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Students from Penn-Trafford’s Sunrise Estates Elementary School view exhibits at the Bushy Run Battlefield museum in 2019.
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The organization operating the Bushy Run Battlefield museum in Penn Township will delay its search for a new facilitator until the state decides when it can reopen the facility along Route 993.
“There’s no point in posting a job when we’re not open. Nobody would want the job when there are no hours to work” as the museum remains closed indefinitely, said Bonnie Ramus, president of the Bushy Run Battle Heritage Society Inc., which runs the site of the 1763 battle that led to British and colonial soldiers lifting the siege at Fort Pitt by Native Americans.
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The controversy over regulating backyard chickens in North Huntingdon was back before the township commissioners Wednesday when the seven-member board once again split over whether to amend existing rules governing poultry in a neighborhood.
The board majority on Wednesday let stand a decision to hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 11 at the North Huntingdon Town House on the issue of giving residents the option of obtaining a conditional use permit if they want to raise chickens on property of less than 10 acres in certain residential neighborhoods. Those wanting the permit would have to present their case before the zoning hearing board.
Joe Napsha | Tribune-Review
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The Norwin School Board put its stamp of approval on a deal to split about $11,150 a year with the taxing bodies of Irwin and the county for the next 40 years in return for not challenging the non-profit charitable status of the developer of a proposed 50-unit complex for senior citizens.
The agreement with the Westmoreland County Housing Authority that school board approved on Monday is for the Grand View Senior Residences, which is to be built on 5-to-8 acres of property the authority owns off Laurel Avenue and behind the Norwin Public Library on Caruthers Lane. The agreement with the housing authority bases the annual payment on an assessed value of $233 per unit.
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Sister Marguerite Moya Coyne, who served as the superintendent of schools for the Catholic Diocese of Greensburg from 1998 to 2003, was known for her love of children and education, her friends and co-workers said.
“She was a stellar woman and one of the best persons I’ve ever worked with,” said Monsignor James Gaston, who was director of education and spiritual formation when Coyne was associate superintendent of Catholic schools in the Greensburg diocese.
Coyne, 80, a member of the Congregation of St. Joseph of Baden, died Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, in Baden.
The spread of covid cases in the four ZIP codes covering most of the North Huntingdon-Irwin-North Irwin areas continued to drop for the fourth consecutive week, falling to just 4.1% for the seven-day period ending Jan. 18, according to state Health Department data. The number of confirmed covid cases in