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Voices of Westmoreland, volunteers encourage Reschenthaler to support ‘Build Back Better’ agendaVideo
Soaring income inequality. A lack of home care workers statewide. Green-industry jobs that can keep young families in the area. Those were just a few of the reasons a group of about a dozen people, including representatives from nonprofit Voice of Westmoreland, held a protest outside U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler’s...
Al Stewart postpones show at Greensburg’s The Palace Theatre
The “Year of the Cat” will have to wait until next year. Recording artist Al Stewart is postponing his scheduled appearance at The Palace Theatre Sept. 15 due to the ongoing pandemic. “Al Stewart has postponed all of his 2021 shows. He just does not feel safe going out on...
Penn Township Fall Festival returns with parade, music, food, fun
Three community members who were instrumental in setting up a covid-19 vaccination station at St. Barbara Church in Harrison City will be honored as parade grand marshals for the Penn Township Fall Festival. The festival will take place Sept. 17-19 at Penn Township Municipal Park in Harrison City, with the...
Mt. Pleasant man sentenced to state prison in Jeannette shooting
A Mt. Pleasant man was sentenced to three to six years in a state prison in connection with a 2019 Jeannette shooting that injured a woman. Elijah T. Miles, 25, was ordered to serve three years on probation after the prison term. He was credited with time served in jail...
South Huntingdon man charged with brandishing handgun in property dispute
A South Huntingdon man is charged with aggravated assault and a weapons violation after police say he pointed a handgun at a neighbor’s head during a dispute over a property line. Jesse A. Fello, 27, was arrested after state troopers viewed a surveillance video of the incident and spoke with...
Subject of Laughlintown police search located
A man who was the subject of a police search Wednesday near Laughlintown has been located. The suspect was apprehended in Derry Township, according to a post on the Ligonier Valley Police Department’s Facebook page. Investigators on Wednesday advised residents in the Ligonier Township community to lock their doors and...
Traffic detoured along I-70 to remove tractor trailer near New Stanton, PennDOT says
A section of I-70 eastbound near New Stanton was closed until about 11 a.m. Wednesday as crews removed an overturned tractor trailer that crashed earlier in the morning. PennDOT District 12 reported the eastbound lanes were closed between Exits 51-57 for approximately one hour to remove the truck that overturned...
Franklin Regional parents protest mask mandateVideo
A group of about 45 parents protested the state’s mask mandate outside Franklin Regional high and middle schools Wednesday morning. Many said they were looking to regain control of the decision from state officials, who announced last week that all schools and daycare centers must require masks for everyone while...
34 covid-19 cases reported at Hempfield Area School District
As Hempfield Area School District leaders vow to return to a mask-optional policy as soon as possible, more than 30 covid-19 cases have been reported in the district. According to a tracker on the district’s website, there are 34 confirmed cases, 31 of which are among students and three that...
Protest planned at Rep. Reschenthaler Hempfield office
A citizens activist group is planning a rally Wednesday afternoon outside Republican Rep. Guy Reschenthaler’s Hempfield office to seek his support for the $3.5 trillion relief package supported by House Democrats but opposed by the GOP members. Voice of Westmoreland plans to join with the United Home Care Workers of...
Westmoreland water rescue teams helped with search for boy recovered from the Ohio River
Westmoreland County water rescue teams from North Huntingdon, Murrysville and New Alexandria-Bradenville-Lloydsville helped in the multi-state effort Tuesday to search for a young boy who went missing Sunday while swimming in the Ohio River about 30 miles south of Wheeling, W.Va. The search ended early Wednesday morning when rescuers recovered...
Woman jailed after attempted car theft in Hempfield, troopers say
A Braddock woman is in the Westmoreland County Prison on $25,000 bond, charged with assaulting a man at a Hempfield convenience store early Saturday during an unsuccessful attempt to steal his car. Jesse Jamar Burton, 34, was arrested by state police on multiple assault and attempted robbery charges after the...
