Franklin Regional School Board members approved a proposed final budget for next school year that calls for a 3.5-mill property tax increase. The final vote on the $69 million budget will come at the board’s June 17 meeting. The spending plan comes with a roughly $643,000 deficit with just under
Kate Berry heeded the fire alarm, briskly walked down a stairwell and opened the doors into a hallway at Franklin Regional High School when she encountered a knife-wielding student. She was face to face with Alex Hribal. “I remember … seeing him and thinking like, ‘Oh, why is he walking
Charles Conway’s retirement didn’t last long. After nearly a quarter-century on the bench as magistrate in Export, Conway retired last month. But he’s already had the gavel back in his hand as he filled in for his successor, Judi Petrush, during part of last week. “When I was a kid,
From the Westmoreland County commissioners to the Allegheny County executive and district attorney, numerous high-profile races will greet voters on Election Day. Arguably, no race has been more contentious than for state Supreme Court, where Republican Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas Judge Carolyn Carluccio and Democratic Superior Court Judge
America vulnerable to enemies America has never been more vulnerable to being destroyed by a foreign enemy than it is now. Since Joe Biden has been in office, there have been over 4.5 million migrant encounters at the southwest border and 1.2 million known gotaways who evaded U.S. Border Patrol