Western PA Local News category, Page 1839
Sewickley’s Nonprofit Corner for the week of Sept. 21, 2021
Sewickley Senior Men’s Club of the YMCA 625 Blackburn Road, Sewickley. 412-741-9622. smensclub.org. Weekly meetings The Sewickley Senior Men’s Club of the YMCA has resumed its weekly meeting schedule. The SMC meets in the YMCA’s Hunter Gym, where a group of more than 60 members gather each week to catch...
The Stroller, Sept. 21, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
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. Free concert planned at Shrine Center The Pittsburgh Shrine Center will present a free outdoor concert featuring Bobby Thompson and the...
Promoter hopes to return to Murrysville SportZone for future boxing cards
Pittsburgh junior lightweight Matt “Sweet Child” Conway racked up his 20th career victory Saturday night with a win over Rodolfo Puente at “Murrysville Madness,” held at the Murrysville SportZone. With the win, Conway (20-2, 9 KOs) will begin preparing for an International Boxing Association World title fight. Promoter Derek Gionta...
North Apollo family escapes house fire unhurt
No one was hurt in a house fire late Monday night in North Apollo, an Armstrong County emergency dispatcher said. The fire at 1233 Wysocki Ave. was reported shortly before 11 p.m. Firefighters were at the scene until about 2:45 a.m. Tuesday, the dispatcher said. A family of three, including...
Deer Lakes kindergartner inspires community while battling brain cancer
When Sara Latronica told her son, Noah, he had brain cancer, he didn’t understand it was not a common disease. She remembers him asking every person he encountered if they had cancer. “We had to tell him that he had something rare,” she said. The 5-year-old was diagnosed with brain...
Irwin to hold rubber duck race to promote water quality
Irwin Borough and the Turtle Creek Watershed Association are joining forces with an event aimed at educating the public about the importance of water quality while sponsoring a rubber ducky race along a section of a Tinker’s Run tributary at Irwin Park. Planned for 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sept....
Robots to deliver books, medicine, food to Pittsburgh neighborhoods
Residents in some Pittsburgh neighborhoods will be seeing a new wave of delivery service bringing food, books and medicine, all without human delivery drivers. The city is teaming up with the company Kiwibot for a pilot program that will collaborate with local businesses to provide free and equitable deliveries. Kiwibot...
Hempfield school directors consider joining lawsuits against school mask mandate
Members of the Hempfield Area School Board are considering whether to join a lawsuit or file their own against a mask mandate issued by the state earlier this month. In a 7-1 vote Monday night, board members directed Solicitor Michael Korns to gather information regarding already filed suits that are...
Norwin board urged to fight mask mandate rules
A week after the Norwin School Board meeting was abruptly adjourned before business could be conducted because people in the audience would not don face masks, the school board heard the complaints during a virtual meeting and was urged to fight state orders that students be masked while in school....
Allegheny County Jail Oversight Board votes to end contract with controversial training company
The Allegheny County Jail Oversight Board on Monday night voted to cancel a controversial contract with a corrections special operations group whose founder’s background raised significant questions about his history and qualifications. The vote was 4-3 with one abstention to cancel a $347,000 contract for training and weaponry with Corrections...
Idle Jefferson Hills fire company gets new life through ambulance company partnership
A budding ambulance company established its first official station via a partnership with an idle Jefferson Hills fire company. Pittsburgh Safety Consultants was founded about two years ago in McDonald. It would serve as a medical standby for events such as high school football games, swim meets, big fairs and...
Self-defense claimed in Monessen dog shooting
The lawyer for a Rostraver chiropractor charged with animal cruelty and related offenses told a Westmoreland County jury on Monday that his client shot a barking mixed-breed dog to protect his family. Defense attorney Christopher Blackwell contended a neighbor’s canine snarled, barked and was set to attack children and adults...
Trial begins for Allegheny Township man charged with sexually assaulting 3 children, 3 adults
An Allegheny Township man charged with the sexual assaults of three children and three adults over two decades showed no emotion Monday as the first of his accusers struggled to testify about the alleged abuses she claims she suffered in 2019. The now 14-year-old girl from New Kensington, who prosecutors...
