Jacob Koelsch knows his way around a machining blueprint. The 23-year-old North Huntingdon native is a fourth-year apprentice at Penn State Tool & Die, and for the second year in a row, Koelsch has taken the top spot in the MSC Industrial Supply & National Tooling & Machining Association Pittsburgh
A dozen Westmoreland County high school students are getting a head start on becoming educators as the state looks for ways to contend with a teacher shortage. Adi Belanger has been interested in pursuing teaching as a career, so the Central Westmoreland Career & Technology Center’s new Aspiring Educators program
From Staff Reports HARRISBURG Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding Monday announced $498,161 in PA Farm Bill Agriculture and Youth Grants awarded to 47 organizations in 24 counties, funding projects that prepare youth to succeed in Pennsylvania’s $132.5 billion agriculture industry. Students and educators from Fox Chase Farm, the School District of Philadelphia’s 112-acre demonstration farm, […]
(Editor’s note: To mark Westmoreland County’s 250th birthday this year, we’ve come up with a list of 250 things — 10 things in 25 communities — that we consider to be important to the makeup of our area. This series will appear each week through December. If you have a
Oct. 12—A Hempfield man was sentenced Thursday to nine to 23 months at the Westmoreland County Prison for stealing thousands of dollars worth of scrap metal and damaging three vehicles