Pete Sirianni

1 week ago | ncnewsonline.com | Pete Sirianni

What were your early days of the pandemic like? For most of us, it meant staying home from work and getting well-acquainted with the four walls of our living rooms and kitchens. In between, there was probably a Netflix show or two consumed and Zoom calls with friends. kAmw6C6 :D H92E H2D 92AA6?:?8 7:G6 J62CD 28@[ D@>6 @7 H9:49 x C6>6>36C H9:=6 >@DE :D 2 3=FC]k^AmkAmkDEC@?8mpAC:= `bk^DEC@?8m kDEC@?8m—k^DEC@?8m w@H >2?J t2DE6C qF??:6D 42? H6 7:E @?

2 weeks ago | ncnewsonline.com | Pete Sirianni

Things are looking up in the New Castle Area School District. It wasn’t long ago the district was in a sort of flux — a prolonged changeover in leadership, new school board members, shuffling of administrators and too much commotion in the hallways than learning in the classroom. kAmx? 724E[ x HC@E6 :? E9:D DA246 :? $6AE6>36C a_ab 2 A:646 E:E=65[ “(92E 6I24E=J :D 8@:?8 @? :? E96 }rp$sn”k^AmkAm%92E’D ?@E E@ D2J 2== E9:?8D 92G6 366? D@=G65 :?

2 weeks ago | ncnewsonline.com | Pete Sirianni

The calendar says 2020 was five years ago, but it seems both more recent and in the distant past. A lot has happened in five years. April 2020 was smack-dab at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in America. For me, someone with a really good memory, the best way I can date things in my mind is to remember them as pre- or post-pandemic. kAm$E:==[ D@>6 E9:?8D D=:AA65 E9C@F89 E96 4C24<D @7 >J >6>@CJ] $@[ x FD65 >J k2 9C67lQ9EEAi^^?4?6HD@?=:?6]4@>Qm?4?6HD@?=:?6]4@>k^2m =@8:?

4 weeks ago | ncnewsonline.com | Pete Sirianni

Every March, we grab our clocks off the wall and turn them ahead an hour as part of our spring to-do lists. For Leonard Rich and Larry Kelly, March is the time of the year to take a closer look at the PIAA and its need, in their opinion, to come up with a better system that protects public school teams and athletes.

1 month ago | ncnewsonline.com | Pete Sirianni

Construction is slated to begin as early as spring on downtown’s first new building in decades. Preeminence I, the five-story apartment complex proposed by Metrovitalization and its president Ricky Trinidad, will take shape in the area of 119 E. Washington St. between Apple Alley Way and Zambelli Park. Trinidad highlighted several aspects of the planned mixed-use building during a Thursday presentation for New Castle City Council.