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Lower Burrell and Upper Burrell considering collecting per capita tax quicker
Lower Burrell and Upper Burrell aren’t considering raising the $15 annual per capita tax on residents but collecting it in a shorter time frame from 11 months to six months within the same year. Most residents in both municipalities older than 18 years of age have been paying the $15...
New Kiski Township Sewage Authority holds first meeting to oversee $16 million sewerage project
The newly established Kiski Township Sewage Authority will hold its first meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday to organize and chart plans for a townshipwide $16 million sewerage project. With only about 10% of township homes and businesses connected to public sewer lines, supervisors in the past several years have been...
Animal Protectors to offer rabies clinic but major fundraisers later in year still in limbo
Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley is offering its first public event at its new facility in New Kensington — a drive-through rabies clinic on May 1 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The shelter’s new Church Street facility has been closed to public events during the pandemic, but a rabies...
Lower Burrell’s garden club holds May Market to pay for public plantings
The Burrellton Garden Club of Lower Burrell will present its annual May Market to pay for the club’s beautification of six public gardens, which the club designs, plants and maintains. The market will offer up annual and perennial flowers, hanging baskets, herbs and other items. It will be held at...
Eastern area real estate transactions for the week of April 25, 2021
Churchill Silas Watkins sold property at 3857 Greensburg Pike to Matthew Zamba and Alexandra Hay for $151,965. Delmont Lee Adams sold property at 138 Freeport St. to James Tobin for $99,900. Edgewood William Weaver sold property at 1109 E End Ave. to Dane Brody for $363,000. Nicholas Gasparro sold property...
Pine, Richland real estate transactions for the week of April 25, 2021
Pine Douglas Hall sold property at 118 Lyndhurst Circle to Frank Kowalkowski Jr. and Yuliya Kowalkowski for $799,000. NVR Inc. sold property at 724 Mulkerrin Court to Stephen and Kristina McNees for $691,090. Richland Charles Pastva sold property at 3700 Centerview Road to Jacob and Erica Schurer for $51,100. Real...
The Herald area real estate transactions for the week of April 25, 2021
Aspinwall Shlomo Taasan sold property at 105 Lexington Ave. to Mary Heinauer for $305,000. Jillian Barnet sold property at 415 Virginia Ave. to Linda Schmidt for $400,500. Blawnox Donna Kolody sold property at 710 Carla Drive to Mak Wong and Kenny Zhan for $157,000. Fox Chapel Christopher Doughton sold property...
Hampton area real estate transactions for the week of April 25, 2021
Hampton David Lindell sold property at 3030 Apache Court to Robert Alan and Peya Robinson for $405,057. Glenn Miller sold property at 4571 Bucktail Drive to Sandra Burns for $274,000. Robert Ostryniec sold property at 2128 Grandeur Drive to Richard and Patricia Kwiatkowski for $834,500. Catherine Harshman sold property at...
Shelters struggle to vaccinate Pittsburgh’s homeless population
Light of Life Rescue Mission had a vaccine clinic planned to help vaccinate homeless people earlier this month. The shelter, which operates short- and long-term programs for the homeless, as well as addiction recovery and employment assistance, planned to administer the single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Then, about three hours...
Fire extensively damages house in Unity
No injuries were reported Saturday after a Unity home was extensively damaged by fire. Dryridge Volunteer Fire Department Chief Rich Levay said firefighters from multiple central Westmoreland County fire departments responded to the blaze at the residence on McClellan Drive that was reported at 6:49 p.m. He said firefighters were...
Pittsburgh police investigating fatal shooting of teenage boy in Hill District
Pittsburgh police are investigating the fatal shooting of a teenage boy in the Hill District Saturday night. Police responded to 911 calls for shots fired in the 2400 block of Bedford Avenue at about 7:40 p.m. When responding officers arrived on scene, officers said they witnessed the boy being loaded...
Pittsburgh police seek woman accused of running down paramour in deadly hit-and-run
Pittsburgh police are searching for a woman they allege ran down her paramour after an argument in the city’s Homewood section last week. Ausha Dakisha Brown, 25, is charged with homicide, homicide by vehicle, reckless endangerment and multiple traffic violations. The charges stem from the April 19 hit-and-run death of...
Leechburg Council approves high school field improvements
Dozens of Leechburg High School students and parents, decked out in Blue Devils gear, crowded outside a borough council meeting Tuesday. They huddled on the steps and crammed into the doorway of the overflowing gallery, there to support a proposal by the school district to upgrade stormwater management at Veterans...
