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The man who caused a disturbance at GGB Elementary School last week by, among other things, making racially-charged comments, has waived his preliminary hearing in McKean County Central Court. 33-year-old Andrew Hainey of Bradford was in the parking lot swearing and packing around his car shortly after being told he had to sign-in at the school if he wanted to have breakfast with his son. According to court papers, he asked school personnel if he looked like he was from the Middle East, or a terrorist, or if he was carrying an AK-47. He did sign in, but shortly after that went to the parking lot and started is rant. Hainey, who is serving as his own attorney, is free on bail. The news leader of the Twin Tiers ... since 1947

A man caused a disturbance at GGB Elementary School this morning. Police say they got a call from the school saying a man was in the parking lot swearing and pacing around his car. After their arrival, police soon learned that 33-year-old Andrew Hainey went into the school to have breakfast with his son and got upset because he was told he had to sign in. According to court papers, he asked school personnel if he looked like he was from the Middle East, or a terrorist, or if he was carrying an AK-47. Shortly after signing in, however, he went to the parking lot and began his rant. Hainey was charged with disorderly conduct and sent to McKean County Jail on $2,500 bail. The news leader of the Twin Tiers ... since 1947

“Dr. Dave,” aka Dr. David K. Merwine, associate professor of biology at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, talks with first graders at George G. Blaisdell Elementary School about the evolution of brain science. He acted the parts of Franz Josef Gaul, father of the mistaken “science” of phrenology, and the characters in a story made famous by neurologist Oliver Sacks, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.” Here, as Gaul, he uses a plastic magnifying glass as a monocle to measure a student’s head. Merwine also brought with him models of human, rat and fish brains and small plasticized brains that elicited screams of “ewww!” Photo by Kimberly Marcott Weinberg