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January 16, 2024

Rotary Club Invites You To An Evening With Award-Winning Author, Ed Prence

The Rotary Club of Ellwood City invites you to an evening with Ed Prence. The event is scheduled to take place Thursday, January 18th at 7:00pm at the Trinity Lutheran Church Sanctuary (207 Spring Avenue, Ellwood City). Local Koppel native, amateur baseball player and award winning author, Ed Prence will be giving a book talk on his second book “Last of the Rockland Boys“. Ed draws upon his experiences as a life-long amateur player and his boyhood growing up in a small western-Pennsylvania steel town, where baseball was everything. Published September 2022, it has been named the 2022 TAZ Award Winner…

January 15, 2024

Ellwood City School District Hall of Fame Committee Accepting Nominations

The Ellwood City Area School District Hall of Fame Committee is accepting nominations for induction as well as applications of interest to serve on the committee. If you wish to nominate someone for induction to the Hall of Fame, please visit https://www.ecasdk12.org/alumni and complete the nomination form. Individuals and teams can be nominated under the Distinguished Alumni category for their post graduate professional accomplishments, or under the Athletics category for their achievements as an athlete at Lincoln High School or beyond. Once an individual is nominated, he or she remains in consideration for the next 3 years. Nominations will be…

January 12, 2024

EC Wolves Club Den Provides Donations

The Ellwood City Wolves Club Den II met on Wednesday January 10, 2024 at the Connequenessing Country Club. At the meeting they presented a donation of $500 to the Ellwood City Meals on Wheels Program. Director Terry Crespo thanked the Wolves Club for their continued support of the important community program where thirty citizens receive meals Monday through Friday. Due to donations like theirs the program has not had to raise the costs to the participants. Wolves Club members serve as drivers and meal preparers. There is a need for drivers to deliver the meals. It takes one hour of…

January 11, 2024

Education and Access the Focus of Joint Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee Hearing

HARRISBURG – The state Senate and House Agriculture and Rural Affairs committees gathered this week for a hearing at the PA Farm Show to discuss the five-year impact of the 2019 Pennsylvania Farm Bill with the main theme of those conversations being agriculture education and access. The hearing was led by Senate committee leaders, Majority Chair Sen. Elder Vogel, Jr. (R-47) and Democratic Chair Sen. Judy Schwank (D-11), and House committee leaders, Majority Chair Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski (D-121) and Republican Chair Rep. Dan Moul (R-91). “Today’s hearing was incredibly productive as we witnessed the immense impact of the PA…

January 11, 2024

Historical Society Starts New Year With Awards

The Ellwood City Area Historical Society had its first public meeting of 2024 at the History Center, 310 5th Street, on Monday evening, January 8, 2024. The meeting started with the Pledge of Allegiance led by 101 year old World War 2 veteran, Guy Prestia. Immediately following the pledge, Society Board member and Past-President, Everett Bleakney, inducted the new Board and officers for 2024; President, Bob Morabito; 1st Vice President, Andy Kindle; Secretary, Lois Liebendorfer; Treasurer, Angela Hyde; and Board members, Dylan Baney, Charles Brown, and Blanche Novak. Unable to attend the meeting and scheduled to be inducted at a…

January 11, 2024

Bernstine To Host “Protecting Our Second Amendment Rights” Seminar Jan. 16

HARRISBURG – Rep. Aaron Bernstine (R-Butler/Lawrence) is offering residents of the 8th Legislative District the opportunity to learn more about Pennsylvania’s current gun laws during a “Protecting Our Second Amendment Rights” seminar on Tuesday, Jan. 16. The seminar will be held from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Scott Township Volunteer Fire Company, 3712 Harlansburg Road, New Castle. “This free event has been very popular in the past and I have no doubt it will be well attended this time around,” said Bernstine. “The feedback I receive from attendees, including longtime gunowners, is they learned something new through this seminar.” The event…

January 10, 2024

NOTICE: Kitties Found A Home, Inc., Files Application For A New Low Power FM Construction Permit

On December 11, 2023,  Kitties Found A Home, Inc., applicant for a new Low Power FM station on 95.5MHz serving Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission for a new Low Power FM Construction Permit.  Members of the public wishing to view this application or obtain information about how to file comments and petitions on the application can visit the following websites: https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/views/public/fmDraftCopy?displayType=html&appKey=25076f918bd01efb018bf90d8bec0f0c&id=25076f918bd01efb018bf90d8bec0f0c&goBack=N and https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/lms-how-to-file-pleadings-and-appeals.pdf.”

January 5, 2024

Ellen O’Brien Gaiser Center, BC3 To Discuss Addiction Issues In Teens & Young Adults

PITTSBURGH – Navigating adulthood is a new and exciting time for older teens and young adults. The newfound freedom that comes with leaving home for the first time often brings fresh challenges and experiences — and new pressures. The Ellen O’Brien Gaiser Center and Butler County Community College will host an important conversation on addiction issues unique to families with older teenagers and young adults in its second annual “Discover Recovery” community forum on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Gaiser’s 2024 community dialogue on addiction treatment focuses on family matters, bringing together clinical and medical experts, parents and school and university…

December 22, 2023

All Aboard! Students Treated To A Special Christmas Program Aboard “Ellsworth”

In a unique, cooperative effort among the Ellwood City Area Historical Society, All Aboard Ellwood Inc., and the Ellwood City Library, kindergarten students from North Side Elementary School and second graders from Riverside Elementary School were treated to a special Christmas program aboard “Ellsworth,” the Ellwood City Area Historical Society’s replica trolley. Mrs. Rachel Biermeyer, an associate Librarian at the Ellwood City Library, read a Christmas story and sang songs with the children during their individual class’s 30 minute session aboard Ellsworth. The Historical Society’s trolley, sponsored by All Aboard Ellwood Inc., was parked at the respective schools on Tuesday…

December 21, 2023

VIDEO: Ellwood Medical Center At Center Of Political Controversy

(KDKA) – Congressional Republicans investigating a possible impeachment of President Biden have subpoenaed his son, Hunter, to determine if his overseas business dealings benefited his father, the president. But their inquiry hits closer to home. They’ve also subpoenaed the president’s brother, James Biden, looking at his business dealings including what role he may have played in the takeover and subsequent closing of the Ellwood City Medical Center. They’re looking at whether Joe Biden benefited from those business dealings in our area. This shuttered hospital in Ellwood City hasn’t seen a patient in more than three years, but it’s become a…