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UPS to hire nearly 800 holiday season workers in New Stanton
UPS plans to hire 770 seasonal workers at its New Stanton facility for this year’s holiday shipments, matching last year’s hiring level. An increased volume of packages is expected to stretch from November through January — prompting hiring of about 100,000 seasonal UPS workers nationwide, mirroring the 2018 holiday ramp-up....
Plum, McKeesport first responders, veterans to be recognized at Friday’s football game
Plum and McKeesport first responders, veterans and military personnel are encouraged to attend the districts’ upcoming football game. Plum hosts Recognition Night Friday at the high school stadium, 900 Elicker Road. There will be reserve parking and a special tailgate with Junior ROTC cadets starting at 6 p.m. Kickoff between...
Students, teachers, utilize courtyard space at West Hempfield ElementaryVideo
Judson Shiffler may be gone, but his legacy will live on at West Hempfield Elementary School, which he once attended. Shiffler, 18, died in 2014 when his car crashed into a hillside following a swim practice. He was captain of the high school swim team and had signed on to...
Plum Police Chief Jeff Armstrong to retire at month’s end
Plum Police Chief Jeff Armstrong plans to call it a career after three decades in law enforcement. Council approved his retirement earlier this month. His last day is expected to be Sept. 30. “I’m excited to move on to the next chapter,” Armstrong said recalling his time in the borough....
Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh to throw free star-gazing party at Kunkle Park
The Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh, Inc. will throw a free star gazing party at Kunkle Park in Washington Township on Sept. 28, starting at dusk, weather permitting. If the skies are accommodating, observers can see brightly colored double stars, star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy, distant galaxies, the...
Watershed group to hold field day at Lowber mine drainage treatment site
Those who want to walk around the Lowber Abandoned Mine Drainage Treatment project in Lowber, Sewickley Township, now have an almost mile-long path to view the expansive treatment site that purifies water before entering Sewickley Creek. “The trail not only adds yet another location for people to enjoy the natural...
Northmoreland Park on deck for potentially millions of dollars in upgrades
Westmoreland County is asking the public what it wants at Northmoreland Park in Allegheny Township for phase one of a park master plan with an estimated $1 million to $1.5 million in improvements in 2021-22. A disc golf course? An amphitheater? A destination playground? All are possibilities and have become...
No injuries reported in Rostraver mobile home blazeVideo
No injuries were reported Tuesday afternoon when a fire extensively damaged a mobile home in Rostraver. The fire occurred about 12:50 p.m. at the home along Knight Drive in the Port Royal Village, according to dispatchers. “The resident was able to get out of the home without any injury. The...
Report offers stark picture of inequalities by gender, race in PittsburghVideo
Black women in Pittsburgh are more likely to have a baby die during pregnancy than black women in most other cities in the country, according to a report released Tuesday. But that’s only one serious gender and racial inequality that exists among the city’s population. The 95-page “Pittsburgh’s Inequality Across...
Penn Hills School Board trying to oust financial recovery officer
The Penn Hills school board is trying to remove the district’s state-appointed financial recovery officer, Daniel Matsook. In a letter obtained by the Tribune-Review, the school board alleges Matsook attempted to “employ or appoint people, entities or other businesses of his own choosing without notice, input or consultation with the...
Freeport Community park gets $240K state grant
Freeport Community Park is getting a $240,000 Commonwealth Finance Authority grant to repair parking lots and walking trails. State Sen. Joe Pittman and Rep. Jeff Pyle said Tuesday some of the state’s Marcellus Impact fee was earmarked for community parks through the state’s Greenways, Trails and Recreation program. The repair...
Venus Williams shows off Downtown Pittsburgh’s skyline, gold Sister BridgesVideo
Tennis star Venus Williams enjoyed the views Tuesday afternoon as she cruised across the Allegheny River from Downtown Pittsburgh to the North Shore. Williams, 39, took to Twitter to showcase the city’s skyline and Aztec gold-painted Sister Bridges. She posted a short video of herself riding as a passenger in...
