Western PA Local News category, Page 972
South Fayette student takes 3rd in international competition
Vidhisha Chahande of South Fayette won third place in the international HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America) competition in Dallas. She competed against 75 participants in the category Leadership Job-Seeking Skills. HOSA had more than 12,000 participants all over the world, including China, South Korea, Canada and all 50 states....
Latrobe police: Meth lab operated near elementary school
A Latrobe man remains behind bars after police said they found evidence of methamphetamine manufacturing in his apartment during a home visit last month from Westmoreland County probation officers, according to court papers. Ryan William Nupp, 28, was arrested last week on charges of operating a methamphetamine lab, risking catastrophe,...
Greensburg man charged in meat cleaver attack
A Greensburg man is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Thursday in connection with a stabbing at his home that left another man hospitalized with several wounds, according to court papers. City police and Westmoreland County detectives said Liwu Tian, 57, admitted through an interpreter that he lost a fight with...
Police: 2 women face burglary charges after vacationing Allegheny Township family sees movement on doorbell camera
Allegheny Township police accused two New Kensington women of breaking into a home after the owners reported seeing activity on their Ring doorbell camera while away on vacation. Hailey Marie Bollinger, 20, of the 500 block of Keystone Drive was charged Aug. 17 with felony counts of burglary, criminal trespass,...
Penn State athletes take to downtown New Kensington for community service project
Penn State New Kensington students welcomed themselves to the community by giving back to it. About 120 student-athletes and their coaches took to downtown New Kensington on Friday afternoon to clean up the community as part of a back-to-school community service project. Assignments included cleaning Fourth Street and the outside...
Video: Alpine Slide at Seven Springs twists and turnsVideo
Ride On is a point-of-view video series from TribLIVE.com that gives viewers a first person experience of some of the region’s best attractions and action sports. The Alpine Slide at Seven Springs Mountain Resort has been thrilling riders for decades. After a scenic chairlift ride to the top of the...
Penn Township ambulance ‘ahead of the curve,’ state report says
Penn Township’s ambulance service is “ahead of the curve” and could be a model for others across the state, according to a recent EMS report. The report took four to five months to complete, said presenter Ken Hellendall, a peer consultant for the state Department of Community and Economic Development....
Harrison juveniles charged with using stolen pistol to fire shots near Heights Plaza
Two boys from Harrison are facing charges after shots were fired early Friday near Heights Plaza. Police responded just before 2 a.m. after several reports of suspicious activity near Community Supermarket, off Freeport Road. They found two children, 11 and 14, fleeing the area and running toward the Sheldon Park...
Harmar officials seek ways around steep price tag for Highland Woods sewage project
There might be a course Harmar officials can chart to do the Highland Woods sewage project without rebidding it. That’s what township engineer Matt Pitsch of Senate Engineering told the supervisors Thursday. “I still believe we can get this done for $400,000,” Pitsch said. What Pitsch proposes is the possible...
Highlands pool undergoing $2 million renovation but won’t open until spring
Construction continues on the long-closed pool at Highlands High School, but the facility likely won’t be open until spring. That means, for the third consecutive year, the high school swim team will practice and host meets away from the building. Last year, the team used facilities at Valley High School....
Operation Christmas Child seeking partner in Deer Lakes area to house thousands of gift-filled shoe boxes
Donations keep flowing in for Operation Christmas Child, but organizers need somewhere to pack them — specifically in the Deer Lakes area. “We are prayerfully and earnestly in search of a church partner that would like to participate in this mission,” said volunteer Stefani Allegretti of East Deer. Operation Christmas...
Organizers encourage back-to-school shoppers to include Operation Christmas Child
While temperatures still hover in the 80s, volunteers at Harvest Baptist Church in Harrison already are thinking about Christmas. The church off the Millerstown exit of Route 28 serves as a drop-off site for Operation Christmas Child through Samaritan’s Purse, an international outreach that sends thousands of stuffed shoe boxes...
