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Senator Mary Jo White has decided she will not seek re-election in 2012. White was first elected to the Senate in 1996 and has served Clarion, Forest and Venango counties as well as parts of Warren, Butler and Erie counties. She is currently chairman of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. She also serves on the state Environmental Quality Board. She is on the Center for Rural Health Practice Advisory Board and is a Commonwealth Trustee of the University of Pittsburgh. Before being elected to the Senate White served as an attorney and in other capacities with Quaker State Corporation. The news leader of the Twin Tiers ... since 1947

Robert M. Macfarlane Sr., 85, formerly of 40 Main Street, Lewis Run, passed away, Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 at The Pavilion at BRMC. Born September 3, 1925, in Oil City, he was a son of the late William and Margaret (Carlson) Macfarlane. On June 28, 1947 in Our Mother of Perpetual Help Church in Lewis Run he married Olga M. (Pelino) Macfarlane who died on July 15, 2003. Mr. Macfarlane was a 1951 graduate of St. Bonaventure University with a bachelors degree in chemistry. He attended the Atomic Energy Commission School at Oak Ridge Tennessee in 1957 where he studied nuclear radiation. He joined the United States Navy on March 26,1943, served on the USS Cod during WWII in the submarine service. He and his unit were awarded the Presidential Citation of Honor with three combat stars, and he was honorably discharged on April 6, 1946. In 1950, Mr. Macfarlane accepted a position with the Pennsylvania Grade Crude Oil Association Research Laboratory, located in Bradford, PA. In 1955 he was e...