Greensburg native Melody Carranza found herself frustrated after opting for a career in the medical field.
“Once I realized that wasn’t for me, I started looking at other options,” Carranza said.
Similarly, Raelee Nicholson of Charleroi was “in the process of following a traditional four-year path with offers to multiple colleges and universities,” she said. “But it wasn’t something that I loved.”
Against the advice of several teachers and counselors, Nicholson opted to pursue a trade career through Rosedale Technical College.
“I shifted gears and began to pursue something I was truly passionate about,” she said.
Nicholson is about to start a job as a PennDOT diesel technician.
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Export officials spent a good portion of the past year updating the borough’s playground, off of Roosevelt Avenue, and want to keep that momentum going as spring approaches.
“We’ve cut the (dead) trees down, we did the basketball court, and now we need to fix that fence,” Councilman John Nagoda said. In the past year, borough officials brought in goats from Allegheny Goatscape to help clear the steep hillside leading down to the park, resurfaced the basketball court and cleared a number of older, hazardous trees from the property.
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The local Rotary Club was an easy fit for John Hartman.
“I’m a retired chief of police, so public service was front and center my entire career,” said Hartman, 66, of Penn Township. “While I was a police officer, I found out about the Rotary and its mission and thought it was a great addition to what I was doing professionally.”
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One of two Franklin Regional National Science Bowl teams took the top spot at a regional competition in February, and will compete for a national title. The team is, from the left, Darius Colangelo, Atharva Mayekar, Max Wang, Urvish Jain and Praneel Varshney.
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Darius Colangelo, Max Wang, Praneel Varshney, Prerit Yadav, and Urvish Jain pose for a photo following their third-place finish at the 2020 National Science Bowl’s regional competition. Colangelo, Wang, Varshney, Jain and junior Atharva Mayekar won the regional competition in 2021. Yadav was also part of a second 2021 FR team, along with Abhinav Komanduri, Timothy Cao, Joshua Selvakumar and Gary Zhang.