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Photo challenge focuses on importance of Pennsylvania pollinators
Photographers of all ages are invited to focus on some of the smallest, but most vital, players in the ecosystem by participating in the Pennsylvania Pollinator Photo Challenge. Contestants have until Aug. 13 to submit electronically a high-resolution image of a pollinator taken somewhere in Pennsylvania. The contest is sponsored...
CDC: Nearly 100% of Pennsylvania’s 65+ residents have at least 1 covid shot
Just about every Pennsylvanian 65 and older is now at least partially vaccinated for covid-19, according to the latest covid vaccination data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. As of Wednesday morning, the CDC’s covid vaccine tracker shows 2,393,193 of the state’s 65+ population have at least one...
Responding to hang-up call, Murrysville police accuse man of assault
Responding to a hang-up call made to 911 late Monday, Murrysville police arrested a Delmont man after he was accused of assaulting a woman and threatening her with a knife, according to court documents. Jeffrey M. McClure, 38, was arraigned Tuesday on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon,...
Food, music on tap for Westmoreland Fairgrounds weekend festival
Food vendors and some favorite bands will line up this weekend for three days of good eats and good music at the Westmoreland Fairgrounds. The Food & Music Festival is scheduled for 4-10 p.m. Friday, 2-10 p.m. Saturday and 2-9 p.m. Sunday at the complex off Mt. Pleasant Road in...
Greater Latrobe staffers get new administrative roles at senior high, Mountain View Elementary
Greater Latrobe School District students will see some new but familiar faces in school offices this fall. Chad Krehlik, assistant principal at the senior high school, will take on a new role beginning July 1 as principal at Mountain View Elementary School. Krehlik has served with the district for 15...
New Stanton Sheetz set to close as construction of larger store set to begin
A major overhaul of the Sheetz in New Stanton is scheduled to begin next week, leaving the popular convenience store and gas station shuttered for most of the summer. Located at the intersection of North Center and West Byers avenues, the business will close Monday as crews begin demolishing the...
Greensburg appoints detective sergeant within police force
Greensburg’s police department has a new detective sergeant. Det. Charles Irvin was promoted and sworn into his new position during Monday’s city council meeting. Irvin has been with the police department for several years — the last five years working as a detective, according to police Chief Robert Stafford. The...
Westmoreland happenings include computer classes, coin show and concert
Classes • The YWCA Westmoreland County Technology Center, 424 N. Main St., Greensburg, will offer the following classes in July: • Yoga with Nancy Micheals – 10 to 11:30 a.m. Thursdays, June 24 to July 29 • Smartphones and Tablets – 9:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Thursdays, June 24 to...
Westmoreland County Food Bank doubles number of Summer Food Service program sites
The Westmoreland County Food Bank had a ground-level picture of how the covid-19 pandemic affected food security for families in the region. Its staff members worked food distribution centers where people waited hours lined-up in cars to receive a box of food. That is a big part of why the...
Greensburg’s SummerSounds scheduled to return in August
After being canceled last year due to the covid-19 pandemic, SummerSounds — the popular Greensburg concert series — is set to return in August. Bands will once again take the stage at the Robertshaw Amphitheater in St. Clair Park beginning Aug. 6, according to an updated schedule on the event’s...
Penn-Trafford adopts nearly $61M budget for 2021-2022; ups taxes by 1 mill
The Penn-Trafford School Board adopted a nearly $61 million budget Monday that raises taxes by 1 mill but still has a $900,000 shortfall. The initial motion for a budget with a 2-mill increase failed. Board member Toni Ising then suggested an alternative motion with a 1-mill increase, which passed. A...
Greensburg Scavenger Race returning for another yearVideo
A scavenger hunt that sends participants racing through downtown Greensburg in an attempt to locate a litany of puzzles and riddles is scheduled for this weekend. The event, scheduled for Saturday, will be the fourth time local entertainment venue 60 Minute Missions Escape Room is hosting the Greensburg Scavenger Race...
