Valley News Dispatch category, Page 403
Semper Gratus to hold 6th annual charity Shamrock Shuffle 5K
Semper Gratus is ready for its sixth annual charity Shamrock Shuffle 5K in West Leechburg on March 12, the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day. The annual event raises funds to support pediatric patients with disabilities and chronic illnesses. Last year, the organization raised $140,000 to benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma...
Police seek public’s help in search for runaway New Kensington teen
New Kensington police are seeking the public’s help in a search for a runaway teenager. Monae Matthews, 15, is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs about 145 pounds. Police said she might be in the Pittsburgh area. Anyone with information about the teen is asked to call the New...
Highland Park Bridge ramps to Aspinwall, Sharpsburg closed through May
Motorists who use the Highland Park Bridge ramps to connect to Sharpsburg and Aspinwall will need to allow extra time after the ramps were closed Tuesday for a long-term project. Northbound and southbound off-ramps from Route 28 to Freeport Road are scheduled to be closed through May, PennDOT announced. Crews...
Faces of the Valley: Saxophonist Don Aliquo still hitting high notes as jazz performer at 93Video
Don Aliquo doesn’t skip a beat when asked to share his formula for a music career that began with sing-alongs around the piano as a toddler and shows little sign of slowing down at age 93. “What’s my secret? Those 11 steps outside this door and this,” he says with...
The Stroller, March 8, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your community Easter Egg hunts, breakfasts with the Easter Bunny 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. Applications being accepted for Rotary scholarships The Rotary Club of Leechburg will award community service...
Springdale aims to address infrastructure by drafting 5-year plans
Getting a handle on infrastructure status and needs appears to be a major priority for the Springdale Township commissioners. The commissioners, during their meeting Thursday, Feb. 24, said they have asked township engineer, Sean Naylor of Senate Engineering, to provide a proposal on formulating three 5-year plans. Areas of the...
New Kensington woman killed in crash in Maine
NAPLES, Maine — A 22-year-old New Kensington woman was killed in a pickup truck crash, police said. The single-vehicle crash happened on Sunday night in Naples when the truck collided with a tree, police said. Police said two occupants had freed themselves from the vehicle and two others were trapped...
Trial begins for Washington Township couple sued by friend paralyzed in swimming pool accident
Lawyers for a Vandergrift man who suffered a broken neck and spinal cord injuries in a swimming pool accident at a friend’s Washington Township home in 2013 on Monday asked a Westmoreland County jury to award him more than $9 million in damages. Jurors will spend the next week hearing...
Family asks community for support after Harrison motorcycle crash
A local family is seeking support from the community after a serious accident in Natrona Heights left a member of their family in critical condition. A GoFundMe page launched by Katie Stivers is raising money to support the family after her father, Jim, was injured in a crash on March...
Oakmont businesses rattled by pizza shop robbery attempt that left employee critically injured
Business owners and store clerks in Oakmont are feeling jittery in the wake of Sunday’s attempted armed robbery of a pizza shop during which an employee was critically wounded by gunfire. The shooting happened shortly before 4 p.m. at the Fox’s Pizza in the 300 block of Allegheny River Boulevard,...
Fox Chapel library earns federal humanities grant to preserve local family histories
A new program to record the family histories of patrons at Cooper-Siegel Community Library in Fox Chapel is meant to build a sense of community and camaraderie. The library along Fox Chapel Road earned a $10,000 federal humanities grant to pay for the initiative, through which oral histories will be...
The Stroller, March 7, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your community Easter Egg hunts, breakfasts with the Easter Bunny 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. Heritage Museum to display women’s vintage clothing The Alle-Kiski Valley Historical Society will sponsor a...
Woman dies in multi-structure fire in New KensingtonVideo
Thick smoke and rolling flames swept through a New Kensington duplex Sunday, killing one woman before it spread to a neighboring building. Crews spent hours dousing the blaze at a home on Fourth Avenue, a battle compounded by strong winds and little space between buildings. “There was a lot of...
