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Our weekly feature on interesting homes for sale in central Pa. — Cool Spaces — always lives up to its name. This week's highlighted house, though, is extra cool. Our Dan Gleiter photographed and wrote about the home that sits on 2.74 acres in Middle Paxton Township. It used to be part of the Fort Hunter estate. It was built in 1921 by a Washington Senators baseball player who became a surgeon in Harrisburg. He had the 5,257-square-foot stone and cedar exterior home made to look like a manor from the isle of Barra, Scotland. The next owner was Pa. Gov. James Henderson Duff and his wife, Jean. The home still has original hardwood floors, ornate moldings, built-ins, sitting rooms and five fireplaces. More modern additions include a saltwater pool and a four-car garage. If it hasn't already been sold, its asking price is just under $1.5M. We have a free real estate newsletter that goes out via email weekly. Sign up here. |
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Learning cursive: Cursive writing is no longer required in Pennsylvania and many other states — a casualty of the common core standards introduced into schools more than a decade ago that favored keyboard instruction. Some lawmakers want it to come back. Market rent hike: Vendors at Harrisburg's Broad Street Market – where a building was severely damaged in a fire last year – will be charged nearly twice their usual rent for the majority of 2024, according to a letter sent last week from the executive director. The fire cost the market significant income that needs to be made up, the letter said. The market's board said the market has been losing about $8,000 to $10,000 a month since the fire. Stipend for student teachers: Pennsylvania has established a student teacher stipend program as part of an education bill that became law late last year. The hope is that the payments up to $15,000 will help turn around a teacher shortage. Big names head to retirement: Three popular men in media are leaving their central Pa. posts this year: PennLive's David Jones, Penn State football, basketball and many-other-things writer, is retiring in spring. Pat Principe, the veteran sports director at WGAL 8 in Lancaster, is also retiring. Another from WGAL, chief meteorologist Joe Calhoun, is retiring after 36 years with the TV station. |
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Man's mysterious drowning: A 72-year-old Harrisburg man who accidentally drowned in the Susquehanna River last month had crashed his car a few hours before he was found in the water, police said. Officers said he didn't seem impaired after the crash, and he went home. Fire victim ID'd: A 65-year-old woman trapped in a Harrisburg house fire on New Year's Day died of severe burns, authorities said. The Lehigh County coroner's office said Brenda L. Cuff died early Tuesday. Double-murder, suicide: A York County man killed his wife and teenage son in their home last week and fled the scene before fatally stabbing himself, police said. Another son was injured but managed to escape. Man shot by police dies: An armed man who was shot after firing at three Lancaster police officers during a November confrontation has died, prosecutors said yesterday. William Oneill, 40, ignored about eight orders to drop his weapon before he was shot outside a city home, according to the DA, who ruled last month that the officers' use of force was justified. Grandma, baby killed: The Lehigh County coroner's office has identified the 44-year-old grandmother and her 1-year-old grandson killed in weekend gunfire that included three incidents in Allentown. A man in their home was injured. |
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