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The Stroller, Sept. 15, 2020: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Is your non-profit organization going to have a fundraiser? Send information to The Stroller at least a week in advance to vndnews@tribweb.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Used Halloween costume drive planned Redemption Church in Lower Burrell is collecting new and gently-used children’s Halloween costumes through Oct. 4...
Problems plague Norwin online instruction
Norwin’s online education program for students not in class has some technological glitches that are preventing them from receiving instructions, school officials acknowledged. Students are having difficulty accessing the online courses, a problem that randomly occurs, Norwin Superintendent Jeff Taylor said in a statement. The district’s online academy teachers have...
‘Amazing’ race slated on Westmoreland Heritage Trail
Fans of the CBS adventure reality television show “The Amazing Race” will get to duplicate some of trials of that challenge — albeit locally instead of globally — in a race along the Westmoreland Heritage Trail in the Trafford and Murrysville areas on Oct. 10. The Amazing Trail Race challenges...
Plum’s Movies in the Park series continues this Saturday at Larry Mills Park
Plum officials added another movie to their Movies in the Park series. “Sonic the Hedgehog,” an action-adventure comedy film based on the Sega video game franchise, will be screened at Larry Mills Park on Saturday. Attendees can find their spots starting at 6:30 p.m. The movie starts at dusk. Plum...
Plum officials: Soccer tournament goes off without a hitch
Plum Area Youth Soccer Club hosted a three-day tournament late last month with thousands of players and spectators - all while staying compliant with health department guidelines. The 23rd annual Plum Kick-Off Classic took place Aug. 28-30 with 160 teams each with an average roster of 15 players. Teams used...
Franklin Regional board may combine final 2 borrowings for Sloan project
Franklin Regional School Board members got an early look at what may be the final bond issuance to finance the Sloan “elementary campus” project, a proposal that would combine the final two issuances to take advantage of all-time low interest rates. The board will consider a $15 million bond, the...
Girl, 5, in critical condition after being hit by car in Sheraden
A 5-year-old girl is in critical condition after being hit by a car Monday afternoon in Pittsburgh’s Sheraden neighborhood, according to police. Pittsburgh EMS, firefighters and police responded to the 600 block of Hillsboro Street in Sheraden around 2:30 p.m. where the girl was struck after exiting a vehicle. She...
Plum appoints a familiar face as its new emergency management coordinator
Plum officials selected a familiar face as the borough’s new emergency management coordinator. Jim Sims, retired Plum police sergeant and current Holiday Park fire chief, was appointed to the position Sept. 14 by a 5-0 vote. Councilmen Mike Doyle and Mike Pastor were absent. Sims takes over for Brian Turpin,...
Norwin board members call on Wayman to resign over ‘offensive’ Facebook postings
Four Norwin School Board members this week asked a fellow member to resign over his Facebook postings that several board members and residents have condemned as being racist and offensive. Brian Carlton, board president, initiated the call for Robert Wayman, a retired teacher, to resign for his statements on private...
Business owners endorse judge’s ruling on Wolf orders, but say damage already done
David Magill said Monday he felt Gov. Tom Wolf’s shutdown orders were unconstitutional from the start, but he didn’t think a federal judge ruling them as such would change much because the governor is appealing and many businesses already have suffered. “I think that he should concede his loss, and...
Auto parts store eyed at former WCCC site in Latrobe
An O’Reilly Auto Parts store is proposed to take the place of Westmoreland County Community College’s former Laurel Education Center in Latrobe. City Council on Monday approved a land development plan for the proposed store at 17 Lloyd Ave., a point along Route 981 southwest of Loyalhanna Creek. Work at...
Greensburg chooses design consultant for Spring Avenue Park renovation
Greensburg selected the planning consultant to help redesign Spring Avenue Park. The city will pay Environmental Planning and Design of Pittsburgh $45,000 to oversee an 11-month design process. The 1.4-acre space is mostly empty, containing a small playground and a basketball hoop. City leaders have plenty of ideas for how...
