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Pennsylvania lawmakers look to ban cellphone use in classrooms
3+ hour, 11+ min ago (877+ words) Lawmakers in Harrisburg are close to making classrooms statewide cellphone free. The state Senate Education Committee advanced a bill requiring that public schools adopt policies prohibiting cellphone use during the school day. It allows exceptions for students who have a…...
Data centers as 2025 newsmaker of the year
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (1528+ words) Data centers dominated local news throughout 2025, ushering in an unprecedented onslaught of new development and packing public meetings with standing-room-only crowds of concerned residents. Unlike the region's most recent boom, the warehousing and logistics industry, data center proposals often place…...
Data center developer tied to projects in Archbald, Blakely moves to Dickson City
2+ week, 3+ day ago (425+ words) A developer tied to data center projects in Archbald and Blakely now proposes to build four data centers in Dickson City across hundreds of mountainside acres above Business Route 6. Three of the proposed two-story data centers in Dickson City would…...
Dickson City receives four data center proposals
2+ week, 4+ day ago (576+ words) The data center industry has made its way to Dickson City. Dickson City is now the latest Midvalley community to receive proposals from data centers this year, joining Archbald, Jessup and Blakely. The borough received four proposals in late November…...
Archbald council passes data center zoning ordinance in divided vote
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (664+ words) In a divided vote and over the objections of residents, Archbald Borough Council on Monday night approved a zoning ordinance that defined data centers, designated where they can be built across four "data center overlays" through town and established conditions…...
Pennsylvania utility regulators propose special treatment for data centers
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (1169+ words) The wave of energy-hungry data centers cresting over an old utility grid is often described as unprecedented. So it's hard for utility regulators to lean on history for a roadmap. "This industry is moving at a speed the likes of…...
Valley View administrators look to data centers amid financial struggles
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (1252+ words) Although the Valley View School District has no control over proposed data centers within its borders, school administrators hope to capitalize on host agreements and tax revenue from the rapidly growing industry in the Midvalley. The Valley View School District…...
To stave off smartphones, parents answer the landline’s call: ‘I can’t recommend it highly enough’
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (817+ words) By Rachel Hutton, The Minnesota Star Tribune MINNEAPOLIS " Teenagers are generally obsessed with their smartphones. So much so that Kristin Hatling's family recently encountered a gaggle of them who had brought their screens into a resort's hot tub. "My daughter,…...
Dickson City to regulate data centers through zoning
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (372+ words) Dickson City is the latest Midvalley community working to regulate data centers. Dickson City's light manufacturing zoning encompasses Enterprise Street near Eagle Lane and undeveloped land southeast of Railroad Street. By scheduling a public hearing for its data center ordinance,…...
Will data center demands strain Archbald power, water, wildlife?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1727+ words) ARCHBALD " Staback Park offers a sweeping view of the borough's northern tier. Fields of brush and wetlands thicken into dense woods that insulate the park from all but a glint of lights from Business Route 6. White transmission lines on towering…...