Plum School District fills 2nd administrative role from within its ranks
Following the naming of a new superintendent in July, the Plum School District named a new assistant superintendent, again from within the district. The school board approved hiring Ashley Boyers, principal of Plum Middle School for the past four years, as the district’s new assistant superintendent. Boyers was given a...
New Acmetonia Elementary School playground could be a reality
The wheels are starting to turn on a proposal for a playground at Acmetonia Elementary School in the Allegheny Valley School District. The school board will vote on approving funds for a playground at Acmetonia during its Sept. 12 meeting. School board member Amy Sarno and Acmetonia’s PTA have been...
Westmoreland pollinator group exceeds goal of 250 habitat sites for monarch butterflies
Fourteen-year-old twins Eva and Elizabeth Martina have been on the hunt this summer. They regularly search through the backyard flower garden at their Irwin home for signs of monarch activity: a caterpillar with distinctive yellow, white and black rings munching on a milkweed plant; or a more advanced hanging chrysalis,...
Back To School bashes set for South Greensburg, Arnold
Book bags will be given away to students at two Back To School Bash events organized by Greensburg-based Unity in the Community. An initial event in South Greensburg is set for 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Greensburg Event Center, 1700 Washington St. The second event will be held...
In brief: Hampton area happenings, week of Aug. 21, 2023
Gulf War Memorial Plaque Hampton Township, the Hampton Community Association and American Legion Post 296 are compiling the names of individuals of current of former township residents who served on active duty during the Gulf War, beginning Aug. 2, 1990, and extending to the present. The endeavor aims to honor...
Monroeville area happenings, week of Aug. 21, 2023
Hard-to-recycle collection Pennsylvania Resources Council and the Allegheny County Health Department will hold a hard-to-recycle collection event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 26 at Next Tier Connect @ Pittsburgh East, 4350 Northern Pike, Monroeville. For a per-item fee, residents can recycle televisions and computer monitors, printers, fluorescent tubes,...
1 dead in crash in Pittsburgh’s Carrick neighborhood
A crash early Monday killed a motorist in Pittsburgh’s Carrick neighborhood. The vehicle crashed into a utility pole at about 1:30 a.m. in the 2300 block of Brownsville Road, according to a Pittsburgh Public Safety spokeswoman. A male motorist was thrown from the car and was found in the road;...
Morning Roundup: Air quality alert issued in Western Pa.
Here are some of the latest news items from this morning, Monday, Aug. 21: Air quality alert issued for Pittsburgh region Expected high ozone levels have triggered a Code Orange Air Quality Action Day on Monday for seven counties in the Western Pennsylvania region. Code Orange represents unhealthy pollution levels...
Pittsburgh becoming a ‘space city’ as Astrobotic, ProtoInnovations prepare to send technology to the moon
Pittsburgh was once known as the steel city, but two local companies believe they’re transforming it into a space city. “We’re a space base now,” said Alivia Chapla, director of communications at North Shore-based Astrobotic. Astrobotic and Lawrenceville-based ProtoInnovations have received millions of dollars in NASA funding and are playing...
The Stroller, Aug. 21, 2023: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Bingo fundraiser to benefit New Ken K9 Unit A bingo to...
North Huntingdon native and friends escape Hawaii wildfires
Sue Leech Seiff was vacationing in Maui, Hawaii, when she looked out her window Aug. 8 and thought she saw a sandstorm. High winds had been creating sandstorms and ocean funnels, also known as waterspouts — whirling columns of air and water mist — throughout that day. As she came...
Westmoreland Fair Queen a double winner
Presley Thomas of Mt. Pleasant Township turned out to be a winner on Friday when she was selected as the 2023 Westmoreland Fair Queen and then again on Sunday when she won first place in senior showmanship for rabbits at the fair. “All of us girls (four in the fair...
Greensburg grandmother sells collection of more than 100 Barbie dolls
It was a Barbiepalooza day for a Greensburg grandmother, who on Sunday was selling her collection of more than 100 Barbie dolls for less than what she paid for them in her 30 years of collecting the colorfully-costumed character. Why sell them now after holding onto them since the early...
