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 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 ...
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 ...
The Church of the Covenant in Washington was abuzz Saturday morning as Cub Scout packs gathered to compete in the annual Pinewood Derby. The scouts of the Laurel Highlands Council’s Anawanna Trails District competed with their homemade derby cars, all required to weigh five ounces or ...
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. ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh fired women's basketball coach Tory Verdi on Tuesday, ending a three-year tenure in which the Panthers struggled to find success on the court and Verdi potentially ran into trouble off it. Athletic director Allen Greene announced the decision shortly after 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 ...
Do we really know what climate change will do to our planet? Deniers think it’s all a big hoax. They are quick to point to all that snow from the storm that buried the Northeast and what about the below-zero weather we had across Southwestern Pennsylvania and the chilly days in Florida this ...
