Penn Hills Progress category, Page 95

Penn Hills Library will host the following events: • The library invites children aged 3-11 to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by making crafts from 10 to 11 a.m. and again from 1 to 2 p.m. March 12 in the Children’s Activity Room. Contact the library to sign up. • There...

The Penn Hills Masonic Center will host free breakfasts with the Easter Bunny at 9 and 10 a.m. March 28 at its site, 5793 Saltsburg Road. The breakfast — pancakes, sausages, scrambled eggs, orange and apple juice, milk, coffee and tea — will be sponsored by the Royal Arch Masons...

A Brentwood woman with unknown medical issues was found dead in Bloomfield on Saturday, police said. Barbara Ann Hahn, 55, was found unresponsive underneath the South Millvale Avenue Bridge around 3:45 p.m., according to the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office. Hahn was last seen around 9 a.m. Thursday, Brentwood police...

A false alarm emergency call from Penn Hills Elementary turned in to a guest reader opportunity for a responding officer. Penn Hills K-9 Officer Jason Lee said he was dispatched to the school at 1079 Jefferson Road early Monday afternoon for a 911 open line call. “We located the classroom...

Penn Hills Library will host the following events: • Kids Create: Legos from 6-8 p.m. March 5 and 9. • Zumba from 9-10 a.m. March 7. • Children’s movie from 1 to 3 p.m. March 7. The library will screen “Frozen 2” to children 8 and under. Seating is limited,...

Penn Hills School District administrators are asking parents to double check email addresses and contact information in the event schools are forced to shut down due to a coronavirus outbreak. “Our district principals will be working with instructional teams to develop standards-based, K-12 lessons that may be forwarded to families...

Penn Hills Tamica Smith sold property at 3020 Blackridge Ave. to Wells Fargo Bank NA for $40,000. Jehovahs Witness Penn Hills Congreg sold property at 7901 Dollman Road to Serenity Care LLC for $255,000. Bernice Lavender sold property at 7959 Dollman Road to Janet and Brittany Bennington for $86,500. Estate...

A Georgia man admitted Friday to running a cross-country drug ring that moved as much as 300 pounds of cocaine from Los Angeles to Penn Hills in either an RV or a Mercedes-Benz van emblazoned with a promotional photo of “Sno Cold,” his rapper wife, officials said. Don Juan Mendoza,...

Penn Hills Library will host the following events: • Kids Create: Legos from 6-8 p.m. Feb. 27 and March 2. • Zumba from 9-10 a.m. Feb. 29. • The library’s Genealogy group, led by Marilyn Cocchiola Holt of the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, will meet from 6:30 to 8 p.m....

Penn Hills native James Zanella said he’s not overly concerned — yet — about living roughly 40 miles away from the epicenter of Italy’s coronavirus outbreak. What worries him most is that Italian police have locked down 10 towns in the Lombardy region, which borders the Trentino region. Zanella lives...

Nadine Road in Penn Hills will be restricted to one lane starting Tuesday and will fully close in March for three months, Allegheny County officials announced Friday. The road will be restricted to one lane of traffic from Allegheny River Boulevard to Lincoln Road from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m....

A Penn Hills man caught with a stolen gun in his waistband during a traffic stop will spend four years behind bars, federal prosecutors said. Christian Burrus, 38, who has prior convictions related to drug and gun charges, was arrested after Penn Hills police pulled over a vehicle he was...

Penn Hills council approved the municipality’s Parks and Recreation events calendar for 2020, but not without a warning from two members. The events will begin this year with an Easter egg hunt from noon to 2 p.m. April 4 at Penn Hills Community Park, 120 Colorado St. The four municipal...

Penn Hills administration drafted an ordinance aimed at graffiti after a recent, “isolated” incident, but council shot it down after realizing the law makes the property owner responsible for cleaning up the vandalism. The ordinance would have placed into the municipality’s rule book a “tool to allow a code officer...

What if an Amber Alert had been issued for Nalani Johnson sooner? An attorney who represented the toddler’s family after she was found dead days after her abduction out of Penn Hills used this question as the motivation behind a bill his law firm drafted, and which has gained the...

Penn Hills council has slated four blighted properties in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of the municipality for demolition. Lutterman Excavating of Greensburg will tear down the homes for $34,250. The money used comes from federal Community Development Block Grant funding. The properties include 1293 and 1295 Blackadore Ave., 7490 Chadwick...

U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb, D-Mt. Lebanon, will open a district office in Penn Hills. The congressman plans to host an open house from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 22 at the 11 Duff Road office. He will be present during the informal event where he will meet with residents...

Two Penn Hills paramedics who responded to a January house fire received accolades recently for putting out the fire that could have spelled disaster for the 14 people living inside. Penn Hills Fire Marshal Chuck Miller said the fire was reported around 2 p.m. Jan. 22 at 7312 Highland View...

A World War II veteran and former Penn Hills resident recently celebrated his centennial birthday. Army Cpl. Joseph DeCesare turned 100 last month. “I feel fine,” he said. “I feel stronger than anybody, even you.” The family had a party for him at Concordia of Monroeville, an assisted living facility....

Penn Hills Valerie Sands sold property at 7969 Aber Road to Bianca Thomas for $40,000. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. sold property at 202 Anthon Drive to LaRae Burks for $40,000. Romero Development LLC sold property at 11429 Azalea Drive to Carlow Ramirez for $180,000. Doris Anderson sold property at...

A person was transported to a hospital after crashing into a creek in Penn Hills early Friday. Emergency responders were dispatched shortly after 2 a.m. to the intersection of Verona and Lincoln roads for a report of a vehicle on its roof in the creek. Police and firefighters assisted the...