http://www.sharon-herald.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:57:00 +0000 http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_073235910.html http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_073235910.html A Mercer woman’s nearly 10-year quest to press a disability discrimination suit against state police and the state of Pennsylvania is over because of a technicality. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:56:00 +0000 http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_073235659.html http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_073235659.html In early 2009, when many of the region’s dairy farmers and farming officials gathered in Townville to talk shop about the state of Pennsylvania’s milk-making industry, one thing was clear. For those trying to make money out of milk, it was going to be a rough year. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:54:00 +0000 http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_073235533.html http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_073235533.html An outage in the Mercer area left nearly 1,200 households without power on Saturday night. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:37:00 +0000 http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_072205817.html http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_072205817.html Some day it might be remembered as the Tea Party primary.The newly forming activist groups that identify heartily with calls for cutting taxes, red tape and government programs are organizing demonstrations, holding candidate forums and getting a boost from private conservative institutions in Pennsylvania. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:36:00 +0000 http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_072214237.html http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_072214237.html Greenville Area School District is well on its way to hiring a new superintendent.’The board is doing a good job screening applicants,’ said Amy Pence of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association, which has been working with school officials on the search. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:03:00 +0000 http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_071220326.html http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_071220326.html A New Castle couple has been charged with trying to buy off a teenage girl who was scheduled to testify against a New Castle policeman charged with sexual assault. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:32:00 +0000 http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_071213353.html http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_071213353.html Sharon Sanitary Authority this week got the big chunk of change they’ve been waiting for since it was announced last summer they were awarded a $9 million state grant. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:26:00 +0000 http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_071212648.html http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_071212648.html A Hermitage family wants to bring their boy home. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:52:00 +0000 http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_070205451.html http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_070205451.html Mercer County Housing Authority staff have been “caught off guard” by the volume of people seeking help through their homelessness prevention and rehousing program, authority Executive Director L. DeWitt Boosel said. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:45:00 +0000 http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_070220020.html http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_070220020.html Less than a week after Wendell August Forge was all but lost in a massive fire, craftsman Jeff Brown was back at work Thursday, hammering away at a die in the company's temporary workshop. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:58:00 +0000 http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_070205714.html http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_070205714.html Alaska officials Thursday ruled that a former area woman’s death Monday was caused by an animal mauling. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:51:00 +0000 http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_070205055.html http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_070205055.html The state Attorney General’s Bureau of Narcotics has charged five people with being part of a scheme to acquire painkillers by using fake prescriptions. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:04:00 +0000 http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_069215433.html http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_069215433.html Joy Cone Co. is already the ice cream cone market leader in retail and food service sales. With an expansion approved Wednesday by Hermitage Zoning Hearing Board, the company will be positioned to grow in the remaining market where it does not lead, its president said. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:10:00 +0000 http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_069213630.html http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_069213630.html Authorities Tuesday were in an Alaska Peninsula village investigating whether a 32-year-old teacher from Slippery Rock found dead off a road leading out of town was killed in a wolf attack, according to state and local officials. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:23:00 +0000 http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_069212324.html http://www.sharon-herald.com/local/local_story_069212324.html Greenville council members Tuesday voted 4 to 3 against the street committee’s suggestion to lower parking fines by $10.