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TEMPO
Juliana is just one participant in this year's Valentine card making class at Sweetwater.
See Pages 15,16.
NEWS
Village Candy, a specialty sweetshop on Beaver Street, will open in early March. Meet the owner on See Page 10.
SPORTS
Becca Blazak and the Quaker. Valley girls' 200:yard freestyle relay team took first at the MAC Championships this (last weekend. See Page 25.
Local News...................2
Opinion......................6
School...................12-14
Tempo.......................15
Obituaries...............21-22
Sports .....................23
Real Estate.................28
Thursday, February 23*!
HiiOiS SALUTE
FRIENDS AND family gathered at St. Matthews A.M.E. Zion Church to honor William Allen Johnston II and the other Tuskegee airmen. Photo by Todd Brunozzi
Local Tuskegee airmen honored
By Donn S. Dreoland
Editor
“Step. Step. Step”
The commander kept cadence as the 171st ARW Base Honor Guard placed the flags, snapping a salute to our country and members of the Tuskegee Eight, local World War II veterans who served in a most distinguished way.
. Lt. William A. Johnston II, Lt. Robert and Lt. Mitchell Higginbotham, Sgt. James A. Addison, Sgt. Frank Hailstock Jr., Lt. William Curtis, Lt. William Gilliam and Lt. Curtis Branch — all from the Sewickley area — entered the Tuskegee Institute to learn the art and skill of aviation.
Their contributions to Black History were
honored on Sunday in a program hosted by the Daniel B. Matthews Historical Society in St. Matthews A.M.E. Zion Church.
Taking part were members of the society, old friends of the families and sons or nephews of the men who answered duty’s call so long ago.
William A. Johnston III read a tribute to his father, “a man born to fly.” Robert Higginbotham II, Esq., executive director of the Tuskegee Airmen Inc., saluted their efforts.
“Their legacy is a challenge for our greatness,” he said.,
“Theirs was a double victory — in Europe and here in America for integration,"
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OSBORNE
Council may take over old house site
By Kristina Krogiel__
Staff writer
Plans for the demolition of -an unsafe structure at 543 Glen Mitchell Road are well under way; however, what to do with the property afterwards remains up in the air.
Harlan Stone, borough solicitor, told council at Tuesday’s regular monthly meeting that new developments arose last week involving the mortgage lender of the Glen Mitchell home, Citi Financial.
Stone said the lender wants the borough to consider exploring whether they’d be interested in accepting a donation of the property from them.
The property was heavily damaged by rains Hurricane Ivan dumped on the region in September 2004, which caused a hillside to slide and the housing structure on the property to become unstable.
Members of council questioned what could be done with the property if they did accept the donation or if the steep slope was even stable enough to allow for any new developments.
Councilman Thomas Arbo-gast said if council did not accept the donation of the property, it would essentially become an eye sore because there will be no one to take care of it. The borough then could not do anything to the property but stabilize it.
“If we own it, we can beautify it, if you will, or do something with it,” he said.
One major concern dis-
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