Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Alternative Center for Education, which serves Chartiers Valley and many other local communities, could be shut down due to low student enrollment.
By the time she reached ninth grade, Emma Pasekoff was already falling through the cracks. The Mt. Lebanon High School teen fell in with the wrong crowd and lost interest in school. She began losing the respect of her parents, who thought she would never graduate. “I started losing hope for myself. I didn’t care about getting good grades,” said Pasekoff, 20, of Sewickley. “Everything was just immensely deteriorating.” As a last-ditch effort, the 10th grader decided with her parents and principals to try the Alternative Center for Education, a separate alternative school on the Parkway West Career and Technology Center campus. Pasekoff focused on schoolwork, took up the culinary arts program at Parkway and turned her situation around, going…
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
PennDOT will close Presto-Sygan Road for several weeks as crews begin working to fix the damaged roadway in South Fayette.
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- Mike Jones
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012
PennDOT will close Presto-Sygan Road for several weeks as crews begin working to fix the damaged South Fayette roadway. Work will begin June 18 to build a retaining wall where the northbound lane slid down a hillside following heavy rains in spring 2011. Stop signs and concrete barriers were place on Presto-Sygan Road near Bethany Cemetery, forcing motorists to stop and alternate driving on the remaining lane. Once the retaining wall is built, which PennDOT officials said should be finished by early July, the area will be prepared for final construction work in the fall. PennDOT expects the roadway to be fully restored by October. PennDOT is urging motorists to use posted detours, which will take drivers from Millers Run Road, turning …
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
Traffic that normally uses Carothers Avenue in Scott Township will be detoured through Carnegie.
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- Mike Jones
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
The Glendale Bridge that carries traffic from Carothers Avenue in Scott Township over to Carnegie will be closed this weekend for repairs. The closure will begin at 6 a.m. Saturday and run through 6 a.m. Monday. Traffic from Route 50 will be re-routed through Carnegie. People who normally use the bridge in Glendale instead should take Route 50 through Carnegie, turn left onto Main Street before taking Third Street. Local traffic, however, will be allowed to access the roads leading up to the bridge. Allegheny County’s public works department is conducting the work on the aging bridge. Meanwhile, PennDOT said construction crews will close one lane on Interstate 79 in both directions near the Bridgeville exit next Monday and Tuesday. The …
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1:22 pm on Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Parkway helped me really get threw my high school days,because it allowed me to study something I really enjoyed at that time and today 30 years later " Automotive Repair ".My jr and senior years I really looked forward to half days at Parkway,the second part of the day most tof the time I skpped.The districts can and should help find those students that have an interest and suggest an … more ›