Summer food program seeks additional partners, host sites for 2026
In the summer of 2025, nearly 300 organizations provided low-income children with daily meals at more than 2,100 sites across Pennsylvania as part of the state’s Summer Food Service Program. Additional program sponsors and host sites are being sought this year. “Across Pennsylvania, community organizations step up every year to...
Monroeville area: Project Prom shop, cash bash benefit, career center open house and more
Email news briefs and event listings to pvarine@triblive.com. Project Prom Shop opens in March Allegheny County will hold its annual Project Prom event on March 14, 17, 19 and 21 at the Project Prom Shop, 10700 Frankstown Road, Penn Hills. Through the generosity of donations and participating retailers, Project Prom...
Single-lane closures for bridge work will begin Monday on Route 119
Single-lane restrictions will go into place starting Monday on Route 119 between the New Stanton and Youngwood exits, according to PennDOT officials. Crews will be repairing deteriorated bridge areas and beam ends. The single-lane restriction is expected to remain in place until late March. The work is part of a...
Murrysville area: Artist presentation, Pi Day bake sale, woman’s club scholarships, more
ESAL artist explores intersection of expression, memory The East Suburban Artist League will host featured speaker Morgan Anders at their March 5 meeting in Murrysville. Anders is a Pittsburgh artist and North Carolina native whose work is informed by her childhood on a farm and her career as an art...
Senior driving classes in Westmoreland County may lead to insurance discount
Seniors for Safe Driving will offer three upcoming courses for motorists 55 and older in the North Huntingdon, Murrysville and Penn Township areas. The PennDOT-approved course is an opportunity for older motorists to refresh their driving skills and their knowledge of the rules of the road. The first session will...
Game commission advises Pennsylvanians to report sick, dead birds to help with avian flu trackingVideo
Pennsylvania Game Commission officials are asking bird watchers and hunters to report sick or dead birds they encounter as they continue to monitor avian influenza’s presence in the region. “Avian influenza can affect any bird, but we tend to see it more specifically in waterfowl, along with the family of...
Murrysville may install all-way stop at intersection of School, North Hills roads
Murrysville council will consider whether to convert a troublesome intersection into a four-way stop. With the intersection’s current two stop signs, the crossing of School Road and North Hills Road has been the site of 14 crashes over the past five years, according to Murrysville Chief Administrator Michael Nestico. “Five...
Route 66 upgrades to kick off this summer between Washington Township and DelmontVideo
Cameron Suhadolnik, one of the owners of Tailspin Hobbies off Route 66 in Washington Township, has grown accustomed to the sound of cars crashing outside his window. The business is near an intersection that has been the site of more than 20 incidents in the past five years. “I’ve called...
Murrysville takes first steps toward regulating data center, solar array developmentVideo
Murrysville municipal staff hopes to define how it will manage proposed data centers, as well as residential and commercial solar arrays. “Right now, we don’t have an ordinance or a zoning classification that would regulate either,” Murrysville Chief Administrator Michael Nestico told council at its Feb. 17 meeting. “In more...
Reactions pour in following Team USA’s gold-medal Olympic hockey win over Canada
Team USA men’s hockey brought home its first gold medal since the “Miracle on Ice” Olympics in 1980, so let’s not beat around the bush. From a member of the Canadian team assessing the game with “you be the judge of who the better team was,” to recent political events...
Greater Pittsburgh area largely escapes heavy nor’easter snow
As it turns out, ol’ Punxsutawney Phil may have been onto something when he forecast six more weeks of winter earlier this month. After a brief warm spell, snow was back, tossing a light blanket late Saturday into Sunday across southwestern Pennsylvania. But the region is largely set to avoid...
Early-morning fans revel in U.S. men’s hockey win for Olympic goldVideo
When the puck dropped at 8:10 a.m. EST in the gold medal Olympic men’s hockey final between the U.S. and Canada, Sunday morning looked more like a Saturday night in the confines of Primanti Bros. in Harmar. It was among the many places that opened bright and early Sunday morning...
Tarentum teen charged in 2 shootings; gun linked to a 3rd
A Tarentum teen wanted in connection with multiple shooting incidents was taken into custody this week by Pittsburgh police. Marcell Fields, 18, was charged with attempted criminal homicide, aggravated assault, criminal conspiracy, reckless endangering and multiple weapons charges. City and Pittsburgh Regional Transit police said Fields took part in shootings...
