Penn Hills Progress category, Page 95
Penn Hills Arts Council collecting supplies for Sojourner House
The Penn Hills Arts Council is looking for art supplies to donate to an organization that helps women recover from addiction. Catherine Meara, director of Penn Hills Arts Council, said she has already received donated supplies like coloring pencils, crayons, coloring books for children and adults, markers and paper. But...
Penn Hills real estate transactions for the week of May 24
Penn Hills Daniel Babuscio sold property at 11412 Azalea Drive to UCG Forty LLC for $44,500. Robert Adams sold property at 2604 Blackridge Ave. to Sarah L Tafel for $103,000. Joy Bowser sold property at 243 Bramble St. to Bank New York Mellon trustee for $15,000. Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency...
Penn Hills gym reopens despite Gov. Wolf’s orders
Gym co-owner Monty Webb of Plum said he’s had enough. He and his wife, Linda, own and operate Webb’s World of Fitness in Penn Hills. And he’s open for business. “I opened because it’s essential. Your heath is essential,” Webb said. “I got tired of the gyms getting thrown under...
Penn Hills gets Department of Justice grant
Penn Hills is slated to receive a $51,000 grant through a federal Department of Justice coronavirus emergency supplemental fund, announced U.S. Attorney Scott Brady’s office Wednesday. The DOJ funded its Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding program with $850 million in early April, shortly after President Trump signed a $2 trillion stimulus...
Penn Hills woman caught with unloaded revolver at Pittsburgh International Airport
A Penn Hills woman was arrested Friday by Allegheny County police after an unloaded revolver was found in her carry-on bag at Pittsburgh International Airport. A Transportation Security Administration officer spotted the gun when the woman was going through a checkpoint at the airport. Allegheny County Police charged Kierra Allen,...
Rosedale Beach Club, Blackridge Swim Club postponing season openings
Two private pools in Penn Hills plan on opening – but not this month. Rosedale Beach Club, at 5407 Third St. in Verona, originally scheduled opening over Memorial Day weekend. That date has been pushed to a tentative nonspecific date in June, said Dani Scott, the club’s secretary. If that...
Details emerge of how police charged Fox Chapel man with 2nd homicide in 3 months
Lured to his friend’s house to play video games and smoke marijuana, Christian Moore-Rouse didn’t even make it up the long driveway leading to Adam Rosenberg’s place in Fox Chapel. Instead, he was shot in the back of his head and dragged into a ditch, lifeless — and left to...
Police: Penn Hills man accused of stealing $19,500 outside Kennedy ATM
A Penn Hills man was arrested Wednesday morning on charges of stealing $19,500 on Dec. 30 in Kennedy from a vehicle parked by an automated teller machine, police said. Luis Carde, 48, is accused of smashing a window of the vehicle and stealing the cash. The vehicle belonged to a...
5 Lincoln Park homes slated for demolition
Penn Hills Council is expected to vote next week on whether to demolish five homes in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. The five houses slated for demolition are on Columbia and Blackadore avenues: • 1280 Blackadore Ave. • 246 Columbia Ave. • 248 Columbia Ave. • 7513 Columbia Ave. • 7515...
Fox Chapel man jailed in Baldwin man’s killing faces 2nd homicide charge
A Fox Chapel man accused of killing a Baldwin man in February now faces charges in connection with the death of a Verona man whose remains were found near the suspect’s home in March. Adam Rosenberg, 21, was charged Tuesday with criminal homicide, robbery, abuse of a corpse, tampering with...
Faces of courage: Ambulance personnel on coronavirus front lines
The call comes over their radio — the patient is having trouble breathing, they need an ambulance. Then, “call the center for special patient information,” says a Westmoreland 911 dispatcher. The paramedics know it’s likely they’re heading toward the invisible threat that everyone else is trying to stay away from...
Hundreds of suspected marijuana plants worth $500K seized in Penn Hills
Authorities seized hundreds of suspected marijuana plants during a raid on the home of a 66-year-old Penn Hills man, according to the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office. Kenneth Creekmore will face charges of drug possession and possession with intent to deliver, District Attorney spokesman Mike Manko said. Police from numerous...
