With Election Day approaching, the Senator John Heinz History Center is partnering with 15 museums, libraries and cultural organizations across the region to activate the connection between history and civics
The Mountain Watershed Association wants children to experience the great outdoors, and the watershed s Ecology Education and Outreach program s get-out-and-explore backpacks will be filled with ways to do it.
A University of Pittsburgh study is looking at how Connellsville and other distressed communities in Appalachia can use their resources to spur economic development and turn around a decades-long ‘brain drain’ — where college-educated residents leave to go elsewhere for better jobs, higher pay or a different lifestyle. “Brain drain
Cheer: Those working within Fayette Countyâs vaccination task force, again, deserve praise. Their monumental efforts to get vaccine to those among the countyâs nearly 130,000 residents who want it has proven so successful that the registry has been exhausted of those eligible under the stateâs 1A phase. Getting Fayetteâs population vaccinated so quickly means that residents are safer from potential health complications brought on by contracting COVID-19. The lessened risk, we hope, will also translate to less trepidation about going out, and lead to a robust rebound for area businesses that have struggled so much this past year. With the state making all Pennsylvanians eligible for vaccine April 19, we look forward to watching the task forceâs great progress continue.
The Fayette County Cultural Trust is adding two more organizations to their list of recipients for funding through a state program.
Over the past six years, the Neighborhood Partnership Program (NPP), a program through the state Department of Community and Economic Development, has provided money to various local organizations through the cultural trust.
Those organizations are selected because their missions are to help the low and moderate income residents of Connellsville.
Daniel Cocks, the executive director of the FCCT, said this will be the second term that the trust has been accepted into the NPP with each term lasting for six years of funding to those organizations.