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Sybarite5 bringing eclectic sound to stage at IUP
- HEATHER ROTHPrepare for Mozart, or Radiohead, or perhaps something with even a more international flavor when the string quartet Sybarite5 performs Tuesday at Indiana University of Pennsylvania as part of the Lively Arts’ Ovations! series.
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Cooking event serving up two shows |
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| This year’s Indiana’s Cookin’ show, with a theme of “The Quick and the Culinary,” is set for April 9 with a change that offers attendees the option of an early or later show. [Read More] |
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Program encourages reading at Homer-Center |
| 23 hours ago - - JAMIE EMPFIELD | |
| Homer-Center recently held an accelerated reader program, “Read the Most from Coast to Coast.” [Read More] |
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FAB ONCE MORE |
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| Rain, a Beatles tribute band, brought their impression to the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex on Sunday. [Read More] |
| Commonplace comes in second in competition |
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| Commonplace Coffeehouse Co. in Indiana earned second place in the America’s Best Coffeehouse Eastern Regional Championships over the weekend. [Read More] |
| Community church events scheduled |
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| Check this roundup of dinners, luncheons, barbecues, garage sales, hymn sings, special services, clothing sales, lectures, meetings and other events happening at the churches in the Indiana County area. [Read More] |
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Area shelters offer pets for adoption |
| 23 hours ago - | |
| Several dogs and cats are available for adoption from the Indiana County Humane Society’s animal shelter along Rose Street and from Four Footed Friends along Beck Road. [Read More] |
| Upcoming community events announced |
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| The Gazette presents this series of announcements of dinners, fundraising events, picnics, reunions, dances, bingo games and more, all happening in the coming days and weeks in the Indiana County area. [Read More] |
| S&T Bank opens loan production office |
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| S&T Bank has announced its expansion in central Ohio with the opening of a new loan production office in Columbus. [Read More] |
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Program features 'tour of Iceland' |
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| Friends of the Parks will offer an armchair tour of Iceland on Friday beginning at 7 p.m. at the Blue Spruce Park Lodge, near Ernest. [Read More] |
| Community church events announced |
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| Every week in The Indiana Gazette, find this roundup of family and community related events -- including Lenten fish fries, luncheons and other holy season programs -- hosted by churches in the Indiana County area. [Read More] |
All Indiana Sports News
| HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: PIAA games set at Indiana High |
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| Two PIAA girls’ basketball playoff games will be played at Indiana High School on Tuesday. [Read More] |
| IUP ROUNDUP: Baseball team drops pair |
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| IUP dropped both ends of a baseball doubleheader to Shippensburg, 5-2 and 3-1, at Harford Community College in Bel Air. Md., on Sunday. [Read More] |
| HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING: Derry's Phillippi bounces back |
| 2 days ago - - DUSTIN FILLOY |
| HERSHEY — A wave of sorrow came over Derry’s Micky Phillippi as the parade of champions began on the final day of the 77th annual PIAA Class AA wrestling tournament Saturday at the Giant Center. [Read More] |
| HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING: Doak, Oliver pick up seventh-place medals |
| 2 days ago - - DUSTIN FILLOY |
| HERSHEY — Blairsville junior Drew Doak took little solace in knowing that he became just the second wrestler in school history to claim three medals at the PIAA Class AA Championships on Saturday at the Giant Center. [Read More] |
| PSAC basketball finals set for this afternoon |
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| The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference will stage an all-East final on the men’s side and an all-West final on the women’s side in its basketball championship games today. [Read More] |
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Wildcats ride defense to first state playoff win in five years |
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| CLARION — Whether the opponent was a traditional District 9 power or a pickup team of random players, Homer-Center was bound and determined to get a state playoff victory. [Read More] |
| HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: WPIAL champion Rebels prove too much for Bobcats |
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| BRIDGEVILLE — Blairsville knew it was going to have its hands full Friday night against WPIAL champion Seton-La Salle, but the Bobcats could only imagine how tough they were actually going to have it. [Read More] |
| IUP BASEBALL: Crimson Hawks alter weekend schedule |
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| For the second weekend in a row, the IUP baseball team has altered its schedule, and the Crimson Hawks will play two doubleheaders in Maryland instead of Millersville as originally scheduled. [Read More] |
| HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING: Doak, Oliver remain in medal hunt after Day 2 of PIAA Championships |
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| HERSHEY — For Heritage Conference stalwarts Drew Doak, Scott Thompson and Tyler Oliver, Day 2 of the PIAA Class AA wrestling championships sadly ended the way it started, with three disappointing losses. [Read More] |
| HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING: Phillippi's hopes of repeating dashed on Day 2 of PIAA Championships |
