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Once the cradle of basic industry, the Alle-Kiski Valley diversifies as it looks forward
Kalmar Chevrolet in Gilpin has weathered many changes since Rudy Kalmar, the son of Czechoslovakian immigrants, founded his family’s car dealership selling Hudsons in 1937. It’s been handed down through generations of the family, rolled with changes in the auto industry, and persisted through the changing fates and fortunes of...
Medical technology brings better precision, more treatment to the Alle-Kiski ValleyVideo
A surgeon sits at an arcade game-like console, his mask-covered face buried in the viewfinder as his hands squeeze, twist and turn handles below. Feet away, a four-armed robot equipped with tiny surgical tools pokes and prods a patient laying on the operating table undergoing a hernia surgery, transmitting a...
Alle-Kiski grocers compete with customer service, community relationships, niche products
On a quiet Thursday afternoon, Brandon Rainelli walks the aisles of Naser Foods. A customer approaches him to ask where he can find apples. A vendor meets him to sell homemade candies. Rainelli engages with everybody. He knows most of their names, and they know his. Rainelli has been manager...
M. Maskas & Sons, a 4th-generation business, to celebrate 100 years in TarentumVideo
A Tarentum candy shop turned distributor is celebrating 100 sweet years in the borough. M. Maskas & Sons was founded in 1920 by Matthew Maskas, a Greek immigrant from Chios who came to the United States in search of opportunity. He found one in chocolate. “Our great grandfather made his...
Allegheny Valley Regional Police to get body cameras thanks to state grant
A $75,000 state grant will pay for police equipment, including body cameras, for the Allegheny Valley Regional Police Department. The grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development will pay for traffic safety equipment and upgraded patrol car cameras that will synchronize with new body cameras, according to...
$285M Westmoreland transportation investment proposed for next 4 years
Advancing technology allows more people to bridge distances through electronic connections. But traveling from one point to another remains a fact of life for most when it comes to working, buying household essentials, receiving health care and pursuing recreation. That’s why plenty of resources continue to be devoted to improving...
Regional health care systems set a national pace in elder care
Health systems like to tout new facilities and innovative treatment protocols, but some of their most significant advances in Southwestern Pennsylvania are happening quietly in medical schools, hospital rooms and homes where they are setting new standards in geriatric health care. In a nation struggling to contain health care costs...
Lenten fish fries in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Fish fries are scheduled Fridays during Lent throughout the Valley, including: Allegheny Township Markle Volunteer Fire Department, 470 Joyce St., 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday. Take out only. Menu: fish sandwich with two sides, $10. Additional sides available. All items will be sold as long as supplies last. Benefits...
The Stroller, Feb. 23, 2020: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
The Stroller is your go-to place for local meeting notices, charitable events and volunteer opportunities. Information for The Stroller may be dropped off or mailed at least a week in advance to: The Stroller, Valley News Dispatch, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084, email vndnews@tribweb.com or fax 724-226-4677. Bouquet Pool...
Westmoreland colleges, universities address nursing shortage
By some estimates, the United States is losing 70,000 registered nurses a year to retirement. The current number of baby boomer RNs — 660,000 — is roughly half their peak in 2008, according to the Journal of Nursing Regulation. That there is a nursing shortage — driven partly by demographics,...
AHN donates AED, trains employees of South Park Theatre in CPR
Allegheny Health Network’s Jefferson Hospital, alongside AHN prehospital services, recently donated an AED device to the South Park Theatre, benefitting employees, community members and theatergoers. The Feb. 17 presentation was followed by an in-depth training session. “I am very pleased and proud to have a staff that now has this...
6 hurt when Port Authority bus, car crash on Highland Park Bridge
Six people were treated for minor injuries after a Port Authority bus crashed on the Highland Park Bridge on Saturday. Adam Brandolph, a Port Authority spokesman, said the injuries are non-life threatening. The crash involved an inbound Route 75 bus and a vehicle around 2:45 p.m. He did not have...
Liberty Tunnel reopens after 3-car, rollover crash inside
Several people involved in a crash inside the outbound Liberty Tunnel were injured Saturday, but no one was seriously hurt, Pittsburgh police said. Around 1:55 p.m., a vehicle tried to change lanes inside the tunnel and clipped another. That made the driver swerve, hitting a second vehicle and causing it...