Police: Man charged in Beltzhoover murder arrested
A man wanted in connection with a murder in Pittsburgh’s Beltzhoover neighborhood was taken into custody, Public Safety officials announced Monday. Raymontay Green, 20, of Arlington was arrested Saturday, according to court documents. He is charged in the killing of Darren Green, 29, of Sheraden. The victim was shot to...
Lower Burrell fire company reschedules free movie after baby shower shooting
Lower Burrell’s No. 3 volunteer fire company canceled its free movie night Saturday after the shootings of three people at another city firehall. Three guests were shot at a baby shower at Lower Burrell No. 1 Volunteer Fire Department in the city’s Kinloch section. That was about two hours before...
Hempfield, Highlands students face consequences for ‘Devious Licks’ TikTok challenge
A national social media trend to plunder school restrooms has made its way to at least two more Western Pennsylvania school districts, officials at Hempfield Area and Highlands school districts reported. The “Devious Licks” TikTok challenge dares children to vandalize schools — in most cases, bathrooms — and nab items...
Campaign for drug treatment, recovery programs unveiled for Westmoreland, eastern Allegheny residentsVideo
The U.S. Justice Department on Monday announced a new public campaign to promote local addiction and recovery programs to combat the still climbing numbers of drug overdoses and deaths in Western Pennsylvania. The Press Play PA program will target Westmoreland County and eastern Allegheny County communities to highlight efforts being...
Kinloch neighbors say Saturday’s triple shooting out of character for Lower Burrell
Teddy Hare has lived most of his his life in a home along Pittsburgh Street in Lower Burrell that’s in eyesight of the Kinloch fire hall. When he spotted police lights in the club’s parking lot on Saturday evening, he assumed it was just another speeding driver who got pulled...
Cafeteria worker faces charges for bringing gun to Pittsburgh elementary school
A Pittsburgh Public Schools employee was arrested after bringing a gun to Grandview Elementary in the city’s Allentown neighborhood on Monday, school officials confirmed. “While the employee does have a license to carry a firearm, they are not permitted on school grounds,” said district spokeswomen Ebony Pugh. The employee, a...
Pittsburgh pediatrician hopes ‘a lot of kids’ get vaccinated by HalloweenVideo
Parents eager to get children under 12 vaccinated for covid-19 received some encouraging news Monday. Pfizer announced its covid-19 vaccine works for children 5 to 11 and that it will apply to the Food and Drug Administration by the end of the month for emergency use in that age group....
Portion of Center Road to be closed for 28 days in October
A portion of Center Road in Plum, near the Monroeville border, will be closed for a 28-day period at the beginning of October. Plum Contracting Inc., along with the PA Turnpike Commission, will implement a 28-day detour of Center Road, effective Oct. 1. The purpose of the closure will be...
Drainage work to restrict traffic in Youngwood, cause detour in Mt. Pleasant Township
Traffic restrictions will start Wednesday as crews work to make drainage-related improvements in Youngwood and a detour on Route 982 in Mt. Pleasant Township. Work on Route 982 was to have started this week but has been delayed until 6 a.m. Sept. 27. In Youngwood, a section of Depot Street,...
Verona celebrates 150-year anniversary with full weekend of events
The town of Verona celebrated its 150-year anniversary over the weekend of Sept. 18-19 with a full slate of events for the community sponsored by the Verona Community Group and the Lower Valley Athletic Foundation. The borough’s birthday party kicked off Sept. 18 with Community Day, a festival taking place...
Tarentum municipal office closed for covid-19 protocol
The main office of the Tarentum municipal building will be closed this week after its only scheduled employee is in quarantine for covid-19-related protocol. Manager Michael Nestico said the office will reopen at 10 a.m. Sept. 27. “We only have one employee scheduled to be in the office this week...
Sharspsburg awarded grant to combat flooding
Sharpsburg has been awarded a $162,000 no-match grant to research how to thwart flooding near Seitz Run. Residents, particularly in the lower section of Kittanning Pike, are routinely flooded after heavy rains. The money will target ways to alleviate the impact, authorities said. Mayor Matt Rudzki thanked “everyone who made...
