Vote Delay on New Castle City Budget 2016 Plans
New Castle City Council postponed a budget vote to Wednesday due to a dispute with the Act 47 coordinator over amending the recovery plan. The plan, adopted in October, aims to exit Act 47 by 2019, with wage tax reductions over four years and a nine mill property tax rise to close a $5 million gap, while preserving a pension tax for pension funding.
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New Castle City
New Castle
Fourth GEM event spotlights girls in STEM careers
The fourth annual Girls Engaging Mentors event at BC3 Lawrence Crossing drew 145 ninth graders from 10 Lawrence County schools. Students rotated through seven GEM rooms hearing 15 women share STEM career paths from pharmacist to architect, with Cami Cortez inspired to consider veterinary school after Dr Jamie Paglia’s talk. Paula McMillin of School to Work noted the program introduces diverse STEM fields to young women.
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Cami Cortez
Jamie Paglia
Cortez
Lawrence Crossings
Lawrence County
Lincoln
City plans LED street light conversion in New Castle
New Castle officials move to replace 2630 Penn Power street lights with LED fixtures under a 10 year agreement. The city will save an estimated 150000 dollars a year on electric bills, with extensions after 10 years. 273 city lights downtown do not qualify.
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New Castle
Penn Power
Anthony Mastrangelo
Mastrangelo
Geoff Bristow
State Department of Environmental Protection
DEP
FirstEnergy Utilities
GE Lighting
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
Bristow
State Public Utility Commission
Salvation Army ships goal to reach Red Kettle target in New Castle
The New Castle Salvation Army is about 34,000 short of its 68,000 Red Kettle Campaign goal for 2015 2016 with about 48 percent raised. Captain Chris Williams notes donations peak in the final eight days and cites seven kettle locations including Giant Eagle Save-A-Lot Shop n Save Wal-Mart and Kmart with online gifts also available.
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New Castle
Williams
Giant Eagle
Butler
Wilmington
Save-A-Lot
Shop N’ Save
State Street
Wal-Mart
Kmart
Ellwood Road
Salvation Army
NewCastle
Obituaries list for Emilio Carosi and others in Florida and Ohio
Emilio Carosi aged 87 of Melbourne Florida John F Coyne 92 of New Castle Ann Melnick 84 of West Pittsburg and Patricia A Trott 72. The notice appears in Classified B3 B8 Puzzles B5 Horoscope B4 Community A8 A9 Comics A7 Opinion A4 and Sports B1 B2.
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Emilio Carosi
Melbourne, Fla
John F. Coyne
New Castle
Ann Melnick
West Pittsburg
Patricia A. Trott
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Jeannette Sutton
Cassandra Renninger
Eckles Architecture and Engineering
ATEM
Red Kettle
Kettle
Sharon Regional Health System