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Sep 25, 2024 | 
leadertimes.com | Anne Cloonan
The first Heffner family open house to sell event props, speakers, disc jockey equipment and holiday decorations belonging to the late Stephen Heffner will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday at Pampeno’s Warehouse across Ninth Street from the Rite Aid parking lot, Ford City. Proceeds from the sale, which began with a yard sale on Sept.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
leadertimes.com | Anne Cloonan
If there’s something strange — in your neighborhood — who you gonna call? The Armstrong County Penn State Master Gardeners. The volunteer, highly-trained gardeners can provide advice about diseases attacking your tomato plants; how to identify the unknown insect that ate most of the leaves off your flowering hibiscus shrub; and how to deal with brown spots on your lawn. The process of training to be a Master Gardener is exacting.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
leadertimes.com | Anne Cloonan
At Rootspring Farm in South Bend Township, Armstrong County, rows of colorful zinnias, large dahlias and sunflowers caught the sun in the last weeks before the killing frost. Owners Alicia Haley and her husband Mike Kozak made a significant life change to start their flower farm, moving from the City of Pittsburgh at the end of 2020 to a 75-acre former beef cattle and hog farm in South Bend Township.
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Apr 30, 2024 | 
leadertimes.com | Anne Cloonan
At Crooked Creek Lake, the Beekeepers of Armstrong, Butler, Clarion and Indiana counties (ABCI) have an apiary with three active hives. The hives sit in an enclosure of fences behind a house formerly used by U.S. Army Corps personnel. George Traister, president of the club, noted the Army Corps has been very kind to the club, allowing them to maintain the apiary on park land, and generally giving the group a free place to meet.
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Feb 3, 2024 | 
leadertimes.com | Anne Cloonan
The Beekeepers of ABCI (Armstrong, Butler, Clarion and Indiana counties) will soon offer a 10-week beginners’ beekeeping course at the new Armsdale Center for Agriculture and Conservation in Rayburn TownshipThe course will begin on Feb. 17. The classes will run on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to noon through April, and will cost $50 for 10 classes.
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Dec 6, 2023 | 
leadertimes.com | Anne Cloonan
In the meeting room at the Outdoor Discovery Center at Crooked Creek, sewing machines of a variety of ages hummed as members of the Crooked Creek Dam Quilters sewed together pieces for their quilts. Large panels for a Christmas quilt, one already illustrated with a scene of a town centered on a church with hanging stars overhead, and another piece illustrated with a white porcelain jug on a background of red gingham filled with red flowers, awaited being made part of a quilt.
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Dec 2, 2023 | 
leadertimes.com | Anne Cloonan
Armstrong High School Educational Activities for Special Education (EASE) is sponsoring the 4th annual AHS Holiday Craft and Vendor Show at 300 Buffington Drive, Kittanning, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 9. According to a press release sent by AHS grades 7 through 12 learning support teacher Jamie Swingle, over 200 crafters and artisans will be showcasing their unique creations just in time for the holiday season.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
leadertimes.com | Anne Cloonan
St. Paul’s Highfield Lutheran Church Music Director Gregg LeMay, other area musicians and a joint choir will present a recital of Christmas music on Friday, Dec. 8. The doors will open at the church for the event, called “An Old Fashioned Christmas,” at 5:30 p.m., with the music beginning at 6:30 p.m.The choirs participating in the celebration of Christmas will include St. Paul’s Highfield Lutheran Church Choir and First Evangelical Lutheran Church Choir of Apollo, Mr. LeMay said.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
leadertimes.com | Anne Cloonan
Apollo Borough Council this week approved a 2024 budget that will increase borough real estate taxes by 2 mills. “This is not a thing we wanted to do, but a thing we had to do,” council President Jerrod Thompson said after the meeting Tuesday night. A price increase in the cost of a single item did not lead to the tax increase, but rather, inflationary cost increases for many items, he said. “The cost of living, for everything is outrageous,” he said after the meeting.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
leadertimes.com | Anne Cloonan
A report of smoke Wednesday in the Klingensmith’s Neighborly Drugstore building along Market Street in Kittanning Borough, may actually have been a puff of dust coming out of a heating duct, according to Kittanning Hose, Hook and Ladder Co. No. 1 Chief Gene Stevens.
