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2026 Westmoreland County Fair Junior Livestock Sale
AUG. 29, 2026 | SALE TOTAL: $478,154.50 | TOTAL LOTS: 233.
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DOC NYC 2026 Review: There’s Strong Shelf Life in an Old Way of Life in Brian Becker’s Felicitous “Mall Country”
It’s apparent early on in “Mall Country” that Leo Karruli didn’t know what exactly he was buying when he won an auction to purchase the Johnstown Galleria in a small Western Pennsylvania. Scouring the internet for real estate investments after becoming a successful restauranteur in Florida, achieving the American dream when he worked his way up from being a dishwasher from Albania to ultimately having an Italian place of his own, he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to buy a fully functional shopping center for just $1.4 million, though as his wife Irene notes, there wasn’t much wiggle room to back out when he made an impulsive bid, only to learn there were no other interested buyers.
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Pitt-Greensburg education students donate more than 800 books to Jeannette’s McKee Elementary
About 15 kindergartners at Jeannette’s McKee Elementary shot a hand into the air when Pitt-Greensburg education professor Melissa Marks asked the group who loves to read. “I know that’s kind of a silly thing,” Marks said, “but saying, verbalizing ‘I love to read’ means that they’re going to internalize that more. That is part of what we want for them to internalize — that they love books and they love to read.”
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Penn State trustees poised to OK $16.6M upgrades on Thompson Hall. What to know
Penn State’s board of trustees is poised to approve a $16.6 million construction project Friday to upgrade residence hall Thompson Hall, primarily by renovating all bathrooms and adding student amenities. The trustees’ Committee on Finance & Investment unanimously recommended the move for approval Thursday morning. It will now be voted on by the full board Friday afternoon. The project would replace 76-year-old communal bathrooms with “shared private” bathrooms, with one added for about every six beds. The laundry room would also be refurbished with new gas dryers, a community kitchen would be installed, and six bedrooms (with 14 beds) would also be added. The move comes on the heels of the university announcement it is facing a $124 million shortfall driven by declining enrollment and rising health insurance costs. But Housing and Food Services operates as a self-supporting unit, similar to athletics, and officials explained funds remain in the unit’s reserve. “After we do all of the projects we have slated for this fiscal year, we’ll still have $27 million in the HFS Reserve,” said David Snyder, the associate vice president for auxiliary and business services. The university has made a concerted, yearslong effort to modernize student dorms. It finished