State College has taken new legal action in a renewed attempt to shut down a former Penn State fraternity that has long been a source of concern for borough and university officials.
The rental property at 329 E. Prospect Ave. was home to the former Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity chapter, which
charter revoked from its national organization in 2019. The borough contends the house continues to operate as if it were a fraternity in violation of the zoning code.
The State College Zoning Hearing Board previously ruled that the house was in violation because the zoning code requires an occupying fraternity to have university recognition to operate as a fraternity house. When a fraternity loses recognition, the board concluded, it loses its claim to operate as a fraternity house.
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The appeal of a Greenfield Township resident whose property was sold for back taxes has been rejected by the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court.
The state appeals court ruled last week the Blair County Tax Claim Bureau followed the law by properly notifying the property owner and by posting notice of the County’s 2018 Upset Tax Sale tax sale on the property.
The Commonwealth Court, in its decision, upheld a Sept. 25, 2019, ruling by Blair County Judge Jackie Bernard who found the notice of the sale was posted in a place “conspicuous and visible to the public.”
Property owner Mearle Weyant, through his Hollidaysburg attorney Phillip O. Robertson, brought the case before the state appeals court.
York attorney announces candidacy for court of common pleas
Updated Mar 03, 2021;
Posted Mar 03, 2021
York attorney Suzanne Smith has announced her candidacy as a judge for the York County Court of Common Pleas.
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Attorney Suzanne S. Smith of York has announced her intention to run for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in York County.
Having practiced law for nearly three decades, Smith, a Republican, is a graduate of the University of Dayton Law School. She has previously worked as a clerk for the Honorable John C. Uhler and in the York County Office of the Public Defender. She also worked in private practice at Kearney & Marshall and eventually opened her own firm, Marshall & Smith.
Mental health effects of COVID lockdown in prison: Interview from inside SCI Albion
By Joe Piette posted on February 26, 2021
This telephone interview with Demitrius Grant, imprisoned at SCI Albion near Erie, Pa., was conducted by Joe Piette for Workers World newspaper on
Feb. 16.
Demetrius Grant: We’re going to be covering the issue of COVID-19 today, as to how it impacts prisoners’ mental health. About a week ago, a sergeant told me a prisoner killed himself, and another one tried to kill himself. He said that was the thirteenth episode in the last month. How many more of these incidents are going on not only in this institution, but in other institutions because they’re not giving prisoners proper mental health care and treatment?