{"id":19846,"date":"2013-12-10T08:56:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T13:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=19846"},"modified":"2013-12-10T08:56:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T13:56:31","slug":"pocopson-gets-250k-grant-for-barnard-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=19846","title":{"rendered":"Pocopson gets $250K grant for Barnard House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Marcellus Shale funds to help pay for exterior work<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>By Kelli Siehl<\/strong>, <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>Staff Writer, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19847\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PicnicTables.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19847\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-19847\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"PicnicTables\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PicnicTables-300x248.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PicnicTables-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PicnicTables-120x100.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PicnicTables.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A $250,000 grant, funded by Marcellus Shale income, will help pay for paving and other projects at Pocopson&#8217;s Barnard House, township officials said.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>POCOPSON \u2014 Sometimes it\u2019s better to receive than to give &#8211; especially when it comes to saving taxpayer money. Such was the case at a recent Township Supervisors\u2019 meeting when officials announced the receipt of a $250,000 grant to assist with renovations of the historic Barnard House property \u2014 slated to eventually become the new municipal building for the township.<\/p>\n<p>Supervisors\u2019 Vice Chair, Georgia Brutscher said the money is coming from the state\u2019s Marcellus Legacy Fund which is administered by the Commonwealth Financing Authority (CFA).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by the Governor\u2019s Office, Gov. Tom Corbett said, \u201cWe established the programs to ensure a portion of the funds collected through the Marcellus Shale impact fee goes back to local communities to support environmental enhancement and conservation programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first round of funding, according to Corbett, will provide more than $16 million to support 116 greenways, trails and recreation projects throughout Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Brutscher said the funds will be used to improve the greenway surrounding the historic structure including construction of a circular driveway, parking lot and handicapped bathroom facilities for the site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcellus Shale funds to help pay for exterior work By Kelli Siehl, Staff Writer, The Times POCOPSON \u2014 Sometimes it\u2019s better to receive than to give &#8211; especially when it comes to saving taxpayer money. Such was the case at a recent Township Supervisors\u2019 meeting when officials announced the receipt of a $250,000 grant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[301,968,1166,234,10],"class_list":["post-19846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-barnard-house","tag-gov-tom-corbett","tag-grants","tag-marcellus-shale","tag-pocopson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}