Football, High School, Local Sports
Aug 23, 2022
(Editor’s note: This story marks the first of 11 high school football team previews, which will run leading up to and alongside Friday’s “2022 Footbal...
Football, High School, Local Sports
Aug 26, 2021
RIDGWAY — They could have mentioned their fifth consecutive playoff appearance. Or, perhaps their winning record in the regular season. After a 5th pl...
Football, High School, Local Sports
Aug 09, 2021
His 5-5, 145-pound frame might not stand out on the street. But as Braedon Johnson has shown throughout his career, it’s tough to miss him on the foot...
Football, High School, Local Sports
Aug 07, 2021
Mark Heindl knows that the New York offense has its strengths. However, in leading the Pennsylvania defense into Saturday’s Big 30 All-Star Charities ...
Football, High School, Local Sports
Aug 07, 2021
After a 735-day wait, the latest renewal of the Big 30 All-Star Charities Classic is finally here for many of the area’s top graduated football player...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Jun 29, 2020
For the first time since its inception in 1974, the annual Big 30 All-Star Charities Classic between senior football players from New York and Pennsyl...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Feb 13, 2020
The accomplishments go on and on for Ridgway head coach Mark Heindl. In 2017, he was named Big 30 Coach of the Year. In both 2018 and 2019 he was hono...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Nov 26, 2019
ALLEGANY, N.Y. — As with most year-end banquets, it was a true celebration of everything that had come before it. Fewer than 48 hours earlier, the Big...
Football, High School, Local Sports, ...
Nov 22, 2019
SLIPPERY ROCK — Ridgway will find itself in familiar territory when it travels to Slippery Rock tonight for the PIAA quarterfinals, as the Elkers are ...
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Nov 18, 2019
DUBOIS — For the fourth year in a row, the Ridgway Elkers are District 9 champions, and all it took was a performance for the record books. Behind fiv...
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Nov 16, 2019
DUBOIS — Only once before in District 9 history has a team won at least four District championships in a row: Karns City’s six-year title streak from ...
Big 30, Bradford, Football, ...
Nov 09, 2019
DUBOIS — When Ridgway traveled to Karns City on Oct. 4, the game was a defensive slugfest that came down to the wire. The Elkers (9-1) narrowly escape...
Football, High School, Local Sports, ...
Oct 18, 2019
JOHNSONBURG — It will be a battle of opposites when Ridgway and Brookville square off with the Large School Division title on the line tonight in John...
Big 30, Bradford, Football, ...
Oct 12, 2019
KARNS CITY — In a battle of heavyweights, Karns City couldn’t land the last haymaker. The Gremlins had first-and-goal at the Ridgway nine with a minut...
Football, High School, Local Sports, ...
Sep 14, 2019
JOHNSONBURG — Ridgway head coach Mark Heindl said he wanted his team to start fast in its game against Bradford. His Elkers delivered on the first pla...
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Sep 13, 2019
JOHNSONBURG — For Bradford, tonight’s game against Ridgway presents an opportunity to continue the signs of growth exhibited against Kane last week. F...
Big 30, Football, High School, ...
Aug 22, 2019
RIDGWAY — For the past two seasons, the formula for success has been rather simple for the Ridgway football team — defense wins District 9 championshi...
Football, High School, Local Sports, ...
Nov 26, 2018
KARNS CITY — The effort and desire was there from start to finish for Ridgway. But sometimes, the other team is just better. The Elkers saw their seas...
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Nov 20, 2018
KARNS CITY — There are a lot of words that come to mind when you think of Ridgway football. Toughness. Physicality. Defense. Now you can add another t...
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Aug 17, 2018
RIDGWAY — There aren’t a whole lot of downsides to winning back-to-back district championships, but one of them is that you usually have to replace a ...
PA State News
June 14, 2025
PHILADELPHIA (TNS)— For months after he was arrested in March 2024 on charges of masturbating in a Montgomery County cemetery, Matthew Gagat continued...
Local News, Nation & World
June 14, 2025
Veterans Square was packed Saturday afternoon as residents came together to express their discontent with the current administration during the local ...
June 14, 2025
HARRISBURG (TNS) — Reform advocates are making another push to limit the use of solitary confinement in Pennsylvania prisons and jails, a long-running...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
BROCKWAY - The 10th Annual Frank Varischetti All-Star Football game is slated for the end of the month, and several area players were recognized for t...
Local Sports, Sports
June 14, 2025
(TNS) —As golfers teed off during opening day of this year's 125th U.S. Open Championship, state officials inside of a tent overlooking the course's 1...
Local Sports
June 14, 2025
The annual Allegheny -100 Hiking Challenge (A-100) was held last weekend. It is an event where hikers can choose to hike 100, 75, 50 or 25 miles along...
