07/18/1969 – The Armstrong County Taxpayers League discussed the proposed county airport with representatives of the Airport Authority and the Industrial Development Council. In answer to inquires regarding the tax impact of the project, league members were told the industrial airpark is designed to bring in jobs and to broaden the tax base of the county – essentially paying for itself.
07/18/1969 - Members of Pioneers Trail Council will make three-foot pizza pies in Butler during their specialty period of the Boy Scouts of America Jamboree which opened Wednesday at Farragut, Idaho.
07/18/1969 - If all goes well, who can tell? The United States may be celebrating Moon Day as a national holiday like the fourth of July and Thanksgiving. Apollo, Kittanning, Ford City, Armstrong County and federal offices here plan to close Monday for Moon Day.
07/18/1969 - Kittanning area firemen, and Ford City and Elderton High school bands came home with prizes from the Saxonburg Firemen’s Parade last night.
07/18/1969 – Champions of the Kittanning Playground Basketball Association competition included: Jock Lenzi, Ken Kretchman, Chris Bowers, Chuck Ellermeyer, Jim Greenbaum, David Walker, and Brian Foster. Al Lenzi was the tournament director. The Association play Ford City all-stars next week.
07/18/1964 - Groundbreaking ceremonies for a new Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church will take place Wednesday with Bishop William Connare in charge. Blessing will also be administrated to the newly renovated Holy Trinity School.
07/18/1959 - A senior patrol of Girl Scouts who represented Keystone Council at senior roundup at Colorado Springs, Colo., arrived home. They are Diane Fry, Carolyn Tira, Mary Jeanne Biddle, Barbara Lange, Portia Hawley., Eloise Bechtel, Barbara Hogan, Sue Baney and Cathy Bradigan.
07/18/1959 - Approximately 10,000 area residents are in Pittsburgh today for the annual Ford City Community Picnic at Kennywood Park.
07/18/1959 - Funds were raised and officers elected for a newly reorganized citizens group protesting the erection of a bridge at Freeport. The group wishes to have the span constructed at Dock Hollow.
07/18/1949 - Petition for candidacy to the office of sheriff of Armstrong County was filed for Thomas C. Hutchison of Apollo.
07/18/1949 - Mill Space Up For Rent. New Owners of Closed Apollo Steel Plant Ready to Talk With Industrialists.
07/18/1944 - W. P. Geiser has been employed as assistant chief engineer of Pittsburg &.Shawmut Railroad. He will have offices in Kittanning and Brookville.
07/18/1944 - Applewold Fire Company celebrated completion of payment on its firehall debt with a banquet and mortgage-burning.
07/18/1944 - Authorities are continuing their investigation in the death of a small baby whose body was unearthed by a bulldozer at a coal-stripping operation near Furnace Run.
07/18/1939 - Funeral service will be held in the family home at 8th Ave., Brackenridge, for Earl “Buck” Harris, 14-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.. Harris, who died of injuries received while diving in a Buffalo Creek bathing pool near Boggsville.
07/18/1939 - Members of the recently organized Applewold Fire Company have made a good start on the second project to be undertaken by the organization - that of building a one-story engine house.
07/18/1939 - Borough Councilman Hayes R. Daugherty of N. Grant Ave., has been appointed an examiner in the State Department of Revenue.
07/18/1934 - Nothing remains of the old Paintertown schoolhouse but the foundations. During the past few weeks the structure has been razed by men under the direction of the Rev. Sherrill of Ford Cliff Church of God. The old school building will be reconstructed as a parsonage for the Church of God. The foundation will be used for other purposes.
07/18/1929 - One-hour parking signs were placed on Market St.
07/18/929 - Miss Juliette Robinson has completed her One Hundred Years’ History of the First Presbyterian Church of Kittanning. Copy is now in the hands of the printer and the book is expected to be ready for distribution in the near future. Miss Robinson spent two years writing the book.