05/28/1969 – Three veteran groups combined for Memorial Day services. Commanders and chaplains of the Kittanning American Legion, James Arthur Ashe VFW, and the Spanish-American War Post began with services at the Kittanning bridge, followed by a parade from North Water Street in front of the Elks home, to Market Street, up Market Street to North McKean Street, then to Union Avenue, and the Kittanning Cemetery. Kittanning High School Junior Class President Jack Karns presented the Gettysburg Address. Local Attorney Joe Nickleach gave the Memorial Day address. The Kittanning High School band participated in the parade and services.
05/28/1969 – Samuel Cross won the GOP bid for nomination as tax collector in the primary election in North Buffalo Township last week. He amassed 256 Republican votes and one Democratic vote.
05/28/1969 – Kathleen Robinson and Rebecca Jane Bowser are the top students in this year’s graduating class of East Brady High School.
05/28/1969 – Robert Skummy received the National Arion Foundation Award for outstanding competence as a student musician at Shannock Valley High School.
05/28/1969 – Twenty-three out of 26 members of the Worthington High School class of 1934 held a 35th reunion at the Steak House in Kittanning Highlands Saturday night.
05/28/1969 – Officials at PPG Industries, Inc., today announced the retirement today of Charles E. Priester, Howard R. Watterson, Frank A. Danhot, James C. Law and George Marx Jr.
05/28/1969 – The Redbank Valley School Board approved an increase in real estate millage of six mills, from 39 to 45 mills, and approved a flat occupation tax on everyone over 21 in the district. This replaces another occupation tax of 20 per cent which was declared illegal.
05/28/1969 – Local Ford City resident wrote in an editorial: “I honestly and sincerely believe that the FUTURE OF FORD CITY MUST BE TIED IN WITH THE GROWTH POTENTIAL OF THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES. I also believe that Ford City residents need to be reminded that FORD CITY NEEDS THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES JUST AS MUCH AS THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES NEED FORD CITY.” (sic)
05/28/1964 – Eleven members of the 1964 graduating class at Dayton Joint High School are members of the National Honor Society. They are Gregory Calhoun, Larry Divine, Alice Drummond, Karen Hartman, Charles Jamison, Paul Kube, Trudy Main, Nancy Rupp, Vernon Schreckengot, Dennis Steffy and Lois Sturgeon.
05/28/1959 – A contribution of $1,500 was authorized by Ford City Glassworkers Union for the Ford City Community Picnic scheduled for July 18 at Kennywood Park, Pittsburgh.
05/28/1959 – Sixty-four members of Dayton Joint High School Class of 1959 received diplomas at the school’s commencement program.
05/28/1959 – Commencement speakers at Elderton Joint High School graduation services were Miss Patricia Lee Bush, valedictorian, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ward L. Bush of Kittanning RD 5, and Miss Judith Ann Reed, salutatorian, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Merne Reed of Kittanning RD 5.
05/28/1954 – Mrs. James W. Minor, who has lived in Kittanning longer than any other person, celebrated her 94th birthday today.
05/28/1954 – The Rev. William Bair was installed as pastor of Boiling Spring Church at Spring Church with his father, the Rev. William S. Bair of Appleby Manor Church, preaching the sermon.
05/28/1954 – Harry E. Mateer, 47-year-old local merchant of 950 N. McKean St., died after a lingering illness.
05/28/1949 – School superintendents at Kittanning and Ford City have a precise method now of winning election and protecting their tenure. A school code amendment signed by Gov. James H. Duff sets a uniform date for the election of superintendents in second or third class districts and fixes their terms at four years.
05/28/1949 – Explosion engineers were investigating a strip mine blast at Cowan Station which caused damage to seven buildings in the area from a shower of rock.
05/28/1934 – Nine persons who had been sleeping in a West Leechburg home, fled from it in their night clothes as fire of an unknown origin leveled the building. They are Mr. and Mrs. Merle Myers, their five children and two visitors who had been staying the night.
05/28/1934 – John Silberblatt of Kittanning arrived home from a 12-week tour of Europe and the Holy Land.
05/28/1929 – Kittanning schools will close for the summer vacation May 31.
05/28/1929 – The most costly fire in this section in years destroyed the plant of Wightman Bottle Company, entailing a loss estimated at $400,000.