4/27/1968 - Kittanning Borough will begin picking up garbage twice per week effective April 29, 1968.
4/27/1968 - A hearing is scheduled on the First Ward Renewal Project in Kittanning for May 20. If plans are approved by council, the Armstrong County Redevelopment Authority can obtain federal loans for $1,237,202 for land acquisition, demolition, and project improvements such as sewers, curbs, paving, and landscaping of public use property. It estimates 38 families, 15 individuals, and 17 businesses will have to be relocated to make room for hospital expansion and construction of a proposed senior citizen housing project. The area involved is bounded at various points by Mulberry Alley, South Jefferson Alley, South McKean Street, South McKean Way, Jacob Street, and the centerline of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co tracks - just more than 13 acres.
4/27/1968 - Arson was suspected today in a two-alarm blaze that destroyed a basement home on Kittanning RD1, along old Route 422. Rayburn Township Fire Department spokesman estimated $10,000 in damages to the furnishings of Denver Cloak.
4/27/1968 - Mr. & Mrs. King Woodside of 621 4th Avenue Ford City will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary with an open house from 2-7 PM today at the Manor Township Firehall in McGrann. The couple were married May 1, 1918 at First Baptist Church in Ford City by the Reverend A. B. Bowser. Their children are William Woodside of Kittanning RD1, King Woodside Jr. of Kittanning RD1, Robert Woodside now with the U.S. Navy and stationed at Long Island, NY, Mrs. Arthur (Helen) Hartman of Manor Township, Mrs. Albert (Dorothy) Bouch of Columbia, Mrs. Fred (Betty) Mohney of Kittanning, Mrs. William (Lois Jean) SMith of Kittanning RD1, Mrs Melvin (Linnie) Rodgers of Ford City. Another daughter, Willovene, is deceased. They have 37 grandchildren.
4/27/1963 - Carol Trulick, Richard Malagari, Stephen Owen, and Anna Marie Kovacik were local students who took a tour of Gettysburg today as part of a statewide observance of Elks National Youth Day.
4/27/1958 - Forty-six merchants, all members of the Retail Division of Kittanning Chamber of Commerce will begin their first town-wide unified sales promotion today, as they invite customers to this area to shop and save during “Kittanning Bonus Days.”
4/27/1953 - The 50th anniversary of founding of Ford City Branch of the First Catholic Slovak Ladies Union was observed here.
4/27/1953 - Three Parks Township one-room school buildings were sold at a public sale, while sale of a fourth structure was adjourned for a week after the high bid was rejected. Sold were Williamson building and grounds, Slate Point School, and Highfield building and grounds.
4/27/1948 - Fire of an unknown origin consumed 15 acres of brush along Pennsylvania Railroad tracks at Hass Hill, a Kittanning track foreman reported. The fire raged a mile north of Mahoning, requiring 20 trackmen to subdue. This happened as temperatures were into the 90s at 4PM both yesterday and today.
4/27/1948 - Miss Jennie Burnham of 134 Vine Street is celebrating her 94th birthday today.
4/27/1948 - William D. McKee of Bradys Bend will observe the 95th anniversary of his birth today. Born at “the Bend” he spent his entire lifetime in the same neighborhood.
4/27/1943 - Charles F. Danver, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette war correspondent, said that he had to travel all the way to Birmingham, England, to meet a young woman from Kittanning. She was Cordelia Brown of 352 South Jefferson Street, a second lieutenant in the U. S. Army Nurse Corps.
4/27/1938 - Between 400 and 500 persons heard Armstrong County Judge J. Frank Graff and E. P. MacQuarrie, a former U.S. attorney in Allegheny County, speak in behalf of the gubernatorial candidacy of ex-governor Gifford Pinchot in Worthington-West Franklin High School auditorium.
4/27/1933 - State Highway Department engineers have completed surveys and plans will be made soon for a new bridge across Buffalo Creek.
4/27/1928 - Six steam shovels and 200 men are being used on grading for the Kittanning - New Bethlehem Road.
4/27/1928 - Plans for a campaign to raise $200,000 for construction of the Armstrong County Memorial Hospital were laid at a meeting of the board of directors.