| 3 days ago - |
| HERSHEY — Plenty of returning champions in the 77-year history of the PIAA wrestling tournament have folded after suffering unexpected early losses. [Read More] |
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| INDIANA DISTRICT COURT DOCKET |
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| Several defendants have been named in criminal charges filed before Magisterial District Judge Guy Haberl, of Indiana. [Read More] |
| Defendants sentenced in county courts |
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| Several defendants were sentenced at hearings recently by Judges William Martin and Thomas Bianco in Indiana County Common Pleas Court: [Read More] |
| POLICE LOG |
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| Indiana police are also investigating the theft of two Droid Razor cellphones and a JVC flip camcorder from a residence along the 900 block of School Street. [Read More] |
| ACCIDENTS |
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| Timothy Stanton, 22, of Rockton, was not hurt in a one-vehicle crash at 5:45 p.m. Saturday on the ramp from Route 286 to Route 119. [Read More] |
| State police issue February statistics |
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| State troopers at the Indiana station listed 924 incidents during February, according to a monthly statistical report. [Read More] |
| Finger almost bitten off in brawl |
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| CHERRY HILL, N.J. (AP) — Police say a dispute over a parking spot at a southern New Jersey mall ended when a woman bit and almost severed the finger of another driver. [Read More] |
| Dozens arrested at ‘Blarney Blowout’ |
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| AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — Police in riot gear have arrested at least 40 people participating in the pre-St. Patrick’s Day “Blarney Blowout” at the University of Massachusetts’ flagship campus in Amherst. [Read More] |
| Peru to extradite killer in 2038 |
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| Peru’s government says that once Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot completes his murder conviction in 2038, he will be extradited to the United States to face trial on charges he extorted and defrauded the mother of a young American woman for whose disappearance he is the chief suspect. [Read More] |
| Noise complaint leads to drug bust |
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| NEW YORK (AP) — What was supposed to be a routine noise complaint has turned into a significant New York City drug bust. [Read More] |
| Pistorius trial: Court hears autopsy testimony |
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| PRETORIA, South Africa — The judge in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius today banned live broadcasting and tweeting of the graphic testimony of the expert who conducted the autopsy on Reeva Steenkamp, who was fatally shot by her athlete boyfriend. [Read More] |
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50TH ANNIVERSARY: Darl and Shirley Somerville |
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| Darl and Shirley Somerville, of Cherry Tree, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Friday. [Read More] |
| Gazette readers' birthdays, March 10 |
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| Be sure to wish a happy birthday to these Gazette readers when you see them today ... [Read More] |
| HOSPITAL NOTES |
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| Indiana Regional Medical Center, weekend activity: [Read More] |
| Gazette readers' birthdays: March 9 |
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| If you see these Gazette readers today, be sure to wish them a happy birthday! [Read More] |
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SENIOR OF THE MONTH: Courtney Taylor |
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| Courtney Taylor has been named the Kiwanis Club Outstanding Indiana County Technology Center Senior of the Month for March. [Read More] |
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SENIOR OF THE MONTH: Briana Watt |
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| The Kiwanis Club recently named Briana Watt as the Blairsville High School Senior of the Month for March. [Read More] |
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BOY OF THE MONTH: Jordan Hudzicki |
| 3 days ago - | |
| The Indiana Optimist Club has selected Jordan Hudzicki as its March Boy of the Month, the 675th selected since the program began. [Read More] |
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SENIOR OF THE MONTH: Abby Plowcha |
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| The Homer City Kiwanis Club has named Abby Plowcha as the Homer-Center High School Senior of the Month for March. [Read More] |
| Gazette readers' birthdays, March 8 |
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| Be sure to wish these Gazette readers a happy birthday when you see them today: [Read More] |
| HOSPITAL NOTES |
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| Indiana Regional Medical Center, March 7, 2014: [Read More] |
All World News
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Stolen passports probed in Malaysian plane mystery |
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| PATTAYA, Thailand (AP) — Authorities questioned travel agents Monday at a beach resort in Thailand about two men who boarded the vanished Malaysia Airlines plane with stolen passports, part of a growing international investigation into what they were doing on the flight. [Read More] |
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How can jet disappear? In the ocean, it's not hard |
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| KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — In an age when people assume that any bit of information is just a click away, the thought that a jetliner could simply disappear over the ocean for more than two days is staggering. [Read More] |
| Nuclear test experts to check if plane exploded |
