Franklin school board approves several transportation items

Just in time for the first day of school today, the Franklin school board approved several transportation items and the transportation program with bus routes, drivers and vehicles at its formal business meeting Monday.

Superintendent Eugene Thomas said he would check some items on the transportation program today after board member Cheryl Ferry said she had seen on the program that some kids were scheduled to ride the bus for an hour and forty-five minutes one-way.

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HELEN FIELDING, reporter for The Derrick and The News-Herald, can be reached at [email protected] or 814-677-8374.

After much preparation, and at some schools a summer of construction, students were welcomed back to school Tuesday across Venango County.

Valley Grove School Board members on Monday heard from Will Price and Jenny Taylor from the United Way of Venango County about the possibility of bringing the agency’s career counselor program back to the district after an absence of a couple of years.

Cranberry School District students found a few improvements when they returned to their classrooms Tuesday.

The Fertigs Community Center’s annual Labor Day event, Old Home Day, will return Monday.

Another year means another Great Stoneboro Fair, the 155th to be exact, as the gates to the fairgrounds on Route 62 open Wednesday.

Just in time for the first day of school today, the Franklin school board approved several transportation items and the transportation program with bus routes, drivers and vehicles at its formal business meeting Monday.

Students across Venango County will head back to school bright and early today for the beginning of a new year, and teachers were gearing up Monday by prepping their rooms and participating in in-service days.

In conjunction with the Festival of the Book, the Oil City Heritage Society held a silent auction of historical items and memorabilia on Saturday to raise funds for the Oil City Library theater restoration effort.

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Local authors filled the Central Avenue Plaza in Oil City on Saturday for the Oil Region Library Association’s third annual Festival of the Book.

The waters of Justus Lake in Two Mile Run County Park will sparkle with many lights Saturday night with the sixth annual Shine a Light on Suicide Night Kayak.

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Oil City Council members were updated at their meeting Thursday about where things stand with the city’s efforts to purchase the former Days Inn hotel property.

The dedication ceremony for the Coach Pat Patterson sports complex at Oil City High School and a 22 push-up salute for “Coach Pat” was held Friday at the high school before the Oilers’ season-opening football game.

Franklin restaurant TrAils To Ales Brewery will host a film crew from America’s Best Restaurants in early September.

Oil City Council members heard updates Thursday on the ongoing East Second Street project and bridge projects that will be getting underway in the next year or two.

Everyone has been busy the last couple of days at Venango Catholic High School in Oil City as faculty and staff members from VC and St. Stephen Elementary School are getting ready for the new school year.

Cranberry Township supervisors approved the grant application for FY-2023 CDBG funds at their meeting Thursday night.

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There is no word as to when the “do not consume” water advisory that Reno is under could come to an end.

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Though the weather brought some rain later, it didn’t rain on the Franklin Black Knights’ parade Wednesday morning during band practice at the high school football field.

Clarion County commissioners on Tuesday named the Clarion County Economic Development Corp. as the county’s new tourist promotion agency.

The remodeled Clarion Hospital emergency room officially opened Monday.

The state has cited well operator Petro Erie with five additional violations based on an investigation prompted by a “do not consume” water advisory, which was issued to more than 200 Venango Water Co. customers in Reno more than a month ago and remains in effect.

New Jersey developer Milan Adamovsky, who bought up five buildings in downtown Oil City almost three years ago and then largely disappeared, is now applying to have a liquor license transferred to him.

A building on Oil City’s South Side that has housed auto-related operations for nearly a century was sold recently and will be refurbished as a site for auctions.

The dedication ceremony for the Coach Pat Patterson sports complex at Oil City High School will be held Friday before the Oilers’ season opening football game against Warren.

The Oil Region Library Association is hosting its third annual Oil Region Festival of the Book from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Central Avenue Plaza right outside the Oil City Library.

As Franklin comes up to its first day of the new school year on Aug. 29, several administrators and staff wrapped up the 2022-2023 year with a “Year in Review” presentation to the Franklin school board Monday.

Three people were displaced from a structure fire that took place at 534 Atlantic Ave. in Franklin on Friday at 8:25 p.m., Venango County 911 said. No one was injured.

Oil City’s Veterans Bridge resonated with the sounds of music and folks just hanging out during this year’s BridgeFest on Saturday.

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A Franklin YMCA program titled “Delay the Disease” is helping to slow the process of Parkinson’s Disease,” according to program director Andrew Brosius.

The annual Tionesta Indian Festival has been going on this week, and there was lots to do on Friday for young and old alike.

The state, in an order dated Wednesday and issued Thursday, has outlined numerous violations against well operator Petro Erie based on an investigation prompted by a “do not consume” water advisory, which was issued to more than 200 Venango Water Co. customers in Reno a month ago and remains…

Oil City’s BridgeFest kicked off Friday with an evening full of family fun on the Center Street Bridge in the cool, pleasant conditions.

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