Norwin Star

17/08/2025

Here are the Norwin real estate transactions for this week.

ARDR International & Hydro SC LLC sold property at 1219 Holy Cross Drive to Douglas Fitzsimmons and Lynn Gottesman for $364,000.

16/08/2025

A North Huntingdon man who has verbally lashed out at township commissioners, administrators and the police department is charged with disrupting a public meeting last month.

16/08/2025

Classes at Norwin will begin Wednesday as scheduled as the district has been working to remediate mold problems discovered at Norwin High School, the Knights Stadium and other buildings in the district, the school superintendent said.

Norwin Knights Stadium, where mold was found in the ground-level storage area. The stadium is to be demolished in November.

14/08/2025

A North Huntingdon couple will celebrate 50 years of wedded bless on Aug. 16, making them among the few couples that celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.

Kenneth and Vickie Vargo Tickerhoof are among just 7.7% of Americans who have been married for half a century, according to a study from Bowling Green State University.

A North Huntingdon couple will be celebrating 50 years of wedded bless on Aug. 16, making them among the few couples that celebrate their golden wedding anniversary.

14/08/2025

Norwin’s football schedule begins with a game on Aug. 22 at Penn-Trafford.

The Norwin High School Band held its annual preview show Monday evening at the high school stadium. In addition to the performance, food trucks were on site as part of a fundraiser for the band. High school bands across the region are preparing for the start of the 2025-26 school

10/08/2025

Here are the Norwin real estate transactions for this week.

Estate of Stephen Belin sold property at 10 Ocala Trail Drive to 119 JKSN LLC for $80,000 (state deed transfer stamps indicate a value of $240,000).

10/08/2025

A significant portion of old growth today, at least in Pennsylvania, is actually second-growth forest. Between the early 1800s and the turn of the 20th century, the demand for lumber stripped much of Pennsylvania’s virgin forest to the bare earth, according to the Warren County Historical Society.

An old cherry tree is seen during a tour of the Ackermann Nature Preserve in North Huntingdon on Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. The preserve will be included in Pennsylvania’s network of old-growth forests.

09/08/2025

Norwin wrestling coach Kyle Martin took a rock band-like road trip to coach and train youth wrestlers. It is what he does. What he enjoys. What he knows best.

“It’s been a wild summer,” he said.

When he finally walked in the door to his house in late July, Kyle Martin realized he’d only been home for 10 days since the end of May.

08/08/2025

Nick Hornicak of North Huntingdon digs dinosaurs, literally. The 24-year-old Indiana University of Pennsylvania graduate student was part of a team of fellow dinosaur diggers who in June worked in the high desert of southern Wyoming. They unearthed about two dozen packets of dinosaur fossils that have been buried some 9,000 feet above sea level for about 73 million years.

Nick Hornicak, 24, of North Huntingdon uses tools to remove ironstone from the brow horn of a ceratops inside the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Oakland. Hornicak is a graduate student in biology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

07/08/2025

Air Force does not offer athletic scholarhips, so Pfeifer would get an academic deal paid for by the government. The plan includes prep school for a year for academic qualification, followed by four years of athletic eligibility.

Air Force, an FBS program, extended an offer to the strong-legged senior, who is primed to pin opponents deep this season.

05/08/2025

“If we don’t make the playoffs, it will be a disappointment,” Norwin coach Mike Brown said. “That’s the goal. That’s always the goal. But I think we have the team to do it.”

To appreciate the level of excitement at Norwin heading into a new season, one must first understand what the team endured last year.

03/08/2025

Here are the Norwin real estate transactions for this week.

Patricia Walsh trustee sold property at 12 Oakwood Terrace to Michael Adam and Nicole Lynn Karczewski trustee for $435,000.