Greensburg appoints police captain, council member
Greensburg has a new police captain and a new council member, both of whom were chosen unanimously by city council. Shawn Denning was promoted to captain, while Shelia Brumley got a seat on council. It was Denning’s third promotion in four years. He joined the department in 2008. He became...
Family of Butler County man killed by police files lawsuit claiming civil rights violations
The family of a 73-year-old Butler County man, who was having a mental health crisis before he was killed two years ago by the state police, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state police. Walter Wiemann was killed on Sept. 18, 2018, in the yard of his home...
Pitt researchers discover antibody that could be key in covid cure
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh say they have isolated a tiny molecule that neutralizes the coronavirus and could be the foundation for a drug to prevent and combat covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Researchers from Pitt’s School of Medicine published their findings today in the journal Cell....
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers move closer to strike
Union members at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are moving closer to a strike. On Monday, the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh said its parent union, NewsGuild-Communication Workers of America, unanimously approved their strike vote. “A decision to strike is never made lightly,” said NewsGuild President Jon Schleuss. “This one comes amid a...
Suspended Fawn officer, attorney will not participate in hearing over his job
Fawn officials will continue a hearing for a suspended township police officer without the officer or his attorney participating, township Supervisor David Montanari said Monday. The hearing for Keith Lazaron II is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday. It will be held in person at the township building at...
4-year-old Springdale Twp. girl continues fundraising efforts for Allegheny Valley Police K-9s
Most 4-year-olds seem to have boundless energy and Zoey Walker is no exception. Except that Zoey’s energy has gone above and beyond what most people might expect. The Springdale Township girl has been indefatigable in her efforts to help raise money for a new police dog for the Allegheny Valley...
Prosecutor: Scottdale man’s control enabled sexual assault of girl
A Westmoreland County prosecutor told jurors Monday that repeated and sometimes daily sexual assaults against a young girl was about control. Assistant District Attorney Kelly Hammers in an opening statement in the rape trial of a Scottdale man accused of molestation and sexual assaults said the abused started in May...
Pa. warns jobless: Apply for $1,800 checks before money runs out
For some of Pennsylvania’s 616,000 jobless workers, an $1,800 lump-sum check for six weeks of unemployment may never be in the mail because the special unemployment aid could be used up before they get the money, state Labor department officials warned Monday. The likelihood the state will be unable to...
Westmoreland County holds annual sale of tax delinquent property – pandemic styleVideo
Donna Oesterling sat comfortably Monday morning in a camp chair outside Science Hall on the Westmoreland County Community College campus to wait for her neighboring property in North Huntingdon to come up for bid as part of the county’s sale of tax delinquent property. “We lived there for 30 years...
Herd of hungry goats brought in to nosh on invasive knotweed along Harmony TrailVideo
Clearing highly invasive Japanese knotweed along the Harmony Trial can be backbreaking work for volunteers trying to maintain the mile-long bucolic walking and biking path. But for a dozen goats and their donkey protector, keeping the ornamental plant from crowding out native species is just another chance to chow down...
Lawyer: Notes on report show Wilkinsburg police may have been chasing the wrong man before deadly shooting
There’s no video footage of the 43-second pursuit of Romir Talley by Wilkinsburg police in December 2019, which ended in Talley’s death after being shot seven times by police. But an emergency medical services log obtained by the attorney representing Talley’s family indicates that police may have been going after...
Pa. Health Secretary Levine urges college students to protect themselves from covid
Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine called on college students to follow the coronavirus safety guidelines recommended by their institutions and by health care professionals. The bulk of Levine’s message Monday was directed at people between the ages of 19 to 24, many of whom are college students, where...
Robert Levin works to keep his promises as furniture chain celebrates 100 years
Robert Levin is stunned by the reception his reconstituted family-owned furniture chain received since reopening 19 stores in Pennsylvania and Ohio two months ago. Levin, who sold the chain to Michigan-based Art Van Furniture in 2017, came out of retirement this year to rescue the business from bankruptcy. Now, he...
