PUNXSUTAWNEY â As energy prices continue to rise, a newly-elected member of Punxsutawney Borough Council had a suggestion on how the borough can save money during these high-cost times.
Eric Story said as an experiment, he set up solar panels and ran the wires to a circuit breaker box for safety. The experiment â using solar energy, he said â has saved him money and could be used in some of the boroughâs buildings.
Story said when the green lights are flashing on the inverter box, it shows him that the solar panels are working and creating electricity.
BROOKVILLE â Kim Rhodes, executive director for the Mentor Parent Program said bullying has become an âepidemic.â
To address the need she has seen first-hand in the community, her program will host a bullying walkathon this year that will take place in Jefferson County.
âBullying is a big thing across the board and across the world,â Rhodes said.
The Mentor Parent Program is a community-based parent project created in 1989 by parents of children with special needs to support, assist and provide expertise to parents in rural northwest Pennsylvania.
