Penn Hills Progress category, Page 98

A workshop in the art of paper folding, Origami, was so popular last week at the Penn Hills Library that organizers have decided to make plans for a return engagement after the new year. Tiny Christmas trees, star ornaments, penguins and Santa Claus were magically created from squares of brightly...

Penn Hills James Dold sold property at 629 Fourth St. to Samantha Leigh Barrett for $152,500. Sara Peterson sold property at 851 Eighth St. to Lea Pink for $145,000. Estate of Kathleen Griffin sold property at 134 Ange Drive to Revive Pittsburgh Real Estate LLC for $69,400. Michael Burrows sold...

Penn Hills District Judge Anthony L. DeLuca handled the following cases recently. Defendants will have court dates set in Allegheny County Common Pleas Court. Charges were filed by Penn Hills police unless otherwise noted. Held for court • Pamela Simpson, 71, of Penn Hills on charges of defiant trespass. Wilkins...

Penn Hills School District officials recently recognized student-athletes with a 3.0 GPA or higher at a fall scholar-athlete breakfast. Athletic Director Stephanie Strauss said 116 students received certificates for their achievements. “I wanted to emphasize the student part of being a student-athlete and reward those students who are excelling in...

A Pittsburgh man was sentenced by a federal judge to serve nearly 11 years in prison after being convicted of narcotics and firearms violations. Jamiek Moore, 23, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton. Moore was convicted in March after a two-day, non-jury trial. He was...

A traffic stop in Murrysville led to the arrest of a suspect in multiple vehicle break-ins in several communities. Murrysville police Detective John Devlin stopped a damaged Nissan SUV for alleged equipment violations Nov. 22. It was identical to the SUV seen at the area of the vehicle break-ins: a...

A Penn Hills councilman said the municipality is “hinging on Act 47 financial distress” during council’s second 2020 budget hearing and that proposed wage increases and new hires should be frozen until the budget is ironed out. “I cannot stress enough to the community of Penn Hills the severity of...

Council unanimously approved a resolution that allows the manager to take out a $1 million loan from First Commonwealth Bank next year should the municipality need it to pay bills. The loan, known as a Tax Anticipation Note, allows local governments to pay bills during slow tax revenue months. “It’s...

A woman was in critical condition after being shot along the border of Penn Hills and Pittsburgh on Tuesday night. Officers from both municipalities responded around 9:15 p.m. to a report that a woman had been shot multiple times in the 200 block of Eastgate Drive in Penn Hills, according...

• Children are invited to the library at 6 p.m. Dec. 19 to play with Legos. No need to register. • The library will host a holiday singalong at 7 p.m. Dec. 19 in the Community Room. Contact the library to sign up. • The library’s Gingerbread House Display will...

A winning raffle ticket with a $100,000 prize was sold at Penn Hills Convenience in Penn Hills, the Pennsylvania Lottery announced Monday. The ticket was drawn as the fifth $100,000 Weekly Drawing prize. The weekly drawing is part of the New Year’s Millionaire Raffle, which began in November. The game...

Penn Hills James Roberts sold property at 275 Almar Drive to Andrew Pollock and Londyn Hutson for $119,900. CSMA SFR Holdings 2 LSE LLC sold property at 604 Burton Drive to Siciliano Investments LLC for $42,000. Parkway Assoc. Inc. sold property at 1375 Frey Road to Smith Realty Holding Co....

All are welcome to attend a Christmas Eve Candlelight Service at the Penn Hills Free Methodist Church at 6 p.m. Dec. 24. The church is located at 715 Universal Road in Penn Hills. For more information, please contact the church at 412-793-7263. Art show Allegheny League of Artists is having...

Moviegoers in Penn Hills told a theater owner “It’s you I like” when they picked his theater to watch the Fred Rogers biopic two weeks after the film’s opening weekend. Paul Looker, owner and manager of Penn Hills Cinemas, said around 200 people came out to his theater over the...

A portion of Hulton Road in Penn Hills, closed since July due to landslide damage, will continue to be closed into next year, Penn Hills announced Dec. 11. The municipality, via its Savvy Citizen app, notified residents that Hulton Road suffered another landslide, causing more work for crews and delaying...

A Penn Hills couple was receiving help from the Red Cross Wednesday after a fire claimed their two cats and Ross Road home. Penn Hills Fire Marshal Chuck Miller said firefighters responded to the blaze at a modular home across from Ross Park around 10:10 a.m. A preliminary investigation indicated...

The Penn Hills Community Development Corporation now joins 15 others in the Pittsburgh region that are partnered with the Allegheny County Conference on Community Development to get a leg up on receiving state-approved tax credits. “This is really great news,” said Alan Waldron, a newly-elected Penn Hills CDC board member....

The annual Holiday Lights Festival at the Penn Hills Municipal Complex offered participants light-heartedness during a heavy season of budget talks and political cartoons. “It was great. Wonderful. We had a fun time,” said Shaheeda Wilks, of Penn Hills. She brought her son, Kobe Fisher, to the event filled with...

The North Hills Harmony Line Chorus will perform a special Christmas barbershop music concert at the Western Pennsylvania Center for the Arts in Verona. Good seats are still available for the show set for 2 p.m. Saturday at 300 James St. Songs will be from different genres and eras. Tickets...

Michael J. Crawshaw, end of watch: Dec. 6, 2009. The words and numbers tell a story many cannot understand, but they are why many gathered at the Penn Hills Municipal Complex exactly 10 years later. To remember. “Although this is just a very emotional, very painful day for us, I...

Newly elected Penn Hills School Board members were sworn in, and their president and vice president selected at a reorganization meeting Dec. 4. Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Philip Ignelzi administered the oath of office to Rob Marra, Erin Vecchio, Jackie Blakey-Tate, Meryl Thomas and Elizabeth Rosemeyer. They were the...

A Penn Hills volunteer firefighter said a tax is the only way to keep the municipality’s fire services aflame. Ever-increasing operating expenses, old protective equipment, dwindling manpower and fundraising challenges are all reasons Bill Jeffcoat, fire chief of Station 227, thinks a so-called “fire tax” is the strictly volunteer services’...