Winslow Township residents will not see a tax increase from the township in 2021. At a special meeting on December 30, the township supervisors approved their 2021 budget totaling a little more than 834-thousand dollars, which holds the line on taxes. The expenses are expected to be around 762-thousand dollars. The income for the Soldier…
Month: December 2020
In anticipation of frozen precipitation and potentially icy roadway conditions in many areas, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is advising motorists to avoid all unnecessary travel during the upcoming storm. PennDOT plans to implement travel restrictions on trucks and other vehicles on certain roadways around the state, which will remain in place until conditions…
In anticipation of winter storm conditions, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is advising motorists to avoid all unnecessary travel during the storm and are anticipating that restrictions on trucks and other vehicles will be imposed on certain roadways around the state, and will remain in place until conditions warrant their removal. Effective 3:00 PM…
When you’re nine years old and have a chance to make some extra money before Christmas, what would you do with it? One local girl decided to help others who were less fortunate than she. La’Mya Stowe, a fourth-grader at C. G. Johnson Elementary School in Reynoldsville, heard one of her classmates was not going…
When you drive through Reynoldsville, especially at night, you can’t miss the Arbanas house right with all the Christmas decorations beside the railroad tracks. Robert Arbanas told reynlownews.com that he usually starts in September getting everything out and testing it to make sure it works, but he doesn’t start putting it up until mid to…
After a half-a-century in business, Fuzzy Foradori’s Barbershop in Reynoldsville hung up the closed sign for the last time on December 23, 2020. Shop owner Larry “Fuzzy” Foradori (who said no one in Reynoldsville would know him by his first name) said that, at 73 years old, now was a good time to hang up…
It was an unusual Reynoldsville Borough Council meeting on December 16. With COVID-19 restrictions in place, council members sat masked and socially distanced. Missing from the board were council members Billy Cebulskie, Ralph “Tucker” August, and Darren Scolese, and only one member of the public was permitted to enter the meeting to speak to council…
Dr. Samuel Early of Reynoldsville, who passed away on December 11, 2020, was awarded the Reynoldsville Citizen of the Month for December at the Reynoldsville Borough Council meeting held on December 16. Dr. Early was a part of the last graduating class at Reynoldsville High School in 1965. After college, he taught school until becoming…
Due to the severity of the winter storm, PennDOT is temporarily restricting certain vehicles on Interstate 80. Vehicle restrictions reflect Tier 1 of the commonwealth’s weather event vehicle restriction plan, and are in effect on Interstate 80 from the Ohio border to New Jersey. Under Tier 1 restrictions, the following vehicles are not permitted on…
The first batch of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines will arrive at Penn Highlands facilities tomorrow At a teleconference today, Andrew Kurtz, system director for retail pharmacy services and vaccination lead for Penn Highlands Healthcare, announced that 975 doses will be arriving at Penn Highlands DuBois. Two other facilities will also receive the vaccine. He said PHH…