‘Hot water soup’ didn’t do well, but Sherried Tomato Soup won Brackenridge American Legion fundraiser
Ed Svitek’s hot water soup may not have won first prize at the Brackenridge American Legion’s second annual Soup Cookoff. But it certainly earned the most laughs. The American Legion member said the gag — made complete with a pot filled with steaming water and bouillon cubes — was inspired...
Ligonier Township student leads effort to ship enough food to feed 10,000 peopleVideo
On Saturday, Braden Myers learned that one 18-year-old can feed 10,000 people — with a little help from his friends. The home-schooled Ligonier Township high school student organized a food drive as his senior project but decided to make it international in scope. “I just got so excited to have...
Teens in capsized raft in Northmoreland Park lake saved by firefighter who used a shovel as paddle
John Uskuraitis said he “thought the worst” when he arrived at Northmoreland Park Lake where two teenage boys struggled to get out of the frigid water Saturday afternoon. But as soon as he got closer, he saw them moving. He, along with his counterparts from Markle, Vandergrift and Allegheny Township...
’70s turn 50: City of Champions rises, concerts surge and steel sees last gaspVideo
At the start of the decade that gave us Watergate, Jimmy Carter and the Three Mile Island meltdown, Pittsburghers were watching The Doors at the Civic Arena, meeting a brash young quarterback named Terry Bradshaw and watching the last good years before the collapse of its defining industry. While the...
’70s saw beginning of change for women in Pittsburgh police ranks
The 1970s saw women consolidate gains in the workplace that began with the second-wave feminism of a decade earlier. Therese Rocco began the Seventies wondering whether women in the Pittsburgh Police Department would ever get the pay, training and opportunities for advancement that men did. In the mid-1960s, women in...
Big plans for redevelopment of Hunt Armory will come at a big costVideo
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto can already hear hockey pucks bouncing off boards at the city’s Alfred E. Hunt Field Artillery Armory in Shadyside. The Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority is finalizing a $1 million purchase of the historic landmark on Emerson Street and is partnering with the city, Pittsburgh Parking Authority...
Big plans for redevelopment of Hunt Armory will come at big costVideo
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto can already hear hockey pucks bouncing off boards at the city’s Alfred E. Hunt Field Artillery Armory in Shadyside. The Pittsburgh Urban Redevelopment Authority is finalizing a $1 million purchase of the historic landmark on Emerson Street and is partnering with the city, Pittsburgh Parking Authority...
Real estate transactions in Signal Item area the week of Feb. 23
Bridgeville Craig Lessler sold property at Baldwin St. to OB1 Properties LLC for $242,250. Carnegie Barbara Lee Starr sold property at 39 Lexington Ct to PGH Property Management LLC for $45,000. Collier Janice Klein sold property at 749 Marigold Ct to Diane Inserra for $365,000. Green Tree Compro sold property...
Ohio woman killed in late night Hampton crash
A Canton, Ohio, woman was killed in a head-on crash in Hampton late Friday night, officials said. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner identified the woman as Kaitlyn Eckelberry, 23. She was pronounced dead shortly after midnight after being struck head-on by another vehicle in the 3800 block of William Flinn...
Latrobe Lions Club cancels dementia presentation
Editor’s note: Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Latrobe Lions Club has announced that a presentation on dementia it was co-sponsoring with the Latrobe Area Historical Society has been cancelled. Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia among older adults, is the sixth leading cause of death in the...
‘Impractical Joker’ Sal Vulcano pumps up packed theaters for movie’s openingVideo
Cinemark movie theaters in Monroeville, Robinson and the Pittsburgh Mills mall in Frazer were packed with patrons hoping to meet an impractical star. Sal Vulcano, one quarter of TruTV’s “Impractical Jokers,” visited the Steel City on Friday to help promote his group’s new film. “Impractical Jokers: The Movie” launched in...
The Stroller, Feb. 22, 2020: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
The Stroller is your go-to place for local meeting notices, charitable events and volunteer opportunities. Information for The Stroller may be dropped off or mailed at least a week in advance to: The Stroller, Valley News Dispatch, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084, email vndnews@tribweb.com or fax 724-226-4677. Scam seminar...
