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CBS News
26-06-2025
- Business
- CBS News
"eBay for government" helps agencies and schools auction off property, Municibid founder says
A little slice of land in Ambridge Borough could be yours at a steep discount, and all the proceeds will benefit the local community. "We're like an eBay for government," said Greg Berry, CEO and founder of online government auction site Municibid. Berry says his company helps local governments auction off anything, from parcels of land and old desks to school buses and riding mowers. So far, about 7,000 local governments and schools use the online site to sell unneeded items to the public. The latest listing in Ambridge consists of a nearly 4,000-square-foot parcel of land along Glenwood Drive. Twenty-two bids have already been placed at just over $5,000. "A lot of times, smaller towns, and larger ones, have excess land or land that they've come into own in some form, and they don't have a need for it and they're looking to sell it," said Berry. He said maybe in this case, a neighbor wants to expand or a new park could pop up in the space. Berry says governments sell just about everything on his site. "While it's typically vehicles and heavy equipment and tools and land and things that you might expect the government to have and no longer need, it could be anything, such as sailboats and airplanes and jewelry and electric guitars," Berry said. Municibid allows consumers to sort and shop by state, borough or category. And when a winner scores a deal, here's how the costs break down. "When the auction closes and there's a winning bidder, the winning bidder pays us 9% of the winning bid amount, and then they pay 100% of the bid amount to the selling agency," Berry said. Gone are the days of going to the town hall to fill out a sealed bid. Berry told KDKA he used to work as a borough councilor and found that process far from transparent. "No one knew what the governments were selling, and if they did, the process was super inconvenient and intimidating and just wasn't very easy," said Berry. Besides the Ambridge property, KDKA found a lot of items up for grabs in the Pittsburgh area, including an ATV in Mt. Lebanon, a 2020 Ford Explorer in Castle Shannon, a Ford Crown Victoria police car in New Castle, and golf carts in Greensburg. Berry told KDKA some parents snag their teenagers' first car on the site, or business owners land some needed equipment at a fraction of the price.
Times
23-06-2025
- Business
- Times
My simple plan for affordable homes that keeps everyone happy
I have lived in the same village in Worcestershire for the past 50 years, on the same land that my family has farmed since the middle of the 18th century, in the area that inspired the village of Ambridge from The Archers. To sustain employment on the land, which had fallen from more than 60 people when I began down to three in the Eighties, we have diversified into hydroelectricity, housebuilding, hosting weddings and the invention of flower petal confetti, for which we grow more than 30 acres of flowers in a field that is visited by people from all over the world. In summer, we can employ more than 80 people. However this success in the rural economy is coupled with an incongruity. Many of these employees, including people who grew up in the village, complain that they can't afford to raise their families here.
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Yahoo
Family of man killed in shooting in Ambridge speaks out
Channel 11 is learning new information about what may have led to a deadly shooting in Ambridge, Beaver County. We first told you on Tuesday that 26-year-old Mason Lang-Goins was shot and killed along Church Street. PREVIOUS COVERAGE >>> Deadly shooting outside Ambridge home under investigation Channel 11's Rich Pierce spoke to Lang-Goin's family to learn more about him and the deadly crime. Tune in to Channel 11 News at 11 p.m. for the latest. Download the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Channel 11 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch WPXI NOW
CBS News
03-06-2025
- General
- CBS News
Man killed in Ambridge shooting
A man is dead after a shooting in Ambridge on Tuesday. Ambridge Police Chief John DeLuca said a person is in custody in connection with the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man on Church Street. While the investigation is ongoing, DeLuca said it appears the shooter came to the victim's house and confronted him. It's believed the two knew each other. (Photo: KDKA) A large police presence is on scene as police continue to investigate. The names of the victim or suspect haven't been released.
