Valley News Dispatch category, Page 83

Burrell School District has a plan to accommodate fourth graders at Bon Air Elementary School next school year. A task force of about 20 staff members and parents reviewed Superintendent Shannon Wagner’s proposed building layout to have the elementary school on Leechburg Road house kindergarten through fourth grades next school...

Property owners in Springdale will pay 18% more in real estate taxes. The 2025 spending plan increases the borough’s millage rate by 1.5 mills, to 9.75 mills. Officials have said that assessment appeals on industrial properties led to an $11 million loss in expected revenues, leaving borough property owners to...

At least two handguns are among items stolen from vehicles recently in New Kensington. The thefts have the city’s police department advising residents to secure their vehicles and their valuables. Residents of the area across Seventh Street from New Kensington’s Mount Vernon neighborhood said they believe three males are involved,...

Plum School Board members say they will limit any potential tax increase next year while moving forward with a building project and the purchase of electric buses. The board this week voted unanimously to keep a property tax increase for the 2025-26 school year to within its state-imposed inflation limit...

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As a lifelong resident of Arnold, Heather Irene Houser says she knows what people in the city want and need. She also knows that the stores that met those needs when she was growing up are long gone from the city. And not everyone is able to get to the...

The Highlands High School varsity boys basketball season will continue despite the resignation of its head coach, Bill Flow. Flow, hired this summer, submitted a letter of resignation Monday, citing personal reasons, school officials said. He remains a teacher at the high school. The departure comes on the heels of...

Rain wasn’t in Tuesday’s weather forecast, but it certainly was pouring for some Burrell High School staff. Burrell’s unified bocce team held a “rain rally” Tuesday, where Principal John Boylan and a few teachers got soaked by Lower Burrell Fire Co. 3’s truck hose as a fundraiser for the team....

A $3 million lottery ticket was sold Friday at the Giant Eagle Market District in the Waterworks near Aspinwall. The winner purchased a jackpot-winning Lottery Cash 5 ticket, matching all five balls drawn that evening. The Market District store will get a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket. Nearly...

The proposed reconfiguration of Charles A. Huston Middle School in Lower Burrell accommodates an additional grade level and separates younger students from older students without rearranging much of the building. “This is what the administrative team has developed over time and lots of conversations,” said Burrell Superintendent Shannon Wagner. “This...

After 14 years of “blood, sweat and tears,” an Aspinwall-based restaurateur is calling it quits. “It was time,” said Sheri Rice on Monday of Luke and Mike’s Frontporch, the popular bar and restaurant she co-owns with her ex-husband, Billy Rice. “We did try and make this corner beautiful and try...

Four years ago, Gea Fultz of New Kensington was an 11-year-old girl walking into a gym full of boys training to fight. “It was really scary at first,” said Fultz, 15, now a sophomore at Valley High School. “I felt like I had to prove myself.” The proof? In August,...

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A man accused of burglarizing a New Kensington gun store in January pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court. Steyn Sarduy, 19, of New Kensington will be sentenced on March 17 by U.S. District Judge Nora Barry Fischer on charges of conspiracy and theft of a firearm from a licensed...

One person was taken to a hospital with smoke inhalation from a fire Sunday night at a church in Plum, a spokeswoman for the Allegheny County Department of Emergency Services said Monday. The fire at St. Januarius on Renton Road was reported around 9:15 p.m. Investigators believe the fire was...

One by one, first grade students at Acmetonia Elementary School grabbed their “passport” and “suitcase” — a manilla envelope and folders — as they prepared to globe trot to learn how Christmas and other holidays are celebrated around the world. While they won’t leave their school, they get a look...

It’s not unheard of for commotion to erupt in and around Anthony’s bar in Vandergrift. “There’s typically fights in the parking lot right here,” said Kristen Hawley, who lives across the street from the bar. But gunshots are a first. Two people opened fire early Sunday morning, wounding each other...

The fate of the Gilpin Municipal Authority is up in the air after officials were unable to fill soon-to-be empty positions. According to township Supervisor Charles Stull, the authority has two employees who are set to retire at the end of the year and officials have been unable to find...

There are children in the Fox Chapel Area School District who go hungry. Weekends can be times when they don’t have a hot meal. An extended number of days away from school such as the upcoming holiday break can mean even less available food. Their peers are doing something about...

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The Plum School District got a little more help in its quest to transition part of its fleet from traditional to electric school buses. The state Department of Environmental Protection announced the district was awarded $300,000 to buy three electric school buses. The money is part of more than $2.55...

Recently plagued by static business growth resulting in tax increases, the news of a data center coming to Upper Burrell is welcomed by Burrell School District officials. “The district faces increasing costs annually, so all property development and growth that results in increased tax revenue helps to offset these costs,”...

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Anyone seeking custom, American-made hardwood furniture might want to take a spin through the Pittsburgh Mills mall in Frazer. Nestled inside the shopping center off Route 28 is The Amish Home, a furniture showroom that in recent years built such a clientele that expansion was necessary. It’s housed in an...

At least three people were injured in a shooting early Sunday at a Vandergrift bar, according to a Westmoreland County Emergency Management dispatcher. Officers were called to the scene at Anthony’s Bar, 323 Longfellow St., at about 12:10 a.m., the dispatcher confirmed. Vandergrift Patrolman Joe Gray confirmed that borough Police...