Penn Hills Progress category, Page 97
Penn Hills Library events canceled or postponed
Editor’s note: the library is closed until at least March 29, canceling or postponing the events listed here. More information on how to access its digital collection can be found here. Penn Hills Library will host the following events: • Highmark Healthcare will send a representative to discuss health care...
Penn Hills declares emergency due to coronavirusVideo
Penn Hills officials held a press conference March 16 to declare an emergency for the municipality and announce the creation of a 24-hour emergency operations center. As of press time on March 19, Penn Hills did not have any presumed positive or confirmed cases of covid-19. Mayor Pauline Calabrese’s emergency...
Grab a seat, have some meat at Verona’s newest BBQ spotVideo
There’s a new meaty eatery in Verona. Off The Rails Barbeque and Drafthouse opened March 14, serving up hearty, slow-roasted barbecue from Ken Shields, the man behind the well-established food truck Oakmont Barbeque Co. “This is a hobby-turned-business, and I always wanted to open a brick-and-mortar restaurant,” says Shields, 52,...
Fish fry, primary election info and more around Penn Hills
Penn/Plum VFW Post 6836 will have a new fish fry menu every Friday during Lent from 4 to 6 p.m. It is at 1160 Milltown Road. Place takeout orders at 412-793-2711. Easter Bunny breakfasts • The Penn Hills Masonic Center will host free breakfasts with the Easter Bunny at 9...
Penn Hills, Verona real estate transactions for the week of March 15
Penn Hills Estate of Betty Noble sold property at 5 Beulah Ln to Charles Douglas Group LLC for $47,000. Carolyn Valeo sold property at 411 Boyd Blvd. to David and Tonee Kukura for $155,000. DLK Residential Redevelopers LLC sold property at 10031 Calvin St. to Aleeth Invest LLC for $95,000....
Indiana Road in Penn Hills is closing for 2 months
Indiana Road in Penn Hills is expected to close for two months starting next week, PennDOT announced Friday. The road will be closed between Hulton and Hamil roads starting around 7 a.m. March 16. Plum Contracting Inc. will complete slide remediation and other work on the road for nearly $2...
Penn Hills area cancellations due to coronavirus
These are the most up to date cancellations due to the coronavirus in Penn Hills and the surrounding areas. To get your information on this list, email kgreen@triblive.com. Following Gov. Tom Wolf’s state-wide directive that all schools close, Penn Hills School District will be closed for 10 days starting March...
Penn Hills Senior Citizen Center reducing hours to cut municipality costs
The municipally-operated Penn Hills Senior Citizen Center along Jefferson Road will go through a change starting in July that could save Penn Hills money. The move effectively transforms the full-time center to a part-time center, according to Penn Hills Manager Scott Andrejchak. Currently, its operating hours are from 8 a.m....
Bank of America coming to former Bottom Dollar location in Penn Hills
A former grocery store along Frankstown Road that has been vacant for five years has been demolished to make room for a bank, according to a Penn Hills Planning Commissioner. Bank of America will be built at the site where Bottom Dollar once sat, said Brent Rambo, a planning commissioner....
Therapy dogs visit, book club and more at Penn Hills Library
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...
Breakfast with the Easter Bunny, dog warden presentation and more around Penn Hills
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...
Brentwood woman with multiple medical issues found dead
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...
Penn Hills police officer reads to daughter’s class after investigating false alarm
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...
“Frozen II” screening, Scrabble club and more at Penn Hills Library
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 schools prepares for coronavirus, communication procedures
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, Verona real estate transactions for the week of March 1
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...
Handful of babies born in region on Leap Day, share rare birthdayVideo
You could say she’s 1 in 1,461 — the odds of being born on Leap Day. Nyla Allen, at 7 lbs. 5 oz., was one of seven babies to be born at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital on Feb. 29, also known as Leap Day, as of early afternoon Saturday. “She’s perfectly...
Drug ringleaders admit to moving 300 pounds of cocaine from L.A. to Penn Hills
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 Senior Services Center celebrates Black History MonthVideo
It started with a question from a member of the Penn Hills Senior Services Center. “What is done to celebrate Black History Month at the center?” At the time, the answer was nothing. About a year later, the one who voiced the question, Janice Brookins, found herself without words as...
Genealogy group, teen advisory board and more at Penn Hills Library
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 hunkering down in Italy as coronavirus spreads
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...
Work on Nadine Road to start this week
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....
Penn Hills felon caught with stolen gun at traffic stop gets 4 more years in prison
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...
Council approves 2020 Parks and Recreation events calendar
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 council shoots down proposed graffiti ordinance aimed at property owners
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...
