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VIDEO: Woman claims school acted unjustly
Woman claims the Laurel Technical Institute of Meadville asked her to leave the classroom and not return without a doctors note due to her illness. Lorrayne Bickel of Guys Mills says the school unjustly asked her to leave and she told her story to the Tribune Thursday.
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VIDEO: Bill Clinton visits Allegheny College
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VIDEO: Third Congressional District Democtratic Debate
ERIE — The four Democrats seeking their party’s nomination for the Third Congressional District say jobs and health care-related matters are the top issues in the district, which includes Crawford County.
Kathy Dahlkemper, Kyle Foust, Tom Myers and Moise (Mike) Waltner squared off Tuesday at Erie’s Collegiate Academy in a forum sponsored by Channel 12 WICU-TV of Erie and The Meadville Tribune.
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VIDEO: Jack Curtin's St. Patrick's parade
The annual Jack Curtin St. Patrick's Day Parade celebration kicked off its 21st year.
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VIDEO: New surgical equipment at MMC
Faster recovery times, less risk of infection, better comfort and a faster scheduling of surgeries are what patients at Meadville Medical Center can expect as the hospital upgrades its operating room facilities with state-of-the-art technology.
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SLIDESHOW and VIDEO: Winter jump in the lake
The fifth annual “Go Jump in the Lake Incident” at Pymatuning State Park’s Beach No. 2 in Jamestown benefits Greenville Area Leisure Services Association and the Jamestown Future Foundation. It is held in conjunction with Pymatuning Trail Blazers Snowmobile Club’s 32nd annual Winter Fun Days at the park.
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VIDEO: Conneaut Lake Fire aftermath
Footage of the aftermath at Conneaut Lake Park in which a fire destroyed the Dreamland Ballroom and one half of one side of the midway.
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Through a Veteran's Eye Video
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Perry, defense power Panthers
CONNEAUT LAKE — Last season, Saegertown’s Drew Perry made the Region 2 All-Star team as a defensive end.
Friday night, one game into the 2007 schedule, the kid practically made his way onto the list once again.
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2-Minute Drill: General McLane
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2-Minute Drill: Saegertown
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2-Minute Drill: Cambridge Springs
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2-Minute Drill: Meadville
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2-Minute Drill: Conneaut Lake
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2-Minute Drill: Conneaut Valley
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2-Minute Drill: Linesville
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Area football teams participate in first practice of the season
Temperatures leveled off to be more forgiving to area football squads as camp opened for business Monday. Some teams are working with a head of steam, some are rebuilding, but all are beginning the journey with a clean slate and an uncertain future.
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Tide bounces Devils out
SLIPPERY ROCK — Sometimes, nothing seems to go your way.
That was the case for Cambridge Springs on Monday as the Blue Devils saw their season end with a 4-0 loss to Curwensville in the PIAA Class A softball west final at Slippery Rock University.
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Final four-titude
SLIPPERY ROCK — One of the biggest clichés in sports is that defense wins games. Well, defense can also lose games.
Cambridge Springs proved that Thursday in the PIAA Class A softball quarterfinals at Slippery Rock University. Using Spa-ball, or playing the short game, the Blue Devils forced Chartiers-Houston into eight errors — three that lead to the final run — for a 4-3, eight-inning win.
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McLane not satisfied with taking next step; wants the final one as well
HERSHEY — Irony is a funny thing.
For just the second time since a Week 9 contest with the Meadville Bulldogs, the General McLane Lancers are favored to win today.
In other words, they were underdogs right up until the state finals. Now they are the No. 1 ranked Class AAA team.
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Ironmen steal Bulldogs' thunder
The work-in-progress Bulldogs showed some promising signs for the future against Steel Valley Friday night, but they also had their negative moments.
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Lancers grind Colonels down
ERIE — Rumors of General McLane’s demise were greatly exaggerated.
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Life skills class sends holiday cheer to troops in Iraq
Dawn Keas can’t help smiling when she looks at the giant greeting card standing upright on a table at the front of her Meadville Area Senior High School classroom.
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Kennedy Catholic scores on first three possessions to put game out of reach
The final score was a mirror image, and it was also a reflection of the difference in strength between Region 1 and Region 2 Class A District 10 football, as the south’s No. 3 Kennedy Catholic Golden Eagles cruised to a 41-14 victory over the north’s No. 2 Saegertown Panthers at Bender Field in Friday’s first-round playoff.
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Botched last play ices game win for Lancers
TITUSVILLE — Was it a breakdown in communication? Was it a willful disregard of orders? A gamble? An accident?
Whatever it was, it wasn’t what Titusville coach Scott Salvo wanted.
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Valley wins in mud bath
CONNEAUTVILLE — Conneaut Valley coach Rob Glus is kicking himself for not moving senior Ronny Spotswood from quarterback to running back sooner.
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Wounds of War: Advances help amputees cope
"Amputees are surviving injuries that would have killed them in the past.”
