Zach Berger

“Doing nothing doesn’t solve any of the current issues,” says Mark Holdren, township planner. “The sinkholes won’t go away. There will still be stormwater issues in the area. Even if the land stays in the agricultural zoning district, there can still be development on that land.”

When her house gets packed to the brim with rescued wildlife, it’s more important than ever for Robyn Graboski to remind people of when it is and isn’t appropriate to take in an animal. “We get a lot of calls every year about fawns people find by themselves,” she says. “But that’s normal.”

The coming vote could be a landmark decision for the borough. “I am 100 percent certain that if we do nothing, that section of town will atrophy,” Lafer says. “There will be entropy and buildings will fall into disrepair and the neighborhood will be hurt.”

A collection of 18th and 19th century tools were shown off at the mansion Sunday afternoon. “They didn’t have power tools,” collector Harry Ward says. “Everything was done by hand and they had to be true craftsman to make the finished products they had in the homes that we live in.”

At approximately 6:45 p.m. on Friday, 29-year-old construction worker Jerod Chapman was breaking down a crane at the Burrowes Building to move it when crane swung and struck him. The Uniontown native was taken to Mount Nittany Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

“Ceremonies like this are important so people don’t forget about what it took for us to raise the original flag over 200 years ago,” Elks Lodge officer Jeff Kephart says, “There were battles. It didn’t come freely and it isn’t easy to maintain.”

“When we get into this season where the days get hot and the nights stay hot and sticky, and sometimes the equipment doesn’t have a chance to cool down because of a weak spot, that’s when you get a power failure,” Meyers says.