10 projects in Erie County, one in Crawford County and two in Warren County have been awarded funding through the state s Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program.
The Erie County Community College has received an early Christmas gift from Gov. Tom Wolf in the form of a $10 million Redevelopment Assistance Capital Project grant.
The grant money is the first funding allocated by the state to the new community college, which the Pennsylvania Board of Education approved in July. Plans call for the college to begin offering classes in the fall of 2021.
The community college was the largest project in Erie County to receive RACP funding. Nine other projects received a combined $13.5 million, of which $3 million was previously pledged.
The community college money will be used for capital costs, including the acquisition, construction, renovation of property and buildings where classes would be held, as well as the machinery and equipment necessary for the operation of the college and education of students.
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Rolling Hills Zoo announced Sunday that Darius, an 18-year-old male Amur leopard, has died.
The zoo said Darius has been treated for renal failure over the past year, with his kidney function declining. Over the last week, Rolling Hills said, blood work indicated he was in Stage 4 kidney failure.
According to the zoo, kidney failure is common as part of the aging process for big cats and is not reversible. The leopard was humanely euthanized after he became more lethargic and stopped eating.
Darius was born at Erie Zoo in Erie, Pa., on June 30, 2002, and moved to Roosevelt Park Zoo in Minot, N.D., in October 2003. He was transferred to Tanganyika Wild Animal Park in June 2011 after flooding in Minot and then brought to Rolling Hills Zoo in December of that same year.