Pending no longer: What will happen with the old municipal building in Penn Hills?
A developer with big plans for the old municipal building on Frankstown Road has fallen victim to the economic woes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The building at 12245 Frankstown Road had been under contract with Dolney Properties LLC since September. But as of May 1, the deal fell...
‘Sewing for Angels’ makes and delivers masks beyond Western Pennsylvania
A new Rosie the Riveter is in town. Today, the cultural icon from the World War II era, symbolizing women stepping up to work in factories and shipyards, has taken a different form: a group of more than 1,000 men, women and children – connected through social media – banded...
Portion of Indiana Road in Penn Hills closed through July
Work on Indiana Road in Penn Hills will keep a small section of the road closed through late July, PennDOT announced last week. The road closure between Hulton and Hamil roads began May 4. It will continue through July as crews work on a $1.97 million slide remediation project that...
Police: Boy stabbed twice after getting off bus in Penn Hills
A teen boy was stabbed after getting off a Port Authority bus in Penn Hills, police said. Penn Hills police Chief Howard Burton said the juvenile was stabbed twice in the back about 5 p.m. Monday at the intersection of Duff and Frankstown roads. He said a man and a...
Pandemics, economic woes: Turner Dairy Farms still ‘figures it out’ 90 years later
Ninety Aprils ago, a young Charlie Turner proposed to a widow who lived on a Penn Hills farm. The year was 1930. At age 25, and after 12 years of working on his dad’s farm in Wilkinsburg, Turner was ready for a life change. He had just five possessions: four...
Penn Hills police get a sweet gesture of appreciation
Donuts and cops. It’s a stereotype Erin Vecchio didn’t intentionally perpetuate, but her gesture Friday morning to bring Oakmont Bakery treats to Penn Hills law enforcement had Chief Howard Burton playfully suggest otherwise. Vecchio, Penn Hills school board president, and former school board president Denise Graham-Shealy have teamed up with...
Penn Hills Memorial Day parade, other recreational events canceled
All Penn Hills parks and recreation events have been canceled through May 31, including the municipality’s annual Memorial Day parade, according to a news release posted to its website. The cancellations through May 31 extend to the parks’ baseball fields pavilion rentals. The municipality’s four parks have been open, with...
A Second Chance Inc. delivering food at various locations in Penn Hills
A kinship care organization based in Pittsburgh has partnered with Eat’n Park and the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania to deliver food to those in need in Penn Hills. A Second Chance Inc. agreed to deliver the free meals to the following places on Monday, Wednesday and Friday until further...
East Suburban clinic reports data breach affecting 500 patients
East Suburban Sports Medicine Center, an athletic training and physical therapy center with branches in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties, announced a data security breach that affected more than 500 Pennsylvania residents. Last spring, two patients told center officials that, when they ran a Google search for their names, the results...
Western Pennsylvanians venture out as curbside liquor pickup expandsVideo
Cars, SUVs and pickups pulled up to a Fine Wines & Good Spirits store in Penn Hills on Monday as residents scrambled to purchase liquor with the opening of most state stores across Pennsylvania for curbside delivery. Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board spokesman Shawn Kelly said the agency last week opened...
Turner’s adds ‘Star Wars’-themed milk for May the 4th Be With You DayVideo
Turner Dairy Farms is adding a little intergalactic flavor to its specialty milk line, changing the labels on its Birthday Cake Milk in recognition of the annual unofficial Star Wars holiday, May the Fourth Be With You Day. Turner’s will sell Blue Banthamilk on a limited basis. And yes, the...
Western Penn Hills Community Action program temporarily defunded
A program that has existed for youth in and around Penn Hills for 25 years has been defunded – at least temporarily. In 2019, the Western Penn Hills Community Action program was allotted $22,000. The money comes from Community Development Block Grant allocations from the federal Housing and Urban Development...
Coal Hollow Road in Penn Hills reopens
Route 130 in Penn Hills has reopened after being closed nine days because of a landslide, PennDOT announced Friday. Coal Hollow Road closed April 1 between Frankstown and Lime Hollow roads to allow geotechnical engineers to evaluate the hillside and crews clean up the debris. “Crews have removed debris and...
