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Tractor Supply ‘chicken swap’ moving from Delmont to Export
For about a decade, animal enthusiasts have gathered the first Sunday of the month at Tractor Supply in Delmont for the chicken swap. The agriculture chain has held the swaps at locations across the country for years. But when the coronavirus pandemic hit, they slowly began dwindling. “Since covid hit,...
Delmont seeks bids for 1st phase of $4.85 million sewage project
Delmont officials are seeking bids for the first phase of a proposed $4.85 million project to address sewage overflows. As part of a consent order finalized with the state Department of Environmental Control in late April, borough officials have proposed relocating and replacing a gravity line and a force main...
Basket raffle, Christmas brunch, car parade happening in Murrysville area
Here are a few upcoming events in the Murrysville area: Basket raffle to benefit kidney transplant patient Export Floral will hold a basket raffle to benefit a former employee, Stacey McKay Campbell, who is in need of a second kidney transplant. The basket is worth more than $275, and the...
Man sentenced for drug sales to Murrysville, Greensburg men who died of overdoses
Michelle Rubin had a simple message for one of the men accused of selling her son the drugs he used just before she found him face down and unconscious on the floor of their Murrysville home more than three years ago. “If you hadn’t sold him that illegal poison he...
Westmoreland County approves drop box sites for mail-in ballots
Westmoreland County will have drop boxes at five regional sites before the Nov. 3 general election to help collect tens of thousands of expected mail-in ballots. Voters started to receive ballots this week, and as of Thursday, more than 51,600 were sent. Another 9,600 are in the queue to be...
Panthers on the prowl as Franklin Regional, Sewickley Academy win WPIAL boys golf team titles
The Franklin Regional boys golfers had a feeling 2020 might be their year. Turns out the Panthers’ intuition was on the money. Led by senior Michael Wareham, who shot a 6-over-par 78, Franklin Regional captured its first WPIAL Class AAA boys team golf championship Thursday at Cedarbrook Golf Course. Chuck...
Murrysville-area emergency responders get more than $100,000 for covid-related expenses
Millions of dollars in grants are on the way for Pennsylvania’s fire departments and ambulance agencies struggling through the coronavirus pandemic. About 90 Westmoreland County fire departments are getting more than $2 million. Fourteen EMS agencies in the county are set to receive about $210,000 total. That includes Murrysville Medic...
Don’t kill that large mosquito: It’s just a crane fly looking for sex
They won’t bite you, but crane flies — which look like large mosquitos — are out in full force, reportedly covering a putting green at a Pittsburgh area golf course and maybe cavorting in your backyard. Yes, cavorting. With only two weeks to live as adults on the wing, some...
Franklin Regional will host homecoming prior to Friday’s game
While homecoming is a tradition at high schools and colleges across the U.S., there’s not likely to be anything traditional about it this year, given the additional health and safety guidelines in place during the coronavirus pandemic. At Franklin Regional, the homecoming ceremony Friday night, including crowning of the queen...
Westmoreland 911 center has 2 coronavirus cases
Westmoreland County’s 911 dispatching operations were split into two operational locations Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning after officials discovered two employees tested positive for coronavirus. Public Safety Director Roland Mertz said 911 operations were uninterrupted even as the county instituted mitigation efforts and implemented its emergency response plan to...
Westmoreland Cleanways adds 2nd household hazardous waste collection date
Due to overwhelming response, Westmoreland Cleanways and Recycling Center announced this week it would hold two household hazardous waste collections this fall. In addition to the Oct. 24 collection, a second collection was added for Nov. 21. Ellen Keefe, executive director of the nonprofit environmental organization, said it took just...
Historic Delmont ‘traffic dummy’ on display at Greensburg Street park
Delmont residents passing by the Rose Wigfield Parklet in recent weeks may have noticed a stone pillar, with a small glass fixture set into a spherical opening, has been moved to a much more prominent spot. While it certainly bears little resemblance to its modern cousins, the pillar controlled traffic...
Norwin, Franklin Regional among fresh faces at WPIAL team golf championships
Norwin switched home courses for boys golf about five years ago. Nothing against Irwin Country Club, the Knights just wanted a layout more comparable to the ones where their section foes play. So they moved to Youghiogheny Country Club near McKeesport. It was a few more miles down the highway...
