This Week's Online Front Page: Sports, sports and more sports; EMT shortage, Bluebird sighting, calendar and a lot of new you can use.

Winter sports season heads into final stretch

The Rocky Grove Orioles played a very controlled four quarters to defeat the visiting Reynolds Raiders 71-40 Tuesday night. Lots of pictures from the win here. 

On Friday, they dropped a 70-61 game to West Middlesex. The Orioles who are even on the season at 6-6 hit the road to play Youngsville on Tuesday and have their first Region 1 game at home Friday against Kennedy Catholic.  

The Titusville wrestling squad recorded two wins last week. Wednesday they won 57-12 on the road against Youngsville. We were there Friday when they easily defeated Slippery Rock 60-6. Lots of pictures of the match under the Sports tab.

Oil City and Franklin swimming teams met Thursday with the Oilers coming out on top on the boys side 97-71 and on the girls side 96-72. Check out pictures of the action here. 

 Cranberry fell to North Clarion on Wednesday in a game that went right down to the final seconds. ​

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Titusville Man Named to  College Board

Kevin Sprong of Titusville was appointed to the Northern Pennsylvania Regional College’s Board of Trustees during its January meeting. ​

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News From You

EMT Course Starts Soon
​An EMT class will run from 6 to 10 p.m. Thursdays for 15 weeks starting Jan. 26 at the Venango Technology Center. Mark Baughman, who teaches protective services classes at the center, is facilitating the class and can be reached at 814-673-0681 or [email protected]. 

Crawford Trail Meeting Planned
An informational meeting about the trails in eastern Crawford County, including the East Branch Trail and Queen City Trail, will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Jan. 23 at the Hydetown Volunteer Fire Department social hall.

Scholarship available through PA House​
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives Scholarship program annually awards a privately-funded, four-year scholarship to two students preparing for post-secondary education.

This week Anna went for a walk in the sun and blue skies when they presented themselves and caught a glimpse of a bluebird, so she wrote a little about how common or uncommon such sightings are this time of year. Click here to check out this and other posts from our The Nature of Things columnist.

In January,  the paintings of DP Warner will continue to be shown at the Meadville Council on the arts, there are opportunities for improv and poetry, Karma Coffee series continues, there is Tai-Chi, Jazz and the last chance for the Liberty Cabaret at the Barrow. Check out these and more things to do coming up on our calendar.
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