Greensburg woman competent to stand trial in child sex case
A Greensburg woman charged with recording herself in a sex act with a young child was ruled competent to stand trial on Tuesday. Corby Jo Kinzey, 24, was charged along with her ex-boyfriend and another woman of sex counts related to the incident in which police contend she had sexual...
Pittsburgh lobbyist faces additional charges in unfolding fraud investigation
Authorities filed additional felony charges Tuesday in an unfolding fraud investigation into a Pittsburgh lobbyist who cast himself as “the Robin Hood” of Washington, D.C. Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said agents from his office have filed 22 new counts of theft by deception, forgery and fraud against lobbyist Joseph...
Lower Burrell’s Veterans Central Park gets state money for upgrades
Lower Burrell will get $50,000 in state money to make repairs to Veterans Central Park. The city requested a little more than $172,400 to upgrade the park at Bethel and Schreiber streets. The park is one of several maintained by the city. The Commonwealth Financing Authority grant was announced by...
WCCC to get $6.5 million in state aid
Westmoreland County Community College will receive about $3.25 million in state aid to update the college’s overall administrative computer system. The money will be used to update the school’s software that is used by human resources, accounting, student affairs and foundation departments, said college President Tuesday Stanley. “We’ll improve how...
Monessen woman gets probation after making deal in drug operation case
A Monessen woman was sentenced Tuesday to three years probation in connection with what police said was a drug distribution ring operating out of a Greensburg doctor’s office. Rebekah Rose Carwithen, 25, pleaded guilty to one count of drug possession and in return state prosecutors dismissed charges of conspiracy, corruption,...
GOP challenger for Allegheny County executive proposed 5 debates
Republican candidate for Allegheny County Chief Executive Matt Drozd has challenged Democratic incumbent Rich Fitzgerald to a series of five debates this fall. Drozd, a former two-term Allegheny County councilman, ran unopposed in the May primary to win the Republican nomination. Both Drozd and Fitzgerald will appear on the ballot...
Greensburg’s SummerSounds wraps up ‘best season ever’Video
Greensburg’s SummerSounds concert series celebrated its 20th season with one of its best years, according to Chairman Gene James. The cumulative headcount for the free 13-week series at St. Clair Park was about 34,000. That’s close to the previous record set in 2016, despite that year’s concert series having one...
Judge denies appeal of Franklin Regional’s ‘elementary campus’ projectVideo
The Sloan Project Concerned Citizens group has maintained throughout its appeal of Franklin Regional’s Sloan “elementary campus” project that Murrysville officials did not go far enough in imposing conditions on the project. Paramount to the group’s appeal was its contention the Sardis/Crowfoot roads area was not suited for the increased...
Engineer: Greensburg/Hempfield sinkhole repair won’t affect Route 30Video
Progress is being made to repair damaged underground infrastructure that caused a massive sinkhole to open up two months ago along Route 30 at the border of Greensburg and Hempfield. PennDOT contracted with Gulisek Construction to handle the project that has been ongoing since heavy rains in mid-July caused an...
Harrison police arrest man after claiming to smell pot in his car
A Harrison police officer used his nose to thwart a potential drug deal Monday when he smelled what he suspected to be marijuana coming from a Tarentum man’s car. Police said they pulled over a car driven by Philip N. Narcisse, 44, on Garfield Street at about 8 p.m. A...
Connellsville, Allderdice trade allegations of racial slurs, homophobic comments
The Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League will investigate whether “homophobic comments” and “racial slurs” were uttered during a game between two high school boys soccer teams on Labor Day. Pittsburgh Allderdice High School parents wrote a letter outlining allegations that said two of their varsity soccer players were “goaded …...
Saint Vincent College forum to explore ‘politics of rage’
Tired of incivility in national politics? Dreading the 2020 presidential election? Saint Vincent College’s Center for Political and Economic Thought may have the antidote. The college’s 2019 Civitas Forum will explore the theme “Raging Against The Machine: Politics In An Angry Age.” The schedule for the Oct. 16 event is...
Pitt study: Police, firefighters become passive when public perception sours
New University of Pittsburgh research has found a correlation between public perception and police officers’ and firefighters’ job performance and that when community opinion sours, public safety officials become passive. In the era of the Black Lives movement, the implications are important for community relations, particularly for police officers, the...
