Water is life. That’s the message Leechburg Area High School alum and University of Pittsburgh graduate student Ariana Scott heard loud and clear this summer while visiting Africa. Scott, 23, is enrolled in Pitt’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, studying international development and public health. She took a
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Pam Key, a preschool teacher, psychiatric nurse, martial artist and grandmother, has been chosen to lead Burrell School Board as it tries to navigate a historic pandemic with educational challenges.
She succeeds board member and former board president Tricia Shank, who nominated Key to lead the nine-member board.
“It was time to let another board member sit in that seat,” Shank said. “She is a wonderful person with many years on the board now.”
Key is up for the challenge as Burrell plows ahead as one of the few districts to successfully offer full in-person instruction with an option to learn virtually during most of the pandemic this school year.