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New Castle is the county seat of Lawrence County which has a population of approximately 91,000. In 1998, New Castle was a host city for the History Channel Great Race. Over 15,000 spectators gathered downtown for the festivities. The city celebrated its 200th birthday in 1998 with a downtown fireworks festival that attracted over 30,000 people.
The New Castle Youth Development Center (NCYDC), a juvenile detention center of the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services, was located in the township. The facility, which opened in 1969, had 236,444-square-foot (21,966.4 m 2) of space in 13 buildings, and almost 150-acre (61 ha) of land.
The history of the current WUZZ can be traced back to the late 1960s. The station, known then as WBZY, signed on for the very first time August 25, 1968 from studios in the First National Bank building on Mill Street in downtown New Castle, marking the return of the call sign since 1964 when 990 AM in Torrington, CT was shut down.
2022 - 2023 season: The New Castle Bocce Team had a finishing season score of 1 wins to 3 losses. 2023 - 2024 season: The New Castle Bocce Team had a finishing season score of 2 wins to 2 losses. and got 2nd place in the Ellwood City Playoff game, and advanced to the regional championships on March 7, 2024.
New Castle Township is a township that is located in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States, in the state's Coal Region. The population was 348 at the time of the 2020 census. The population was 348 at the time of the 2020 census.
The Warners, residents of nearby Youngstown, Ohio, were sons of Polish Jews wanting to break into the newly-established and burgeoning film business. After successfully presenting a used copy of The Great Train Robbery at Idora Park in Youngstown, [1] the brothers traveled to New Castle to screen the movie in a vacant store on a site that would later become the Cascade Center. [2]
The name changed again in 1960 to the Canonsburg Youth Development Center. Two years later, in 1962, a hospital for mentally disabled individuals opened on the campus. Over time, the Youth Development Center was phased out, and the mental hospital, eventually known as Western Center, took over some of the former reformatory buildings. [4]
The New Castle News is a six-day (Monday through Saturday) daily newspaper published in New Castle, Pennsylvania, and covering Lawrence County. It is owned by CNHI . The News also publishes an 8,700-circulation weekly newspaper in nearby Ellwood City, Pennsylvania , called South County News .