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Teen dies in 1-vehicle Mercer County crash
A teen died in a one-vehicle crash late Saturday night in Mercer County, state police said. State police said the crash happened shortly before 10:30 p.m. on Brent Road just west of Old Mercer Road in Springfield Township. According to state police, Russell T. Cyphert, 21, of Volant was driving...
Pittsburgh Fireworks Task Force responds to 88 complaints, issues 34 warnings
Pittsburgh’s Fireworks Task Force reported having its busiest night yet on Saturday, with two notable incidents. The task force, made up of eight members from the city’s bureaus of police and fire, began an enforcement initiative on June 22. It responded to 88 fireworks-related complaints overnight Saturday, and issued 34...
Alle-Kiski Valley residents find many reasons to celebrate on Fourth of July
Alle-Kiski Valley residents found all sorts of reasons to get together and celebrate on Sunday, whether for the Independence Day holiday, birthdays, relief from the covid pandemic — or just to enjoy the day. For the small congregation of Vermont Baptist Church in New Kensington, morning services under a pavilion...
Former Vandergrift attorney returns to Appalachian Trail to continue 2,200-mile charity trek
Tim Geary is a man on a mission — again. The 77-year-old retired attorney from Aspinwall has resumed his hike on the Appalachian Trail in honor of his late wife, Gillen, who died after a seven-year battle with melanoma last year. Geary, formerly of Vandergrift, began his hike March 17...
Historic Hanna’s Town marks July 4th with reading of the Declaration of IndependenceVideo
American colonists drafted plenty of documents before the Declaration of Independence. In a fledgling Westmoreland County that, officially speaking, was only two years old in 1775, citizens drafted the Hanna’s Town Resolves, a response to the battles of Lexington and Concord during the Revolutionary War. “Resolved unanimously, That there is...
North Apollo woman hopes to inspire others through her weight loss
The display on the scale read “379.” “I cried when I saw that number,” said Debbie Gerardi of North Apollo, who was in the hospital for back surgery in February of 2018. “I thought to myself, ‘How did I get here?’ I was so big that the nurses had trouble...
Irwin Sunoco station owner seeks liquor license OK
The new owner of a Sunoco convenience store-gas station along Route 30 in Irwin is seeking approval from borough officials to permit him to transfer a liquor license from Scottdale in order to sell alcohol at his station. Irwin council has scheduled a public hearing for 6 p.m. July 14...
Fundraising ongoing for Somerset County post-9/11 War on Terror memorial
A groundbreaking ceremony is planned this week in Somerset County for a new memorial honoring those who fought and died in the Global War on Terror. Organizer Randy Musser said the first phase of the memorial at Patriot Park, across Route 30 from the Flight 93 National Memorial, should be...
Hundreds turn out for inaugural 5K in memory of late state Rep. Mike ReeseVideo
Never underestimate the motivating power of a whole smoked hog. The smell of smoked meat wafted through Mammoth Park on Sunday morning, teasing the taste buds of participants in the inaugural Mike Reese Memorial 5K Roast, Run & Family Fun event, organized in memory of former state Rep. Mike Reese,...
Eastern area real estate transactions for the week of July 4, 2021
Churchill Frances Labella sold property at 2098 Garrick Drive to Aaron Hutton and Erin Nee for $220,000. Delmont Jane Piper sold property at 251 Aurora St. to John and Alice Schneider for $188,500. Estate of Garin Vesely sold property at 13 Faith Drive to Carol Fulton for $415,000. Gerald Remaley...
Pine, Richland real estate transactions for the week of July 4, 2021
Pine CG Master GP LLC sold property at unknown address to NVR Inc. for $294,376. Charles Betts sold property at unknown address to KJ3 Property Invests LLC for $265,500. James Kirby Jr. sold property at 1125 Bay Hill Drive to Robert Potter Jr. and Cynthia Potter for $510,000. CG Master...
Hampton area real estate transactions for the week of July 4, 2021
Hampton Mark Chalmers sold property at 3948 Catherine Drive to Nicholas Merritt for $264,000. Ivan Ostrowski sold property at 2812 Indian Springs Lane to Andrew Scott Headlee and Susan Elizabeth Silko for $445,000. Amitava Mukherjee sold property at 4444 Laurel Oak Drive to Julie Ann and Christine Ann Zotter for...
