Category: News
-
WPSD is now on Facebook!
Follow us on Facebook! The official WPSD Facebook page is now up! Sign up to learn more about happenings at the school, along with the latest on new programs and special events. Click here to sign up. And don’t forget to tell your friends!
-
Donate Alumni Pavilion Project Fund
If you are interested to make donation to WPSD Alumni for Pavilion Project fund, downlonad and print the PDF format to fill out the application form: Pavilion Project Flyer Form For more information about Alumni Pavilion project visit our article page.
-
Remains uncertain on use Deaf school property
BY SARAH HOFIUS HALL (STAFF WRITER) Published: September 22, 2010 Cleanup of school for deaf affects Marywood’s plans While Marywood University officials remain undecided on the use of the former Scranton State School for the Deaf property, one thing is certain: The cost for environmental cleanup will be significant. Members of the state House are…
-
House panel considers School f/t Deaf campus sale price
BY ROBERT SWIFT (HARRISBURG BUREAU CHIEF) Published: September 21, 2010 HARRISBURG – The estimated cost of ridding the former Scranton State School for the Deaf campus of environmental problems and rehabilitating selected buildings is between $25 million and $30 million, a state official told a House panel Monday. The high remediation costs are a major…
-
Lourdesmont campus sold to School for Deaf
By Gerard Hetman ghetman@theabingtonjournal.com Reporter / Photographer GOlackawanna SOUTH ABINGTON TWP. – For more than 100 years, the school now known as the Scranton School for Deaf and Hard-of Hearing Children has been a pillar of the local educational landscape. For many of those years, the Lourdesmont school in South Abington Township also helped fulfill the…
-
Alumni Pavilion Site
For seventy years, the Alumni Pavilion (as it was known) provided a place for friends to gather and a meeting place for a variety of activities. When the pavilion was torn down of the alumni felt it was a real loss to the community. Now the WPSD Alumni Association has decided to rebuild the pavilion…
-
Big plans for Lourdesmont campus
BY SARAH HOFIUS HALL (STAFF WRITER) Published: August 21, 2010 thetimes-tribune.com SOUTH ABINGTON TWP. – Behind the bricks and mortar, Don Rhoten sees a school full of promise. As Lourdesmont prepares to leave its 100-acre campus, the superintendent of the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf is eager to transform the property. “It will be…
-
For Bethel Park Eagle Scout it’s ‘adapt and overcome’
By Ellen Mitchell PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, July 29, 2010 As Boy Scouts across the United States celebrate the group’s 100th anniversary, one member is celebrating an achievement of a different kind. Brian Hertneky, 19, of Bethel Park recently received one of the greatest honors of his life, becoming an Eagle Scout. There’s just one small…
-
Alumni President: Support Pavilion Fund!
John Noschese, president of Alumni Association of WPSD ask for your support the fundraiser to fund the pavilion to build on Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf property. If you are interested to participate, contact to reach John Noschese by clicking here. To get more information about this, visit Alumni Pavilion Fund.