Monroeville Times Express category, Page 3
Monroeville area: Pumpkin patch, bingo, pancake breakfast, more
Email news briefs and event listings to pvarine@triblive.com or bkikel@triblive.com. Church pumpkin patch Monroeville United Methodist Church will have pumpkins available through Oct. 31 at its pumpkin patch, 219 Center Road in Monroeville. The pumpkin patch is open from 11 a.m to 7 p.m. daily. For more, call the church...
5 candidates compete for 4 Pitcairn council seats
Five candidates will compete for four open seats on Pitcairn council in the Nov. 4 election. Democrats Cammeo Farally, Thomas Dick Jr., William Kornrumph and George Burkhardt, and Republican Domenic Roberta will be on the ballot. Burkhardt, a write-in candidate in the primary, will appear on both the Democrat and...
Gateway will honor veterans, mark end of Vietnam War
While Veterans Day is an annual time to honor all American veterans, this year holds special significance: It marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, which culminated with the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. Gateway High School social studies teacher Shawn Whelan and the...
Gateway parents request competitive cheer team, board laments state budget impasse
Erika Bouma, mother of a freshman student, asked Gateway School Board this week to approve a high school competitive cheer group. “Cheer is more than just a sideline sport,” said Bouma, who was accompanied by five other district parents. “These girls train and condition year-round.” She said a competitive squad...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of Oct. 19, 2025
ALLEGHENY COUNTY Churchill Lance Hanchey sold property at 1898 Brushcliff Road to Gerald Ray Hall Jr. and Diane Jeanne Hall for $329,500. Rosalyn DeFalco sold property at 2506 Collins Road to Joseph Figliulo for $215,000. Estate of Dolores Anderson Lyons sold property at 2317 Marbury Road to Brian Paul Zarb...
Monroeville Heritage Day spotlights appreciation of history, preservation
The Monroeville Historical Society’s mission is to share the community’s history with the community, and its Heritage Day does just that, by bringing part of the community’s past back to life. “Visitors take a step back to frontier days when they visit the McGinley and McCully houses,” society corresponding coordinator...
Monroeville man killed in crash on I-79 berm
A driver was killed and his passenger seriously injured in a three-vehicle crash early Wednesday on a berm along Interstate 79, state police said. Travis Brown, 37, of Monroeville was driving a Ford Explorer northbound on I-79 in South Fayette around 3:15 a.m. when his SUV hit a vehicle stopped...
Jury convicts Aliquippa man of shooting Monroeville police sergeant
A Beaver County man accused of shooting a Monroeville police sergeant last year was found guilty Wednesday on all counts. Jamal Brooks, 33, of Aliquippa, faces a mandatory 20 to 40 years in prison for assault of a law enforcement officer. The jury, which deliberated for less than three hours,...
Defendant in Monroeville police shooting testifies that he was wrongly accused
A man accused of shooting a Monroeville police sergeant as he responded to an armed robbery last year took the witness stand on Tuesday and told the jury he didn’t do it. Jamal Brooks said he didn’t rob Crumbl Cookie the night of Jan. 3, 2024, and he didn’t fire...
Friends, family reflect on Gateway’s Terry Smith coaching Penn State: ‘He just cared so much’
A Zoom conference call Tuesday morning brought together many of Terry Smith’s family and friends from his time growing up on Firethorn Drive in Monroeville’s Garden City neighborhood. Harvey Smith, Terry’s older brother by a few years and a coaching colleague at Gateway for nearly a decade, helped lead the...
Nonprofit plans first-ever autism safety expo in Monroeville
Safety has been always been top of mind for Jennifer Salamon of Shaler. Her 19-year-old son, Roman, is nonverbal, autistic and has epilepsy. He also has an adventurous spirit. “When he was younger, he had a tendency to elope, opening windows and doors,” Salamon said. “So we had door alarms,...
Gateway champion swimmer Melanie Morgan Miller set to join Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame
Not many people can say they appeared in Sports Illustrated. But Melanie Morgan Miller’s photos and her swimming accomplishments at the high school level were featured in the magazine’s “Faces in the Crowd” segment in 1988. But the Gateway graduate was not just any face in the crowd. She won...
