3/27/1969 – Police in South Buffalo Township, citing increasing complaints in the township of house windows being damaged by juveniles with air guns, said they would crack hard on any offenders who are caught.
3/27/1969 – Plans for hiring teachers’ aides for the Armstrong County Head-Start Program were made yesterday at the monthly meeting of the Policy Advisory Committee.
3/27/1969 – New postal facilities in downtown Kittanning to replace the “temporary” annex along Route 422, Indiana Pike, should be ready for occupancy in about two years.
3/27/1969 - Kittanning Borough employees are moving the swings at the North Jefferson Street playground because of complaints by neighbors that the equipment is near Bixler Apartments.
3/27/1969 – Spelling champions in the 1969 Goldey Beacom Junior College (Wilmington, Del.) Spelling Contest from Kittanning High School were: (seniors) Jan Louden, Debora Pontioius, Betty Clepper, and Dean Morey(Jan and Debora were spelling champs of the Junior Class last year); and (juniors) Jill Elliott, Laurie Heilman, and Beverly Hunia.
3/27/1969 – The federal government has begun to recognize that teenagers should take safety measures on the farm to reduce accidents. Boys from 14-16 years of age are now required by law to complete a course in tractor and farm machinery safety, said county agent Dale Cree. All farmers employing boys in this age group are required by law to make certain that their employees meet this requirement, which is part of the Federal Child Labor Law.
3/27/1969 – Students from Sugar Creek Elementary completed a ten-week Learn to Swim program at the YMCA. Skill cards were issued to: Gary Wolfe, David Freeman, Robert Yockey, Dave Mellish, Ashland Stull, Eric Yockey, Karen Junker, Sue Hiwiler, Brenda Szalankiewicz, Mary Rupp, Beth Double, Linda George and Mike Turney.
3/27/1964 – Ford City still is a candidate for Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company’s revolutionary float glass process. Vice-President R.F. Barker, general manager of the company’s Glass and Fiber Glass Group listed plants at Ford City, Creighton and Cumberland, Md., as candidates for a projected third glass facility.
3/27/1959 – Nine-year-old Michael Gresmak, son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gresmak of Worthingotn, won four tickets to the movie, “Sleeping Beauty” at the Nixon Theater in Pittsburgh. The award was received for his letter on why he would like to see a crippled boy or girl go to camp this summer.
3/27/1959 – The 53 year -old bell tower on St. Mary’s Roman Catholic School has been taken down. The Rev. Frank X. Foley said that during one of the more recent safety surveys of school premises, the flooring in the tower was found unsafe.
3/27/1954 – New Pastorate Begins Sunday at Hill Church. The Rev. W. H. Schaffer, Wife and Son Arrive Today on Trip From Spokane.
3/27/1954 – A mixed chorus of 40 voices from Worthington-West Franklin High School went to Clarion to compete in the Northwestern District Music and Forensic contest, which attracts students from 12 counties.
3/27/1954 – Rayburn Township supervisors gave approval to a $200,000 project to provide a central water supply for an estimated 250 private consumers in the more heavily populated sections of the township.
3/27/1939 – Bicycles, fishing tackle and golf sticks were brought out by a winter-weary populace over the weekend, in what was probably a false start to the summer program of outdoor activities.
3/27/1939 – A 47 year-old Sagamore man, John Grundy, was killed when crushed under the dual wheel of a truck on the Metro farm near Sagamore. The man was reported to have been riding on the running board of the truck and to have fallen beneath the vehicle.
3/27/1934 – James Brodhead of East Brady Road, who terminated 72 years of drug store operation by the Brodhead family in 1929 when he sold a business at Market and Jefferson Streets to the Main Drug Corporation, went back into the business when he closed a deal for the purchase of the former business with receivers for the Main Drug Corporation.
3/27/1934 – Gold valued at $300 was taken when thieves looted several dental offices in Leechburg and Apollo.
3/27/1929 – Kittanning firemen were called out when a cigarette tossed from an upper story window set fire to an awning of the Harry Lipser Store, first floor of the Linnon Hotel building, N. Jefferson St.
3/27/1929 – Jerry Gould has sold a six-room buff brick house in Grandview to W. W. Bonnett. The sale was made by the Frank J. Atkins agency.