New Castle Fireworks Ordinance Guides Nighttime Use
City officials remind residents of last year’s ordinance limiting late night fireworks in New Castle, where consumer and display types have separate rules. Permits required for consumer fireworks outside July periods, with specific noon to 9 pm windows and extended July 2 to July 11 for this year, plus New Year’s Eve into Jan 1. Fines start at 50 to 100 dollars, rising with repeated offenses.
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Bobby Salem
County seeks federal funding for three earmarked projects
Lawrence County commissioners have submitted three projects to U.S. Senator Bob Casey for potential federal earmark funding. The Southwest Pennsylvania Commission helped select the proposals, aiming to leverage more than 35 billion dollars in regional transportation and economic funds through 2045, with the trio led by Commissioners Morgan Boyd, Loretta Spielvogel, and Dan Vogler.
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Loretta Spielvogel
Dan Vogler
Hira Education drops suit over former Youth Development Center bid
Hira Education Services moved for voluntary dismissal in federal court in Pittsburgh on June 9, ending a 2017 lawsuit over Shenango Township bid disputes for the former Youth Development Center property. U S District Judge Marilyn Horan dismissed the case after the company sought to withdraw. The property, about 70 acres with multiple buildings, was sold by the state to Lawrence County Community Action Partnership for 2 million dollars after a prior bid by Hira was overturned. Kunwar, Hira CEO, had bid personally and via his firm, prompting nondisclosure and bid integrity questions from Shenango Township officials. The original suit, filed May 2, 2017, named township supervisors and others in a civil rights claim.
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New Castle News editor wins fourth Sigma Delta Chi Award
Pulitzer Prize winner Jef fery Gerritt, editor of the New Castle News and The Herald in Sharon, earned a Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial writing. The awards recognize 2020 work exposing COVID mismanagement in Texas prisons and call for action while noting Gerritt’s prior Pulitzer and other honors.
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