Bill McFarland, after discovering a family treasure, set out on a quest to preserve pieces of history that were left to his grandmother. What was the treasure? Two trunks of projection equipment, magic lantern slides, and 10 reels of highly combustible black and white silent nitrate film from ...

Shortly after the story about the lack of clean water at Mason's Mobile Home Park appeared in Wednesday's Times Observer, businesses started reaching out, seeing what they could do to help. A bottled water pickup station was very quickly established at Napoli Pizza in North Warren. Lance ...

A state House member is trying another avenue to get his colleagues to approve an additional $30 million in state funding for volunteer fire companies. In February, Gov. Josh Shapiro included a new $30 million investment — nearly doubling annual funding for fire departments — in ...

Ruth Toscano knew she didn't want to be a farmer after she graduated from high school. Growing up the oldest of six kids on her family's dairy farm outside of Pittsfield, she wanted something different for her life. Her plan was to learn a trade that would allow her to land a good job, away ...

WILLIAMSVILLE – Tops Friendly Markets is pleased to announce the promotion of Jay Knavel to District Manager for their Pennsylvania District. He has been a valued member of the Tops family since 1993. He began his career 33 years ago as a cart associate and has held various roles including ...

Abby Becker, a Slippery Rock University student who will graduate at 19 and a North Warren native, has been named the 2026 recipient of the Syed R. Ali-Zaidi Award for Academic Excellence from Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education. The Board of Governors honored Becker at its ...