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There were several items on the agenda for the Oct. 17 board of commissioners meeting in Ross, including transfers of an alcohol license and the renaming of Sangree Park to Bruno Sammartino Park, but temporary political signs specifically caught the attention of board president Dan DeMarco. During his president’s report,...

Eight candidates are vying for four open seats on the North Allegheny School Board in the Nov. 2 general election. North Allegheny school directors serve at-large. Only incumbent Rick McClure is seeking re-election. The seven other candidates are newcomers. McClure, Greg Casten, Vidya Szymkowiak and Joe Wall ran as a...

Jeannette officials hope to raze two fire-damaged buildings with the help of county demolition funding. An application will be made to the county requesting money to demolish a Clay Avenue commercial building and a Good Street home, city clerk Nathan Bish said. “Even if they don’t fund it all, it’s...

Penn Township Ambulance will offer free car seat safety inspections Monday. The event will be from 1 to 3 p.m. at the station, 1030 Sandy Hill Road, Irwin. Parents/caregivers can have their car seat reviewed to make sure it is the safest selection for a child’s age and weight and...

Jeannette officials have approved agreements with the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County, permitting work to dig up a sports field in exchange for addressing flooding issues in about a dozen homes. The $11 million project, approved in 2019, is expected to start sometime in 2022 and last about a year....

Sewickley UMC Luncheon The Sewickley United Methodist Church is hosting its popular monthly luncheon in person or as take-out on 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Nov. 4 in the church’s social hall. The menu is hot ham and cheese hoagie, butternut squash soup, broccoli slaw and pumpkin cake all for $10. For...

South Park Theatre South Park Theatre presents the musical “The Lights of Jingle Bell Hill” on weekends from Nov. 12-21. Join the tale of the annual holiday contest and the frustrated residents of Jingle Bell Hill, who, despite their best efforts, never win. Larry, the frightening tenant who lives in...

To the editor: My wife and I had the pleasure of taking our grandson to the story hour and pumpkin painting at our Penn Hills Library Oct. 8 . We got there about 10 minutes early and weren’t surprised to be the only ones there. As time went on though,...

Woodland Hills students will return to classrooms Monday after a series of fights led to a two-day closure of the building. In a letter to parents Sunday night, Principal Shelly Manns said a student assembly to address the incidents will take place Monday. “Over the next couple of weeks, we...

Isolated thunderstorms are expected to roll through parts of the region late Monday. Some of the showers may be strong enough to bring damaging winds and large hail, said Michael Brown, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Pittsburgh. “It’s typical late-October weather,” Brown said. Temperatures will be mild...

Publicize your club meetings, community events and fundraisers for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Salvation Army seeking help with food pantry distribution The New Kensington Salvation Army, 255 Third St., is looking for volunteers to...

Plum Area Ladies Society (PALS) will meet at Plum Community Center 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 3. The club’s service project will be filling Christmas stockings with goodies for troops stationed overseas. Requested items include granola bars, power bars, 5-Hour Energy, individual bags of cookies, crackers or snacks, Cheeze-its, Slim Jims,...

Churchill Estate of Virginia Savitz sold property at 2182 Beulah Road to Michael Chiappinelli and Jessica Dancisin for $195,000. Zokaikes Properties L.P. sold property at 800 Beulah Road to Allegheny Land Trust for $3,000,000. John Ormsbee sold property at 2063 Garrick Drive to Om and Elizabeth Joy Choudhary for $275,000....

Time to give blood The Ladies Auxiliary 85 from the White Valley AMVETS Post 85 is holding blood drive on Oct. 30. It’s set for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at AMVETS social hall, 2100 Carolina St., Export. Appointments are recommended, but walk-ins welcomed. To schedule an appointment: vitalant.org, and...

First-term Pittsburgh City Councilman Anthony Coghill is being challenged in the Nov. 2 election by political newcomer Connor Mulvaney in this year’s only contested race for council. The winner will represent District 4, which includes the neighborhoods of Beechview, Bon Air, Brookline, Carrick, Mt. Washington and Overbrook. Coghill, 55, is...

A social media post about “shooting up” Central High School, not necessarily Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, is no longer a threat to the local all-boys, college prep school, according to Pittsburgh Police on Sunday. Central Catholic officials alerted Pittsburgh Police about the threat Saturday on Snapchat. Detectives with...

A man was shot in the torso in Pittsburgh’s Lincoln-Lemington neighborhood early Sunday. Pittsburgh Police responded to a report of shots fired near the intersection of Lincoln and Lemington avenues just after 2:30 a.m. Police said when they arrived they found a man shot in the torso. He was taken...

Organizers had expected about 500 residents to participate in the inaugural Greg Wells Memorial Fall Festival on Sunday at Freeport Community Park. That estimate turned out to be a bit low, as more than 2,000 people showed up to honor the late Freeport youth baseball and soccer coach. A Harrison...

For the first time in a quarter century, Westmoreland County District Attorney John Peck has a race on his hands. Republican Nicole Ziccarelli, fresh off a razor-thin defeat in a bid for state Senate last fall, insists it’s time to change leadership in the county prosecutor’s office. “I respect the...

Bicycles, buses and maybe even brooms were the preferred mode of transportation Sunday in Ligonier, as more than 1,200 “witches” from the region gathered for the town’s fifth annual Witches Bike Brigade event. Since it was created as a pre-Halloween event for women in 2016, the daylong festival offers a...

Westmoreland County Sheriff James Albert is taking a dispute with the county’s prison board to common pleas court. The sheriff and the prison board are sparring over a requirement that sheriff’s deputies transport sick inmates to and from the county jail for medical treatment. In a lawsuit filed Friday, Albert...

A Washington County woman was killed early Sunday when the car she was driving was struck by a wrong-way driver along Interstate 79 in North Strabane, state police said. Holly A. Davis, 56, of Canonsburg died in the 1:45 a.m. head-on crash near mile marker 42. Moments before the collision,...

The Allegheny County Police are asking the public’s help in connection with a shooting that critically injured a man early Sunday in Swissvale. Police reported that dispatchers were notified at 2:12 a.m. of a shooting on the 7500 block of Washington Avenue. First responders found a man suffering from a...

In an effort to avoid actually hiring a firefighter, Hempfield officials want to offer money to spur volunteers to respond to emergencies and regularly report to fire stations. The goal of the staffing and incentive programs is to bolster responses from volunteers and avoid a potential morale sting of bringing...

PennDOT has completed most of the work on updating 18 traffic signals in Greensburg and Hempfield, but more work is needed at the intersection of Main and Otterman in downtown Greensburg. Work also is continuing on upgrading traffic signals along a stretch of Route 30 in Hempfield and Jeannette. The...