Locust Gap News

The Mount Carmel Area Board of Education Merit Award winners for April were announced at the May 17 school board meeting.

Plans for the Memorial Day holiday were finalized at the quarterly meeting of James A. Garfield Camp 34, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War May 9 at the Lithuanian Social Club.

Mount Carmel Township Board of Supervisors appointed another attorney to advise police in a lawsuit involving a neighboring borough to avoid a conflict of interest for the township's solicitor, who is the plaintiff's attorney.

Instead of shutting down four post offices, the U.S. Postal Service will reduce window service at 15 area offices as part of a financial strategy in coming years.

The seventh-grade Junior High Pride Award winner at Mount Carmel Area for February is Lane Tanney, a son of Edward and Angela Tanney, of Locust Gap.