Scottdale man charged with sexually assaulting boy
A Scottdale man was arrested on multiple charges of sexually assaulting a boy over 18 months between 2016 and 2017, according to state police. Scott F. Rys, 47, was arraigned last week on charges of corruption of minors, endangering the welfare of children and indecent assault and three counts of...
Teen rescued from beneath pipe in Murrysville
A teenager was rescued Monday night in Murrysville after being trapped for 90 minutes underneath a 3,500-pound pipe, according to emergency responders. The 16-year-old, who was not identified, was taken to a local trauma center after being freed, according to Murrysville Medic One, which assisted in the rescue. The first...
The Palace Theatre’s mid-September lineup has string of big names
For singer Amy Grant, there’s always a risk in performing live — and it has nothing to do with covid conditions. “The risk of live music is that you can’t do it over, but that’s the beauty of it, too,” said Grant, who has a Sept. 17 show at The...
Former home health aide pleads guilty to stealing from Murrysville client
A North Versailles woman pleaded guilty to a theft charge Tuesday in connection with items missing from a Murrysville home where she worked as a health aide. The amount of restitution Breianna Knox, 31, brings to her sentencing hearing in a few months could sway Werstmoreland County prosecutors to recommend...
The Westmoreland’s chief curator Barbara Jones plans retirement after 26 years
Following a tenure of more than 26 years, Barbara L. Jones will retire April 1, 2022, from her position as chief curator for The Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. The museum will commemorate her retirement and her body of work with special public programming for the spring of...
Students, parents protest state school mask mandateVideo
Students at several area school districts walked out of classes Tuesday in protest of the state’s mask mandate. In the Derry Area School District, students reported for school, then left the high school, carrying signs voicing their displeasure at being forced to wear masks. Police and school officials moved the...
Greater Latrobe, Derry Area students plan walkouts to protest mask mandate
Some students at Greater Latrobe and Derry Area high schools are planning walkouts Tuesday morning to protest the statewide mandate requiring students, staff and teachers in K-12 schools to wear masks. Greater Latrobe organizer Spencer Bowman, a 17-year-old senior, said he hopes the school board will vote to buck the...
Virtual Westmoreland historic tour highlights vanished buildings
Westmoreland County Historical Society is preparing for its second Historic House Tour that will have a virtual format. This time around, participants in the annual tour will explore structures that are “Gone But Not Forgotten.” The featured buildings include the Mountain View Inn, which was a longtime landmark along Route...
Demolition begins in downtown GreensburgVideo
With the push and pull of a 25-foot claw attached to heavy equipment stationed on South Pennsylvania Avenue in Greensburg, workers started the laborious task of bringing down a dilapidated former restaurant building Sunday morning. The three-story building that once housed the former Derby’s Delicatessen but has been vacant for...
Red Sand Project adds new sites to help draw awareness to human traffickingVideo
Members of the Westmoreland County Human Trafficking Task Force are always seeking unique ways to draw attention to the issue they are battling, according to Lynn Mance of Delmont. One of those ways is participating in the Red Sand Project, where volunteers like Mance fill the cracks in a public...
Westmoreland pension fund at all-time high with $675 million banked
Stock market advances and a cash infusion pushed Westmoreland County’s pension fund to a record level, with more than $675 million socked away to pay benefits for the county’s 1,400 retirees. Proceeds from a $126 million bond purchase this summer hit the pension fund in August, a move county officials said...
Western Pennsylvania well-represented in ‘Art of the State’ juried exhibition
Art is a deeply personal experience, from the feelings a person gets when viewing a painting to the emotions that started the artist’s brush moving in the first place. For Pamela Cooper of Greensburg, one of the artists whose work will be part of the State Museum of Pennsylvania’s 54th...
Trafford man dies in motorcycle crash
The Westmoreland County Coroner’s office has released the identity of a man killed early Saturday in a motorcycle crash on Mt. Pleasant Road in Hempfield Township. The coroner’s office said Tanner B. Van Woundenberg, 19, of Trafford was headed north on Mt. Pleasant Road on a 2008 Yamaha motorcycle when,...
