Meadville Tribune Local News

Conneaut Lake Park roars into 120th season

2012-05-27T07:30:00-04:00

Conneaut Lake Park’s 120th season is officially under way with its in-keeping-with-tradition, four-day Memorial Day weekend opening, and the “crowds are coming in,” Jack Moyers said Saturday.

Area communities ready to celebrate Memorial Day

2012-05-26T23:32:38-04:00

Editor’s note: The following Memorial Day events have been reported for publication in The Tribune. All events are Monday, except those in Edinboro and Shermansville, which are planned for Sunday.

Remembering Civil War Bucktails

2012-05-26T07:00:00-04:00

A glimpse into daily life of the Civil War era is easy to see in Crawford County.

Area Memorial Day events

2012-05-25T07:00:00-04:00

The following Memorial Day events have been reported for publication in The Tribune. All events are on Monday, except the one at Edinboro that is planned for Sunday.

Civil War soldiers highlight Meadville Memorial Day events

2012-05-25T07:00:00-04:00

A courageous Meadville man — wounded three times but remaining on a Civil War battlefield until he was too weak to continue — is being remembered this Memorial Day as the Meadville Area Memorial Day Committee continues its mission of observing the 150th anniversary of the War Between the States.

Police: Locals admit to killing Ohio woman

2012-05-25T07:00:00-04:00

Two Cochranton women were arrested and jailed on homicide charges early Thursday after allegedly admitting they killed an Ohio woman and buried her body in a shallow grave near their residence recently.

Reader 'Faces' are coming in

2012-05-24T21:24:44-04:00

Mom's car dash, Meadville, PA
Lucy Kedzierski, 12, looks at the face every morning waiting for school bus!
She took this with a cell phone.

North Street Project sure to be 'very disruptive'

2012-05-24T07:00:00-04:00

With the preliminary traffic control plan for Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s North Street Project complete, Meadville City Manager Joe Chriest summed up the anticipated impact of the project, which is expected to span the entire 2013 construction season. “This is going to be very, very disruptive,” he said Wednesday.

Boat business booming in warm weather

2012-05-24T07:00:00-04:00

It’s been a booming business in boats this spring, according to some area boat dealers.

City leaders not concerned after financial downgrade

2012-05-23T07:00:00-04:00

During the past five years, Moody’s Investors Service has assigned three different ratings — all within the range of “upper medium grade” to the City of Meadville’s bonds. In 2007, the city was given a rating of A3, the lowest of the trio. In 2010, the city’s bond rating was raised to A1, the highest ranking in the “upper medium” category. Monday, Moody’s gave the city’s $10,000,000 General Obligation Bonds, Series of 2012, which went on the market Monday, the middle rating of A2.