Commissioners remain silent on suspended Westmoreland election bureau director
Westmoreland County’s public works director continued in his interim role as head of the election bureau on Tuesday as the commissioners remained silent about the status of the department’s suspended top official. The county commissioners also serve as the county’s election board. They met as such late Tuesday to approve...
Rostraver police arrest man and woman after argument involving loaded handgun
Two people were arrested on multiple criminal charges by Rostraver police after a verbal altercation that involved a handgun at a man’s mobile home late Monday, according to court documents. Corey A. Lindauer, 35, of Rostraver was arrested on charges of child endangerment, reckless endangerment and simple assault in the...
Westmoreland airport authority OKs DeNunzio’s restaurant lease
The Westmoreland County Airport Authority on Tuesday approved a new lease with DeNunzio’s Italian Chophouse for the terminal restaurant space at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport, despite a request from county Commissioner Gina Cerilli Thrasher to delay the action. Thrasher questioned how the authority calculated the terms of the lease and...
Jeannette man sentenced to probation for dragging off-duty cop down his own driveway
A Jeannette man will serve up to five years of probation after he pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that he used his pickup truck to drag an off-duty Penn Township police officer down his own driveway and into a front yard three years ago. William Albert Brummett, 34, pleaded guilty...
Westmoreland Housing Authority leverages properties to pay for new construction, renovations
Westmoreland County Housing Authority officials said Tuesday the agency secured more than $17 million in low-interest loans and will seek to borrow another $4.5 million to pay for new construction projects and renovation of existing properties. Director Michael Washowich said the low-income housing agency used four of its larger properties...
Users give Mammoth Park slides thumbs-up after reopeningVideo
After a 10-month moratorium on rides at the Giant Slide complex in Mammoth Park, it took teenager Mary Janetka only about 10 minutes Tuesday to give the slightly recontoured, re-signed and reopened slide facility her seal of approval. “Oh yeah, it’s fun!” said Janetka, 15, who was accompanied in the...
Woman accused of being intoxicated during I-70 crash, leaving passenger at scene
A Mt. Pleasant Borough woman was arrested Saturday after state police said she was taking pills while driving on Interstate 70 and crashed, prompting a passenger to get out of the car in a construction zone, according to court papers. Christal Dawn Craig, 47, is charged with driving under the...
Suppression motion denied in federal gun case against man suspected in Unity woman’s disappearance
Search warrants in a federal weapons case against Thomas George Stanko were legally obtained, a judge ruled in denying a motion to suppress evidence against Stanko. Authorities had probable cause to search a storage unit Stanko rented and Unity property he owned based on coded conversations he had with family...
Latrobe restricts on-street parking of RVs, trailers, boats, sets fine
Latrobe Council on Monday amended an ordinance to prohibit parking of recreational vehicles, unattached trailers and boats along city streets for extended periods. Residents are allowed to park RVs on the street in front of their property for up to 72 hours. An out-of-town visitor can park a similar vehicle...
Latrobe seeks federal rescue funds
Latrobe applied to the state Department of Community and Economic Development for the first of two years of fiscal recovery funding under the federal American Rescue Plan. City Manager Michael Gray said the city should receive about $419,000 in each of the two years, but guidelines for use of the...
Latrobe’s summer paving costs under budget; intersection work nearing an endVideo
Latrobe will spend $20,000 less than expected on its summer paving project, according to City Manager Michael Gray. But that work isn’t expected to take place until paving is complete on key downtown intersections undergoing improvement as part of a separate PennDOT effort. City council on Monday awarded the summer...
Franklin Regional School Board to vote on 2021-22 budget next week
Franklin Regional School Board members will vote tonight on a 2021-22 budget with a bit less spending and a little more revenue, but not enough to stave off a proposed property tax hike to the state limit of just over 3 mills. As the board prepares for its final meeting...
Greensburg increases funds offered through the city’s Housing Assistance Program
Greensburg leaders during Monday’s council meeting voted to increase funding offered through the city’s Housing Assistance Program to further help those impacted by the pandemic. The vote raises the maximum amount received through the program from $1,500 — or three months of rent or mortgage payments — to $7,500, or...
