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Dan Silvey of Delmont looks for a John Grisham book Thursday at Delmont Public Library during a grand reopening at its new location on School Street in Delmont.
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Assistant director Ann McCamy checks out a customer at Delmont Public Library during a grand reopening at its new location on School Street in Delmont on Thursday.
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Zoe Eliason, 8, of Hempfield plays in a patch of sunlight inside the children’s area at Delmont Public Library during a grand reopening at its new location on School Street in Delmont on Thursday.
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Kacin Construction Superintendent Matt Flinn hands the keys to the new Delmont Public Library building to librarian Denni Grassel.
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Through grants, community donations and fundraising, Delmont Public Library officials raised more than $1 million in four years and, this week, they will welcome the public into a new library building.
The new library is 4,150 square feet with several “green” features, including solar paneling, LED lighting, geothermal heating and cooling, two charging stations out front for electric vehicles and a cistern that will collect stormwater from the roof to use for irrigation, landscaping and watering the library’s butterfly garden.
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Delmont council members approved an updated stormwater ordinance earlier this month that incorporates county and state requirements for best-management practices.
The updated ordinance brings in elements of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s 2022 model ordinance, mandated by Act 167 and Westmoreland County’s integrated water resource plan.
Communities that are subject to the state’s MS4 regulations must develop a stormwater ordinance. The county’s resource plan, among other things, identified stormwater hot spots like heavily developed areas in Murrysville and Jeannette, and identified mitigation opportunities.
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An aerial drone shot shows traffic backed up along Route 66 in Delmont, waiting to tour the “Monticello Lights,” on Saturday, Dec. 12. Residents of Monticello Drive held a house-decorating contest to raise money for two local nonprofits.
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Families from Monticello Drive in Delmont walk their neighborhood on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, the night before the neighborhood’s decorating contest to raise money for the local library and Project Bundle Up.
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An aerial drone shot shows traffic backed up along Route 66 in Delmont, waiting to tour the “Monticello Lights,” on Saturday, Dec. 12. Residents of Monticello Drive held a house-decorating contest to raise money for two local nonprofits.