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Wounds of War: Medics increase survival rate
"We get good training,” said Erin Copland of Buffalo, N.Y., a member of 91 Whiskey. “That’s what makes us crucial to the survival rate.”
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Panthers hold off Tigers
SAEGERTOWN — Utilizing a pair of lengthy touchdown drives in the first half, and a clutch defensive effort in the second half, the Saegertown High football team held on for a 15-8 win over Maplewood in Region 2 football action on Friday.
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Marine relives firefight that put him into recovery
You hear the mortars going out, but you don’t know where they’ll land. This could be the last breath of your life.
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One for the numb
Evidently, the football Gods don’t wear Red and Black.
Trailing 29-14, the Bulldogs cut Oil City’s lead to 29-21 on quarterback Joe Mottillo’s 9-yard touchdown run in the third quarter and were moving towards two more possible touchdowns in the fourth quarter, but MASH’s season-long Achilles heal popped up:
Bad breaks.
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Staff have ghostly experiences at Hotel Conneaut
Local folklore holds tales of Elizabeth, the young bride who was supposedly burned alive in the devastating 1943 fire that destroyed a large portion of the Hotel Conneaut. As legend has it, her quiet, mournful spirit remains there, forever waiting ... and waiting ... for her groom to come to her rescue.
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Hit the bricks
The Bulldogs averaged five goals per game in ’05, and they started ’06 with six goals, stopping the Peters Township Indians with 6-1 victory at home Monday.
Leading the ’Dogs offensively was junior forward Morgan Nickerson with four goals.
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Rockets freeze Panthers
SAEGERTOWN — The Saegertown boys soccer team was hot in the first half against Titusville Thursday, but the Rockets put the Panthers on ice with three quick goals in the second stanza for a 3-2 win in nonleague action.
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Interactive corn maze packed with twists and turns
EDINBORO — Ask the guy wearing the straw hat how you should spend an autumn day or night, and he’ll tell you to get lost.
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Multi-school effort collects old tires for recycling
STEUBEN TOWNSHIP —
During his junior year at Maplewood High School, Nathan Renaudin started looking for a senior project.
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One big play dooms Saegertown to defeat
SAEGERTOWN — People are always talking about the Mercyhurst Prep football team’s offense, and rightly so. However, Friday night against Saegertown, it was the Lakers’ defense that was making a name for itself as Prep downed the Panthers, 7-0, in a big Region 2 contest at Canon Memorial Field.
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Sheehan shines as Cardinals top Conneaut Lake
CONNEAUT LAKE – Friday, September 22, 2006 will be remembered in Crawford County primarily as the day that Maplewood’s Streak finally came to an end.
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Williams leads Lions to win over Panthers
LINESVILLE — Linesville’s Doug Williams proved that fullbacks have jets too ... just not the biggest fuel tanks.
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Dam visitors express concerns about pet etiquette
WOODCOCK TOWNSHIP — Emilie Gilbreath ran into two problems at Woodcock Dam while she was riding her bicycle with her dogs — many other dog owners don’t keep their pets on leashes and don’t clean up after them.
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Eagles’ speed, size too much for Lions
LINESVILLE – Speed simply has no equal, and Kennedy Catholic has plenty of speed to go along with its experience and brute force.
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Incomplete effort dooms ’Dogs
Meadville learned a valuable lesson in its season opener: the Bulldogs need to play a whole game to be successful.
Allowing a 55-yard touchdown reception on the game’s first play and giving up 221 total yards in the first half, MASH trailed Harbor Creek, 14-0 at halftime.
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What's the Crawford County Fair like 24/7?
WEST MEAD TOWNSHIP — Sleeping isn’t easy at the Crawford County Fair. Corrine Livingston of Jamestown lived there in a trailer all week with her mother, Terri, and 10-year-old brother, Ryan.
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Volunteer keeps the 'dying arts' alive
Bertha Mesarch has volunteered at exhibit building No. 1 since the 1970s. It's her way of bringing attention to arts like needlework, baking and canning.
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One and done
The Somerset players couldn’t reach their coach Jim Miller’s head with the Gatorade bucket, but they reached the top of the mountain in the 9 and 10 Year Old State Baseball Tournament Wednesday night.
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Turf Wars
Allegheny College’s new football field can’t technically be called a field of dreams simply because, well, the field was already there. But with the new state of the art playing surface at the Robertson Athletic Complex and all the other improvements made this summer, face lift of dreams is certainly relevant.
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Santa is coming to . . . the fair??
Dave Little of Meadville guards a gate at the Crawford County Fair, but he doesn't look like a typical fair employee. Wearing a red hat and shirt with a white beard and plump belly attracts a little extra attention.
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The Big Cat Encounter comes with history
Clayton Rosaire is the trainer of The Big Cat Encounter at the Crawford County Fair, which is set up behind the Youth Show Arena. The free shows run daily at 3, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m.
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Insanity takes over the Crawford County Fair
Bill Chase and his son Matthew haven't missed "A Fair Amount of Insanity" since it started at the Crawford County Fair in 2002. Read the story and watch the video to find out why they love wrestling so much.
