Harlan family ties to AT and T span generations
Judy Hruska reports the Harlansburg lineage links four generations to the phone company. David F. Harlan joined AT&T as a transmission man on June 17, 1929, when phones were rare in the area. Jonathan Harlan founded the village of Harlansburg in 1800, building the first house and operating a grist mill, per local history.
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Harlan
David F. Harlan
American Telephone and Telegraph
At&t
Harlansburg
Jameson Place
Wilmington Road
Jonathan Harlan
David
Lawrence County Historical Society
LaGrotta backs bill to standardize scholastic athletics
State Rep. Frank LaGrotta leads a reform push to create a 17 member council to set policy and license an overseeing body for interscholastic athletics. The plan would have the state Board of Education set eligibility standards based on council recommendations and mirror a Senate proposal.
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Frank LaGrotta
Pennsylvania
LaGrotta
Ellwood City
Senate
PIAA
State Board of Education
Senate Education Committee
James J. Rhoades
New Castle Woman Sentenced in Stabbing Death
Kristen Austin, 24, of 369 Halco Drive, was sentenced to one to two years in Lawrence County jail for involuntary manslaughter in the death of Kelly Rozier, 19, during an April 3, 1999, incident. She received credit for 325 days served and was ordered to pay costs and serve three years probation. Rozier died after a chest stab wound in Pittsburgh’s Presbyterian Hospital.
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New Castle
Lawrence County
Kristen Austin
Halco
Drive
Dominick Motto
Austin
Kelly Rozier
Presbyterian Hospital
Pittsburgh
Rozier
Micacchione
Arsonists of Birmingham Church Finally Arrested After Decades
In 1963 the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing killed four girls. After 10,494 days, Thomas Blanton Jr and Bobby Cherry were arrested as moral reckonings and witness courage overcame decades of walls of silence. The article notes that no new evidence or motive changed, only a moral burden and the end of coverups.
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Bobby Cherry
David J. Garrow
Martin Luther King Jr
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Blanton
Cherry
Christopher M. Hamlin
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Birmingham
Ala
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Scott Harlan
David Harlan
Scott
Fred Harlan
Fred
State
Rep
George P Micacchione
Kristen
By Jerry Schwartz
Associated Press
Jack C. Amnkst
New Castle RD
Alice J. Piscitella
S. Cedar St
Helena Stevenson
Grove City
C. Robert Wright
Poland
Ohio
Bear
Salt Lake City
Bart the Bear
the Edge
Anthony Hopkins
Louise Carroll
New Castle Playhouse
Scott Polk
Wrigley Field
Chicago
Daily Record
Ncnewsonline.com
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