Ligonier church hosts full house at pancake breakfast to benefit Ruthie’s Diner employeesVideo
About 10 minutes after the doors opened on Saturday morning, it was standing-room-only for a pancake breakfast at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Ligonier. The occasion was a benefit for employees of Ruthie’s Diner, just a few minutes down the road on Route 30, which was destroyed in a late January...
‘Shrek’ boasts largest Franklin Regional musical cast yetVideo
Isaac Eaton discovered quickly that it’s awful tough trying to fill the shoes of legendary comedian Eddie Murphy. “It’s challenging to find my own voice for the character,” said Eaton, 17, a senior who will portray Murphy’s iconic character Donkey in Franklin Regional’s high school production of “Shrek: The Musical,”...
Mayor’s ‘State of Monroeville’ lays out goals for town’s 75th anniversary year
Monroeville Mayor Dennis Biondo gave his first “State of Monroeville” address at council’s February voting meeting, laying out goals and plans for 2026. The main focus was a 2026 capital budget built from the municipality’s five-year capital improvement plan — its first such plan in a decade, according to Biondo....
Murrysville area: Fish fry fundraiser, Franklin Regional musical, school board meeting changes and more
Email event listings and news briefs to pvarine@triblive.com. Fish fry fundraiser The Franklin Regional Panthers Against Cancer Club will host a fish fry Feb. 20 to raise money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Supporting Blood Cancer United. The fundraiser is part the society’s annual Student Visionaries of the Year...
Water main break closes part of Old William Penn Highway in Murrysville
Old William Penn Highway between Ginny’s Neighborhood Pizza Joint and Hills Church Road was closed Wednesday due to a water main break, Murrysville police said. Ginny’s is located just east of Fitzsimmons Lane. Police advised drivers to avoid the area and find an alternate route. Matt Junker, a spokesman for...
Theater group will host auditions for ‘Women of Troy’ staged reading
StoryZ Studios will host auditions on Monday and Tuesday for a staged reading of Euripides’ “Women of Troy.” The play, originally performed 2,500 years ago, tells the story of the women of Troy held hostage and removed from their homeland, a story of family separation and the abuse of power....
Recent bitter weather has wreaked havoc on humans. What about nature?
Ice scrapers and heavy coats have been temporarily set aside for sunglasses, but the natural world is still reeling from the deep freeze that gripped the region for the past several weeks. During the final week of January, temperatures only made it as high as 17 degrees, dipping to their...
Delmont sewage project costs rise to $5.5MVideo
Delmont Council will wait to decide whether to pursue state grant and potential loan funding for a sewage project whose scope has recently expanded. Borough engineer Dalton Mack said a new equalization tank, designed to hold sewage and release it slowly, should be designed based on a 10-year summer storm...
Monroeville to file appeal after convention center is denied tax-exempt status
Monroeville officials will file an appeal after Allegheny County denied their application to exempt the Monroeville Convention Center from property taxation. “The original convention center was a profit-making enterprise, and so it paid property taxes,” said Monroeville solicitor Robert Wratcher. “The municipality, which owns it now, doesn’t pay property taxes,...
Western Pa. dairy farmers welcome return of whole milk to school cafeteriasVideo
The recent passage of the federal Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act marks a strategic effort to reverse a decade-long decline in dairy consumption. By rolling back 15-year-old guidelines to let schools put whole and 2% milk back on menus, the law is aimed at providing a long-sought economic boost...
Game commission releases ‘bonus’ pheasants across southwestern PennsylvaniaVideo
Five minutes after the Pennsylvania Game Commission released a couple hundred pheasants into the wild near Loyalhanna Creek on Thursday morning, the crack of the first gunshot echoed across the meadow. Each year, commission staff release “bonus” pheasants, left over from their annual breeding program. In anticipation of losing pheasants...
Delmont police chief will retire in April
Longtime Delmont Police Chief T.J. Klobucar said the day he worked his first Apple’n Arts Festival, he could tell that Delmont was the right place. “I knew this community was for me,” said Klobucar, 50, who announced his pending retirement from the police department at Tuesday’s borough council meeting. “It’s...
