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August 28, 2026

Rotary Club Hosts Youth Leadership Academy Students

On Thursday August 20th, the Rotary Club of Ellwood City hosted the Rotary Youth Leadership Academy Students (RYLA) to share their experience and this week long conference held at Westminster College in Mid June. RYLA is an international leadership program eveloped by Rotary Interanational in 1971. This program is designed to demonstrate Rotary’s respect and concern for youth; provide an effective training experience for selected youth and potential leaders, encourage leadership of youth by youth and to recognize publicly young people who are rendering service to their communities. Students who are completed their junior year are selected by the school…

December 13, 2022

VIDEO: “The Pale Blue Eye” Trailer, Filmed In Lawrence County

Netflix has released the trailer for “The Pale Blue Eye,” a Christian Bale movie with scenes filmed in several Lawrence County and nearby locations. The storyline centers on a veteran detective investigating murders, assisted by a detail-oriented young cadet who later becomes legendary horror author, Edgar Allan Poe. Production moved around Western Pennsylvania during filming and includes Lawrence County’s McConnells Mill State Park and Westminster College. Late last year, the film’s production team transformed the Westminster quadrangle into a set depicting the West Point military academy in 1830. Several Westminster students and local residents served as extras. Other students and faculty from the School…

October 4, 2019

Eastern European Genealogy Workshop Planned

An Eastern European Genealogy Workshop (Finding your roots through the partitions) will be held on October 24, 2109. The event will take place from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Dietz-Sullivan Lecture Hall, Hoyt Science Resources Center at Westminster College. This event will be led by Andrew Henley of Pleasant Hill Historians and is hosted by Polish Americans of Lawrence County and Pleasant Hill Historians. For more information, please call 724-714-4232.  This event is a free workshop and open to the public! Directions: https://www.westminster.edu/about/location.cfm https://goo.gl/maps/9aGd5jKDxdXbse4n8 https://www.westminster.edu/about/pdf/campus-map.pdf