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Montgomery Awards Program recognizes projects that benefit communities

NORRISTOWN — As the process to review submissions for the 54th annual Montgomery Awards Program gets underway, officials were looking for excellence. “We’re trying to emphasize what’s really exceptional so that it can inspire people to keep doing that,” said Pattie E.B. Guttenplan, the assistant director of design and outreach for the Montgomery County Planning Commission. There have been 222 projects recognized since the awards program was first created in 1967, according to a county spokesperson. More than 50 years later, the county’s planning commission continues to review residential, commercial, historical, revitalization, transportation, and open space projects. - Advertisement - Guttenplan oversaw the proceedings of the 53rd annual award ceremony, which occurred in the midst of the public health crisis.

Pitt, Heinz History Center among organizations getting state grants to preserve historical documents

TribLIVE s Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The University of Pittsburgh, the City of Pittsburgh and the Heinz History Center are among the organizations receiving grants from the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission to help preserve the documents in their archives. Thirty-one Historical & Archival Records Care grants totaling nearly $200,000 are being distributed around the state to help organizations to “improve the preservation and accessibility of historically significant records maintained by local governments, historical societies and academic institutions,” according to the Commission. The city is getting an $8,016 grant to digitize and rehouse 24 volumes of city council minute books from 1816 to 1877 and to digitize 109 volumes of minutes and legislation from former municipalities annexed by the city.

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