South Connellsville Linda Mae Wood, 69, of South Connellsville, passed away Friday, May 17, 2024. She was born September 6, 1954, in Connellsville, a daughter of the late Homer “Rod” and Alice Ritenour Lohr. Linda was a Connellsville High School Class of 1972 graduate. She was employed by Uniontown Hospital as a nurse in the […]
Connellsville Jerry Ray “Moose” Showman Jr., 67, of Connellsville, passed away Friday, April 26, 2024, at UPMC Shady Side Hospital, Pittsburgh, after a short battle with colon cancer-lymphoma. Jerry was born October 1, 1956, in Connellsville, to Patricia Schrock of Connellsville and the late Jerry Showman Sr. He graduated from Connellsville Area High School with […]
A Friday fire at Grindle’s Market in Vanderbilt was brought under control quickly, because of its close proximity to the area’s volunteer fire department. Chief Shane Lynn of D.L.&V. VFD said the department’s headquarters sit behind the market, which is located at 921 Leisenring Road. “We were lucky we got a good jump on it,” […]
A South Connellsville man faces more than two dozen charges alleging that he raped a 7-year-old. Connellsville police charged James Paul Schwarz, 37, on Thursday with felonies of the rape of a child, rape of an unconscious victim, statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and indecent assault. According to the complaint, on Feb. 3 […]