BROOKVILLE — When the doors to the Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurant in Punxsutawney closed in March, it signified only the beginning of numerous closings for a local franchise.
KFC restaurants in Brookville, DuBois and Clarion recently followed suit after several disputes between the stores’ franchisee and KFC Corporate.
Ganesh Rao and his wife, Gita Rao, of Rao’s Hospitality felt forced to close the stores, which number 14, after experiencing what he feels was “harassment and discrimination” from KFC Corporate.
Because of the closings, 239 jobs were lost.
BIG RUN — Alvin Kendall doesn’t spend the fall and winter planning what will go into his garden during the spring and summer.
“I start early when the weather fits,” he said at his home along Main Street in Big Run. “I have no schedules.”
Kendall’s schedule-less work plan has paid off, as it has been cited as the Punxsutawney Garden Club’s “Garden of the Month” for May, and the first of 2012.
Born, raised and still living in Big Run, Kendall has lived in his house since 1964, where the backyard was previously a vegetable garden, “but I don’t play with vegetables,” he said.
