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Guests no longer can stay at the Stahlstown Hotel, and students can't attend the town's one-room schoolhouses. Those landmark buildings have disappeared from the Cook Township community 's landscape, but they still have a place in a scaled-down version of the village to be unveiled at 7 p.m. Friday at the township community center . The diorama has been in development for more than two decades, but work kicked into high gear the past five years. Harry Lenhart, 78, who lives just over the border in Mt. Pleasant Township , has been a constant force in the project since conceiving it with his late brother-in-law, Ivan Campbell, part owner of Laurel Valley Aluminum and a community center board member . "It's been a commitment," Lenhart said of developing the 8-foot-square model of Stahlstown. "Every time you added something to it, it looked a little bit better." A carpenter, cabinetmaker and model-railroad enthusiast, Lenhart applied his interests...

Axl Rose (Photo: File photo) Pressed onto the record this week about the surge in calls across the nation to take down statues of Confederate leaders, Vice President Mike Pence played it sufficiently vague in the name of more is better. Pence, saying he was uneasy about any effort to “erase parts of our history just in the name of some contemporary political cause,” made his case Tuesday morning on “Fox & Friends” that “we ought to have been building more monuments.” The rationale, via Indiana’s former governor: “We ought to be celebrating the men and women who've helped our nation move toward a more perfect union and tell the whole story of America.” Given the context, with Jefferson Davis and Gen. Robert E. Lee as the baseline of a nation moving toward a more perfect union, Pence offers some awfully broad parameters here. THROWBACK: The day Axl Rose came to town BANGERT: Monument to Confederates remains in Lafayette's Greenbush Cemetery BANGERT: If only there was a way...