Westmoreland County to use $7.7 million to cope with coronavirus
Westmoreland commissioners on Tuesday earmarked more than $7.7 million in federal stimulus money to pay for staff salaries at the county jail and to purchase equipment needed to keep government operating amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The federal money is part of the $31.5 million allocated earlier this year from...
5 more coronavirus cases at Westmoreland Manor
Pennsylvania National Guard members, stationed a Westmoreland Manor since late September, departed the county-owned nursing home over the weekend even as coronavirus cases there continued to grow. County officials said Tuesday another five residents tested positive since Saturday at the 400-bed home in Hempfield. There have now been 112 residents...
Westmoreland jail virus outbreak explodes
The coronavirus outbreak at Westmoreland County Prison continued to grow over the Columbus Day weekend and, on Tuesday, officials said the number of cases could result in overcrowding at the Hempfield lockup. Another 33 inmates and two more guards tested positive for the virus since late last week, county commissioners...
Westmoreland mail-in ballots on their way to voters; drop boxes to be availableVideo
Westmoreland County officials said mailing out the first batch of 50,000 mail-in ballots was completed Tuesday as elections staff and the Ohio-based private company hired to oversee the process catch up after technical problems caused a weeklong delay. So far, about 60,000 mail-in ballot applications have been approved in the...
Covid-19 numbers tallied for Murrysville-Delmont-Export area
The most recent state data show less than 160 people in the Murrysville Star’s coverage area have had confirmed cases of coronavirus since the start of the international pandemic in March, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The health department on Monday released data showing there were 159 confirmed...
Apple Hill Playhouse rummage sales to offer decades of costumes, props, antiques
Decades’ worth of memories will be up for sale beginning Saturday at Apple Hill Playhouse in Delmont. Props, costumes, antiques, furniture, appliances, tools, building materials and other items collected over the years will be available during rummage sales from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and Oct. 24-25. Owner Pat...
Trib HSSN WPIAL boys and girls soccer rankings for Oct. 12, 2020
Here’s a look at this week’s Trib HSSN WPIAL boys and girls soccer rankings. Records are through Saturday’s games. Girls soccer Class 4A Team, record, previous 1. Fox Chapel, 10-1, 1 2. Butler, 8-1, 2 3. Peters Township, 5-1, 3 4. Norwin, 6-2-1, NR 5. North Allegheny, 7-2, 4 Out:...
Franklin Regional adds some flexibility to attendance policy for covid-cautious absences
Franklin Regional officials have updated the district’s attendance procedures to give students more academic flexibility, if parents choose to keep them home over potential covid-19 symptoms. The district has come in for criticism from some parents since the start of school, for encouraging students to stay home if they think...
Eastern area real estate transactions for the week of Oct. 11
Churchill Darrell Williams sold property at 1900 Brushcliff Road to Ranada Tamara Almond McCoy for $117,000. Estate of Theresa Morgan sold property at 2400 Collins Road to Mary Truschel for $118,000. Delmont Mark Watkins sold property at 209 Apple Hill Drive to William and April Champion for $259,900. RA Snoznik...
Franklin Regional’s ‘Super’ Mario Sarnic happy to be back on field
As Mario Sarnic lay motionless on the cold turf at Franklin Regional’s Panther Stadium, sound sucked from the complex, lights twinkling from a waiting ambulance, time stood still for the wide receiver and defensive back. “I looked up and saw my friends and the look on their faces wasn’t good,”...
Franklin Regional’s Tragesser siblings reach WPIAL finalsVideo
Franklin Regional senior Chuck Tragesser has played at historic Oakmont Country Club before. He knows how tough it is and how to attack it. So what advice did he offer his sister Caroline when she competed in the WPIAL Class AAA girls individual championship Oct. 8? “Don’t let it get...
School districts re-examine attendance policies amid new educational model
School districts throughout the region are asking families to act with an abundance of caution when it comes to students exhibiting potential covid-19 symptoms. If a student is showing any of the 13 symptoms closely associated with the virus, districts are asking parents to keep them home. That didn’t work...
