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Pittsburgh City Council creates fund to support new Lead Safety Ordinance
Pittsburgh City Council on Tuesday approved legislation creating the Lead Safety Trust Fund, which will finance the city’s new Lead Safety Ordinance. The city will put $2 million in American Rescue Plan money into the trust, which may hold other cash dedicated to enacting the Lead Safety Ordinance, including funding...
TSA catches 2 guns at Pittsburgh International over holiday weekend, 1 carried by employee
An employee at Pittsburgh International Airport is charged with carrying a firearm without a license after security officials found him with a loaded handgun, according to Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein. Court records identified the man as Damien Wright, of Wellsville, Ohio. Farbstein said he is an airplane cabin...
Shadyside’s Rodef Shalom synagogue earns historic designation
The Rodef Shalom synagogue in Shadyside has been granted historic designation. “It is truly a huge communal asset,” said Barb Feige, interim executive director at Rodef Shalom, said Monday. “The building is beautiful, it is stately, but it is also a community center. It serves as the location for numerous...
Freeport Road to remain closed until further notice in aftermath of Harmar derailment
Freeport Run Road will remain closed between the Hulton Bridge and Guys Run Road through the rest of the week or possibly longer, officials said. Allegheny Valley Regional Emergency Management Agency coordinator Bruno Moretti said the tank cars have been offloaded and emptied. The focus is on cleaning up and...
Highmark reports $150M net loss in 1st quarter, citing market volatility, inflation
Highmark Health reported a net loss of $150 million in the first quarter of 2022, driven by losses from the company’s stock market portfolio and increased costs at the company’s large hospital system, Allegheny Health Network. Financial reports released by Highmark showed the company brought in $6.4 billion in revenue...
Stowe man accused of firing shots at Pittsburgh sanitation workers
A Stowe man who police said opened fire on two Pittsburgh environmental services workers last week was taken into custody Tuesday, according to police. Henry Rainey, 37, faces two counts of aggravated assault. Police said he fired on two men collecting trash in the city’s Fairywood neighborhood on May 23....
GoFundMe established for 12-year-old struck while riding hoverboard in South Huntingdon
Family and friends of a 12-year-old girl who was critically injured Saturday when she was pinned beneath a pickup while riding a hoverboard in South Huntingdon continue to wish for her recovery and have set up a GoFundMe account to defray expenses. Peyton Benner, a sixth grader at Yough Middle...
Youth groups now permitted to camp in Pittsburgh parks
Youth groups will now be permitted to camp in Pittsburgh’s parks. Pittsburgh City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to allow youth organizations to obtain permits to camp in city parks. “I am going to continue to say that I hope we become independent of using organizations to use our parks,” Council...
Man accused of leading police on 120 mph pursuit on Route 22 before crashing in Salem
A Baltimore man is accused of leading state troopers on a 5-mile pursuit through a construction zone on Route 22 Sunday at speeds of 120 mph before crashing his car over a guardrail at the Route 66 interchange in Salem, according to court records. Steven T. Randall, 42, is charged...
Monessen superintendent charged with indecent exposure, open lewdness
The superintendent for the Monessen School District was charged with indecent exposure and open lewdness after police say she was discovered in a state of undress with a man in the parking lot of a county-owned apartment complex. Charleroi Regional Police were called to the Nathan Goff Jr. Apartments on...
Trafford resident takes on local West Nile virus monitoring
Mosquito season has arrived in Westmoreland County and, just in time, so has a new staffer to oversee monitoring of those insects for the West Nile virus they can spread. Christina Edwards-McCune of Trafford came on board May 9 as the new West Nile virus program technician for the Hempfield-based...
Weather cooperates for Hampton pool opening
The weather couldn’t have been more cooperative for the seasonal opening of Hampton Community Outdoor Pool Complex over Memorial Day weekend. With the temperature already zooming into the high 80s on the morning of the holiday, a fairly long line of swimmers formed in anticipation of being able to enter....
