Jacob Tierney stories, Page 17

Alisha Edwards wants her new store — Trendy Bunny on South Pennsylvania Avenue — to showcase the best Greensburg has to offer. “We’ve taken the talents of Greensburg and brought them in here,” Edwards said. The boutique focuses on children’s clothing and features items from local creators as well national...

Greensburg area bars say coronavirus won’t prevent them from celebrating St. Patrick’s Day Weekend. All Saints Brewing, Mr. Toad’s and the Parkwood Inn are among the local establishments planning parties, and they say their events will go on as scheduled. “As far as I know, all the bars are still...

Greensburg’s Save A Lot grocery story is closing Saturday after 17 years on East Pittsburgh Street. Shoppers mostly have picked the shelves bare, and even the carts are for sale. Owner Gary Wheatley of Lower Burrell said he’s been looking for someone to buy the store since last year, but...

Greensburg Salem School District welcomed a familiar face as its newest board member. Lynn Jobe, the district’s former athletic director, was appointed to fill the remainder of former board member Rachel Shaw’s term. Shaw announced her resignation in January, after accepting a government job that prevented her from holding elected...

Special Olympics Pennsylvania canceled all practices and competitions for the month as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. A Special Olympics of Allegheny County basketball tournament at the University of Pittsburgh scheduled for Sunday is canceled. Almost 300 athletes were expected to attend, according to the...

Invisible Man Brewing will receive $4,760 from the City of Greensburg to help cover the architectural and design fees that went into its South Pennsylvania Avenue building. The brewery opened in October. Council unanimously approved the grant Monday under a program that provides money to cover “soft costs” for new...

Greensburg is saying “so long” to three longtime employees. Police Chief Chad Zucco’s last day will be March 30. Zucco, who announced his retirement last month, is stepping down after 22 years in the department, four of them as chief. He accepted a job as chief operating officer of Gaskey...

Two people suffered minor injuries after a two-vehicle crash Thursday on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Penn Township, according to a state police dispatcher. The crash happened about 8:45 a.m. near mile marker 64 of the westbound turnpike, between Irwin and Pittsburgh. It blocked the right lane, backing traffic up for...

A U-Haul truck crashed into Pittsburgh Police headquarters Wednesday night, according to the city public safety department. The driver was taken by ambulance to the hospital for evaluation, but she suffered no visible injuries. The crash happened just after 10:30 p.m. The truck hit the north side of police headquarters...

Greensburg Salem High School students are hoping to beat their fundraising record this weekend at Mini-THON, the school’s annual overnight dance marathon that raises money for children with cancer. “We’re currently in our final push week running up to the event,” said Jalen Paige, a senior and finance manager for...

A gas leak at the building shared by Knoch High School and Knoch Middle School in South Butler School District delayed the start of school Wednesday morning. Bus drivers took students to the nearby elementary schools as firefighters and gas company workers investigated, according to Superintendent David Foley. Workers smelled...

Wednesday is National Grammar Day, a time to celebrate good writing, strong syntax and proper punctuation. Grammar nerds likely cringed at that last sentence. It all depends on your feelings about the Oxford comma — which comes before the last item in a list, such as after “trains” in the...

Four calves died and more than a hundred others were placed in a temporary corral after a truck carrying livestock crashed on an off-ramp near Irwin, according to Pennsylvania Turnpike officials. The driver of the truck was not injured in the crash, which occurred around 5:30 a.m., turnpike officials said....

A customer at the Settlers Ridge Market District supermarket in Robinson is $2.5 million richer after buying a winning lotto ticket there, according to state lottery officials. The winner has yet to claim their prize. The Match 6 ticket was sold Friday. It correctly matched all six winning numbers: 18-24-30-34-42-45....

Pittsburgh police are investigating a stabbing that happened in the city’s Perry South neighborhood early Tuesday morning, according to the city department of public safety. Police were called to a home on the 2900 block of N. Charles Street just before 2:30 a.m. They found a woman with a minor...

Southwestern Pennsylvania is enjoying some unseasonably warm temperatures in the first week of March. Temperatures Monday are about 10 degrees higher than average — though nowhere near 1972’s record-setting high of 72 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. “The average for now is around the mid-40s, and we’re sitting...

State police are looking for the person who stole a $350 sewing machine from the Joann Fabrics in Greengate Centre, Hempfield. According to police, the unknown person took the machine from the store’s Husqvarna Viking Sewing Gallery sometime between Feb. 14-22. The machine was a Husqvarna Viking Emerald 118. Further...

Inspectors found mouse droppings and other evidence of rodents at Carlow University’s Tiernan Dining Hall during a February inspection, according to the Allegheny County Health Department’s Food Safety Division. University officials told Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV that the problems have been corrected, and the dining hall successfully passed a reinspection....

Pennsylvania’s primary isn’t until April 28, but students at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg will have the chance to cast a ballot next week during a mock primary on Super Tuesday. The mock primary has been a campus tradition since the 2008 presidential election. It’s hosted by the Pitt-Greensburg...

Greensburg police Chief Chad Zucco will resign at the end of March after 22 years on the force. “It was a very hard decision,” Zucco said. “This is all I’ve known since I was 21 years old, being a police officer.” He’s accepted a job as chief operating officer of...

Greensburg Salem High School’s Student Council Association will hold its “Mr. GS” pageant next month, pitting 10 seniors against each other for the title. The proceeds will benefit the association, which organizes school and community events. Contestants will compete in date wear, talent, formal wear and Q&A segments. At the...

Plum’s Dan Czerpak knows a thing or two about barbecue. He studied under “pitmasters” in Georgia, filled notebooks with detailed descriptions of his smoking experiments and took a 14-state tour, tasting the best barbecue from across the South. Now he’s bringing his passion to Greensburg, where he grew up. His...