PennDOT highlights upcoming projects in local area
INDIANA, Pa. — PennDOT is highlighting regional projects anticipated to start or continue this year in its five-county District 10 region, which includes Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Indiana and Jefferson counties. Governor Shapiro’s commitment to delivering safe highways and bridges across the Commonwealth, remains a top priority. These investments support the Shapiro administration’s vision of a safe and reliable transportation network that connects Pennsylvanians to greater opportunity.
“We are pleased to highlight some of our upcoming projects and grateful for the federal funds available to us through the BIL (Bipartisan Infrastructure Law),” District 10 Executive Brian Allen said. “The investment allows us to continue moving projects forward and gives us additional resources to make travel easier and safer.”
Notable ongoing projects continuing into 2024 include:
Jefferson County:
• Resurfacing along Route 322 to include milling, patching, drainage and guiderail upgrades and other miscellaneous construction in Pine Creek and Winslow townships and Reynoldsville Borough from between Hatten Road to Route 950. $6.1 million. Anticipated completion in fall 2024.
• Replacement of the Baxter Bridge carrying Mount Pleasant Road (Route 3033) over Redbank Creek in Clover Township. This project will start at the intersection with Route 28 and end on the east side of the Baxter Bridge. $4.8 million. Anticipated completion in fall 2025.
• Safety improvement project at the intersection of Route 219 and Route 28 in Brockway Borough to include milling, patching
football career.
His high-school career included being a three-year letter winner and being team captain twice, among various other regional sports honors and awards in football. In basketball, he was a two-year letter winner and team captain, along with holding the school three-point record for a time and other awards and honors.
At the end of his collegiate football career at Gannon, he held 10 records upon graduation, and he is still listed in a lot of those top-ten categories, including pass attempts and completions and most 200-300 yard games. Plus, he was also a three-time Team Academic Award Winner.
Despite suffering an injury and only playing about four games his senior year, he was a fouryear starter and three-year letterman.
Upon graduation, he taught at Kittanning for three years before moving to Punxsy and starting his teaching career here in 2002.
For over 20 years, he has been coaching football in Punxsy, along with 15 years of coaching basketball for the Chucks. And that is on top of a few years of coaching basketball at West Shamokin and coaching tennis at PAHS for 12 years.
And during the last three spring seasons, he has been helping to coach the Chucks Track and Field team, including coaching his sons, Ryen and Kaden.
And this weekend, he will be joining the Armstrong County Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2024, one of the oldest in
Pennsylvania, getting its start in the early 1970s.
“To be part of that and being inducted in with guys that I knew growing up and with guys that coached me is a nice honor, to be held in the same level as them,” said Heigley. “It’s really an honor for them to recognize what I achieved, and I give a big thanks to the guys that were the footsteps before me to pave the way for something like this.”
He added, “I’m just trying to pass the torch with all the coaching I do that hopefully, someday, some of my athletes can get the recognition and be successful in life.”