Freedom Fair highlights civil rights for disabilities
Disability Options Network hosts its seventh annual Freedom Fair from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. June 4 at River Walk Memorial Park in downtown New Castle featuring entertainment, vendors, and information on disabilities. Speakers include NAACP representatives and advocates for youths with disabilities. interpreters will assist the hearing impaired. Eugene and the Night Crawlers headline a day aimed at empowering people with disabilities to live independently with community support and awareness.
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Disability Options Network
River Walk Memorial Park
New Castle
al DeCristoforo
With Disability Options Network, Or
DON
NAACP
Eugene and
Night Crawlers
DeCristoforo
Reagan heads to Villanova with English dreams and London study
Reagan, a summer birthday graduate, overcame early speech delays with support from her kindergarten year. Accepted to Villanova University, she plans to major in English and study Shakespeare in London in early 2017. She aims for law or teaching later, while balancing teen life, music, and acting past.
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Wish
Reagan
Villanova University
London
Villanova
Philadelphia
Nancy Lowry
Neshannock
Michelle
Pulaski man held after firearm discovery and standoff
Police say a man identified as Pope, living alone with multiple firearms inside, was found with 23 rifles and three pistols in his home. A state helicopter checked the area as officers tracked him near Oak Ridge Drive and Conesto ga Trail, while a woman and child were found in a basement. The incident disrupted a parade route with heavy traffic and drew responders from multiple towns and agencies.
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Pope
Oak Ridge Drive
Conestoga Trail
Pulaski
Bessemer
New Wilmington
District budget adoption up for public review by June 30
The district will place the 2015 16 budget figures on public review until June 30 at the district business office on Croton Avenue. Ambrosini and Superintendent Sarandrea noted a 30 percent rise in state retirement costs with 16 percent in 2015 16. New Castle faces 5.6 million upfront cost, with only half reimbursed, amid a 4.8 million gross contribution this year. Projected fund balance ends at 6,634,881, dropping to 5,639,881 if reserve funds cover a 995,000 shortfall for 2016 17. A homestead farmstead tax reduction of 1,185,391 was adopted, with 5014 homesteads approved and no farmsteads. The maximum reduction per homestead is 237.64.
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Croton Avenue
Ambrosini
John J. Sarandrea
Pennsylvania State Employees Retirement System
New Castle
Dwachter
Ncnewsonline
Road line painting underway in Lawrence County
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is performing line painting on several Lawrence County roads this week from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily through Saturday weather permitting. Routes affected include Route 18 from Beaver County to Route 108 in New Castle and Route 108 from Route 18 to Route 551, Route 108 in North Beaver Township to Beaver County, and Route 351 from Ohio to Enon Valley Borough.
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Lawrence County
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
Beaver County
New Castle
Mt. Jackson
City
Ohio
Mt. Jackson Road
Beaver Township
Enon Valley Borough
Community Spring Yard Sale in Wampum and Chewton
A community yard sale sponsored by the Wampum Area Business Association will be held Saturday June 4 starting at 9 a.m. In Wampum residents along Wampum Road Main Street Beaver Street Clyde Street Old Route 18 Park Drive and the Main and Clyde Streets parking lot will participate. Chewton participants include Eliza Katherine and Reserve Square streets. No closing time is set.
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Chewton
The
Wampum Area
Wampum Road
Main Street
Beaver Street
Clyde Street
Old Route 18
Park Drive
Main
Clyde Streets
Eliza Street
Katherine Street
Reserve Square
Judge: Man who photographed hurt teens worst I've seen
In Pittsburgh a judge sentenced 39 year old David Kinteau Carson to nearly 26 years in federal prison, concurrent with a 15 to 30 year state term for raping two girls aged 15 and 13. Prosecutors call his acts heinous, noting he terrorized victims who testified and harmed relatives threatened if told.
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Pittsburgh
David Kinteau Carson
Uniontown
U.S
Maurice B Cahill Jr
Gerald Ford
Carson
Thomas “Skip” Livingston
Livingston
Jessica Lieber Smolar
Smolar
Woman to brakes not gas hits Gibs onia post office lobby
An 82-year-old driver mistook the gas pedal for the brake and rammed a car into the lobby of a Gibs onia area post office in Richland Township early Wednesday. No customers were present, no employees hurt, post office remained open for limited service, and no charges will be filed.
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Gibsonia
Northern
Robert Amann
Richland Township
Amann
Postal Service
Tad Kelley
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