The Burrell School District will offer inclusive, co-ed bocce for students with and without cognitive disabilities thanks to Special Olympics Pennsylvania. The school board recently approved the program with Special Olympics, which will pay for the team’s expenses for the first two years, including uniforms, and provide expertise to a
Lower Burrell’s Farmers Market will go out with a bang for its final market of the season with its Harvest Festival Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The special themed market will feature about 30 vendors including guest vendors providing more products and more choices, including craft beer from
The Burrell School Board is proposing a $34.7 million budget with a 2.9% real estate tax increase for the 2022-23 school year. The owner of a home with an average assessed value of $22,900 will see a tax increase of $68; under the Homestead Act exclusion, the same owner would
Sandwiched between the road paving report and a Memorial Day parade update, Nikki Watson took out her cellphone to record Lower Burrell Mayor John Andrejcik reading a proclamation for Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) Week during a recent council meeting. Also known as brittle bone disease, OI is a rare gene mutation
The Burrell School Board has agreed to not raise property taxes for next school year higher than the state-inflation based limit of 4.4%. For the 2022-23 budget budget, the board could vote on a budget calling for that maximum tax increase, a smaller tax hike, or none at all. The