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North Hills garden clubs announce upcoming programs on birds, bulbs
Following are some of the upcoming programs being offered by garden clubs in the North Hills: Greybrooke Garden Club Lauren Hansen, manager of Wild Birds Unlimited, will lead a program titled“Pittsburgh Winters are for the Birds” at the next meeting of the Greybrooke Garden Club on March 13. The club’s...
Police: Robbery suspected motive in Swissvale shooting
Robbery appears to be the motive behind a shooting Monday in Swissvale, according to Allegheny County Police. The shooting sent a 23-year-old man to an area hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. The man was in critical condition Monday night. The shooting happened just before noon in the 7300 block of...
Sewickley Academy girls basketball team returns to action with playoff matchup
After an eight-day break from competition, the Sewickley Academy girls basketball team kicks off the WPIAL 1A playoffs against California on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Canon-McMillan. The Panthers (11-7) are the No. 8 seed, and they face a Trojans (10-10) squad hoping to get back on track after losing...
Pittsburgh Public School students entertain City Council with songs and drum performanceVideo
Kindergartners and fifth graders from Pittsburgh’s Phillips and Westwood elementary schools entertained City Council with songs and an African drum performance Tuesday in celebration of Black History Month. School officials said this is the second year in a row students from the two schools performed for council. The kids prepared...
South Connellsville sex offender accused of sexual interaction with boys, 14 and 17
A registered sex offender from South Connellsville is accused of having sex with a 17-year-old boy and sending a 14-year-old boy nude photographs, according to police. Crystal Shannon Shroyer, 36, is being held in the Fayette County Prison on $25,000 bail. She was arrested Friday on charges of statutory sexual...
Anonymous donor steps up for Sharpsburg Community Library
An anonymous donor has saved the day for Sharpsburg Community Library — at least through 2019. Leaders announced Tuesday a $10,000 donation will restore hours previously slashed because of budget constraints. The library, at 1212 Main St., will resume operating 30 hours a week on March 4. Hours will be...
Police: 3 charged in robbery plot sought to raise money
An apparent plot to raise money by robbing drug dealers led to the recent arrests of two men in connection with a November shooting in Sutersville that left two injured, according to court documents. Curtis Thomas Everett, 26, of Glassport, and Chad William Wolfe, 34, listed as homeless, are being...
Highlands School District places 2nd unidentified employee on unpaid leave
The Highlands School Board has fired one employee and placed another on unpaid leave. At its meeting Monday, the school board dismissed Iesha Griffin, a payroll and benefits secretary. In a separate action, it approved a statement of charges against another, unidentified employee and placed that person on unpaid leave...
Greensburg man ordered to jail after 3rd drug arrest in 13 months
A third arrest for delivery and possession of a controlled substance in just over a year resulted in a Greensburg man being ordered held in the Westmoreland County Prison without bond this week. When acting District Judge Charles Conway saw on a state police complaint filed Monday that Malcolm Massay,...
Highlands School Board approves rain garden, tree planting projects
The Highlands School Board has approved the construction of a rain garden on district property and the planting of trees on its grounds in Harrison this spring. The rain garden that will be built at Highlands Middle School is part of a $125,000 project funded by a grant from The...
West Jefferson Hills hosting kindergarten information night
Staff of the West Jefferson Hills School District will hold a 2019-20 Kindergarten Information Night at Jefferson Hills Intermediate School on Feb. 27. Parents and guardians of children with last names starting with A-M should arrive at 6 p.m. Those with last names starting with N-Z should come at 7:15....
Ford City’s Layten Bowser, 2018 Rock for Life beneficiary, dies at 7
A Ford City boy who for three years battled an advanced form of nerve cancer died Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019, at UPMC Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh. He was 7. Layten Bowser had been the beneficiary of the 19th Rock for Life held in August. His mother, Angelyn Waldor of Ford...
