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🌱 Former Scottdale day care worker sentenced for assaulting child

Scottdale, Pennsylvania Patch AM: a 3 min read

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  • Former Scottdale day care worker sentenced for assaulting child

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Times of clouds and sun, with a high of 63 and low of 45 degrees.
  • Thursday: Cooler with periods of rain, temps: high: 50, low: 34.
  • Friday: Colder with periods of rain, with a high of 41 and low of 30 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Former Scottdale day care worker gets probation, house arrest for child assault (triblive.com) — A former worker at Scottdale’s New Hope Preschool and Child Care Center received two years of probation and six months of house arrest Monday for assaulting a 4-year-old girl. Krista Ondish, 59, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and child endangerment. Police said she was fired three days after the September 2025 incident.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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