Valley News Dispatch category, Page 712
Riverview junior proposes solution to combat parking woes near Oakmont Bakery
Riverview High School junior Molly Collins wants to make sure her fellow students have a place to park while Oakmont Bakery officials work out some traffic issues. She launched an online petition to have about 30 spaces at Riverside Park, next to the high school, be designated student parking from...
Harrison zoning officials tender resignations
Two officials in Harrison’s zoning and ordinance office have submitted their resignations, and one is already gone. Office Supervisor Lindsay Fraser and department Coordinator Jody Lamison announced in an email to township officials on Friday their intention to resign effective March 1, according to township Commissioner Charles Dizard. Despite that...
Brackenridge officials eye restoration of honor roll memorial in wake of vandalism
Someone’s ill-advised attempt to improve the honor roll memorial in Brackenridge Memorial Park will speed up its proper restoration. Borough officials are considering going ahead with a full restoration of the 54-year-old memorial’s bronze and stone, including removing unwanted silver paint that was recently applied to it. The memorial, featuring...
Woman accused of fleeing police in Allegheny Township arrested in Tarentum
Allegheny Township police said they tracked down a woman who avoided arrest Sunday night. Cally Jade Mills, 26, was arrested Tuesday in a traffic stop in Tarentum. Mills is accused of climbing out of a window when police pulled up to a home in the 700 block of South Leechburg...
Cooper Station Restaurant abruptly closes in Winfield TownshipVideo
The landmark Cooper Station Restaurant has abruptly shut down. The popular restaurant along Route 356 in Winfield Township posted a closing notice Monday on its Facebook page. “Effective immediately, Cooper Station Restaurant will be closed indefinitely. Thank You, Management,” the notice read. The signs posted on the locked double doors...
Harmar supervisors to consider ordinance for wireless antennas, towers
Harmar supervisors are holding a public hearing Thursday to consider a new ordinance outlining regulations for installing wireless antennas and towers for 5G cellular service in township right-of-ways. Wireless communications companies are permitted by the Federal Communications Commission to place the antennas and towers wherever they want, but supervisors Chairman...
Harmar Supervisor Patricia Janoski stepping down
Harmar supervisors will be looking for a new board member after the resignation of Patricia Janoski. Supervisors Chairman Bob Seibert said Janoski submitted a letter of resignation effective Feb. 12. No reason was given. He expects the board to formally accept the resignation during Thursday’s meeting. “We will miss Pat...
Highlands School District places 2nd unidentified employee on unpaid leave
The Highlands School Board has fired one employee and placed another on unpaid leave. At its meeting Monday, the school board dismissed Iesha Griffin, a payroll and benefits secretary. In a separate action, it approved a statement of charges against another, unidentified employee and placed that person on unpaid leave...
Highlands School Board approves rain garden, tree planting projects
The Highlands School Board has approved the construction of a rain garden on district property and the planting of trees on its grounds in Harrison this spring. The rain garden that will be built at Highlands Middle School is part of a $125,000 project funded by a grant from The...
Ford City’s Layten Bowser, 2018 Rock for Life beneficiary, dies at 7
A Ford City boy who for three years battled an advanced form of nerve cancer died Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019, at UPMC Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh. He was 7. Layten Bowser had been the beneficiary of the 19th Rock for Life held in August. His mother, Angelyn Waldor of Ford...
Woman missing from Kittanning found safe, police say
A woman missing from Kittanning was found safe in Lawrence County, according to police. Katie L. Stoner, 27, went to the New Castle police station Monday night to let authorities know she was OK, Kittanning police Officer Greg Koprivnak said early Tuesday. She had been missing since 6:30 p.m. Thursday....
Seeking exceptions gives Highlands ‘options’ for budget, business manager says
The Highlands School District is simply keeping its options open as it begins work on the 2019-20 spending plan, the district’s business manager told residents at a school board meeting Monday night. Although the district intends to seek permission from the state to increase taxes by more than its limit...
