In a very unusual online setting, the Jeff Tech Operating Committee approved its 2020-2021 budget totaling $9.45 million dollars while broadcasting the meeting on its YouTube channel. During the director’s report, Dr. Barry Fillman and Business Manager Sherry Hasselman presented information on why the package topped last year’s budget of $8.7 million dollars. The increases…
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The Reynoldsville Volunteer Fire Department responded to an unusual call on April 25—clean out the Reynoldsville Pool. The firefighters responded to the annual event as preparations are being made to open the pool in a few weeks. Maybe. Pool directors Jill Heffner and Denise Dennison said they would like to open the pool to the…
Recently, reynlownews.com posted an article explaining how to get COVID-19 case counts using an area’s postal code. A check of that information today has revealed a case in the 15851 zip code, which includes Reynoldsville and the surrounding area. The number of Jefferson County cases went from three to four this week. When checking the…
The State Liquor Control Board announced today that 389 stores would be added statewide to the list of Fire Wine & Good Spirit stores offering phone orders and curbside service. Here’s more from the PLCB press release: Most stores will support curbside service Monday through Saturday – taking a limited number of orders on a…
The DuBois Area School District school board held its regular meeting on Thursday, April 23, but as in the past month the members were not physically present but met via. Zoom. With seven of the nine members present the Board continued to conduct the business of the District. Business manager Jeanette Buriak presented the initial…
Governor Tom Wolf last night announced his plan for reopening the state if the cases of COVID-19 decline at an acceptable rate. Using a color-coded system, red, yellow, and green, Wolf’s plan shows a gradual return to what is being called a “new normal” on May 8. Northcentral and Northwestern Pennsylvania are areas that the…
As part of the overall plan to stabilize the financial condition of the local healthcare system due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Penn Highlands Healthcare (PHH) System Senior Executive Leadership Team has voluntarily taken a reduction in their pay. This action will shift additional dollars to the system’s pandemic response. In all, 18 senior executives…
The PA State Department of Health (DOH) has expanded it’s county-by-county map of COVID-19 information to include cases by zip code. The break down begins with a colorization of each county and a key showing what each color means. You can then select a county and get the number of cases along with the count…
Governor Tom Wolf announced today that the stay-at-home order will remain in effect until May 8, but he is hopeful that restrictions can then begin to ease. The announcement came as protests against the lock down had gathered outside the capitol building in Harrisburg. The total number of cases in the state has increased to…
The Garden Hotline is a free service offered through Penn State Extension to help all county residents with their gardening questions and concerns. The Penn State Extension office in Brookville, Jefferson County, is temporarily closed to the public, so the Garden Hotline, which is staffed by Master Gardeners, is currently unable to accept plant samples. …