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Hempfield Senior Citizens Prom lets residents relive high school dance
It’s a senior prom, but it’s not for seniors in high school. The 21st annual Senior Citizens Prom gives Hempfield Area School District residents 65 and over the chance to relive their high school days. “It’s just a wonderful event for seniors to come out and see people they haven’t...
Hempfield graduation gets pushed back a day
Hempfield Area seniors will have to wait an extra day to get their diploma. Originally scheduled for May 30, graduation will now be held May 31, rain or shine. The last day of school also is pushed back until May 31 to make up days lost due to snow, frigid...
Primary candidate slate set for Murrysville, Export, Delmont
The seats of Murrysville council members Josh Lorenz, Jamie Lee-Korns and Tony Spadaro will be up for election in the May 21 primary, and with Lorenz at his term limit, at least one new face is guaranteed come 2020. Municipal council terms are staggered such that three seats will be...
No decision about coroner’s inquest in death of Greensburg woman shot by police
Westmoreland County Coroner Ken Bacha said Friday he will decide later whether to hold an inquest into the death of a Greensburg woman who was fatally shot by police this week. After county detectives are finished investigating, Bacha said he will confer with District Attorney John Peck to decide if...
Credit union offers member scholarships up to $2,000
The Westmoreland Water Federal Credit Union is seeking applications for $3,500 it will give out as part of its 2019 Founders’ Memorial Scholarship program. Applicants must be members of the credit union in good standing, and there are three scholarships available for $2,000, $1,000 and $500. Anyone who is eligible...
Hempfield program to focus on benefits of stream buffers
Planting suitable trees and shrubs in areas bordering streams is an important step for improving water quality, according to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Alysha Trexler, a watershed project manager with the conservancy, will discuss the benefits of such riparian buffer plantings during a Thursday presentation in Hempfield at the J....
Ligonier Township bridge completion delayed yet again
Recent bad weather is being blamed for a continued delay in reopening both lanes of traffic on a replacement bridge on Route 711 in Ligonier Township. The bridge over Mill Run, north of Ligonier Borough, is being replaced by Plenary Walsh Keystone Partners, as part of a public-private partnership with...
Police investigating armed robbery at Hempfield convenience store
State police are looking for a man who robbed a Hempfield convenience store late Wednesday. The suspect entered a 7-Eleven at the intersection of Route 136 and Fosterville Road at 10:35 p.m. and displayed a knife, troopers said. The suspect, a white male, fled with cash and a pack of...
North Huntingdon McDonald’s reopened after evacuation
A Westmoreland County McDonald’s is reopened after an evacuation late Thursday night. The fast food restaurant at 9051 Route 30 in North Huntingdon was closed temporarily after someone used pepper spray inside the building, police Chief Robert Rizzo said. It happened just after 10 p.m. March 14. Township police, fire...
Unity board OKs Eagles Landing subdivision, La Carrozza site plan
Unity Township supervisors approved a subdivision to allow the proposed development of 17 new housing units off Grayhawk Court. The supervisors at the board’s meeting on Thursday also approved site plans for a wedding reception center and a small addition to the Walmart store on Colony Lane that will be...
Level Green Lions to serve breakfast Saturday
The Level Green Lions plan to make breakfast featuring buckwheat and blueberry pancakes with link sausages and beverages, from 7 a.m. to noon March 16 at the Lions Community Building, 123 Murrysville Road, Level Green. The cost is $6 for adults and $3 for children under 10 years old. Pancake...
6 injured in crash that closes Route 136 in Hempfield
A young boy was flown to a Pittsburgh hospital Thursday night, one of six people injured in a two-vehicle crash that shut down a portion of Route 136 in Hempfield for almost five hours, a fire official said. The boy who was flown to Pittsburgh was in a car with...
Detective: Latrobe teen knew about robbery plan that resulted in death
Westmoreland County investigators said that despite claims that he wanted to stop a robbery at his own home, a 17-year-old Latrobe teen allowed the plot to go forward, and his friend was shot and killed. Detective Ray Dupilka testified Thursday in the third day of the second-degree murder trial of...
