Victorian Walking Tour
Oil City – The Oil Region Library Association will be holding a walking Victorian House Tour in Oil City next month. The tour begins at 1:30 in the afternoon on Saturday, October 21st at the Belle’s Letters Club and participants will be guided by Lois and Neil McElwee through several historic Oil City Homes. Ticket prices are $30 per person or $50 per couple and spots can be reserved now at the Oil City Library or by calling (814)678-3072. All proceeds from the tour will go to the Oil City Library Theater Restoration Project.

Rustic Ridge Explosion Update
Plum – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection may have ruled out stray natural gas migration as a cause for the explosion that killed six people in Allegheny County in August. The DEPs findings are consistent with normal readings of natural gas around the area of the explosion. Allegheny County’s Fire Marshals have narrowed their search to a cause for the explosion down to the home itself, but a cause for the blast isn’t yet discovered. On August 12th, a house in the Rustic Ridge neighborhood in the town of Plum exploded in the early morning, killing six people and destroying three other homes while damaging about a dozen others.