Valley News Dispatch category, Page 471

Publicize your club meetings, community events and fundraisers for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Notes for Hope festival set Saturday in Hyde Park The Notes for Hope Music and Food Festival will be from noon...

Two 17-year-olds charged as adults in an attempted homicide in New Kensington in June are now in custody. Isaac Anthony Weihrauch and Ernest Gary IV, both of New Kensington, were arraigned Friday evening, according to court records. New Kensington police said Weihrauch and Gary were identified as suspects in a...

Although ground has yet to be broken for the controversial Dollar General store at the corner of Seventh Street Road and Dewey Drive in Upper Burrell, questions and concerns persist. Resident Bruce Saye of Lower Drennan Road said both sides of the road near his home are flooding during heavy...

Publicize your club meetings, community events and fundraisers for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Drive-through food distribution set for Tuesday at Pittsburgh Mills Allegheny Valley Association of Churches and the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank...

State Rep. Carrie Lewis DelRosso (R-Oakmont) is holding an open house Wednesday, July 14 in her Springdale office from 3-5 p.m. Lewis DelRosso and her staff will discuss local and state government-related issues and services for constituents, according to a news release issued by her office. Lewis DelRosso took office...

A utility project along Drennan Road in Plum is expected to begin Monday, PennDOT officials announced. Drennan Road will be reduced to single-lane alternating traffic between Sardis and Greensburg roads weekdays from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. through late October. The restriction is necessary as crews from Thompson Electric conduct...

One of two siblings wanted in connection with an armed home burglary in Tarentum has been arrested. Manrico Reddix, 15, of Clairton was arraigned early Friday morning, charged as an adult in the June 22 burglary in the 200 block of West 9th Avenue. His older brother, Wilnal Anthony Reddix,...

Frank Coscarelli was getting ready to leave for work one day in January when someone knocked at the door of his New Kensington home interested in buying it. When Coscarelli told him it wasn’t for sale, the man insisted he had found it on the online classified site Craigslist. Turns...

New Kensington police have filed a child pornography charge against an 18-year-old woman after they said she posted nude pictures of a 16-year-old girl online. Aaliyah Marie Jones, of New Kensington, faces the felony charge as well as a misdemeanor count of cyber harassment of a child. According to a...

Two Alle-Kiski Valley restaurants and a Leechburg woman were to be featured Friday on an episode of HGTV’s “My Lottery Dream Home.” The series follows its host, David Bromstad, as he helps lottery winners purchase luxury properties with their newfound winnings. Friday’s show was to feature a Leechburg woman, Charity...

A 76-year-old man who was driving a Corvette involved in a fatal crash Monday on Route 28 is expected to survive, a state police spokesman said. Fred Fattman of Brackenridge was in stable condition Thursday, Trooper Joshua Black said. He had suffered serious injuries and was in critical condition when...

A scenic eatery in Allegheny Township has closed for the summer and fall season. Lily’s, the renovated restaurant at River Forest Country Club overlooking the golf course, announced the closing on social media last week. Referring to the decision to close as “tough” in a Facebook post, Lily’s blamed the...

An air filter manufacturer moving into the New Kensington Advanced Manufacturing Park will hold its first hiring event this month. Alabama-based Filterbuy is looking to hire 15 to 20 full-time machine operators and assemblers, said Glenna George, human resources and payroll manager. The hiring event will be Tuesday, July 20,...

Publicize your club meetings, community events and fundraisers for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Book talk to discuss western Pennsylvania history Author Kathy Myers will give a free presentation about her book, “Historic Tales of...

A four-month strike by workers at ATI hasn’t impacted plans to upgrade and expand the company’s Vandergrift operations from moving forward. “We’ve been proceeding as planned throughout all of the strike activities,” said Danielle Carlini, Vandergrift’s ATI project manager for specialty rolled products. The expansion is set to happen over...

Freeport Area eighth grader Jersey Diehl is good at being bad. Just ask the judges of the Junior Theater Festival Texas, who in late-June awarded the 12-year-old as an acting All Star for her portrayal of Ursula, the purple-skinned wicked sea witch, in a performance of “The Little Mermaid” at...

A Vandergrift woman has created a petition to try to reduce the speed limit on Holland Avenue. Ursula Clark, a retired steelworker, said motorists exceeding the posted 25 mph speed limit is a daily problem. She said her beloved dog, Titan, recently was struck by a vehicle traveling at what...

The Santa Shuffle, a 5K race/one-mile walk hosted by the nonprofit Semper Gratus, is scheduled for Saturday in West Leechburg. Semper Gratus — Latin for “always grateful” — held its annual Shamrock Shuffle in March with covid-19 protocols in place. The organization raised roughly $15,000 to support pediatric patients. Ian...

Plum officials are in the process of securing an estimated $7.6 million bond to bolster a new borough building project, stormwater management projects and repurpose the current municipal site. Borough Manager Michael Thomas said bond counsel Pat Healy is working to acquire the funds. Council is expected to approve a...

Oakmont is expected to receive more than $648,000 in federal covid relief funds. Borough Manager Scot Fodi said he recently received confirmation from the U.S. Treasury Department about the American Rescue Plan Act money as well as the first of two installments. The funds are expected to be put into...

A new pump track at Creekside Park in Oakmont is nearly complete. Borough Manager Scot Fodi said some landscaping with topsoil and sod installation are among the details left to be finished. “We’re moving in pretty good time,” Fodi said July 7. “It’s a rather unique thing to look at....

Publicize your club meetings, community events and fundraisers for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Rally on the River food truck rally to benefit Leechburg firemen Leechburg Volunteer Fire Company will sponsor a Rally on the...

Brackenridge police have charged a man with felony aggravated assault following a fight Saturday outside a borough bar. Randy Joseph Simmons, 35, of Pittsburgh’s Bluff neighborhood was arraigned on the charge and charges of simple assault and harassment early Wednesday morning. According to a criminal complaint against Simmons, Brackenridge police...