The Herald area real estate transactions for the week of July 4, 2021
Fox Chapel William Meyer Jr. sold property at 107 Millstone Drive to Robert Campbell et al. and Arthur Peden for $345,000. Harmar Vita Real Estate LLC sold property at 2218 Freeport Road to Steven Scotti for $13,000. Indiana Richmont Estates L.P. sold property at 1011 Danason Drive to NVR Inc....
Letter to the editor: Cats don’t vanish under feeding bans
Feeding ban on cats cruel, ineffective By imposing a feeding ban on cats, Plum is disregarding what so many other communities have already learned the hard way: outlawing feeding policies are cruel and consistently fail as a means of managing populations of community cats. Calls about cats won’t diminish, either....
Widow wants Harrison to allow dog daycare in business district
Six years after buying a building for her business in Harrison, Kim Ringer can’t use it for the main reason she bought it. Ringer said township zoning officials assured her and her late husband, Bruce, more than once before buying the former home goods store-turned-car dealership at 3041 Freeport Road...
Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of July 4, 2021
Edgeworth Charles Bowers III sold property at 506 Beaver Road to Brain and Kristen Singer for $1,042,200. Gregory Kaminski sold property at 443 Maple Ln to Gregory and Margaret Conn for $1,600,000. Sewickley Estate of Charles Clarke sold property at 540 Academy Ave. to Scott and Jennifer Simonsen for $604,500....
Bethel Park real estate transactions for the week of July 4, 2021
Mary Yeager sold property at 368 Allandale Drive to Andrew and Cebra Carrozza for $268,000. James Modrak sold property at 3340 Altherton Drive to Luke James Modrak for $150,000. Jason Miller sold property at 3115 Aniray Circle to Zachary Harris and Lauren Ackerman for $214,000. Carter Lehman sold property at...
North Hills real estate transactions for the week of July 4, 2021
Bellevue Altura Real Estate LLC sold property at 56 N Bryant Ave. to CTD Holdings LLC for $207,000. Franklin Park Nicholas Rocco sold property at 2375 Jenkinson Drive to Tyler and Sarah Dixon for $276,000. Jared Congedo sold property at 2404 Marble Lane to Lauren Boyle for $205,000. John Comport...
South Hills real estate transactions for the week of July 4, 2021
Baldwin Borough Warren Lowe sold property at 485 Calvert Ave. to Jennifer McKnight and Stephanie Symosko for $278,000. Baldwin Township David May sold property at 733 Highview Road to Nicolas Bradley Wuarberg and Kristen Hephner for $185,000. Brentwood Saltovka LLC sold property at 3006 Brentwood Ave. to Anastasia Belashova for...
Carnegie, South Fayette area real estate transactions for the week of July 4, 2021
Carnegie Thomas Burch sold property at 17 Dean St. to Thomas Johnson and Kayla Davis for $96,810. Sumac Tree LLC sold property at 427 Library Ave. to Sumac Tree LLC for $151,000. Darrell Conley sold property at 42 Parkview Drive to Adbulaziz Isaqov and Nilufar Utalova for $241,500. Robert Heinrich...
Lower Burrell family wins ruling to have chickens at their home as petsVideo
When Donny Henderson calls the girls, it’s usually not for his two daughters but the family’s six hens, which he defended as pets in a recent Lower Burrell Zoning Hearing Board action. Henderson and his wife, Erika, won a decision recently by the city’s zoning hearing board that now classifies...
Daylilies to take center stage at Donohoe Center demonstration gardensVideo
Master gardener Mary Niezelski has long had a preference for planting vegetables, but this year she learned to appreciate the daylily tubers that are bursting forth with colorful July blooms. A Derry Township resident, Niezelski is a recent addition to the more than 180 Westmoreland County members of the Penn...
The Stroller, July 4, 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. Freeport Theatre Festival to open 2021 season The Freeport Theatre Festival will present, “The Rainmaker,” at 7 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and...
Nurse shortage is crippling hospitals, centers that provide care in Western Pa.
A long-predicted shortage across the continuum of nursing and direct care workers has come home to roost in the coronavirus pandemic. Shortages are rippling across the country, fueled in part, experts say, by pandemic trauma and burnout. The issue is critical in Western Pennsylvania. In a region characterized by a...
Used car prices jump as new car production dropsVideo
Those looking to buy a late-model car, truck or sport utility vehicle may suffer from sticker shock when they see the price of used vehicles, which the U.S. government’s consumer price index calculates have risen by about 30% since May 2020. “It’s all about the inventory. There’s a high demand...
