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City Council’s finance committee gave a positive recommendation Tuesday for the city administration to hire Daktronics to create and install a scoreboard at Bowman Field.
Council is expected to review the $628,460 bid for the proposed contract on Thursday night.
The cost is about $60,000 more than several years ago when a state Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program grant was approved as part of Bowman Field upgrades, Councilman Adam Yoder said.
Part of the city obligation is to use the grant for the scoreboard, a video board that is light years ahead in technology to what was installed in 2007.
Feb. 18—Longwood Gardens, the 1,000-acre botanical garden and former du Pont estate that sprawls over meadows, woodlands, and rolling Chester County countryside in Kennett Square, has announced it is embarking
But none of that progress erases the cold realities of 2020.
Even as people fought the grip of the virus, millions of Americans, including thousands in Erie and Crawford counties, lost their jobs. Businesses closed their doors and thousands of area residents lined up for free food distributions.
In April, Erie County s seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate soared to a staggering 17.2%.
The local economy improved from that point, but slowly. Efforts to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus left entire sectors of the economy staggering.
By the end of March, Erie-based Curtze Food Service, which serves more than 10,000 restaurants and other food-service customers in eight states, laid off about 200 of the company s 800 employees,
Brandywine River Museum of Art closing to undergo facility renovations
The Museum will be reopening to the public in June with its new special exhibition, Ralston Crawford: Air & Space & War.
CHADDS FORD, PA
.- Beginning February 15, the Brandywine River Museum of Art will be closing to the public to undergo facility renovations to its second and third floors. Upgrades include a complete refurbishment of the restrooms, making them fully ADA accessible, as well as switching their current location with the second floor Strawbridge Gallery. Opening into the Museums central atrium, the reimagined Gallery will improve circulation within the Museum building and enhance the visitor experience. Additionally, new state-of-the-art lighting, HVAC and fire suppression systems will be installed.
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JERSEY SHORE Jersey Shore Borough voted 7-1 to continue discussions about the potential for a joint “public safety building” with Citizen’s Hose Co. and the Tiadaghton Valley Regional Police force at its Monday night meeting.
Janet Barnhart voted no.
The regional police force previously had selected vacant borough land to build a headquarters on. Cody Hoover, borough manager, said that while the new plan is in the early stages of discussion, the three entities would not look to build a new building, but rather move into an already existing building within the borough.
If the discussion for this collaboration between the three entities does not work, the regional police would return to its plan of building a headquarters on the vacant land that was previously secured.