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The North Allegheny School District has proposed using a blend of federal stimulus money, cuts and delayed spending to erase a $6.7 million hole in the proposed 2021-22 budget without the need to hike property taxes.
Roger Sechler, the district’s director of business operations, said the plan to keep the property tax at the current rate while plugging the budget hole would be done by:
• Using a $1.9 million one-time federal stimulus payment.
• Utilizing $2.6 million earmarked for capital projects, technology and substitute teachers.
Tony LaRussa And Megan Tomasic
Thursday, April 8, 2021 1:00 p.m.
| Thursday, April 8, 2021 1:00 p.m.
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Hari Elluru and his wife Shyamala moved to Franklin Park with their son Achuth and daughter Lohith to provide the children with the best possible education they could find. The family is among the thousands of people who have moved to the North Hills in the past decade even as the population has shrunk in the county, region and state.
Tony LaRussa | Tribune-Review
Construction crews have worked through the winter and the coronavirus pandemic on the 193-unit McCandless Square senior living development. The project being built on the site of the former Trader Horn store and another store torn down in spring 2020.
GREENSBURG, Pa. (Tribune News Service) Julia Parsons knows how to keep a secret. She was tight-lipped about one for more than 50 years. Parsons, 99, of Forest Hills, was a code-breaker in World War II. She served in the U.S. Navy s WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), after graduating from Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon) in 1942. Following cryptology training at the Naval Reserve Midshipmen s School, Parsons was sent to Washington to be a code-breaker. She worked on one of the first computers to decode German U-boat message traffic sent via the Enigma machine, according to Todd DePastino, founder and executive director of the Veterans Breakfast Club, a Pittsburgh nonprofit dedicated to sharing veterans stories.
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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.”