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Springdale Police plan youth movie night

Springdale Police will host its first youth movie night at the borough building Friday. The “Badges and Bites” event is the first of several planned movie nights organized by the police department and Councilman Joe Kern. Kern said the department is still determining what film to screen. The free show...
Springdale borough manager resigns after stormy 9-month tenure

Springdale is searching for a new borough manager after Terry Carcella, who had served as manager since last May, resigned ahead of council’s meeting Tuesday night. Carcella said he submitted his resignation last week but declined to offer a reason for his departure. He said he did not plan to...
UPMC logo atop Downtown tower turned blue to honor fallen state trooper

The signage at the top of Pittsburgh’s highest skyscraper has been tinted blue to honor Cpl. Timothy O’Connor Jr., a Pennsylvania state trooper killed during a traffic stop in Chester County earlier this month, UPMC says. The UPMC logo was set to blue Tuesday and will remain that color Wednesday,...
Still little word from Springdale officials on ICE agreement as residents protestVideo

For the second straight council meeting, Springdale Borough officials stayed mum about the police department’s agreement to cooperate with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The cooperation agreement with ICE resulted in the arrest of a Peru-born resident, Randy Cordova-Flores, more than a month ago. Like February’s council meeting, council...
Fire hydrants headed to Harmar neighborhood after resident concerns

After a fire gutted a riverside home in Harmar’s Werner Camp neighborhood last summer, one neighbor called the lack of fire hydrants on the property Werner Camp’s “Achilles’ heel.” It meant that fire crews had to shut down Freeport Road and a set of railroad tracks to drag hundreds of...
New retail space planned in Harmar in place of demolished church

Geoffrey Alexander, the owner of Harmar’s One Alexander Center, says he’s planning to add retail space along Freeport Road at the site of the former St. Francis of Assisi Church. He said crews finished demolishing the church early this month. The small church had been closed since 2024, according to...
Freeport Area School District prepares to shift admin roles

Freeport Area School District is preparing to shift administrators in anticipation of a planned retirement. Larry Robb, who has served as Freeport Area’s program director since 2010, will retire effective June 30, according to school board President Gary Risch Jr. To fill the vacancy, the school board promoted Timothy Walters,...
Family of Springdale man detained by ICE struggles on as community plans to rally

When Paulette Cordova visits her brother at ICE’s Moshannon Valley Processing Center, she can see the weariness in his eyes. Randy Cordova-Flores, 36, who was born in Peru, was detained by ICE agents more than a month ago after Springdale Police pulled him over near his home for allegedly failing...
Neighbors shocked, relieved by charges against man accused of intentionally blowing up Plum home

On the evening of April 22, 2022, Terri Aubele remembers nearly being knocked to the ground by an explosion that leveled the home next to hers on Plum’s Hialeah Drive. She said it was chaos as she scrambled to get her grandchildren out of the house. The family had been...
Plum Council passes resolution not to cooperate with ICE in split vote

In a party-line vote Monday night, Plum Council opted 4-3 to pass a resolution that bars police or borough employees from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. The resolution makes Plum the latest in a series of local municipalities that have sought to limit their connection to ICE and Border Patrol...
Plum police say man intentionally blew up house in 2022 Holiday Park explosionVideo

Almost four years after an explosion obliterated a home in Plum’s Holiday Park neighborhood, police are accusing a former resident of the house of purposefully causing the blast. Plum police say Jacob Rabb, 41, of Pittsburgh’s South Side neighborhood intentionally manipulated a natural gas line to a dryer in the...
Police: Man torches Plum home after it was seized by bank

Plum Police say a man who was evicted from his home in January returned late last month to set it ablaze. William Lee Gildernew, 23, is facing felony charges of arson, burglary, risking a catastrophe and criminal mischief. There is a warrant out for his arrest. In mid-January, the Allegheny...
Plum Council expected to vote Monday on ICE noncooperation resolution

Plum could be the next community to bar its police and staff from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. That’s if Plum Council on Monday opts to pass a proposed noncooperation resolution discussed at its March 2 meeting. Councilman Ray Rall said officials are still waiting for a final draft of...
Flipped truck closes stretch of Golden Mile Highway in Plum

A short stretch of Golden Mile Highway in Plum has reopened after a tri-axle truck flipped on its side Thursday morning. PennDOT reopened the section of the road between Old Frankstown and New Texas roads just before 2:30 p.m., Holiday Park VFD Jim Sims said the accident, which took place...
Another Freeport Council resignation has borough looking for a replacement

Freeport Council needs another member as of Monday. That’s because Councilwoman Sara Conroy resigned from her post after about two years in office. Conroy did not respond to TribLive requests for comment. Council President Pete Wesolosky said Conroy planned to move out of the borough after accepting a new job....
House party with 66 minors ends in felony charges for Plum couple

A Plum couple is facing charges after police busted an alcohol-laden party that included 66 minors at their house, according to court documents. Ian Dryburgh, 50, and Corrinne Dryburgh, 45, are facing felony charges of endangering the welfare of children as well as misdemeanor counts of corruption of minors, recklessly...

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