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Five years on, we're only just starting to understand how much lockdown damaged our children
One of the lovely things about the breadth of Radio 4 is the station's ability to take a single subject and, via its various programmes, examine it from many different angles. Over the past few days, though mainly on Monday, Radio 4 has been marking five years since the UK's first Covid lockdown and has managed to give us distinct perspectives on that momentous event from children, parents, teachers, doctors, scientists, farmers, arts professionals, dramatists, data crunchers, psychologists and an Icelandic concert pianist. If I have one complaint, it's that the station didn't go the whole hog and make every programme on Monday about the March 2020 restrictions – give us the comedic perspective, the literary perspective, the meteorological perspective, the culinary perspective, the Ambridge perspective. Heck, I'd have even listened to a Thought for the Day on the subject (well, perhaps not). Things kicked off on Saturday with the reliably excellent Archive on 4, which went over the events from December 13, 2019 (Boris Johnson wins a landslide) to March 23, 2020 (Boris Johnson tells us we can't leave the house any more) and stirred up all sorts of repressed memories – Johnson singing Happy Birthday as he washed his hands, racegoers at Cheltenham delighted the event wasn't cancelled, Patrick Vallance. It was a guilty listen in many ways – those poor people we heard in the clips had no idea what was about to hit them. It was hard to know what to do with all that hindsight. Far more illuminating, yet arguably even more depressing, was Monday's analysis of the long-term impacts of lockdown, particularly on children. On Woman's Hour we heard about babies not learning to point or wave; in the trio of reports titled Lockdown's Legacy, children, teachers and medics lined up to lay bare just how scarring that period of isolation was for the young; on Start the Week we learnt that adults whose mental health suffered in lockdown have largely recovered – but children haven't. 'We had this haloed image of kids doing Joe Wicks videos in the garden and sitting doing their homework,' said one doctor, 'but for many children that was just not the case.' Those children, he said, are the ones we should worry about. Later he spoke of seeing 'Victorian levels of abuse and neglect' when lockdown restrictions eased. The day was a parade of anecdotes about stunted development, poor educational attainment, malnutrition, mental health epidemics, spiralling standards of behaviour and a lost generation. We heard statements such as, 'Many believe this [lack of social development in reception-aged children] is because of Covid-19' and, 'It's clear a year out of traditional schooling will have lasting impacts', and while it was all largely convincing you yearned for a bit of roughage in your diet: where was the data to support all this? Step forward the excellent More or Less, Tim Harford's wonderfully clear-eyed, no bulls--t programme that sloughs away anecdote and asks what the numbers are actually telling us. It gave Monday's day of programming a spine of steel. It was, and I mean this as a compliment, quite boring at times. Harford was not about to allow an eye-catching statistic to go unchallenged or a strong statement to be uninspected. He wanted to know what damage we did to our young when, with the lockdown, we sought to protect the adults – the 'intergenerational transfer of harms' as Harford called it. It was bleak. For children who started school in 2020, there's an appreciable drop in learning attainment, just as there was for older primary-aged children (though the data showed the pupils could recover that loss). Absence has rocketed – 10.5 per cent of children missed 10 per cent or more of school days in 2019. In 2023, it was more than 21 per cent. Suspensions have doubled. The truly depressing aspect was how lockdown acted as an 'amplifier', with more affluent children coping well, while the disadvantaged suffered even more. 'A decade of progress in closing the educational attainment gap was wiped out,' said one academic. 'We should never, ever have closed the schools,' said a teacher. More or Less's refusal to supply easy headlines – on lockdown's impact on university students: 'We just don't know yet' – makes it all the more powerful when it finds hard evidence. Throughout the day we heard emotive stories about young people's mental health, and while they were affecting you wondered what the true picture was. More or Less had data to show it's every bit as bad as the anecdotes suggest, and it's getting worse: 'The figures are a gut-punch.' One in 10 young people showed signs of a mental health illness before the pandemic. Now it's one in five – and rising. Radio 4 gave us all sorts of perspectives on lockdown and, in the main, the farmers, parents, teachers, artists and Icelandic concert pianists have managed to roll with the punches. For the young, however, it came at an enormous cost. And we're only just beginning to learn how much. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
