Albert Gallatin super: No school consolidation next year
All schools in the Albert Gallatin School District will remain in operation next year after the district board voted not to grant permission for a public hearing on closing any schools. The 5-4 vote came at a special meeting held Thursday night that also included discussion of the 2025-26 and 2026-27 budgets. Superintendent Christopher Pegg said based on preliminary discussions with the district’s business manager, about $1.5 to $2 million will still need to be cut from the 2026-27 budget in order to balance it, primarily from personnel. The district originally began talking about the need to close schools back in 2018, shortly after Pegg became superintendent, he said. The influx ...
A Farmington man pleaded guilty to distributing videos of minor children engaged in sexually explicit conduct, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Nathan Fike, 41, sent the videos to an undercover FBI agent in October 2023, according to a release from the U.S. attorney’s office. When federal agents executed a search warrant at Fike’s home, they found additional videos and photos of young children. Fike will be sentenced in June, and faces a minimum of five years in prison, with a maximum of 20 years. He can also be fined up to $250,000. The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the ...
East Washington police charged a man with a felony of aggravated assault Saturday after he was accused of assaulting a police officer while being arrested. Tyler Alan Lash, 30, of Washington, also faces misdemeanor charges of endangering the welfare of children and resisting arrest. According to the criminal complaint, at about 11 p.m. police were called to the 100 block of South Wade Street for a report of two men fighting. Charging documents state that police found Lash's vehicle with two children under the age of 9 in the backseat. The car was off, and it was about 36 degrees outside. According to the complaint, Lash fought police while they attempted to detain him and injured an ...
A SWAT team was called to Peters Township Saturday night after a man was accused of threatening his neighbor with a shotgun. Gregory Steven Morris, 68, faces a felony charge of aggravated assault, and misdemeanors of terroristic threats, simple assault and reckless endangerment. According to the criminal complaint, police were called to Morris' home at 105 Timber Oak Court at about 10:10 p.m. Saturday. A neighbor, who police did not identify, said he knocked on Morris' door to speak with Morris regarding a parking complaint. Morris allegedly answered the door wielding a shotgun. Charging documents state that Morris cocked the gun and said he was going to shoot the ...
PITTSBURGH — Geibel Catholic's girls basketball team finally reached the Petersen Events Center in senior Emma Larkin's final year. After a 47-46 loss to Serra Catholic in an epic final played without injured star center Mallory Clemmer, the Lady Gators face another challenge. Geibel will ...
As an assistant football coach at Carmicheals, Ken Perkins had plenty of different jobs. Now he’s ready to take on the leading role. Perkins, a longtime Carmichaels assistant, was hired as the program’s next head coach at the Carmichaels Area School District board meeting on Feb. ...
Rachael Manfredo rang up 31 points as Edinboro put an end to PennWest California's season with an 85-64 win over the visiting Vulcans in the first round of the PSAC women's basketball tournament at McComb Fieldhouse on Monday. The Fighting Scots (14-6, 18-12) jumped out to a 22-10 lead in the ...
Cheers: We’re in the home stretch of the Herald-Standard’s annual Give-A-Christmas campaign to support the Salvation Army service centers in Fayette County. It’s not too late to contribute to help us meet our $10,000 goal. All donations remain in the local area to help fund the ...
This winter, avian influenza viruses have continued to circulate in wild birds across Pennsylvania, and more birds will be migrating to and through the state in the coming weeks. Strains of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus have been present in Pennsylvania’s wild birds since early ...
