Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review
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Allegheny County on Thursday reported 135 new coronavirus deaths, the highest number of deaths reported on a single day since the pandemic began last spring. The previous highest number was 74 deaths reported on Jan. 13.
The county said in a release that a backlog at the state resulted in the large number of deaths reported.
The newly added deaths bring the total number for the county to 1,412. The county and state have had different figures for deaths in the county for much of the past year. The Pennsylvania Department of Health puts Allegheny’s death total at 1,485. No reason is given for the difference.
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Students who attend North Allegheny’s Marshall Middle School will temporarily switch to remote instruction after three additional positive covid cases were reported, district officials announced.
The three new cases brings the total number of active cases at the school to seven during a 12-day period.
As a result, students will not be allowed in the building today until Feb. 2.
“During the last 12 days, we have had constant communication with the Allegheny County Health Department,” district officials said in a letter to parents. “After reviewing the recent cases…the district must close Marshall Middle School for in-person instruction, athletics and activities.”
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Fred Kraybill uses only solar power to provide electricity for his building in Point Breeze. Portrait taken on Thursday, May 28, 2015.
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Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC) will install solar panels at the North Campus location, an environmentally friendly measure that has already been employed at other CCAC buildings.
The North Campus in McCandless is the most energy-efficient of CCAC’s campuses, Elaine Sadowski, the school’s energy manager, said. But it also has the highest electricity rates.
“We pay more per kilowatt hour at North Campus than we do anywhere else, so we were looking at ways to cut costs,” Sadowski said. “One of the things that came up was solar energy. We can actually generate electricity cheaper than we can buy it. So that was the main impetus.”