Greensburg woman accused of defrauding elderly Derry Twp. woman
A Greensburg woman hired to take care of an elderly Derry Township woman is accused of buying herself gift cards totaling almost $2,200 by using a woman’s credit card at two area supermarkets, state police at Greensburg said. The suspect, Mary Ellen Poscich, 45, allegedly defrauded the woman out of...
Westmoreland commissioner endorses chief of staff in Republican primary
Westmoreland County Commissioner Charles Anderson on Thursday endorsed his chief of staff, Sean Kertes, as his replacement. Kertes, 32, of Greensburg, has worked for Anderson, a two-term Republican commissioner, since 2016. Anderson announced earlier this year he will not run for re-election and will retire at year’s end. “From my...
Mental health advocate says sufferers typically are victims, not violent perpetrators
Many Americans have experienced some form of mental illness and getting the appropriate treatment is important, said Laurie Barnett Levine, director of Mental Health America of Southwestern Pennsylvania. But there is a stigma associated with mental illness that may act as a barrier for some to get help. “Mental health...
Driver accused of killing East Huntingdon pedestrian declines to testify at his trial
During a pre-dawn Christmas morning interrogation with police, Matthew Ramsay insisted he didn’t know he hit and killed a pedestrian hours earlier in East Huntingdon. Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Kevin Wheelden testified Thursday that Ramsay appeared sluggish and tired and spoke with slurred speech as he was questioned by police...
Harm reduction movement pushes addiction advocacy, needle exchange in Westmoreland County
The Pennsylvania Harm Reduction Coalition wants to spark a conversation and continued commitment to action around addiction and substance abuse in Westmoreland County. Among its goals: expand access to Naloxone and medication-assisted recovery programs and establish sterile needle exchanges for intravenous drug users. The Philadelphia-based coalition on Saturday will hold...
Greensburg Salem to honor 2 distinguished alumni
The Greensburg Salem Education Foundation will honor a medical researcher and a hospital executive as the district’s latest distinguished alumni. Dr. Susan Manzi and Albert Novak Jr. both graduated from Greensburg Salem High School in 1977. Manzi is chair of the Medicine Institute at Allegheny Health Network, supervising 400 doctors....
March for Parks will again include ‘pop-up’ bike shop at Murrysville march
Last year, March for Parks organizers decided to host a “pop-up used bike shop” to supplement fundraising for the Turtle Creek Extension of the Westmoreland Heritage Trail. More than 50 bikes were donated and the shop raised more than $1,600. Naturally, march officials want to try it again this year....
Westmoreland County settles another discrimination claim at sheriff’s department
Westmoreland County commissioners on Thursday agreed to settle a racial discrimination complaint filed by a former sheriff’s deputy. The out-of-court settlement calls for a payment of $17,500 to former Deputy Mark Taylor, who was one of three people to accuse the county sheriff’s department of racial discrimination last year. Commissioners...
Heritage trail meeting set for Thursday at Lamplighter
The Westmoreland Heritage Trail monthly meeting will take place tonight, Thursday, 7 p.m. at the Lamplighter Restaurant in Salem Township. Construction of the trail’s fourth phase, which will connect Murrysville and Export, is set to begin this spring, and trail officials kept plenty busy in 2018. Among other accomplishments, they:...
Sewickley Township firefighter injured by fallen tree
A firefighter was hospitalized with a fractured shoulder after being struck by a tree in Sewickley Township on Wednesday, according to Lowber Fire Department Chief Matt Geis. Firefighters received word that a downed tree was blocking Lowber Road around 7 p.m., Geis said. The tree was tangled up in vines....
Pennsylvania State Police find missing Ohio man
Pennsylvania State Police found a man they were searching for since Tuesday. Gary Cox, 65, was reported missing in Stark County, Ohio, Monday by his sister after he left work saying he was sick, police said. Officers on Tuesday found his car near the Antiochian Village Conference Center in Fairfield...
Trafford Road reopened in Murrysville
Trafford Road has reopened in Murrysville following a closure Thursday morning due to a disabled truck. The road was closed shortly before 9 a.m., when a tractor trailer truck broke down near its intersection with Pleasant Valley Road, according to Murrysville police....
