07/02/1969 - Dr. Harry O. Wolfe Jr., assistant superintendent of Armstrong County Schools, earned a doctorate degree in educational administration from Pennsylvania State University in June.
07/02/1969 - Blanket Hill Speedway, under new promotion for the second time this year, announced today that super-modified cars, missing since mid 1968, will return to the track’s regular Sunday night program this week.
07/02/1969 – A small foreign sedan owned by Lucille Huber of Rural Valley RD1 was damaged when it was apparently deliberately upset by unknown persons while it was in the parking lot of the Kittanning Roller Skating Rink on North Grant Avenue. A resident of Allegheny Court, adjacent to parking lot, alerted police at 1:30 AM.
07/02/1969 - Armstrong County School Board appointed Fred Altmire to fill the County Board vacancy and accepted the resignations of two Lenape Vocational-Technical School teachers as directors met last night at the Armstrong District Administration Building, Manorville.
07/02/1969 – Directors of the Armstrong School District heard an overview of specifications for the proposed West Hills Senior High School and Renovations and Additions to Shannock Valley High School.
07/02/1969 - Sites for a parking lot and mental health clinic were deleted by Kittanning City Council from the city’s First Ward Urban Renewal Project. In updating a January 1967 agreement, councilmen deleted a parking lot on South McKean Street north of the hospital to allow the federal government to build a new post office at the site. In addition, a mental health clinic was proposed at the old brewery site, Walnut and South Jefferson. The land was instead designated by the City Council for parking or public use. The meeting lasted 2-1/2 hours.
07/02/1969 – Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Gould captured top score honors in a weekly duplicate tournament of the Armstrong County Bridge League. Runners-up in the four-table action were teams composed of Emil Sotnyk and Joseph Guzman, and Mrs. Charles Dayton and Mrs. Miriam Schaeffer. The events are held at the Kittanning Elks lodge.
07/02/1969 – Ronald Say, son of Mr. & Mrs. Fred Say of 735 Greenlawn Road, Ford City, is a music major at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, WV. He will now study voice at the Summer Vocal Institute of the University of Freiburg, Germany.
07/02/1964 - A Ford City man brought about the capture of two admitted burglars and the solving of a series of burglaries during the month of June in Kittanning, North Apollo and Manor Township areas. Michael Gribik was cited last night by Kittanning Area Chamber of Commerce for his efforts. He was presented with a citizens award by the chamber at the mid-year meeting in Morda’s Dining Room.
07/02/1959 - For the first time the July 4th Community Picnic will offer a communication system, picnic officials announced. The system is composed of three complete amateur radio stations which will be able to relay messages to and from town.
07/02/1959 - Kittanning will be on the receiving end of the American Field Service program over the weekend when 68 foreign exchange students from 22 different countries become Fourth of July guests.
07/02/1959 - Lightning struck and killed eight dairy cows on the Noble Heilman farm at Kittanning RD 1 last night, during the height of a thunderstorm.
07/02/1954 - The entire exterior of Ford City Girl Scout camp main building was painted in three-and-one half hours by five professional painters, six amateurs and a boy.
07/02/1954 - J. Hugh Kerr of Ford City RD 2 retired July 1 from Pittsburgh Plate Glass Industries, where he had been employed for the past 32 years.
07/02/1954 - Barber Shops End Late Saturday Hours.
07/02/1949 - Worthington-West Franklin High School students are a step closer to having a band of their own, and the High School Boys’ Band of Kittanning is $50 richer today as the result of a concert presented last night to Worthington by the Kittanning group.
07/02/1949 - The Rev. Wesley Dixon will assume duties as pastor of First Baptist Church here in the worship service tomorrow.
07/02/1934 - George H. Burns Jr., president of the Chamber of Commerce and Business and Professional Men’s Association, has called a meeting for this evening in American Legion Post rooms for a discussion of the pottery re-organization plan.
07/02/1934 - Hundreds of labor union members were present in Freeport when a giant labor parade was staged. The march preceded a program of speeches in the Freeport baseball park.
07/02/1934 - Dan Cupid got in some of his best licks in many a moon during the June month just concluded. A total 101 couples wrote their names on the marriage license docket during the 30-day month.
07/02/1929 - Members of First Baptist Church, Ford City, will hold a reception this evening for their new pastor, the Rev. Melvin Crump and family.
07/02/1929 - Mrs. James S. Sellers, 23, died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hutchison of 4th Ave Ford City.