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Mayor Stephen R. Reed today unveiled an additional comprehensive financial plan that would have sweeping benefits for the City’s financial picture and municipal service operations.
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Mayor Stephen R. Reed today said that Harrisburg Police have made two additional arrests in connection with illegal dumping activities within the city. Both of the individuals involved live in surrounding suburbs and came into the city to illegally dump debris.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today invited residents and visitors from throughout the midstate to the City of Harrisburg’s 2008 Holiday Parade, set to begin at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 22, 2008, in downtown Harrisburg. The popular annual holiday tradition kicks off the Thanksgiving-Hanukkah-Christmas-Kwanzaa-New Year’s Eve Season for the Greater Harrisburg Region.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today announced that Capital BlueCross has provided funding to the City of Harrisburg to remove the old fitness equipment located throughout Riverfront Park and to replace to it with new, state-of-the-art equipment. Crews will begin removing the old equipment this week and installation of the new equipment is slated for completion in early-Spring of 2009.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today announced that M&T Bank will once again partner with the City in presenting the popular M&T Bank New Year’s Eve Celebration. This marks the seventh consecutive year of partnership between the City of Harrisburg and M&T Bank. The midstate’s most popular New Year’s Eve Celebration includes live entertainment, fireworks and children’s entertainment and begins at 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 31, 2008.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today said that Center for Intercultural Education and Development at Georgetown University has brought the first of many groups of foreign students and executives to Central Pennsylvania to visit area businesses and meet with executives as part of a newly-formed partnership between the City of Harrisburg and the Center for Intercultural Education and Development (CIED). Several visits are being planned for the coming year.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today announced additional actions that have been taken over the past month to combat illegal dumping that occurs in the City of Harrisburg. Reed said four arrests have been made in connection with seven separate dumping instances. Each offender has been charged with several counts of illegally dumping debris and in at least half of the instances, the offenders are not City residents and traveled from their home community to dump in the City.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed and officials from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today dedicated a major city-sponsored housing upgrade and renovation project that has included the acquisition and current or future rehabilitation of over 25 properties, the demolition of 23 blighted properties, and an overall investment of $2,046,328 in a targeted Uptown area.
More homes and apartments with lead paint hazards have been treated this year under Harrisburg’s award-winning lead poisoning prevention program, Mayor Stephen R. Reed today reported for the kick-off of the city’s annual observances of Lead Paint Hazard Weeks at the YWCA of Greater Harrisburg. The City’s lead abatement efforts were funded this year by a $2.1 million U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Lead Hazard Control Grant and a $249,000 PA Department of Health grant.
Congressman Tim Holden(PA-17), State Senator Jeff Piccola and Mayor Stephen R. Reed today announced that the Fulton Bank Branch Office at 1401 N. Third Street will be relocating one block north to the evolving Midtown Campus District at N. Third and Reily Streets. The new branch will be opposite the newly restored HACC Midtown II center and across the street from the now-under construction Campus Square Building.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed, the Strawberry Square Development Corporation and the Capital Area Intermediate Unit (CAIU) today announced plans for a new 10,400 square foot home on the first floor in Strawberry Square (Third and Walnut Streets) for the Capital Area School for the Arts (CASA) which is slated to open in August of 2009.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today said that the Harrisburg School District has been awarded the prestigious Improving Literacy Through School Libraries Grant through the U.S. Department of Education.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today announced that the top award for the City’s annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Essay Contest will now be named for the late Evangelene L. Kimber, the late principal of the John Harris Campus of Harrisburg High School.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today recognized the extraordinary efforts of city and volunteer firefighters, rescue personnel, and private citizens for their life-saving actions over the past year. The awards program coincides with the city’s annual observances of Fire Safety Month.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today announced that Roma J. Benjamin, who has been serving as principal at the Lincoln School in the Harrisburg School District, is now appointed to serve as the Interim Principal at the John Harris Campus of Harrisburg High School.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed reminds city residents that Trick or Treat Night in Harrisburg and most of Dauphin County’s other municipalities will be held on Thursday, October 30, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The date and time for the fun-filled evening is annually set by the Dauphin County Chiefs of Police Association.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today said that all incoming and outgoing city phone lines, including non-emergency lines at the city’s emergency dispatch center, will be inactive from 3:45 a.m. until 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday, September 30, 2008. The city’s 911 system will be unaffected and will remain operational.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today said that the Harrisburg School District’s 2008-2009 after-school program, now in its seventh year, is in full swing at all of the district’s 11 elementary schools. The program runs Monday through Friday from 3:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. at all locations except for the Scott School which runs from Monday through Thursday.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today said that the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) has awarded the City three New Communities Grants for neighborhood planning and improvements. The grants are part of the Elm Street neighborhood revitalization program for residential and mixed-use areas in proximity to central business districts.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today announced that Theatre Harrisburg has chosen the two recipients of the 2008 Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts in the Capital Region (Arts Award). The winners of this year’s awards are artist Robert Stadnycki and the Capital Area School for the Arts (CASA).
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today said that final arrangements have been made by the family of the late Harrisburg High School Principal Evangelene L. Kimber. Ms. Kimber passed away at 11:55 p.m. on Monday, September 15, after being hospitalized on Friday, September 12, 2008.
Stephen R. Reed announced tonight with great sadness the passing of Ms. Evangelene L. Kimber, beloved Principal for the past seven years of Harrisburg High School. She passed away at 11:55 p.m. on Monday (Sept. 15) at Osteopathic Hospital.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today reported that a full response team from Pennsylvania Task Force One has been activated and dispatched to Galveston, Texas, to deal with effects of Hurricane Ike, which will directly strike the coastal island city today.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed said that all city phone lines are now back in service and are fully operational. He said the brief outage of incoming calls has been resolved and is considered to have been a minor glitch.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed this afternoon said that an unidentified telecommunications problem is currently causing all external calls made to any of the city’s departmental phone lines to come through as a busy signal.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today announced that two new school-based health centers have been established so that every student from the PreK Early Childhood Program to Grade 12 can receive full medical and dental care in the Harrisburg School District.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed said that a city sanitation worker was killed late this morning after an accident occurred involving a sanitation packer.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today said that circumstances and needs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, are reported by the city’s officials as becoming more "dire" in the wake of extensive damage from Hurricane Gustav earlier this week.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today officially dedicated a major improvement project to the Capital Area Greenbelt which has been recently completed in the City’s Uptown.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today announced that the City’s Tenth Annual "Get Hooked on Fishing Derby" will be held at the Jackson–Lick Pool at 1201 N. Sixth Street during the weekend of September 13-15, 2008. The free fishing derby will be open to youth only on Saturday, September 13. On Sunday, September 14, and Monday, September 15, the derby will be open to families, seniors, and special needs groups.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today appealed to businesses, non-profit groups and citizens to donate badly-needed materials to the City of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Mayor Stephen R. Reed today said that a recent University of Pennsylvania study hailed the reform efforts underway in the Harrisburg School District, with the District’s highest ever levels of progress now being registered according to state proficiency guidelines. Five city schools attained Average Yearly Progress (AYP) levels this year with another barely missing the state-mandated benchmark. Only three city schools attained the ranking last year.
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