Incumbent Allegheny Township supervisor has a challenger in the Republican primary
Republicans James Morabito and Kathy Starr are vying for one open seat on Allegheny Township’s board of supervisors. Township supervisors serve six-year terms. Starr is the incumbent supervisors chairwoman since 2003. A lifelong township resident, Starr, 78, owns a catering business in the township. A newcomer to the political scene,...
Sewickley area real estate transactions for the week of April 25, 2021
Aleppo Kenneth Justin Thomas sold property at 707 Sewickley Heights Drive to Dylan Soller and Sydney Biggins for $185,000. Linda Grace Shortz sold property at 303 Timber Lane to Michael and Rhonda Moats trustee for $217,000. Leet Daniel Miller sold property at 301 N. Chaucer Court to Kamala Property 2020...
Bethel Park real estate transactions for the week of April 25, 2021
Estate of Robert Graeser sold property at 5940 Barnes Ave. to Daniel Halaszynski for $160,000. Estate of John Kraves sold property at 2662 Broad St. to Laura Devine for $260,000. Michael Constantin sold property at 7132 Dumbarton Pl to Birkha Thapa for $265,000. Max William Caldwell sold property at 2516...
North Hills real estate transactions for the week of April 25, 2021
Bellevue David Roberts sold property at 515 Teece Ave. to Amy Barrett for $90,000. Rosborough Dixon LLC sold property at 304 Thomas Ave. to Lauren Marie Dombrowski for $172,500. Bradford Woods John Jeffries sold property at 601 Lincoln Road to Andrew and Ivonne Gourlay for $775,000. Franklin Park David Coyle...
Bridgeville, Carnegie area real estate transactions for the week of April 25
Bridgeville Jarred Yohe sold property at 915 Edna St. to Cynthia Miklos for $141,000. Mary McAdams sold property at 684 Elizabeth St. to David Bojanac for $156,000. Vineyard Christian Fellowship SW Pittsburgh sold property at 202 Liberty St. to One Church Pittsburgh for $140,000. LS & RT Deklewa LLC sold...
South Hills real estate transactions for the week of April 25
Baldwin Borough Dennis Magera sold property at 5404 Broad St. to Citylife South 2 LLC for $40,000. Krista Abboud sold property at 4729 Gardenville Road to Jeffrey William Radcliff for $204,160. Charles Rader trustee sold property at 564 Jenne Drive to John Doleno Jr. and Stephanie Doleno for $200,000. Estate...
Irwin to get new parking meters, rate increase
Motorists in downtown Irwin will see new parking meters in the near future, and a rate increase. The borough was to receive an order of 200 refurbished digital meters Friday from Take A Powder Inc. of Paterson, N.J., said Stacie Santimyer, assistant borough manager. Council on April 14 approved buying...
Hospitality grants help ease pandemic strain on Westmoreland restaurants, bars and hotels
Heather Papinchak said the $20,000 hospitality grant she recently received from Westmoreland County will certainly help her business in the months ahead, but the financial hardship caused by coronavirus pandemic over the past year will linger for some time. “It’s been an unbelievable challenge to operate, being in the hospitality...
The Stroller, April 25, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your club meetings, events and fundraisers in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Rabies clinic offered Saturday in New Kensington Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley will host a rabies, distemper and microchip clinic from 11 a.m. to...
Elon Musk, Starlink look to stars to fill internet broadband gaps, including across Western Pa.Video
Dictated by the peaks and dips of Western Pennsylvania’s rolling landscape, internet service is often spotty — even nonexistent — for thousands of people based on topography and a lack of infrastructure for high-speed internet services. But an ambitious project by billionaire Elon Musk promises lofty goals for those struggling...
Covid-19 shattered enrollment patterns at region’s community colleges
Community college enrollment booms when the economy busts. That was an accepted fact, proven time and again during the cycles that characterize the U.S. economy. But the covid-19 pandemic, which sent the world into a series of lockdowns, shattered that pattern. Although the region’s community colleges were expecting an enrollment...
Alle-Kiski Valley communities see populations fluctuate, according to census
The Alle-Kiski Valley’s population has declined since the 2010 census, but four of its communities are growing, according to census estimates. The Valley’s 42 municipalities had a combined population of 190,950 in 2019, down about 3% from the 2010 census, the numbers show. Bucking that trend were Oakmont, which saw...
