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Signal Item launches new website on MeSearch platform
Trib Total Media is dedicated to serving communities throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania by delivering the news that readers want and information they need in a format that best suits their lifestyles. Earlier this year, Trib Total Media launched a new website for the Signal Item, SignalItem.com. SignalItem.com provides the news and...
First phase of Bridgeville’s McLaughlin Run Park improvements underway
Borough Council at its July meeting awarded a $418,082 contract to Sciarretti Site Development and Paving Co. for the McLaughlin Run Park Improvements Phase 2 Project. Half of this project, in the amount of $209,041, is funded by a grant from the Commonwealth. Construction on the park started in August....
Public libraries and patrons: A love story
There’s a heady, quiet exhilaration that hangs in the stacks of a public library — an accumulation of countless words, stories and ideas, pressed close together in the pages. You can feel it in grandiose, high-ceilinged reading rooms and in one-room community libraries operating on a shoestring budget. Libraries stir...
Drop to Class 4A has enthusiasm on the rise at Chartiers Valley
In 2009, Chartiers Valley closed out the first decade of the century with one of its most successful football seasons. The Colts lost only once in the regular season and finished with an 8-2 record. The last 10 years have been a struggle on the gridiron for Chartiers Valley, with...
Bridgeville, Carnegie area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 30
Bridgeville Anthony Mastrean sold property at 360 Murray Ave. to Stephanie Argotti for $187,000. Carnegie Orion Development RA 29 LLC sold property at 300 Broadway St. to YKR Vishnu LLC for $800,000. Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB trustee sold property at 545 Washington Ave. to Julie Zanella for $130,000. Collier...
Bridgeville police make drug arrest at Kona With the Cops event
Bridgeville police Wednesday arrested a man on charges of DUI and heroin possession at a Kona With the Cops event. Officers and a Kona Ice truck were handing out free frozen treats around the borough Wednesday afternoon. The arrest happened at the event’s final stop at Chartiers Park, according to...
14 WPIAL players nominated for All-American soccer games
Fourteen WPIAL players have a chance to play in the country’s premier soccer all-star games. The watch list for the 10th High School All-American Game was announced this week and the WPIAL is well-represented, particularly on the girls side with 11 of the 30 nominees from Pennsylvania coming from District...
A new beer distributor may be coming to Heidelberg, car dealership expanding services
A new beer distributor may be coming to a familiar spot in Heidelberg, while a car dealership in the borough plans to add detailing bays. The planning commission Tuesday night approved recommending to council a conditional use request for a beer distributor license at 1906 E. Railroad Street. The vote...
Carlynton food distribution, virtual 5K registration and more around Carnegie, Bridgeville
Carlynton School District food distribution The Carlynton breakfast and lunch distribution program began Aug. 24. Meals will be distributed at both Carnegie Elementary and Crafton Elementary Schools 10 a.m.-noon. Students enrolled in the Free and Reduced Lunch Program will be provided with both a breakfast and a lunch. (Carnegie Elementary...
Photos: Chartiers Valley Primary School students arrive for 1st day of classes
There was none of the usual hugs or handshakes between students and staff as Chartiers Valley Primary Schoolers arrived back to school for the first day of in-person classes. Instead, faculty members greeted students verbally, or with the occasional fist-bump, as they exited school buses or cars one at a...
Collier, South Fayette area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 23
Collier Maronda Homes LLC sold property at 1056 Livorno Drive to Brandon and Paige Dewhirst Williams for $326,760. Theresa Tapper sold property at 1302 Noblestown Road to Chad Stewart for $172,000. Crafton Kelly Easterling sold property at 4 Creighton Ave. to Karl and Elaine Ellenberger for $259,900. Neal Hurley sold...
New I-79 traffic patterns in South Fayette coming due to Southern Beltway construction
According to the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, a traffic shift will occur on I-79 in South Fayette Township and Cecil Township beginning this evening. Crews will begin the traffic shift starting at 8 p.m. Aug. 20 and will be finished setting the pattern by 6 a.m. Aug. 21. Traffic traveling southbound...
Serendipitous encounters at the Carnegie Carnegie
I am delighted that the Signal Item, the “longest continually running weekly West of the Alleghenies,” is back in print. In a Zoom call with the Item’s new editor, Katie Green, I was further delighted that she invited the Library & Music Hall to resume its bi-weekly column. I wrote...