Highlands to offer superintendent job to assistant, substitute Mawhinney
The Highlands School District will not be conducting a search for a new superintendent and will be offering the job to its current substitute superintendent, Monique Mawhinney, school board President Debbie Beale announced Monday. Mawhinney, who started as assistant superintendent in April 2018, has been serving as substitute superintendent in...
State police responding to Fawn burglary taser, arrest man
State police said they used a Taser gun to subdue a man suspected of burglarizing a Fawn home last week. Justin Donald Ohler, 31, of Natrona Heights, faces charges of trespassing, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct following the incident around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday. State police said troopers went to a...
Mark Madden to host Penguins-Devils watch party in New Kensington
Sports broadcast personality Mark Madden is heading to New Kensington to host a watch party Tuesday night as the Pittsburgh Penguins face off against the New Jersey Devils. Madden invited fans and the general public via Twitter to join him at the event at Leo’s Sport Page at The Quality...
Cheswick looks to fill vacant positions
Cheswick Council is expected to fill two vacant borough positions on Tuesday. The openings include a council seat left vacant after Cathy Crail resigned in late December and the borough secretary position left open when Joseph Puet resigned in January after just a couple of months on the job. Councilman...
Pastor: Higher fee won’t stop Easter egg hunt on Highlands property
The fee for a Brackenridge church to hold its annual Easter egg hunt on Highlands School District property has been slashed by more than half. The school district initially was going to charge Generations House of Worship $4,700 under its recently updated use-of-facilities policy. The fee included a $2,750 facility...
Penn State New Kensington reopens following early morning power outage
Penn State New Kensington reopened Monday afternoon following a power outage that closed the campus all morning. West Penn Power spokesman Todd Meyers said the outage was reported around 8:15 a.m. just east of the campus in the area of Seventh Street Road in Upper Burrell. He said it was...
Police: Allegheny Township woman climbed through window to evade arrest
Authorities were searching for a woman who they say climbed out of a window and knocked on her neighbors’ doors to avoid arrest Sunday night in Allegheny Township. When no neighbors let Cally Jade Mills, 26, inside their residence, she continued to run. “We believe that she’s hiding somewhere with...
Razing once-grand Belvedere Hotel along Route 66 proves to be problematic, costly
The dilapidated Belvedere Hotel along Route 66 in Oklahoma Borough could collapse anytime, spilling debris onto the road and perhaps beyond, local officials are warning. The front wall of the Swiss chalet-inspired, four-story hotel is leaning toward Route 66, Orr Avenue and active Norfolk Southern railroad tracks, according to Lee...
Animal Protectors volunteers team up to bring in, care for abandoned catsVideo
Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series that features Alle-Kiski Valley people and the notable things that they do. A pair of Alle-Kiski Valley women formed a friendship from their fondness for helping cats. Patricia Presutti of Springdale and Monica George of New Kensington have known each other...
Customers flocked to opening of Allegheny Township chicken jointVideo
There’s a new chicken joint in Allegheny Township. Big Shot Bob’s House of Wings opened last Monday, Feb. 11 in Kiski Park Plaza. Customers were lined out the door, according to co-owner Kara Jo Brank. Brank and her husband, Frank, left the corporate world for the culinary scene. After downsizing...
Freeport Area School Board must find way to close $1.5M gap
The Freeport Area School Board has passed a preliminary budget that has a $1.5 million deficit. Ultimately, the board will either have to come up with budget cuts or come up with money to close the gap, perhaps though a tax hike or using reserve funds, before passing a final...
Arnold girl missing more than a week may be in Pittsburgh, public’s help sought
Police are trying to locate a 16-year-old Arnold girl who has been missing for a week. Tauja Brown has been missing from home since Feb. 10, police said Sunday. Arnold police Chief Eric Doutt said Brown, a student at Valley Junior/Senior High School, was last seen in Arnold at 6:30...
Black migration making great impact on Pittsburgh regionVideo
Jobs in the region’s steel mills were a draw for Southern black Americans in the 20 years before World War I, but their skills and experience were greatly ignored, members of the Allegheny-Kiski Valley Historical Society members were told at a Black History Month presentation Sunday. Among those steel mills...
