High School. More than 250 students will be performing in this concert. EllwoodCity.org also captured and shared a video of the caroling performance on posted on its Facebook page on Wednesday.

December 20, 2018

EC SPORTS RECAP: Wrestling, Boys Basketball Teams Defeated

Five Wolverine wrestlers collected match victories Wednesday night, but Ellwood City fell to Beaver Area 42-27. Jake Alberts (120 lbs), Donavan Chambers (138 lbs), Zach Polojoic (145 lbs), Doug Balin (152 lbs), and Austin Walley (182 lbs) collected victories. Beaver Area used six match forfeits to a earn a majority of its points on the evening. Beaver Area Hs (BAH) 42.0 Ellwood City Hs (ECH) 27.0 120: Jake Alberts (ECH) over John Hall (BAH) (Fall 1:49) 126: Double Forfeit 132: Alec Coulter (BAH) over (ECH) (For.) 138: Donavan Chambers (ECH) over Brady Earhart (BAH) (Dec 2-0) 145: Zach Polojoic (ECH)…

December 17, 2018

Library Activities For The Week Of December 17

The Ellwood City Area Public Library offers a variety of weekly activities. Information is available by calling the library at 724-758-6458. Activities taking place this week include: TUESDAY DECEMBER 18 5:00 p.m. – “Food for Thought Book Group II,” They will be discussing the book “The Young Elites” by Marie Lu. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19 10:00 a.m. – “Coloring for Adults,” a weekly program that is free and open to the public. It is designed to help reduce stresses of everyday life. All adults are welcome. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20 3:00 p.m. – “Food for Thought Book Group,” a book discussion group…

December 14, 2018

LED Billboard Being Constructed In Franklin Township

What is going on in Franklin Township? At the corner of Route-288 and Mercer Road, large steel poles are being erected with all ‘signs’ indicating a large, two-sided LED Billboard will occupy the corner according to information made available to EllwoodCity.org According to Franklin Township, America First Enterprises LLP has purchased the property located at 1766 Mercer Road in the Commercial Zoning District and, after receiving PENNDOT approval, plans to erect a ’10’x30′ Vee LED 2 Face Billboard Unit’. According to the PENNDOT permit, the land is Zoned Commercial – Primary Highway. At the conclusion of the construction, PENNDOT and…

December 14, 2018

The Search Is On, Police Reporting Up To 25 Vehicle Break-Ins

From Sunday, December 8 and into Monday, December 9, there had been a reported 10 incidents of vehicles being broken into in Ellwood City. As of today, however, police say there has been between 20-25 break-ins. The thief or thieves have taken anywhere between $200 and $2 worth of items and change in each report. These break-ins have been happening in the following areas: Meadowridge Drive, Skyline Drive, Aetna Drive, and York Street. The most recent reports that were released had break-ins on Massachusetts Street,  Walnut Drive, Sunset Boulevard and another incident on Skyline Drive. These break-ins were not forced due…

December 13, 2018

Ellwood City Wrestling Team Has Early Success

This past weekend, the Ellwood City varsity boys wrestling team began their 2018-2019 season at the 22-team Hickory Invitational. The wrestling team is lead by seniors Jake Alberts and Donavin Chambers, along with their teammates Austin Walley, Donavin Chambers and Zach Polojoic. At the weekend invitational, Walley took first place in his 182-pound class, collecting a 15-3 decision over Elijah Ayers (Coudersport) while Chambers placed second in his 138-pound final, falling 7-2 in the finals. Jake Alberts collected a fourth place finish while Doug Balin went 3-2 this weekend. As a team, Ellwood City finished with 76.5 points in the tournament.  Redbank…

December 13, 2018

Chamber Of Commerce Announces New Executive Director

The Ellwood City Area Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce our new Co-Executive Directors, Loralei Gallaher-Hink and Jillian Court. Loralei and Jillian will be working alongside each other as the Executive Director of Membership and the Executive Director of Media, respectively. They are looking forward to continue the mission of the Chamber which is to promote a healthy local economy and a high quality of life for the Ellwood City Area and act as the resource center for business, voice for economic development and an information center for the community. The chamber encourages businesses and residents to stop by their…