Ukrainian food festival, car raffle and more around Bridgeville, Carnegie area
Ukrainian food festival slated The Parish of Sts. Peter & Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church will host the Ninth Annual Ukrainian Food Festival, featuring delicious homemade Ukrainian foods and pastries, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sept. 11-12. The Covid-safe festival will offer phone orders, take out and limited outdoor dining at SS Peter...
Signal Item-area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 16
Bridgeville Mark Cimarolli sold property at 1085 Chartiers St. to Robert and Deborah Martini for $165,000. Veterans Administration sold property at 1625 Critchfield Drive to Steven Vesci for $165,000. Estate of Charles Tornabene sold property at 38 New York Circle to Christine Mondine for $224,900. Certified Investment Properties LLC sold...
Molly’s Dog Park opens in Collier
Molly’s Dog Park recently opened in Collier Township, on the Panhandle Trail by Walkers Mill. It was made possible by several generous donations from residents, Friends of the Panhandle Trail and Friends of Collier Parks and Recreation, according to Collier Township manager Kyle Thauvette. The park has picnic tables, memorial...
Clemente rookie card, 1900 Wagner team photo up for auction
Pittsburgh Pirate history buffs, get your wallets ready: a New Jersey auction house is taking bids on Roberto Clemente’s 1955 Topps rookie card, as well as a team photo of the Pirates taken during Honus Wagner’s first year with the team in 1900. The auction concludes Sunday. Bidding on the...
Carnegie, Scott area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 10
Carnegie Estate of Margaret Aldridge sold property at 24 Charter Oak Drive to Susan Monteverde trustee for $235,000. Collier Michael Stubna sold property at unknown address to Maronda Homes LLC for $450,000. Robinson Bradley Lewis sold property at 105 Camelot Circle to Kevin and Darian Karsch for $410,000. Mary Crown...
Bishop Canevin High School plan includes 5-day, in-person learning and a virtual option
Bishop Canevin High School families can chose to either send their students back to school or opt for online learning this coming school year during the covid-19 pandemic. Principal Michael Joyce said the school will offer in-person instruction five days a week as well as “a synchronous virtual option” for...
Andrew Carnegie Free Library’s new director started during the pandemic
Walker Evans was ready to step into his new role as director of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library when, on March 13, libraries were ordered to close. Ten days later, the state’s stay-at-home order was put in place. “It’s certainly a unique situation,” said Evans. “I was eager to start,...
Carnegie, Bridgeville area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 2
Carnegie Holly Olsen sold property at 17 Watson St. to Keith Fitzpatrick for $121,200. Collier Apexis Parkside L.P. sold property at 6006 Beechmont Drive to Brett and Ashley Creasy for $135,000. Russell Schreffler sold property at 79 Price Road to Ernestine Cooper trustee for $136,250. Ingram R. Lane Enterprises LLC...
Takeout bingo helping to boost South Fayette restaurant businesses
Many restaurants throughout Allegheny County are struggling to stay afloat during the covid-19 pandemic. State and county officials have limited alcoholic beverage sales and pushed for outdoor dining and takeout due to safety concerns. South Fayette officials have taken to bingo to help give township food purveyors a boost in...
Carnegie Carnegie presents The Woman’s Hour: 100 Years and Counting …
On March 6, jazz and blues vocalist Jessica Lee performed a beautiful tribute concert to Pittsburgh’s own jazz innovator, Maxine Sullivan. That concert became the first and last live, onstage performance in our 2020 Woman’s Hour program series due to the Music Hall’s abrupt closure due to covid-19. It seemed...
Unmarked abandoned mine discovery puts stability of Painters Run Road in Scott into question
An unmarked underground mine has put the stability of Painters Run Road in Scott and Upper St. Clair into question. A portion of the roadway was closed Wednesday after a Northeast Paving construction laborer performing drainage work near the road fell into the mine, Allegheny County Public Works spokesman Brent...
Painters Run Road paving to take place overnight for roughly 2 weeks
Painters Run Road – just west of its intersection with McMillan Road in Upper St. Clair – was unexpectedly closed today. While completing drainage work there, crews encountered an unmarked underground mine void that might affect the road’s stability. As a result, Public Works will keep that section of road...
