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Valley communities include Buffalo Township, Freeport, South Buffalo, Gilpin, North Apollo and Kiski Township.
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Three candidates will vie for the seat of former state Rep. Jeff Pyle, R-Ford City, in a special election being held the day of the 2021 municipal primary election on Tuesday
, May 18.
Pyle, in his ninth term, stepped down in March for health reasons.
The winner of the special election will fill his seat immediately and serve until the end of 2022.
The state’s 60th House District covers parts of Armstrong, Butler and Indiana counties.
Louis B. Ruediger | Tribune-Review
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Dozens of Leechburg High School students and parents, decked out in Blue Devils gear, crowded outside a borough council meeting Tuesday. They huddled on the steps and crammed into the doorway of the overflowing gallery, there to support a proposal by the school district to upgrade stormwater management at Veterans Field Sports Complex.
“I don’t want to go out there, ready to play a game, worried I’m going to get hurt or my teammates are going to get hurt,” said Thomas Burke, a Leechburg junior, who went to the meeting to advocate for the field improvements. “Every kid out there loves to play sports. They love to go out and do what they do.
Leechburg Area School District’s spring musical, the farce comedy “Lucky Stiff,” opens Friday for a three-day run in front of limited audiences. Each of the roughly 35 cast and crew members will receive vouchers for two tickets, but tickets won’t be on sale to the public. Alyssa Bruno Walls, drama
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Leechburg Area School District will introduce no tax increase for next school year, district officials said this week, and there will be no budget deficit thanks to the availability of emergency covid funding.
District officials last week presented the preliminary budget for the 2021-22 school year of more than $14.6 million.
The budget’s lack of a revenue shortfall relies heavily on the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) II funds. That’s part of the federal CARES Act focused on assisting schools during the pandemic, said Deana Turner, director of business affairs.