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Highlands reschedules June school board meeting

Highlands School Board has changed the date of its June voting meeting. It will be held June 25 instead of June 24. The meeting will start at 7 p.m. in the audion at Highlands High School in Harrison. The board is expected to vote to adopt a proposed $46.2 million...
ABC Transit plans dinner to woo Roenigk bus drivers in Highlands

Highlands School District’s new bus contractor has scheduled a dinner to try to attract drivers away from W.L. Roenigk, the district’s outgoing transportation company. ABC Transit is inviting all of the district’s current bus and van drivers and monitors to the buffet dinner starting at 5:30 p.m. June 12 in...
Tour-Ed Mine in Fawn offers lessons in underground history

Go beyond the typical tour and get really down-to-earth with a trip under Fawn Township. Dubbed the “Coalest” Pittsburgh attraction, Tour-Ed Mine and Museum in Fawn offers educational underground coal mine tours 160 feet below ground. Dating back to the 1850s and formerly the once-active Avenue Mine, its workers provided...
Harrison to focus grass cutting efforts on abandoned properties

They say the squeaky wheel gets the grease. In Harrison, the tall grass that gets complained about the most may get cut. With a roster of five to six dozen uncared for properties, the township’s five part-time summer workers can only get to so many, commissioners Chairman Bill Heasley said....
Kids help out as environmental group cleans trash out of the Allegheny River

Elliott Covolo, 8, spotted the first piece of litter that was collected out of the Allegheny River in Tarentum during a cleanup event Sunday. He grabbed a net and waited until the boat idled next to the object. “I don’t know what it is,” he exclaimed as he pulled it...
Biking-walking corridor in Harrison gets another financial boost

The biking-walking corridor project in Harrison has received another financial boost. Township Commissioner Robin Bergstrom said the township was notified that the project’s first phase for design and engineering has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the state Community Infrastructure and Tourism Fund (CITF). It brings the total money received...
One step at a time, Highlands, Oakmont Relays for Life walk to fund cancer researchVideo

The goal of the Relays for Life throughout the country is that one day they won’t be necessary. That would mean that cancer is cured and there’s no reason to walk around school tracks and in parks to raise money each summer for the American Cancer Society. Until then, they...
Car struck by bullet in New Kensington

At least one bullet struck a four-door sedan sitting on the New Kensington side of North Street on Saturday afternoon. Westmoreland County dispatchers said officers responded to a call for shots fired around 12:40 p.m. near the intersection of North Street and Leishman Avenue at the New Kensington/Arnold border. Nearby...
‘Whitey’ Williams taught scores of firefighters how to perform task safelyVideo

Teaching a kid how to use a firefighter’s oxygen gear was an opportunity for Bratton T. “Whitey” Williams Jr. “He already was a legend,” recalls the kid, Eddie Saliba Jr., who now is the New Kensington Bureau of Fire’s assistant chief. “I was about 10 years old. My dad was...
Armstrong County locks closed on Allegheny River this weekend due to high water

Due to high water, the Allegheny River Development Corp. and with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have decided to keep four locks closed in the Armstrong County portion of the Allegheny River. The closed locks are located in South Buffalo, West Kittanning, Boggs, and Madison townships. During the summer,...
Welcome: Here’s the Evangel Heights Christian Academy Class of 2019

Here is the Evangel Heights Christian Academy Class of 2019: Peter Caporali, Evan Clinger, Kayleigh Conaway, Grace Emerson, Kaylee Fink, Heath Hassler, Matthew Heinl, Madison Holcomb, Alexis Jones, Bethany Jones. Katie Kelley, Aneisa Klingensmith, Charis Miller, Matthew Olean, Hyunbin Song, Elijah Thompson, Brock Villella....
Congratulations to the Freeport Area High School Class of 2019

Here is the Freeport Area High School Class of 2019: Zyan Adams, Emily Alvarez, Dylan Arnold, Ainsley Arrington, Hayden Bash, Abigail Bastaja, Cameron Bennick, Cole Bennick, Coleman Bergad, Rebecca Black. Erik Bodily, Trevor Bolte, Marissa Borino, Charles Borromeo, Lydia Bouch, Mara Bowser, Michael Brezinski, Rachel Bricker, Jalen Brown, Gabriel Brunck....
Introducing the St. Joseph High School Class of 2019

Here is the St. Joseph High School Class of 2019: Matthew Arvay, Daniel Keith Babilon II, Grant David Bendis, Abigail Lynn Book, Joseph Emmanuel Ciniello, Samantha Lynn Dennis, Daniel José Fábregas, Hunter Michael Ferdarko, Dominic Anthony Ferrante, Adeline Elizabeth Fuesting. Jacob L. Gigler, Shelby Caroline Gogal, Kayla Golightly, Leah Mei...
Leechburg woman, 84, well known for volunteering, receives honorary high school diploma

The top of her cap and just a sliver of her face were all you could see of 5-foot-2 Violet Stivason at the lectern as he spoke of her life when accepting her honorary high school diploma at Leechburg Area High School auditorium Thursday night. Just an hour earlier, the...
Sandy Hook mom tells Burrell High School audience to ‘Choose Love’

Her anger was still palpable when she woke up the morning of what would have been the seventh birthday of her son Jesse, one of 26 people killed six months earlier by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., in 2012. That’s when Scarlett Lewis said she began...
Vandergrift’s Cardinal Maida Academy says goodbye to its last studentsVideo

Vandergrift’s sole Catholic school is closing. The Cardinal Maida Academy, formerly St. Gertrude School when it opened in 1922, held its last day of school on Friday. Low student enrollment led to the closure, formally effective June 30, 2019, according to a news release from Greensburg Diocese spokesman Jerry Zufelt....

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