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A drilling rig towers over the walls of the Poseidon well pad in Penn Township in 2018. Next door in Murrysville, a citizen group has appealed its challenge to the municipality’s fracking ordinance to the state’s Commonwealth Court.
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The Murrysville Watch Committee, a citizen group seeking to overturn the municipality’s unconventional gas drilling ordinance, had its appeal heard this week by the state’s Commonwealth Court.
The hearing began with attorney John Smith, representing the Watch Committee, requesting that Commonwealth Court Judge Drew Crompton recuse himself from the proceeding.
Walk-ins accepted for today s vaccine clinic at Westmoreland courthouse triblive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from triblive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Robert Carter III‘s Deed of Gift was a legal document, signed on August 1, 1791, and presented in Northumberland District Court on September 5, that set out provisions to free 452 enslaved men and woman. By the time those provisions were fulfilled, more than three decades later, between 500 and 600 were freed, probably the largest emancipation by an individual in the United States before 1860. Carter was a member of one of the wealthiest families in Virginia and inherited hundreds of slaves. Perhaps because of a religious conversion, he turned against slavery during and after the American Revolution (1775–1783). His plan to free his own slaves was carefully designed to conform to state law and to be gradual. Adults would be freed in small groups each year based on their age, children would be freed when they became adults, and the elderly would be allowed to independently farm on Carter’s Nomony Hall estate for the remainder of their lives. In 1793, Carter mov
Editorial: A county courthouse convenience, but with a caveat triblive.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from triblive.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Westmoreland County Courthouse in Greensburg will host a covid-19 vaccine clinic on Tuesday.
County officials announced that county employees, their families and the general public are eligible to participate in the clinic, which will be conducted in the commissioners’ public meeting room off the main lobby of the courthouse.
The clinic, which will be operated by Hayden’s Pharmacy, will have about 600 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to administer from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Children ages 16 and 17 are eligible for the vaccinations but will need permission from a parent to receive the shot.
Members of the general public will need to pass through security to get into the courthouse.