Penn Township police on Friday were investigating a social media post that was circulating around Penn Middle School, according to Chief John Otto. A school official learned of the post and contacted authorities around 11 a.m. It was believed to have been sent through Snapchat. The nature of the post
Penn Middle School students raise $4K for families in need A group of five Penn Middle School eighth graders raised more than $4,000 to provide 10 area families with new socks, underwear and pajamas for the recent holiday season. The efforts were part of a confirmation project at St. Barbara
Nine-year-old Zyire Sanu reached deep into a shopping cart loaded with toys to locate a package containing boxing gloves that he had picked from a shelf at Walmart in North Huntingdon. After locating the gear and declaring them his favorite selection of the day, the Pittsburgh kid turned to his
Vietnam veteran Tim Brennan was among the few dozen volunteers who turned out on Dec. 19, 2020 — after a blizzard dumped 9 inches of snow on the region — to lay wreaths on 660 veteran grave sites in two Jeannette cemeteries in the inaugural Wreaths Across America event held
Facing concerns about critical race theory, Bermudian Springs School District Superintendent Shane Hotchkiss said the district curriculum will remain unchanged.
âWe have an adopted curriculum aligned with the Pennsylvania state standards and that has been in place for a number of years,â said Hotchkiss. âThe curriculum in social studies and history, K-12, has not changed.â
Critical race theory is a way of thinking about Americaâs history through the lens of racism. Scholars developed it during the 1970s and 1980s in response to what they viewed as a lack of racial progress following the civil rights legislation of the 1960s.