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27-05-2025
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West Middlesex softball falls in district title game
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. (WKBN) – West Middlesex softball falls to Cambridge Springs, 12-0, in the Class 1A District 10 Championship game at Slippery Rock University Monday afternoon. The win marks Cambridge Springs' 11th district title and third consecutive championship. Blue Devil's Kayla Crawford had 12 strikeouts in the dominant win. The Big Reds fall to an overall season record of (8-11). Cambridge Springs moves on to the 2025 PIAA Softball State Tournament. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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17-05-2025
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PA inmate sentenced for having meth and drug paraphernalia while on parole
TOWANDA Pa. (WETM) — An inmate from the Cambridge Springs State Correctional Institution was sentenced to time in the Bradford County Correctional Facility recently after she was caught with meth and drug materials while on parole, according to a release from the Bradford County District Attorney's Office. Melissa D. Ackley, 36, was sentenced to a flat sentence of 45 days in the Bradford County Correctional Facility for the crimes of possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia. Canton man sentenced nearly two years in jail after 2024 police chase According to the DA, an officer from the Towanda Borough Police Department found Ackley with the above-listed items while she was on state parole, which resulted in her charges. The DA further states, once Ackley has served her time in the county jail, she will then be moved to a state prison where she will have to answer to other crimes. The DA added, more state jail time is expected. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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05-04-2025
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RoboBOTS returns today
Bragging rights are on the line at today's RoboBOTS tournament not only for the championship team and its school, but also for one family holding its own mini reunion. Technical education teachers Asa Williams III and Carissa Williams not only are husband and wife, but RoboBOTS team coaches for Cambridge Springs and Meadville, respectively. Two of their sons, Asa Williams IV, 28, and Dillan Williams, 24, serve as referees for the robot battles. Asa IV works as a tool and die maker at Riley Tool in Cochranton while Dillan is a mechanical engineer at Ridg-U-Rak, a manufacturing company in North East. Asa III has been involved as an adviser and coach in the RoboBOTS program since it started in the 2006-2007 school year. He first was a technical education education teacher at Maplewood High School and has been at Cambridge Springs High School for about the past 10 years. Carissa Williams has been a coach and adviser at Meadville just since the 2022-2023 year when she got involved in January 2023 as a long-term substitute teacher in technical education. She was on Meadville's staff the year before as a ceramics art teacher. However, she had certification in technical education as well. Carissa Williams, though, has a RoboBOTS tournament championship as a coach with Meadville winning in 2023. 'When I became the long-term substitute that January (2023), I had 10 weeks to help the kids get it together,' she said. 'I had always went with (Asa III) to the tournaments — but it was the first year competing against each other.' 'The night before (the tournament) we were talking about it and he said, 'If you win, you have to take the kids to nationals',' Carissa recalled. 'We laughed and laughed about it — then we won.' There is a good natured rivalry between the couple, evident in a reporter's visit to Cambridge Springs High School earlier this week to Asa III's classroom. He posed a key question to his students, 'What's our goal?' 'Beat Meadville!' was shouted back by the students. Both Asa III and Carissa say they enjoy seeing students involved in the RoboBOTS program grow as they apply lessons while having fun. 'It's great seeing the kids come up with ideas,' Asa III said. 'It's designed to make the kids think outside the box. It's manufacturing, budgeting, fund-raising. It's like running a real business.' 'It's getting them involved in all the different aspects of it — from design to documentation to manufacturing,' Carissa said. 'The kids learn what they don't like and do like.' Both the Williams' sons enjoyed growing up with RoboBOTS. First, they were just tagging along as small children. Then it expanded to being involved as students with their dad, and it led to careers in manufacturing and being referees with the tournament. 'I get first-class seats for all the bouts as a referee,' Asa IV joked about being a referee. 'I enjoy it,' Dillan said. 'It is always a blast. I learned a lot through RoboBOTS and it's helped me become a project engineer.' RoboBOTS was started by the northwestern Pennsylvania chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA), a manufacturing trade group, to get students interested in manufacturing and technical careers. The competition has student teams design and build 15-pound robots that battle it out in a double-elimination tournament held at Meadville Area Senior High School. YOU CAN GO RoboBOTS is a hands-on robot-building contest for high school and middle school students sponsored by the northwestern Pennsylvania chapter of the National Tooling and Machining Association. This year, 27 teams from 12 schools in the region will have robots battle against each other today at Meadville Area Senior High, 930 North St. Extension. Admission is free. Doors open at 8 a.m. with competition at 9.
