Western PA Local News category, Page 1592
Out & About: Latrobe BPW tags club president as Woman of the Year
Latrobe Business and Professional Women’s Club members and guests gathered Saturday for a Spring Tea at St. Bartholomew Parish Marian Hall in Crabtree. On the agenda for the annual event is the presentation of the club’s Woman of the Year and New Member of the Year. President Deborah Bowman noted...
Out & About: Greensburg Garden Center spring tea defies last wintry blast
Winter tried to make a last stand, but flowers were blooming as the Greensburg Garden Center hosted its annual Spring Tea. Back from a two-year pandemic hiatus, the event was held Saturday at Maplewood Presbyterian Church in Hempfield. “There’s a snowstorm outside, but the atmosphere in here is spring,” said...
‘I love bringing people together’: Greensburg-Jeannette NAACP meets for prayer luncheonVideo
The last time the Greensburg-Jeannette NAACP held an event, it was a prayer breakfast at the former Ramada on Route 30. That was two years ago. Now, the Ramada is torn down and gone, like a great many other things during the same period of time, said branch President Ruth...
Pittsburgh police: Missing man safely located
Pittsburgh Police detectives thanked the public for their help locating a missing man they said was endangered. Brendan Crowley, 35, was safely located as of 10:50 p.m. on Saturday night, according to police. He had last been seen in the city’s Oakland neighborhood on Tuesday, March 22....
URA Deputy Executive Director Diamonte Walker leaving for private sector
Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority said Friday that Deputy Executive Director Diamonte Walker is stepping down this spring to take a job in the private sector. Walker began working for the URA in June 2017, serving as the minority and women-owned business enterprise program officer and helping to expand the program...
77 townhouses headed to Penn Township in final phases of Blackthorne Estates
More housing is headed to Penn Township. Township commissioners have approved Blackthorne Estates’ phases VI-B and VII, which will add 77 townhouses to the luxury golf course community more than 25 years in the making. The townhouses, to be built by Ryan Homes, will feature three bedrooms, 2½ bathrooms, two-car...
Cast of ‘Shrek the Musical’ at Kiski Area High School holds breakfast fundraiser in full costume
Kiski Area High School drama students rolled out a swampy green welcome mat for a “Character Breakfast” fundraiser Saturday morning at the high school cafeteria. Guests were able to interact with numerous lead characters — in full costume — from the upcoming spring musical production of “Shrek the Musical.” More...
Somerset DA Thomas’ defense attorney calls sex assault case ‘political’
SOMERSET — Describing the sexual assault case against Somerset County’s suspended district attorney as “political,” Jeffrey Thomas’ defense attorney suggested on Friday that he might raise issues about whether the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General should be prosecuting the case. Following a pretrial hearing, defense attorney Ryan Tutera offered hints...
Third eaglet hatches in Hays nest, keeping mom and dad busy finding food
With the arrival of the third and final chick Friday, the Pittsburgh Hays bald eagles are busy feeding their brood. The harried couple feeds the hatchlings up to 17 times a day, according to statistics from last year’s breeding season from PixCams. The Murrysville company partners with the Audubon Society...
Pittsburgh’s Girl Talk to release full-length album with Wiz Khalifa, Smoke DZA, Big K.R.I.T.
Pittsburgh music producer Gregg Gillis made an international name for himself mashing things together — the Spencer Davis Group and Texas rappers Underground Kingz. Procol Harum and Lil’ Jon. Black Sabbath and Ludacris. On April 8, Gillis — better known as Girl Talk — will debut his latest effort, but...
Seton Hill to host signing of book collecting writings of Holocaust scholar
The writings of late Holocaust scholar Eva Fleischner, and a collection of her essays recently published by Seton Hill University’s National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education, will be the focus of an April 6 book signing. The public is invited to the 4 p.m. event in Cecilian Hall on the...
East suburbs mountain biking team seeks new members as 2022 season approaches
When Becket Pottinger of Murrysville advanced to the U.S. Ski & Snowboard U14 Eastern Ski Championships this month, his father credited his training — both on and off the slopes. “He was beating kids by three and four seconds, and honestly a lot of that has to do with biking,”...
