Mar 4, 2021
MEXICO, Pa. The Juniata County Dairy Promotion Committee is seeking members to serve on the 2021-2022 Juniata County Dairy Princess Court.
Candidates must be a resident of Juniata County, connected somehow to the dairy industry and have a desire to promote the industry.
A princess candidate must be at least 16 years of age by July 1 and not reach her 24th birthday by Dec. 31. She must be single, never married, have no children and must not marry or become pregnant during her reign.
The Juniata County Dairy Promotion Committee is also seeking junior representatives who should be between the ages of 4 and 16. The deadline for submitting applications is April 1. The crowning of the 2021-2022 Juniata County Dairy Princess will take place at the Walker Grange, Mexico, on May 23 at 1:30 p.m.
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HARRISBURG – Russell Redding, Pennsylvania’s Agriculture Secretary, announced the opening of the $500,000 Farm to School Grant Program on Thursday during a Cisco Webex Press Conference. The grant program is to improve access to healthy, local foods and increase agriculture education opportunities for children pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.
The official press release states “The Pennsylvania Farm Bill, Farm to School Grant Program, aims to improve the connection communities have with fresh, healthy food and local producers by changing food purchasing and education practices at schools and early childhood education sites.”
State Representatives Danilo Burgos and John Hershey joined Redding in Thursday’s press conference. They are supporters of the Farm to School legislation in Governor Tom Wolf’s initial Pennsylvania Farm Bill. Rick Sayles, project coordinator for the Steelton-Highspire School District Farm to School project from t
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A regulatory agency that’s responsible for the water supply of more than 13 million people in four Northeastern states voted Thursday to permanently ban natural gas drilling and fracking near a crucial waterway, asserting that gas development poses an unacceptable risk.
The Delaware River Basin Commission cited “significant immediate and long-term risks” from gas extraction, saying in a resolution that drillers have “adversely impacted surface-water and groundwater resources, including sources of drinking water, and have harmed aquatic life in some regions.”
The ban applies to two counties in Pennsylvania’s northeastern tip that are part of the nation’s largest gas field, the Marcellus Shale. Nearly 13,000 wells have been drilled elsewhere in the vast Marcellus formation, turning Pennsylvania into the nation’s No. 2 gas-producing state.
Education Committee requests that standardized tests be set aside for now
Feb 25, 2021
HARRISBURG (AP) The chairs of Pennsylvania’s state Senate Education Committee on Wednesday asked the Biden administration to waive this year’s requirement for school standardized testing because of the pandemic.
Sens. Lindsey Williams, D-Allegheny, and Scott Martin, R-Lancaster, wrote in a letter that they understood the need to find out how much learning and what kind of learning children missed during the pandemic.
But students also need “some sense of stability before we thrust additional stress on them in the name of determining what schools ‘deserve’ more funding,” they wrote to President Joe Biden and Acting Education Secretary Miguel Cardona.