Regional & State News
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Heng Sinith
Peace Corps at 60: Service changed lives of midstate volunteers
“I joined Peace Corps in 1988 to immerse in meaningful work providing basic needs at the village level, as well as an opportunity for an out-of-the-box experience and time to reevaluate my life.”By Rick Dandes/The Sunbury Daily Item -
Keith Srakocic
Westmoreland County seeks ways to stop decades-long population decline
Over the past decade, Westmoreland County lost about 13,250 people, data show. That lowered the county’s population to 352,590 in 2019, similar to its population in the 1960s.
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Alanna Elder
Former Biglerville students form network of support against racism
At one point, each post on the Racism at Biglerville Facebook page carried several threads of comments. As more alumni added stories, the allegations grew in scope — from accounts of racist bullying to racially biased discipline to sexual harassment — and they spanned decades in time.
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Emma Lee
For the first time in almost 200 years, the sun will shine on the Philly Flower Show
This year’s show will be in Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park in South Philadelphia, from June 5 – 13.
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Carolyn Kaster
Amid COVID-19 outbreak at SCI-Camp Hill, corrections officers make the case for vaccine plan
Prison staff are currently slated to be vaccinated in the 1b phase of the state’s distribution plan. But PSCOA President John Eckenrode says it’s not soon enough. He says outbreaks will continue to happen at state prisons until personnel are vaccinated.
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Biden Administration moves to speed up processing of migrants in family detention
A possibility under discussion is eventually providing COVID-19 vaccinations as part of the broader essential services, including medical care and other vaccinations, that are typically offered to asylum applicants before they are released.
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Courtesy of Folklab
Comedians, poets in Pittsburgh confront seasonal depression with ‘Sadapalooza’
Tickets are a pay-what-you-wish donation, and the two-hour show benefits Pittsburgh-based mental-health support and advocacy group Inside Our Minds.
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Brett Carlsen
Steelers agree to new deal with Ben Roethlisberger for 2021 season
Financial details were not immediately available, though the Steelers made no secret of the need for Roethlisberger to take a pay cut to ease some of the burden of his NFL-high $41.25-million salary-cap hit scheduled for 2021.
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Charles Fox
A business owner’s guide to Pa.’s next wave of COVID-19 relief grants
The aid is targeted at businesses with fewer than 300 employees that have lost at least 25% of their sales as a result of the pandemic.
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Gene J. Puskar
How Rite Aid’s ‘glitch’ helped suburban residents get Philly’s vaccine supply
Philadelphia — its own vaccine jurisdiction — prioritized vaccine access for people age 75 or older. But in the rest of Pennsylvania, people over 65 and those with qualifying medical conditions are eligible for the vaccine at pharmacies.
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Pa. mass vaccination sites are ready to open—with or without vaccines
State officials say there’s a need to ensure equitable COVID-19 vaccine distribution.