Gateway baseball players benefit from fall workouts
Gateway baseball coach Andy Hoover welcomed more than two dozen players to fall workouts and scrimmages at the end of August. It was a fresh start for a group with high expectations and goals to make it back to the WPIAL playoffs. The second-year coach said the past few weeks,...
Eastern Pittsburgh suburban real estate transactions for the week of Oct. 12, 2025
ALLEGHENY COUNTY Chalfant Michael Haberle sold property at 301 Chalfont St. to Lyle and Victoria Cope for $167,000. Churchill Estate of Thomas McManus sold property at 6 Garden Terrace to Olivia Myers for $225,000. Edgewood Royalty Properties Group LLC sold property at 114 Ivy St. to Joshua Aaron Hammerstein for...
State senator: Don’t let Monroeville Mall become Century III
State Sen. Nick Pisciottano is happy to see Walmart’s plans for the Monroeville Mall property because it’s not the only mall in his district to face tough times. The 45th Senatorial District also included Century III Mall in West Mifflin. That mall’s last tenant closed its doors in 2020 and...
Plans to raze Monroeville Mall surprise industry leaders
Monroeville Mall has inspired a book and is featured in movies, including George Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead.” That prominence may not spare it from demolition. A state funding request made public last week indicates its owner, Walmart, plans to tear down and rebuild on the property it bought in...
Jurors see video of arrest at scene of Monroeville police shooting
Jamal Brooks told a jury Wednesday that video of a man blasting a Monroeville police sergeant with gunfire revealed nothing distinctive about the shooter. The person firing 16 times into the officer’s patrol vehicle, Brooks claimed, “could be anyone.” Anyone, that is, but him. On Thursday, video that night from...
Monroeville area: Bingo, pancake breakfast and more
Email news briefs and event listings to pvarine@triblive.com or bkikel@triblive.com. Fall Swing bingo Monroeville Baseball & Softball Association will hold Fall Swing bingo on Nov. 8 at Divine Mercy Academy’s Lourdes Center, located at 245 Azalea Drive. Doors open at 6 p.m. and games begin at 7 p.m. Pizza, soda...
Monroeville area: ‘Discover Rotary,’ Symphony East performance, autism expo, more
‘Discover Rotary’ evening The Rotary Club of Monroeville is holding a Discover Rotary event from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Oct. 15 at Monroeville Public Library, 4000 Gateway Campus Blvd. Rotary provides humanitarian efforts locally, nationally and worldwide. This is an evening of connection and to learn what Rotary and the local club...
Monroeville gathers to observe World Peace Day
The Rotary Club of Monroeville celebrated the United Nations’ International Day of Peace a day early this year, bringing together interfaith leaders and community members for a program focused on unity and diversity. The celebration, held Sept. 20, was anchored at the Peace Garden in Community Park West, which grew...
Wounded Monroeville police sergeant faces accused shooter at trial
When Monroeville police Sgt. James MacDonald responded to an armed robbery last year at the Crumbl cookie shop on William Penn Highway, he was familiar with the area surrounding the Miracle Mile Shopping Center. MacDonald headed to a road nearby, hoping he might catch the suspect trying to flee. As...
Tenant future clouded as Walmart plans demolition of Monroeville Mall site
Rick Murray would like to help Walmart pitch its vision of a mixed-use development on the site of the Monroeville Mall, because he thinks it could someday be a real asset to the community. The problem is, despite being a mall tenant, he has no idea what the future of...
Lower Burrell VFW’s Vietnam-era helicopter restored with help from Forbes Road students
The Vietnam-era helicopter outside VFW Post 92 in Lower Burrell has been restored thanks to the help of students from the Forbes Road Career and Technology Center in Monroeville. Last weekend, students from Forbes’ SkillsUSA chapter partnered with A-K Valley Back the Blue to repaint the helicopter, displayed outside the...
Walmart plans to demolish Monroeville Mall, according to state grant bid
For the first time since it purchased Monroeville Mall in February, Walmart has declared its intent for the 186-acre property. The mall is expected to be demolished and replaced with retail and public space, according to a state grant application Walmart submitted last month through limited-liability corporation South Saturn Ridge....
Longtime assistant coach Vern Benson takes over Gateway boys basketball program
Vern Benson led a brief film session and a weight room workout before guiding the Gateway boys basketball team in an on-court training session Sept. 30 at the Furrie Sports Complex. He got in the middle of the action, instructing the Gators players on many aspects of the game he...
