SHARPSVILLE — A rock festival’s worth of “bands” practiced outside Sharpsville Middle School, performing their original selections on handmade instruments — but instead of drums or trumpets, the musicians rocked out on bundles of PVC pipe, producing musical notes by hitting ends of pipes with flip-flops.

Increases in unemployment benefits have helped people pay their bills and cover the costs of food and housing, but they may have had a negative effect as well — increased identity theft and unemployment fraud.

HERMITAGE – Seasoned artisans like Stacey Keating are welcoming newcomers this weekend for the 18th Annual Hermitage Art, Food and Music Festival.

HARRISBURG  -- The Wolf Administration is focusing on getting people vaccinated to slow the spread of the COVID virus and doesn’t have any plans to reinstate mask mandates. 

VOLANT – Tuesday’s Volant borough council meeting began with two council members, Deb Lakin and John Wayne Edwards, threatening to call the state police on a New Castle News reporter. It ended in a parking lot argument where Lakin stuck her tongue out at a group of merchants and residents.