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• The F&M College Poll showed that only 12% of Democrats rate President Trump positively. Only 16% of Republicans gave Governor Tom Wolf good marks. Those are just two indications of the ongoing political polarization that divid-ing Americans and Pennsylvanians. The poll also revealed that 94% of Clinton voters and 90% of Trump voters say they are comfortable with their 2016 election choices. • A great example of the geographic rivalries in fracking played out in a Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee meeting, as law-makers argued about a looming ban on fracking in the upper Delaware River basin in Pike and Wayne Counties. Opponents of the ban say the river basin commission is blocking property and mineral rights, but a handful of lawmakers from the southeast want to know where those property rights concerns are when other non-drilling land issues come up - like pipeline construction.

• Under current law local and county govern-ments can form what are known as land banks, used to acquire abandoned properties to speed up the process of preparing them for sale to potential developers. The bill passed by the Senate would grant the same powers to county redevelopment authorities without having to pay startup costs.

• The Pirates suffered a loss to a division rival on Sunday at home. Pirates lost to the Reds, 8-6. Manager Clint Hurdle loves the way Right Fielder Gregory Polanco is producing at the plate.

• Steelers are off until starting Training Camp next month.

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6/18/1968 – The House has sent to Gov. Ray-mond P. Shafer land-mark legislation which would make Pennsylva-nia the first state in the country to assist non-public schools with cash payments.

6/18/1968 – Richard J. Ambrose of 600-3rd Avenue, Ford City, was found guilty of failing to reveal his identity at the scene of an accident by an Armstrong County Criminal Court Jury yesterday. According to testimony offered in the case, Ambrose was one of the drivers involved in a two-car collision September 2, 1967 on old Route 28, one mile east of Kittanning.

6/18/1968 – Officers were nominated by Arm-strong County Firemen’s Association delegates during a monthly meet-ing held last night in the headquarters build-ing on Route 66, near Crooked Creek. Fred Wain of Ford City was nominated for president. John Johnson of Apple-wold was nominated for second vice-president. Others nominated are: Clarence Fair, Freeport, assistant secretary-trea-surer; W. L. Lukehart, Kittanning #6, and Rev. Charles Pegg, Bethel,

chaplain; Stanley Wolfe, Leechburg, trustee for a three year term; Leno Leri of Freeport and Cliff Lewis of Kittan-ning #6 for delegates to Western PA Firemen’s Association. Leri was also nominated delegate for Firemen’s Legisla-tive Federation. The meeting was attended by 94 firemen representing all 31 affiliated compa-nies. 6/18/1963 – Dr. William Bay Irvine, 70, presi-dent of Marietta College since 1948, died today in Marrietta Memorial Hospital after b eing ill for six weeks. Dr. Irvine was principal at Kittan-ning High School from 1937 to 1941.

6/18/1958 – Robert Young, valedictorian and Marilyn Turko, sa-lutatorian of Ford City High School Class of 1958, gave their gradu-ating orations to Ford

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are being once again called into question.

First, it was officers targeting patrons of clubs in Ford City that prompted club admin-istrators to bring up the subject at council meetings and meet pri-vately with Mayor Jeff Cogley.

Now a suit has been filed by resident Roch Mantini that states un-known Ford City of-ficers used excessive force during a traffic stop when Mantini was leaving a 12-hour work shift at the funeral home on 6th Avenue.

According to Man-tini’s attorney, officers threw him against his car, handcuffed him, and made numerous threats to him.

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City Kiwanis Club at their weekly dinner meeting.

6/18/1953 – Walker Re-fractories Co., world’s largest producer of fire brick, reached agree-ment with the United Construction Workers for an 8.5-cent-an-hour general wage increase.

6/18/1953 – Pick-ets maintained their vigil at the Aluminum Ladder Co. plant in Worthington as contact negotiations remained at a standstill.

6/18/1948 – Approxi-mately 150 mem-bers and friends of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Ford City met in the church au-ditorium at a reception held for Pastor and Mrs. Earl S. Walker and daughter Barbara Elizabeth.

6/18/1948 – Armstrong County will receive $30,964 as its share of the Liquid Fuels tax collected during the six-month period from December 1, 1947 to June 1, 1948.

6/18/1943 – Elec-tric was restored to residents in the lower end of Ford City at 11 o’clock yesterday

morning after a severe rain and windstorm.

6/18/1943 – Five girls of the First Methodist Church, graduated this spring from Kittanning High School, were en-tertained at dinner by the Wesleyan Service Guild.

6/18/1938 – Only two hospitals in the “sixth district” remained with-out the eight-hour duty sought by the Arm-strong County Regis-tered Nurses Associa-tion.

6/18/1938 – Roger C. Stone, Kittanning vio-linist, will appear as one of the soloists in a con-cert recital to be given Sunday afternoon by Max Shapiro at Carn-egie Lecture Hall, Pitts-burgh.

6/18/1928 – A new road between South Bend and Shelocta under con-struction during the past year was opened to pub-lic travel.

6/18/1928 – Albert R. Pechan of Ford City received the degree of Doctor to Dental Sur-gery at commencement exercises of University of Pittsburgh, held in Syria Mosque, Pitts-burgh.

tini’s vehicle intended for his daughter and threw it in the berm of the street. Also the suit states that officers con-ducted three breatha-lyzer tests on Mantini. He was transported to the Ford City Police Station where harass-ment continued. When Mantini complained about the tightness of the handcuffs, the offi-cer pulled them tighter.

Police took Mantini to the hospital for test-ing and the mistreat-ment continued there by officers and on the

ride back to Ford City. The incident hap-

pened on November 15, 2017.

The suit alleges that Mantini’s Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated. He seeks unspecified mon-etary damages.

While borough of-ficials do not comment on legal matters, Mayor Cogley did allude to is-sues with past officers at a recent meeting and said those officers are no longer with the force. He did not give any detail.

Kittanning Woman Arrested for ShopliftingState Police responded to a call from Wal-Mart in the

Hilltop Plaza, East Franklin Township, for retail theft.Mellissa Sue Painter, 38, of Kittanning is accused of car-

rying away merchandise – namely, five tank tops and a pair of sandals, total value of $37.62. According to a police re-port, this was the first offense of merchandise valued under $150.

The theft occurred on June 8, 2018 at approximately 4PM.

KITTANNING

Paving is scheduled to resume today in Kittan-ning Borough.

Areas include Mulberry Street, Patterson Way, and the South McKean Street Parking Lot.

Parking will be restricted today and tomorrow on Mulberry Street and in the South McKean Street lot on June 20, weather permitting.

The areas will be posted accordingly. In the South McKean Street lot, those drivers

with parking permits and parking in other Borough parking spaces during this time should prominently display those permits on the vehicles to avoid re-ceiving a ticket. Parking will be free to those with permits at any metered spot.

The project is the completion of a grant from Keystone Community that began last year. Inde-pendent Excavating from Oakdale, PA is under contract to complete the paving project.

Paving Work Starts AgainToday in Kittanning