Valley News Dispatch category, Page 362

Companies that use fracking to drill for natural gas have begun turning to outside technology to help quash what they describe as a legacy of distrust built by years of bad business practices by some drillers. To quell concerns about the impact wells might have on water, air, land and...

Investigators are still working to determine what caused a fire late Thursday that destroyed an East Deer apartment building. “There’s no answers yet,” fire Chief Jack Bailie Jr. said Saturday. “We probably won’t know for a couple weeks.” Bailie heads up the East Deer Volunteer Fire Department, which was among...

Anyone who wants to offer a prayer or have one said for themselves is welcome to join a non-denominational service Thursday in Tarentum’s Riverview Memorial Park. A borough church, Abundant Joy Fellowship, is hosting the National Day of Prayer observance. “No matter what you believe in, anybody is welcome to...

Publicize your community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Pa. Career Link to host job fair in New Kensington A Pa. Career Link job fair will be from 10 a.m....

More than 100 Key Club students from Kiski Area High School fanned out across communities in the district Friday to volunteer on National Youth Day of Caring. Kiski Area Key Club advisers Terra Shreffler and Nicole Wadsworth organized the annual event. This year, about 117 students provided helping hands at...

You know it’s spring when the Burrellton Garden Club prepares for its annual flower sale to benefit city gardens. A budding tradition for at least five years, the plant sale includes perennials from the private collections of garden club members and locally grown annuals acclimated to the Alle-Kiski Valley’s weather....

A Lower Burrell man faces 42 charges, including 10 felonies, because a neighbor accused him of pointing a loaded shotgun at 10 people playing games in their backyard. Bryan M. Sarnosky, 48, of the 200 block of Michigan Avenue, was charged with 10 counts of felony aggravated assault, along with...

Lower Burrell’s longtime zoning and ordinance officer, Michael Nedley, has a plaque by his desk that reads “Love Thy Neighbor.” It’s a gift from his secretary, who knows what he’s had to deal with over the years. After more than 32 years of listening to neighbor-on-neighbor complaints about high grass...

A new free community garden is coming to Aspinwall. A vacant lot located at 215 Delafield Road, across from UPMC St. Margaret Hospital, is slated to become the Aspinwall Community Garden. Project organizer and Aspinwall resident Amy Lima said use of the lot has been donated by owner Marshall Barbour,...

Publicize your community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Youngsters invited to attend Camp Cadet Applications are being accepted for the 2022 Armstrong County Camp Cadet Program, July 24 to...

A group is collecting donations to assist at least three tenats left homeless when fire destroyed their apartment building late Thursday. The Western Pennsylvania Search and Rescue Development Center is seeking food, clothes and toiletries, among other items that might help families who lived in the multi-story apartment building along...

East Vandergrift officials are moving forward with plans to revitalize Kiskiminetas River Park. The public park, constructed in 1990, is along the banks of the Kiski River at the end of Elm and Kennedy streets. Several years ago, vandals spray-painted over existing security cameras and painted graffiti on the cement...

Lower Burrell and the Burrell School District recently approved a five-year contract for a city police officer to serve as an onsite school resource officer in the district. There are no changes to the overall framework of the new contract compared to the previous three-year contract, said Lower Burrell Councilman...

Experts in the Pittsburgh region generally agree with Dr. Anthony Fauci’s assessment this week that the United States is “out of the pandemic phase” of covid-19, the virus whose death toll is closing in 1 million in the U.S. alone. “ ‘Over’ is a strong term,” said Dr. Donald Whiting,...

The state Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously upheld the death sentence for a man convicted of fatally shooting New Kensington police Officer Brian Shaw in 2017. A Westmoreland County jury deliberated for less than 90 minutes on Nov. 12, 2019, to find Rahmael Holt, 33, of Harrison, guilty on all...

A scheduled walkout by some Deer Lakes students to protest bullying at the high school has been canceled because of backlash from the community, organizers said. Student Abygail Cacurak said a private meeting with district administration is being planned in lieu of the protest. “After much deliberation and thought, we...

A man and a woman riding with him were arrested after a Kiski Township patrol officer pulled them over in a car that was reported stolen. Investigators said the pair were stopped near the intersection of River Road and 19th Street on April 22 after an officer patrolling in North...

A Harrison church that climbs four stories and is prominently along Freeport Road received a $44,000 makeover this month in the form of a new roof. “It was needed,” said Walter Rutkowski, trustees chairperson at Grace United Methodist Church. “Someone going through the drive-thru at CVS called the office on...

Publicize your community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. St. Joseph HS plans summer camps St. Joseph High School, Harrison, will offer several summer camps for children at the school....

Eileen Halloran cradled her grandson, Chance, on Friday night. She noticed something different about the baby boy who had lived his entire life in a neonatal intensive care unit, attached to a ventilator. The past year had been filled with operations, medical tests and drama. He was under consideration for...

Allegheny-Kiski Valley Historical Society Board President James Thomas remembers when Springdale was called “The Power City.” The establishment of the Cheswick Generating Station in 1970, producing 565 megawatts of electricity, was part of the borough’s claim to fame. The location’s proximity to coal mines and the river was the perfect...

A man is in stable condition after being shot Tuesday in New Kensington, according to the Westmoreland County District Attorney’s office. Police responded at about 7:45 p.m. to the 1300 block of Leishman Avenue for reports of shots fired. The victim, Garrick Marshall, no age available, suffered multiple gunshot wounds....

When Aaron Kress first met his wife, Dorothy, he told her he was a window washer. “He didn’t want her to get any preconceived notions about him being a lawyer,” said their daughter, Becky Fenoglietto of Penn Hills. “They were married very quickly,” she said. “My dad brought her back...

The family of a 20-year-old Plum man who died in August when his motorcycle collided with a car that pulled out in front of him has set up a scholarship in his memory at his high school alma mater. The Adam J. Garvin Memorial Scholarship, for seniors at Plum High...