PUNXSUTAWNEY — Rachelle Bray knew the odds were rare.
But she wasn’t sure how rare — not until she received a phone call in June, and the voice on the other line said she was a match.
There is only a one in 20,000 chance that someone could be an unrelated, compatible bone marrow donor, according to the American Bone Marrow Donor Registry.
And Bray was that one.
“Everybody is unique,” Bray, who is a cardiopulmonary technologist for the Punxsutawney Area Hospital, said. “To find two people, and their blood is that similar, it’s exciting.”
PUNXSUTAWNEY — Work continues on the downtown traffic signal replacement project, but the new traffic signals will not be placed into service until the beginning of March.
Motorists who travel through downtown Punxsutawney will notice that the new traffic light poles and mast arms are being installed throughout Mahoning Street in downtown Punxsutawney by Power Contracting, Kirby Starr, PennDOT project inspector, said.
