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The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission Awards More Than $2 Million in Grants to Museums, Historical Organizations, Local Governments and Academic Institutions

The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission Awards More Than $2 Million in Grants to Museums, Historical Organizations, Local Governments and Academic Institutions
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Met-Ed grants awarded for 2 sustainable energy projects in Berks County, and one elsewhere

Three renewable and sustainable energy projects — including two in Berks County — have received grants totaling $85,000 from the Met-Ed Sustainable Energy Fund of the Berks County Community Foundation. Recipients can be anywhere in the Met-Ed service area, and on Wednesday the foundation announced in a press release that the following projects have been selected: Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust: $50,000 to create an off-the-grid education center called the Colebrookdale Children’s Educational Grove to showcase sustainable energy practices. Dickinson College in Carlisle: $25,000 to construct, study and demonstrate a commercial anaerobic digestion system for the generation of renewable electricity from agricultural and food-processing wastes at a scale appropriate for an average Pennsylvania dairy farm.

110-year-old locomotive departing from Jackson for Pennsylvania preservation group

110-year-old locomotive departing from Jackson for Pennsylvania preservation group Updated Jan 19, 2021; Facebook Share JACKSON, MI – A mainstay in Jackson County for more than 60 years will depart from its Jackson station after its sale last week. The Jackson City Council approved a plan at its Tuesday, Jan. 12 meeting to sell Locomotive 5030, a train engine located in R.A. Greene Park near the Jackson Wastewater Treatment Plant, to a Pennsylvania nonprofit and tourist railroad. Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust, located in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, between Philadelphia and Reading, agreed to pay $50,000 over five years for the 1912 relic. It plans to restore the historic car built from steel from a nearby Pennsylvania foundry and assembled within 30 miles of the railroad there.

Donations boost Colebrookdale RR s educational programs

BOYERTOWN, Pa. ­- A local railroad is getting a helpful boost through donations to expand its educational programming. The Colebrookdale Railroad has accepted a $2,500 donation from Ambler Savings Bank and a $15,000 donation from J.P. Mascaro & Sons through the Pennsylvania Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program. We are proud to support the Colebrookdale Railroad year after year because of their commitment to the community and children s education, said Bonnie Eckenrode, the manager of the bank s Bally branch. The railroad has gone through years of renovation to bring its historic trains to their original state and offer educational programming as well as other public attractions. 

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