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| UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the organization that monitors the nuclear test ban treaty said Monday he has asked its experts to see if they detected an explosion at high altitude of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane. [Read More] |
| What is known about missing Malaysia Airlines jet |
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| An extensive search has revealed no sign of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. What authorities say is known as of Monday evening: [Read More] |
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False leads set back hunt for missing Malaysian jet |
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| SEPANG, Malaysia — The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner was set back Monday by a number of false leads that seemed to underline how little investigators knew about the whereabouts of the plane, which vanished Saturday. [Read More] |
| Firm: Pittsburgh-area woman was on missing flight |
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| PITTSBURGH (AP) — A western Pennsylvania woman was among the 239 people aboard a Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared en route to Beijing over the weekend, her employer said Monday. [Read More] |
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Anger turns to frustration over missing jet |
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| BEIJING -- It was a difficult meeting. The four Malaysia Airlines employees stood with their hands by their sides at the front of a stuffy room in a Beijing hotel Monday morning, delivering yet more unwelcome news about the missing Flight MH370 and dodging water bottles hurled by irate listeners. [Read More] |
| Fate of Malaysian jet remains unknown |
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| KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Rescue helicopters and ships searching for a Malaysia Airlines jet rushed today to investigate a yellow object that looked like a life raft. [Read More] |
| Putin defends action in Crimea as legal |
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| KIEV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday defended the separatist drive in the disputed Crimean Peninsula as in keeping with international law, but Ukraine’s prime minister vowed not to relinquish “a single centimeter” of his country’s territory. [Read More] |
| Number of uninsured dropping, survey finds |
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| WASHINGTON — With just three weeks left to sign up under President Barack Obama health care law, a major survey tracking the rollout finds that the uninsured rate keeps going down. [Read More] |
All Reader Letters and Gazette Editorials
| Letter to the Editor: Holding ponds risk pollution |
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| By now it should be general knowledge that there are significant differences between shallow, conventional gas well drilling and the still fairly new Marcellus shale gas exploitation. One of those differences is the problem of the large quantity and low quality of flowback fluid associated only with [Read More] |
| Letter to the Editor: Collecting union dues: Why are first-responder unions exempt? |
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| Tom Smith’s comments (“Don’t taxpayers already pay enough,” Feb. 12) and those by others mislead the taxpayers. Mr. Smith commented that House Bill 1507 and Senate Bill 1034 would require public sector unions to collect for themselves their dues and PAC money. [Read More] |
| Letter to the Editor: Collecting union dues: State government should not be involved |
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| In response to Michael Tshudy, Indiana Area Education Association president, and the other education association presidents (“Dues deduction issue has been distorted,” Feb. 26): [Read More] |
| Letter to the Editor: Event raises awareness of homeless veterans |
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| On Feb. 15, Mike Weaver and Team Red, White and Blue sponsored a sleep-out in front of the Indiana Walmart on Oakland Avenue. Mike, along with some of his Red, White and Blue members, planned to sleep out for 30 hours in cardboard boxes to raise awareness of homeless veterans. [Read More] |
| Letter to the Editor: Rep. Reed praised |
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| Most of us aren’t impressed with present government, but on Feb. 25 there appeared a glimmer of hope. [Read More] |
| Letter to the Editor: Republicans in lockstep on helping the rich |
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| U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Hollidaysburg, was in town recently telling folks that he is working hard against Obamacare. No surprise. No plan. No clue. Both Rep. Shuster and Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., also voted against raising the debt ceiling,... [Read More] |
| Letter to the Editor: Hooray for A-R teams |
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| This is a final big shout-out of “hooray!” to both the Apollo-Ridge boys’ and girls’ basketball teams for the outstanding season they had this year, including the playoff run. [Read More] |
| Letter to the Editor: Don't tax businesses for being successful |
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| In response to Tom Smith’s letter (“Don’t taxpayers already pay enough,” Feb. 12) and Josephine Cunningham’s reply (“Don’t misread lessons from history,” Feb. 21), I am one of those who has had quite enough of taxes. [Read More] |
| Letter to the Editor: Just vote no to divided government |
| 4 days ago - |
| It’s not too early to think about the 2014 midterm election and the 2016 presidential election. The divided government we have now is not working for us because one party decided in 2008 that they would not participate in governing. [Read More] |
| Letter to the Editor: Dues deduction issue has been distorted |
| 2 weeks ago - |
| There are currently two bills in the state Legislature that if passed would prohibit state employees from having their union dues deducted from their paychecks. [Read More] |
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