Western PA Local News category, Page 2052
Baldwin-Whitehall’s new elementary school to be named after superintendent Lutz
The Baldwin-Whitehall school board has decided to name a new elementary school that is planned to begin construction later this year after the district’s current superintendent. The R.A. Lutz Elementary School is expected to be ready to house 1,200 students in third through fifth grades by the 2022-23 school year....
Bethel Park Library offering in-person outdoor programs
Bethel Park Public Library, located at 5100 W. Library Ave., is open to the public. Masks are required, high-touch areas including countertops and tables are disinfected daily and hand sanitizer is available throughout the library. Public computers are limited to one hour of use per day. All materials are quarantined...
Greensburg Garden Center’s annual May Mart ushers in planting season
Shoppers at Greensburg Garden Center’s annual May Mart plant sale will find themselves in a new and improved space. The center’s garden recently was refurbished by Cole Kuczynski of Greensburg as an Eagle Scout project. Kuczynski and his helpers removed old compost and debris, built a wire compost bin, refurbished...
Hempfield Area temporarily closes high school due to covid cases
Hempfield Area High School on Wednesday began a two-day closure after additional students tested positive for covid-19, according to district leaders. High school students will participate in remote learning today and Thursday. The decision to temporarily close the school came after district administration was informed of additional students testing positive...
‘Pink Hat Lady’ avoids jail after judge accepts apology over mesh mask
A Mercer County woman charged in the Capitol riot facing possible contempt for wearing a mesh mask at her work place will remain free pending trial. Rachel Powell, of Sandy Lake, apologized and provided an explanation for the mask flap. A judge on Tuesday accepted the explanation “The court is...
The Stroller, April 28, 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. Apollo May Daze celebration planned The Apollo May Daze festival will be from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the borough. There...
Abandoned vehicles targeted by Pittsburgh police in 5 neighborhoodsVideo
Seventeen abandoned vehicles were towed from the streets of five Pittsburgh neighborhoods Tuesday in the start of a weekslong effort to clear out such complaints, according to city police public information officer Cara Cruz. Officers investigated 124 abandoned vehicle complaints in the Allentown, Beltzhoover, Carrick, Arlington Heights and Knoxville neighborhoods....
Man killed in Beechview motorcycle crash
A Pittsburgh man was killed late Tuesday when a motorcycle crashed in Beechview, according to Pittsburgh police. The crash was reported at 11:55 p.m. in the 1400 block of West Liberty Avenue. When first responders arrived, the man was found lying in the road with a motorcycle nearby. Investigators said...
Pittsburgh man sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for child porn possession
A Pittsburgh man who plead guilty to possession of child pornography was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison. Krent Jeffrey Haight, 48, of Mt. Washington is expected to spend the next decade behind bars after the sentence was imposed by U.S. District Judge Cathy Bisson. Haight admitted guilt...
Bethel Park School District officials honor staffer, other partners in the fight against covid
Having community partners can be a big boost for school districts fighting the covid-19 pandemic. Bethel Park officials understand that and recognized some of them at April’s school board meeting. School board president Pamela Dobos presented certificates to elementary school nurse Eileen Wallace, Spartan Pharmacy owner Adam Rice, and South...
Bethel Park to remain at 4 days in-person learning the rest of the school year
Bethel Park School District students will remain on a four-day in-person schedule through the rest of this school year. School directors adopted a resolution solidifying that plan Tuesday night. It also authorizes the administration to start planning for five-day in-person learning at the start of next school year. Board President...
Pine-Richland taps former Brentwood school director now living in district to fill board vacancy
The Pine-Richland School Board on Tuesday selected a former Brentwood school director who moved into the district 1 1/2 years ago to fill a vacancy created when a school director resigned amid the recent community uproar over the district’s decision to fire its championship winning football coach. The board spent...