Weather station in Sewickley Township to help municipal crews, residents
A weather station installed in Sewickley Township will help municipal and emergency management crews make quick location-specific decisions. “During the (weather) event itself, I would be heavily accessing that data,” said Jason Ritchie, a deputy director of the township’s emergency management agency. It’s a tool residents can use, too, to...
Woman missing from Kittanning found safe, police say
A woman missing from Kittanning was found safe in Lawrence County, according to police. Katie L. Stoner, 27, went to the New Castle police station Monday night to let authorities know she was OK, Kittanning police Officer Greg Koprivnak said early Tuesday. She had been missing since 6:30 p.m. Thursday....
Student charged with making threat that shut down Keystone Oaks School District
Police have charged a Keystone Oaks student with making violent, online threats that shut down the school district Tuesday, school and police officials said. The student, a juvenile who police did not identify, admitted to posting the threat in a YouTube Live Stream, according to Mt. Lebanon police Deputy Chief...
State police investigating dog shot in Butler County
State police in Butler are investigating after a dog was shot in the stomach Sunday in Concord Township. The dog, a German Shepherd Husky mix, later died, troopers said. The incident occurred between 3 and 7 p.m. in the area of 927 Hooker Road. Troopers said the dog’s owner found...
Programs at Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh get federal funding
The Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh’s Family Self Sufficiency Program was one of several funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which awarded Pittsburgh $350,339 this year. It’s a renewal grant, but there are no guarantees that each year’s funding will be approved, according to...
Girl Scout project benefits McCandless K9 officer, Peebles Fire Dept.
For Anna Arlet, Eva Betz and Natalie Marquiss, earning their Girl Scout Silver Award was filled with joy. The girls spent nearly a year researching, fundraising and executing projects to help the McCandless Police Department’s K9 officer, Joy, and securing pet CPR masks for the Peebles Volunteer Fire Department. “All...
Windmont public hearing in Hampton Township extended to March
Despite the approximately three hours of public testimony regarding a proposed Windmont Farms Preliminary Planned Residential Development in Hampton Township, council approved to extend the public hearing to March 13 to accommodate additional discussion. All seats were filled and other attendees had to stand in the hallway at the Feb....
On ‘This Day in History’ 100 years ago
I’m a big fan of “This Day in History,” so I decided to try my hand at it and see what was going on in Bridgeville and the Pittsburgh area exactly one century ago. A quick look at available newspaper archives confirmed my suspicions that this would be an excellent...
Norwin OKs $6.4 million bond issue; restructures administration
Norwin stands to save about $300,000 over the next 11 years by refinancing a $6.6 million debt this month. The Norwin School Board Monday authorized the refinancing of the debt from a 2011 bond issue, a move that will save the district the money because interest rates will be lower...
Former NFL player to speak at Catholic men’s conference
Mike McCoy, an all-pro defensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers in the 1970s and the product of a Catholic education in Erie, will be the featured speaker for the first-ever Diocese of Greensburg Catholic men’s conference on March 30. “The Well: Come and Be Renewed” men’s conference will explore...
A.W. Beattie open house Feb. 28
Any Hampton high school student and parent interested in learning more about career technology education can attend the A.W. Beattie Career Center Open House on Feb. 28. The event will be held from 5:15 to 8:15 p.m. at the school located on 9600 Babcock Blvd. in Allison Park, according to...
Delmont Farmer’s Market will return to the borough this summer
After spending a summer next door in Salem Township, the Delmont Farmer’s Market is coming back to the borough in 2019. Vendor Amanda Bank told borough council members she and market patron Alice Heasley plan to organize the market in its original location, the Rose Wigfield Parklet on Greensburg Street....
Porn video mirroring alleged attack can’t be used at Istanbul Sofra owner’s trial, judge rules
A pornographic video found on the phone of man accused of stalking and sexually assaulting a Pittsburgh woman last year cannot be used in his trial next week, a judge ruled Tuesday. Adnan Pehlivan, who owned Regent Square’s now-shuttered Istanbul Sofra restaurant, is accused of following the woman home from...
