Valley News Dispatch category, Page 60

To Michelle Thom, goals for an upcoming farmers market in downtown New Kensington are twofold. The Downtown New Ken Partnership president wants to provide healthy, fresh food in the area and increase foot traffic for small businesses there. The farmers market — which Thom believes is the first of its...

Stephanie Zimble is a woman who finds treasure in other people’s “trash.” The archivist at Oakmont Carnegie Library often can be found prodding people to reconsider basement finds before they end up in the garbage can. “The more people I can convince not to throw cool stuff away, the better,”...

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Farmer Greg Boulos asked first graders in the Highlands School District how many of them liked spinach and was surprised to see 50 hands shoot into the air. Boulos, owner of Blackberry Meadows Farm in Fawn, brought his farm-to-table presentation to the students Tuesday to promote sustainability and raise awareness...

The owner of Pittsburgh Mills in Frazer is taking action to patch the mall’s pockmarked roads, just days after they became the target of a criminal investigation. But the $20,000 Namdar Realty has allocated for repairs represents 0.5% of the more than $4 million the New York-based company and Frazer...

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An Arnold man faces a sentence of up to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty Monday to the robbery of a New Kensington gas station. Chad William Fitzgerald, 34, was charged last year in connection with an Aug. 14, 2024, heist at the Sunoco gas station on Tarentum...

Albert “Ouch” Roenigk has never pined for power. That’s probably why, in 1979, a judge made him a Buffalo Township supervisor. The previous ones had resigned amid an intra-board dispute over alleged corruption, leaving the township without elected leaders for six months. A steadying presence in township government for 46...

As a parent to a child with special needs, it is difficult to navigate life post-high school graduation, says Courtney Kobelenske. “If you don’t know about these things, they don’t tell you,” said Kobelenske, whose daughter Cora graduates from Burrell High School this spring. “You have to figure it out...

Friends of John Miclot are recalling the Fox Chapel businessman as a visionary who was generous with his time and leadership. The former president and CEO of Respironics served on the board of the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium and the St. Margaret Foundation and was an active volunteer at the...

Cheswick might turn to advanced technology when assessing its streets and roads. Council in April will consider a contract with New Jersey-based Vialytics for its RoadAI road-scanning program. The three-year cost would total $12,000. “We wanted to have a neutral third party scan our streets and give us a true...

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Here is a weekly look at recent images captured throughout the Alle-Kiski Valley. From major news events to routine gatherings, TribLive’s “Scenes from the Valley” photo package brings to life activities and moments happening in your backyard. To have a photo considered as a “Scenes from the Valley” candidate, please...

Indiana Borough police arrested a New Kensington man accused of assault and making terroristic threats while displaying a gun Saturday evening during the IUPatty’s student celebration held annually in the community. Police said Adisun Lee Jackson, 22, who is not a student at local Indiana University of Pennsylvania, refused to...

A shuttered Buffalo Township restaurant and New Kensington’s newest brewery are evolving together. Evolution Grille, which chef and owner Michael Barbiaux closed in September, has moved into the kitchen at Tortured Souls Brewery, which is marking its first anniversary on Sunday. Barbiaux learned through a friend in a band, The...

Karolina Hrustinec was abandoned in Slovakia at 9 years old, left in the care of an aunt and forced to forge her way as a farmhand until she could follow her parents to the United States nine years later. “The war broke out, but she made her way to Creighton,...

Plans for renovation work at Springdale Jr.-Sr. High School are nearly complete, and a contractor is expected to be hired by mid-May. Terry L. Thompson and Doug Zaenger, vice presidents of Foreman Architects Engineers, whom the Allegheny Valley School Board retained to develop plans for the work, updated the board...

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The future isn’t clear for the former Newport Business Institute property in Lower Burrell, but officials say it is bright. Brian Lawrence, executive director of the Westmoreland County Redevelopment Authority and Land Bank, said the property is in the land bank’s “preparing for sale” status after the agency acquired it...

Uncle Charley’s Sausage once had about 60 employees at its Parks Township processing, packing and shipping facility. Now, it has one — an affable, mustached maintenance supervisor named Randy Braden. A veteran of the food manufacturing business, he came on about 2½ years ago after the soup cannery in Pittsburgh’s...

Plenty of churches and pantries across the Alle-Kiski Valley offer closets where people can pick up free coats, pants and shirts. The Rev. Felicia Brock, pastor at First Baptist Church of Tarentum, is taking it a step further. “When we were thinking about what we can do to help the...

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A Westmoreland County judge on Friday set a $500,000 straight cash bond for a former Ohio man charged in connection with an alleged shooting two years ago in New Kensington. Iven Cashua Miller Jr., 37, who was previously identified as being from Cleveland and now lists a New Kensington address,...

Already facing a civil lawsuit over the condition of its roads at Pittsburgh Mills in Frazer, owner Namdar Realty Group now could face criminal charges. The Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office confirmed Friday it has executed a search warrant aimed at Namdar and opened a criminal investigation. “We can confirm...

An East Deer man was cited for harassment and disorderly conduct by Aspinwall police in connection with two separate incidents in which it appears he targeted supporters of President Donald Trump. In October, Christopher Brown, 60, allegedly stood in front of a Fourth Street home and yelled profanities and insults...