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There are places that a school district can cut corners. None is pleasant. Trim things off the maintenance budget, and you can set up bigger building projects later on. Short the curriculum, and you get poor test scores and unprepared students. Whatever gets cut one place costs in another. But ....
Burrell School District’s building security systems are so outdated, Superintendent Shannon Wagner is urging the school board to replace them — even if the district has to foot the entire $1.27 million pricetag. “Every (security) system that we have is outdated,” Wagner told school board members this week. She said ....
Lower Burrell police officers soon will undergo training to better assist them in deescalating situations. The police department will participate in ICAT training — which stands for Integrating, Communications, Assessment and Tactics — the next two Fridays, Dec. 8 and 15. “This training for our police personnel is equipped with ....
An area where people can safely conduct a custody exchange or online sale meetups is open in Lower Burrell. The safe exchange area in the Lower Burrell City Hall parking lot includes cameras and signage. Councilman Chris Fabry first proposed the idea to council in the summer. “Being on council, ....
Organizers of Lower Burrell’s harvest festival couldn’t have asked for a better day than Saturday to hold their annual community event. After a week of summer-like temperatures that peaked into the 80s, the crisp autumn breeze and bright sunny sky was the perfect accompaniment for a day of festivities that ....