Updated: Las Animas receives academic honors for second year running
Las Animas Elementary School recently won a coveted state award
UPDATED: Council OKs more layoffs with slight tweak
UPDATED:A weary and sometimes combative city council gave City
Donald Jackson Kerr
Donald J. Kerr (D.J.)age 85, died unexpectedly on Saturday December 13th at Community Hospital of the Monterey Pennisula. Mr. Kerr was born in Vestaburgh, PA. Don spent his formative years in McKeesport, PA and graduated from McKeesport High School. He met his future wife Louise Boehmer, a cheerleader, while playing Center position for the McKHS Tigers football team. They were married after WWII and were together for 55 years. Don was a Paratrooper in the U.S. Army during WWII serving in New Guinea and the Phillipines. After the war, Don attended the University of Pittsburgh and graduated in 1950 with a B.S. in Business Administration. After graduation, he worked for the Naval Research Institute in Washington D.C. The majority of his career however, was spent working for the Westinghouse Corporation, specializing in the area of Nuclear Power. It was his work with Westinghouse that brought Don and his family to Saratoga in 1964. Among his numerous projects was procurement associated with the Nautilus and Skipjack; the first two Nuclear Submarines to venture under the Polar Ice Cap.
Young and old honor victims of drunk driving, gang violence
Dozens of city officials, community organizers, mindful students
Body found in Christmas tree lot, police suspicious
A body was found lying face up in a puddle of water at a
