Everyone needs a minute once in awhile. Just ask Ana Drum, a Deer Lakes fifth grader learning about mindfulness through a school initiative sponsored by the Allegheny Health Network and Pirates Charities. The Chill Project, launched in 2019, aims to teach evidence-based coping techniques to students of all grade levels.
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Veterans were the guest of honor Thursday during an appreciation event held at East Union Intermediate Center in West Deer. About 40 veterans mingled with third, fourth and fifth graders during the gathering held in the school gymnasium. Lonnie Long, a Navy veteran from Ford City, helped to pack veteran
West Deer’s police department will continue to station officers at Deer Lakes schools. Township supervisors and the school board approved a memorandum of understanding between the two bodies for policing at Curtisville Primary Center, East Union Intermediate Center and Deer Lakes Middle School. Police Chief Robert Loper told supervisors that
A road in Frazer has been deemed too dangerous for a school bus to drive on, yet the Deer Lakes School District considers it safe enough for an 8-year-old girl to walk nearly a mile to the bus stop along the same street. Dana Russell of Frazer said her 8-year-old