Meaning of Memorial Day reinforced at Hampton observance
The relevance of the last Monday of each May can get lost in the late-spring shuffle. “Before I actually knew what Memorial Day was, I just thought it was a day we celebrate that has something to do with soldiers,” Hampton High School junior Gabby Imbarlina said. “Now, thinking back,...
Greensburg man charged with rape, sexually assaulting 2 girls in 1990s
A 64-year-old Greensburg man was arrested by state police Friday after he was accused of raping and repeatedly sexually assaulting a girl over five years in the 1990s and sexually assaulting another girl during the same time period, according to court records. Morton W. Thomson Jr., 64, was arraigned on...
It’s an upset: ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ tops DVE Memorial Day 500
You might say it was a case of another one biting the dust in WDVE radio’s Memorial Day 500. The holiday weekend countdown of the top 500 classic rock songs of all time has often seen Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” ascend to the top of the list. It has...
MacPherson named new chief of staff for Westmoreland Commissioner Chew
Westmoreland County Commissioner Doug Chew’s chief of staff Heather Cordial is leaving her post for a position with the state Department of Environmental Protection. Chew announced on Sunday that Cordial will be replaced by Bob MacPherson of Sewickley. “Heather always had a smile in the commissioners’ suite, and she’ll be...
Barn catches fire in Armstrong County
A barn in Armstrong County caught fire late Monday, according to Tribune-Review news partner WPXI-TV. The fire occurred along North Cherry Street in West Franklin Township. No injuries were reported, and there were no animals in the barn, 911 dispatchers said. A woman who lives in the area told WPXI-TV...
Allegheny Land Trust secures capital to preserve 75 acres in Sewickley Hills
The goal has been met. Sewickley-based Allegheny Land Trust announced on May 26 that it successfully met a $1 million campaign to purchase and preserve a 75-acre property in Sewickley Hills. The nonprofit is expected to close his month on the Buerkle Woodlands, which sit at the northwest corner of...
Sewickley area student news for the week of May 31, 2022
Quaker Valley High School senior Charlie Crane was selected as a violist for the 2022 Pennsylvania Music Educators Association All-State Orchestra. Crane was first selected to District Orchestra in January after submitting an application outlining his musical accomplishments and recommendations from his music teachers. At Districts, Crane auditioned and qualified...
Pine-Richland student news for the week of May 31, 2022
Angelina Saldamarco, a senior exercise science major, won the Student Leader of the Year award during Slippery Rock University’s Office of Student Engagement and Leadership’s 2021-22 Rising Star and Distinguished Leader awards on April 20 at the Smith Student Center. The Student Leader of the Year Award recognizes student leaders...
Conny Creek Brewing taps into increased business with brew truck
Members of the Layton family of North Apollo continue to pour their energy into two businesses celebrating suds, food and socializing. Conny Creek Brewing Company, with locations in Allegheny Township and Saxonburg, is a family-friendly brewpub serving craft beers brewed in-house by brewmaster Lee Layton. Layton is a co-owner with...
The Stroller, May 31, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15068. Please include a daytime telephone number. Armstrong Museum to feature antique engine demonstrations Armstrong County Historical Museum and...
SupperMarket food, music nights set for Lincoln Highway Experience
The Lincoln Highway SupperMarket is set to return June 1 to the grounds of the Lincoln Highway Experience in Unity. Now in its ninth year, the outdoor food and music festival will be held each Wednesday through Aug. 24, weather permitting, on the museum grounds at 3435 Route 30 East....
Freeport internet company opens new brewery, restaurant
The Freeport-based internet company, Salsgiver Inc., is giving community service a new meaning with its decision to rehab the former Freeport Foods at 309 Fifth St. to establish a brewery and restaurant. Salsgiver recently opened Essential Fermentation Restaurant and Brewery, serving up special craft beer and traditional and non-traditional entrees...
Tarentum Manager Michael Nestico excited for new post in Murrysville, proud of work in borough
Outgoing Tarentum Borough Manager Michael Nestico is eager to rebuild ties with Westmoreland County when he assumes the position of top administrator in Murrysville next month. A resident of Jeannette, Nestico worked as an attorney and municipal manager there before taking the reins in Tarentum five years ago. “I’m looking...
