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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...
Imperial man pleads guilty to federal weapons charges

An Imperial man pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to weapons charges related to a pistol that was converted into a fully automatic handgun. Prosecutors said Ja’Shon Spencer, 22, was in possession of a machine-gun conversion device attached to a Glock semi-automatic pistol on June 16, 2025, otherwise known...
Crews work to stabilize sinkhole in Greensburg

Crews from the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County worked Monday to stabilize a sinkhole that opened between two properties along Keystone Street in Greensburg. Greensburg public works officials said a water line collapse resulted in a sinkhole in a rear yard area along the 600 block of Keystone Street about...
Q&A: Greensburg gallery hosts ‘work in progress’ exhibit, features local artist

The Stopwatch Gallery & Studio in Greensburg has a unique installation on display through early March — an art exhibit that is constantly in progress. “My wife Marti Haykin and I have our studio in the back of the gallery,” said Stopwatch co-owner Marc Snyder. “Typically we show other artists...
Autism advocacy groups to host open-mic karaoke at Monroeville MallVideo

Band Together Pittsburgh, a nonprofit that provides music-related programming and opportunities for people on the autism spectrum, is expanding its open-mic karaoke events into Allegheny County on Feb. 21 at the Monroeville Mall. “We have not just performers but also DJs who are on the autism spectrum,” said Lisa Hnath,...
Pittsburgh region to get another blast of frigid weather this weekend; frostbite risk rises

The frigid weather won’t be going away this weekend. If anything, it’s going to get worse before it gets better, according to regional meteorologists. The National Weather Service has issued an extreme cold weather alert for the region, from Friday night into Saturday morning. The wind chill could cause temperatures...
Man killed in Uniontown shooting; person of interest sought

Pennsylvania State Police in Uniontown and the Fayette County District Attorney’s office are investigating a fatal shooting Thursday night. Police were called to Dunlap Street around 5 p.m., where they found 20-year-old Lemaur Thompson Jr., who they said had been shot while walking in the area. He was taken to...
Morning Roundup: Police charge caretaker with theft from Verona patient

Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Friday, Feb. 6: Caretaker accused of stealing from patient Verona police are seeking assistance in locating a woman they say stole money from a woman she was hired to care for. Police responded to a report of money stolen...

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