Monroeville Times Express category, Page 98

Eight Shady Side Academy students can call themselves Emmy winners after the school’s WSSA-TV Film Club earned a trophy in the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) 2020 Mid-Atlantic High School Production competition. The Student Emmy was awarded for a short-form video, “Grateful for Our Teachers,” which features...

Monroeville Julie Y Young sold property at 2117 Berkshire Drive to Mark Steven and Nicole Lynn Savage for $255,000. Brandie Whitman sold property at 226 Center St. to Derrick and Erica Hall for $209,000. Randolph O’Rourke sold property at 1329 Hillsdale Drive to Brynn Culleiton for $90,000. Blue Key LLC...

June can be a busy month for college football commitments, but will this year be different? A year ago, 14 of the state’s Top 25 recruits made their decision in June, according to Rivals.com rankings. That 2019 list of June commitments included WPIAL stars Michael Carmody of Mars, A.J. Beatty...

A man was shot in the arm Thursday afternoon in Monroeville in what police are describing as a road rage fight. The man was taken to Forbes Regional Hospital in critical condition, police said. Police Chief Doug Cole said officers responded to a call for shots fired around 2:50 p.m....

Monroeville Estate of Laverne Stewart sold property at 3958 Rear Logans Ferry Road to Joseph Zinchini for $126,400. Christine Kuntz sold property at 115 Old Suffolk Drive to Gary Alan and Kimberly Rader for $263,000. Equity Trust Co. Cust FBO Z139646 IRA sold property at 212 Poplar St. to Cameron...

Monroeville’s “Citizens’ Night” will no longer be held the Thursday before council’s monthly voting meeting. Instead, residents can voice concerns and grievances, and pose questions, during the monthly council meeting, according to the municipality’s website. Since April, council has combined its virtual voting meetings with the Citizens’ Night meeting. Questions,...

The health care and pharmacy company CVS Health will expand its covid-19 testing in Pennsylvania, adding 27 additional sites to pharmacies across the state and seven in Allegheny County, the company announced Thursday. CVS began testing for the new coronavirus on May 15 at drive-thru sites in Pennsylvania. The expansion,...

Penn Hills is slated to receive a $51,000 grant through a federal Department of Justice coronavirus emergency supplemental fund, announced U.S. Attorney Scott Brady’s office Wednesday. The DOJ funded its Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding program with $850 million in early April, shortly after President Trump signed a $2 trillion stimulus...

Gateway seniors will cap their high school experience in a parking lot at the Monroeville Mall. Justin Stephens, the high school’s principal, said in a letter to parents last week that graduating seniors will have a commencement ceremony that adheres to distancing guidelines. “In cooperation with Macy’s and the Monroeville...

Four new U.S. citizens were welcomed Tuesday morning in a large, mostly empty room on the sixth floor of a building in Wilkins Township. The newly minted citizens all wore face masks. They sat in chairs spaced six feet apart. There were no friends. There were no families. After taking...

Allegheny County Elections Division officials have announced the list of consolidated polling places for the June 2 primary election. Officials said households with eligible voters will receive a postcard prior to election day advising them of their specific polling place location. The consolidation of polling places was approved in April....

The Gateway Board of School Directors is faced with a deficit of approximately $3.6 million as they work on the district’s 2020-21 budget — but that’s before projected losses expected because of the coronavirus pandemic. The school district’s business manager, Paul Schott, said during the board’s virtual May 12 study...

Monroeville council unanimously ratified a resolution to furlough 12 full-time employees during its meeting Tuesday. There were 10 library workers and two senior center workers included in the layoffs. The move represented a change from the April action in which council voted against a motion to furlough 17 full-time employees....

Allegheny County announced Friday that its pools and spray parks will be closed this summer. The Allegheny County Parks Department blamed ongoing restrictions regarding mass gatherings under the covid-19 pandemic for the closures. The following sites will be closed through the summer: • Boyce Park Wave Pool • Deer Lakes...

Monroeville council unanimously approved contracts to move ahead with the summer’s road paving project. The $1.3 million project includes paving, sealcoat, crackseal and fog seal on 62 municipal roads and two parking lots, totaling 24 miles. The total miles being paved this year is around four miles, according to a...

The construction project that started along Route 22 in Monroeville and Murrysville last year will be prolonged because of delays caused by the covid-19 pandemic, said a PennDOT spokesman. The $11 million project from the I-76 interchange in Monroeville to the Westmoreland County border in Murrysville began May 10, 2019....

As most southwestern Pennsylvania counties prepare to begin loosening covid-19 restrictions and reopening their economies, event producers suspect it will be a while before they can resume staging events for large groups. “I think that the numbers of infected have to go down and the curve stays flattened and people...

Monroeville Estate of John Connelley Jr. sold property at 4412 Burma Road to PNC Bank NA for $60,000. Brandon Cunningham sold property at 418 College Park Drive to Bertram Burrell for $130,000. Mark Cartieri sold property at 3752 Evergreen Drive to Killians LLC for $5,000. Michael Blake sold property at...

Nearly 150 emergency service vehicles in Westmoreland County got a thorough cleaning for free last month from Premier Automation in Monroeville. Nine employees at the engineered solutions company volunteered for more than a week to clean 148 fire trucks, police cars, ambulances and other vehicles, according to an announcement from...

Full-time employees at the Monroeville library and senior center have been furloughed until July 6, according to an announcement posted on the municipality’s website. “This was a difficult decision because we know the services that the library and senior citizen center bring to the community, but because of the uncertainty...

Rite Aid is expanding its covid-19 testing. Starting Thursday, all of the national pharmacy’s testing sites will be available to anyone, including those who are not displaying coronavirus symptoms, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance. Patients will need to provide a government-issued identification, be at least 18...

A new Rosie the Riveter is in town. Today, the cultural icon from the World War II era, symbolizing women stepping up to work in factories and shipyards, has taken a different form: a group of more than 1,000 men, women and children – connected through social media – banded...

A Monroeville charitable organization was forced to cancel its largest annual fundraiser, so organizers launched a campaign to fund local efforts during the covid-19 pandemic. Monroeville Foundation has set out to raise $5,000 for an emergency relief fund. The money would be available in the form of a grant to...