Police: Fox’s Pizza employee shot during robbery in Oakmont
An employee at an Oakmont pizza shop was in critical condition Sunday night after being shot during an attempted robbery earlier in the day, according to police. The shooting happened shortly before 4 p.m. at Fox’s Pizza on Allegheny River Boulevard, Oakmont police Chief Michael Ford said. The suspect entered...
Felony drug charges filed against Vandergrift man in connection with 2020 task force sting
Apollo police have charged a man with six felony counts after they say he sold heroin to an informant. Mark David Bowser, 58, of Whittier Street, Vandergrift was charged with four counts of possession with the intent to deliver drugs, two counts of criminal use of a communications facility and...
Ringer’s Dog Training faces one last hurdle for day care operations
The owner of a Harrison dog training business said she’ll try one last time to seek township approval to operate a pet day care and boarding service at her Freeport Road location. Kim Ringer, owner of Ringer’s Pet Dog Training, will present her case to the township’s planning commission Monday....
Therapy dogs helping New Kensington-Arnold students practice reading
Therapy dogs are helping New Kensington-Arnold elementary students overcome emotional and academic issues exacerbated by the covid pandemic. First and second grade students at H.D. Berkey Elementary School were the first to take part in a program new to their school in which they read to dogs. “It went extremely...
More stocking planned after opening day of Pa. trout season
The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, with some help from the Tri-County Trout Club, has stocked Deer Creek in Emmerling Park, Indiana Township. It was the first time since the beginning of the covid pandemic that volunteers from the trout club could assist in transferring thousands of trout from commission...
Penn Hills man’s Ukrainian family has history of resisting Russian invasions
Bohdan Czmola’s family has a history of opposing the Russians. A son of Ukrainian immigrants, Czmola, 70, of Penn Hills said his grandfather, Ivan Czmola, was one of three founders of Plast, a Ukrainian scouting organization for boys in 1911. When Ukraine declared independence from Russia in 1918, Czmola’s grandfather...
The Stroller, March 6, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your community Easter Egg hunts, breakfasts with the Easter Bunny 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. Burrell HS to present spring musical Burrell Drama Club will present the musical, “The Drowsy...
O’Hara, Fox Chapel residents can weigh in on name change for Squaw Run
O’Hara and Fox Chapel are set to launch the compilation of a joint comprehensive plan, part of which will include the renaming of Squaw Run. A tributary of the Allegheny River, the stream runs through O’Hara, Fox Chapel and Indiana Township. While local municipalities voted to rename parks and roads...
Burrell High School’s drama club presents musical comedy ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’
The Burrell High School Drama Club will present “The Drowsy Chaperone,” a send-up of musicals from the Jazz Age, Thursday through Saturday in the school’s auditorium. Burrell music director Martin Connolly said the musical is a great venue to showcase the talents of eight to 10 students in featured roles....
Allegheny Valley 4th grade students make blankets for those in need
A short-term project for fourth graders at Acmetonia Elementary School has become a project to help those in need in the school community. Meredith Cooper’s fourth grade class helped spearhead the initiative in December. The project was a part of the school’s monthly theme for its social-emotional period. December’s theme...
Sharpsburg Community Library exhibit honors Black family’s long history in borough
One of the first Black families to settle in Sharpsburg in the early 1920s is being honored with an exhibit at the Community Library along Main Street. “Breaking Barriers: 4 Generations of a Black Sharpsburg Family” is a collaborative effort of the borough’s historical commission, the library and Kayla Portis,...
Lower Burrell’s Kinloch fire company satisfied most issues in state auditor general’s report
Lower Burrell Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 (Kinloch) has satisfied two of three issues flagged in a routine state auditor general’s report. In an audit covering Jan. 1, 2018, to Dec. 31, 2020, the Auditor General’s Office concluded that Kinloch’s relief association had unauthorized expenditures, inappropriate ownership of a rescue...
