Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Car crashes are the leading cause of death for children between the ages of 4 and 8, police said.
The Moon Township Police Department will now offer a child safety seat lending program for families in need of secure, properly installed seats. Police Chief Leo McCarthy said the department received a shipment of 126 child safety seats through a grant awarded by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and the American Academy of Pediatrics. "Any parent or mother can show up here if they can't afford a seat and we'll put the seat in," McCarthy said. "This isn't a seat giveaway. When they're done with the seat, when the child outgrows it, they can return it, and we'll clean it and hopefully lend it out again." McCarthy, who estimates the shipment of child safety seats is valued at more than $7,000, said seats in the department's …
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Friday, November 23, 2012
The long-planned athletic complex will border Moon, Robinson and Coraopolis.
The Pennsylvania Department of Natural Resources has awarded a $300,000 grant toward a long-planned multi-use athletic complex that will border Moon, Coraopolis and Robinson. The state grant, awarded this month through the Allegheny County Redevelopment Authority, will benefit the proposed 78-acre Montour Junction sports and athletic complex and multi-purpose fields. The money will fund landscaping, handicap accessibility and other site improvements at the facility and surrounding grounds, according to information from Pennsylvania DCNR. The sports center is designed to straddle the three communities, bordered by Route 51 and the Coraopolis Bridge. The site of the complex was owned by the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad before it was…
Monday, April 2, 2012
The grant will be used to purchase science equipment for middle schoolers.
The Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh has awarded the Moon Area School District a $3,000 grant. The funding will be used to purchase science equipment for the district's fifth-graders, who in the fall will move from the district's elementary to middle school building. The group also awarded the middle school a $600 grant to purchase supplies. According to a statement from the district: "Although we currently use many labs in fifth grade, next year we will actually have real classrooms set up for labs," said fifth-grade teacher Elaine Mitchell. "Therefore we have implemented more lab sessions into our curriculum." The school district will conduct an informational meeting for parents April 25 about curriculum changes for …
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Robert Crytzer
10:57 pm on Friday, November 23, 2012
The property is heavily polluted, so a good chunk of the $10 to $15 million cost of the project is going toward remediation. But, let's keep it rolling! more ›