West Leechburg’s Kasanicky’s Country Traditions to close after 17 years
The owners of Kasanicky’s Country Traditions in West Leechburg have decided to retire and close the store after 17 years selling handcrafted furniture and home accessories. John and Margriet Kasanicky, the couple who own the store, posted a statement on Facebook Wednesday: “Due to the rising costs of lumber and...
Monessen program to explore Italian Jews, history and persecution
The flight of Jews from Spain to Italy — and, ultimately, to places like Western Pennsylvania — is a largely unknown tale. An Italian-Jewish historic program this weekend in Monessen, which has been two years in the making, intends to shed light on this part of international and local history....
State audit finds unauthorized spending by Arnold’s fire relief association, other concerns
The relief association for Arnold’s two volunteer fire companies improperly paid nearly $5,000 in death benefits for members who had not died, a state audit found. The unauthorized expenditures, meant to help members who encountered financial difficulties, were repaid. The expenditures were among five concerns the state Auditor General’s Office...
Former Carrick couple sentenced for violent physical, sexual abuse of children
It has been more than 10 years since Seth and Trista Price harmed their two children. Since they beat them. Since they sexually abused them. In the intervening years, the boy and girl were adopted by new, loving families. They assumed new last names. They endured intensive therapy and hospitalizations....
The Stroller, March 26, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your community events and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Help needed at Vandergrift Meals On Wheels Vandergrift Meals On Wheels is seeking regular and substitute volunteers to help with food packing,...
Earth Day in Bradford Woods to highlight the quiet of nature
Despite the rush of the growing North Hills, there are some places where the quiet lull of nature rules. Such can be found at the Bradford Woods Reserve, which is hosting its annual Earth Day event on April 23 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The reserve is located in...
UPMC Health Plan’s Freedom House 2.0 program graduates 9 in Hill District ceremony
Nine people graduated Friday from UPMC Health Plan’s Freedom House 2.0 program, an initiative that trains people from economically disadvantaged communities as emergency medical technicians and community health workers. The 10-week program is based on the groundbreaking 1960s Freedom House program, which similarly recruited, trained and employed people for jobs...
Disabled former state trooper gets nearly $2M in lawsuit against agency
A federal judge awarded a former Pennsylvania state trooper nearly $2 million on Thursday after a jury found he was forced to retire because of a disability. Robert Newton, of Butler County, worked as a procurement and supply officer on permanent limited duty status because of a disability in his...
Wedding officiant: Tom Hanks said ‘I will do it’ and performs ceremony for Bellevue couple
Krisna Poznik Stahl wrote a letter to actor Tom Hanks. She told the Academy Award-winning star a story about her and her fiancé, Tyson Stahl. They live in a 102-year-old house in Bellevue they’ve been renovating — reminiscent of the home in Hanks’ 1986 movie “The Money Pit.” The couple...
2 people hurt after 2 crashes on Route 28
State police Kittanning barracks are investigating two crashes along Route 28 that ended with two people being sent to hospitals. Allegheny County dispatchers said the first wreck occurred around 3:50 p.m. Friday in the northbound lanes at the Sharpsburg/O’Hara Township line. Dispatchers confirmed one person was transported from the scene....
New Kensington-Arnold negotiators ‘still stuck’ on health care as teacher contract talks continue
A new contract continues to elude the New Kensington-Arnold School District and its teachers union. Negotiators for the school district and the New Kensington-Arnold Education Association met for four and a half hours Thursday night, said school board member Terry Schrock, the district’s lead negotiator and spokesman. While reporting “some...
Pitt professor in Ukraine tells U.S. ‘send money and weapons’Video
During a week when President Biden visited Europe and promised the U.S. would provide $1 billion to deal with the surge in Ukrainian refugees from the attack by Russia, a University of Pittsburgh economics professor living in Ukraine was asked what his country really needs from the United States. “Weapons,”...
Pittsburgh metro area loses population, leads nation in natural population decline
The Pittsburgh metropolitan area lost 13,755 residents between July 2020 and July 2021, according to U.S. Census estimates. The biggest factor of that loss was the region’s natural decline, which is when an area experiences more deaths than births. The Pittsburgh metro area’s natural decline of 10,383 was the largest...