Allegheny County Council creates police review board
A divided Allegheny County Council on Tuesday approved creating an independent police review board. The board won’t be created until 2022 and it will only have jurisdiction over Allegheny County Police Department. Other municipalities with police departments in the county can opt-in to the board’s oversight, but that move would...
Kings restaurant on Route 66 in Salem closes after more than 3 decades
The Kings Family Restaurant on Route 66 in Salem closed for good this week, after more than three decades in business. “Over the course of the past year, moving from regular business to strictly carryout, this is a restaurant we just weren’t able to keep, from a financial standpoint,” said...
Hempfield students participate in mock accident scenario ahead of promVideo
About 500 juniors and seniors gathered behind the press box at Hempfield Area High School Tuesday afternoon as a mock accident scene played out before them, part of an attempt by first responders across the county to warn students about the dangers of impaired and distracted driving prior to the...
Allegheny Township family offers reward for safe return of pet Clydesdale
An Allegheny Township family is offering a $2,000 reward for their pet horse that went missing Sunday. Jessie, a 10-year-old Clydesdale mare, was last seen on video surveillance about midnight Saturday in the pasture on the family farm and business on Lardintown Road in Clinton Township. Owner JeNeen Fleishner said...
FNB announces $7 million in funding to support Hill District improvements
As FNB Corp. and the Pittsburgh Penguins work to redevelop the former Civic Arena site that will be anchored by a new FNB headquarters, the company Tuesday announced $7 million in other investments to improve the neighborhood. A new $5 million gap lending program will provide loans of up to...
Man charged with duping Western Pennsylvanians in online puppy scam
A Cameroonian man has been extradited to Pittsburgh to answer charges that he was running an online scam purporting to sell puppies. Desmond Fodje Bobga had an initial appearance on the charges on Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Maureen Kelly. He is being held in the Allegheny County Jail and...
PennDOT announces traffic stoppages on Tarentum Bridge
Traffic stoppages lasting up to 15 minutes are planned Wednesday on the Tarentum Bridge, according to PennDOT. The stoppages will occur as needed in each direction between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., PennDOT said. PennDOT said crews will be performing jacking operations on the bridge while traffic is stopped between...
Mail-in ballot drop box locations approved in Westmoreland County
Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct the hours of operations for the remote drop box locations. Westmoreland County voters will have four, and maybe five, regional ballot drop boxes available for the two weekends prior to the May 18 primary. County commissioners on Tuesday approved drop-box locations at...
Western Pa. health experts: Relaxed mask rules ‘long overdue’
Health experts in Western Pennsylvania said it’s no surprise outdoor mask-wearing is no longer part of federal health guidance. From the beginning of the pandemic, data has shown outdoor transmission of covid-19 to be a rare event. “I think that this was a long overdue step, but it was completely...
Norwin High School closed because of covid cases
Norwin High School will be closed Wednesday because of a sixth positive covid case at the high school within a 14-day rolling period. The closure will allow contract tracing to be completed and for sanitizing the building, the district said Tuesday afternoon. The school was closed upon the recommendation of...
Real ID deadline extended again
The Real ID has again been postponed — until 2023. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced the extension of Real ID enforcement from Oct. 1, 2021, to May 3, 2023. The decision was based on “circumstances resulting from the ongoing covid-19 pandemic,” the DHS said in a statement....
Police accuse St. Clair Township man of threatening sheriff’s deputies serving a PFA
A St. Clair Township man is in the Westmoreland County Prison, charged with threatening to shoot two county sheriff’s deputies as the officers were attempting to serve a court order. Gregory Lee Clark, 54, was arraigned on three counts each of simple assault and terroristic threats and one count of...
Pittsburgh police release 2020 annual report; chief pledges transparency, accountability
The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police released the department’s annual report on Tuesday, a 169-page document giving a breakdown of everything from the race and gender of the city’s victims and offenders to the number of lawsuits filed and settled against the department and individual officers. Chief Scott Schubert called 2020...
