Halloween came early in the Ottawa Valley as hundreds of children and parents lined the streets of downtown Pembroke to trick or treat. Elsewhere, people are going all out to decorate their homes in spooky, scary ways.
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The Greencastle-Antrim School Board is scheduled to decide next week how to close the $867,157 gap between revenues and expenditures in the 2021-22 budget.
The board is expected to approve the final budget during a meeting beginning at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 17, in the high school library. Members of the public can attend the meeting in person and it also can be viewed on YouTube, accessible from the school district website.
The finance committee is recommending a 2.5% property tax increase and taking $250,000 from capital reserves to make up most of the difference between $44,272,428 in projected revenues and $45,139,585 in projected expenditures, according to committee member Tracy Baer.
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Sept. 1
A discovery during a father-and-son adventuring trip to Martin s Mill Bridge in Antrim Township on July 29 and a bit of detective work have reunited a Greencastle man with the class ring he lost 45 years ago. Jeremy Knowlton of Heathsville, Va., found John W. Thomas Jr. s ring while metal detecting in the east branch of the Conococheague Creek, as his son, Shrade, splashed in the water nearby.
Sept. 3
Thousands of drivers will have to wait an extra two days before resuming their travels on U.S. 11 south of Greencastle. The road, traveled by about 13,000 vehicles a day, was scheduled to reopen Wednesday, Sept. 9, after being closed since Aug. 19 for a bridge replacement project. It is now scheduled to open Friday, Sept. 11.
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May 5
The Greencastle-Antrim School Board officially put furloughs, teacher and program cuts and the elimination of extracurricular activities on the table during a virtual meeting. Pre-COVID-19, it wasn t good; post-COVID-19, it s disastrous, Caroline Royer, chief financial officer, said in describing the district s fiscal position. Projected revenues for 2020-21 are $39,999,478 and projected expenses are $42,448,579 for a deficit of $2,449,101.
Greencastle-Antrim High School students some dressed up, some not had a different prom experience Saturday night, May 2, with Mask-erade Porch Prom, an event organized by the junior class prom committee.
May 7
“It’s going to devastate the district if they move forward.” That was the reaction of Greencastle-Antrim Education Association President Brandon Solomon after last week’s resolution by the school board to consider cuts, including teacher positions, to handle economic hits from the COVID-19 pandemic.