Valley News Dispatch category, Page 102
The Stroller, Dec. 16, 2024: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Follow the Stroller on X at @VNDStroller. AK Heritage Museum to...
Plum School District awarded $300K from state DEP toward electric school buses
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...
Data center welcome news for Burrell School District and Upper Burrell
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,”...
Scenes from the Valley: Images captured in the Alle-Kiski Valley from Dec. 5-11, 2024
Here is a weekly look at recent images captured throughout the Alle-Kiski Valley. From major news events to routine gatherings, TribLive’s “Scenes from the Valley” photo package brings to life activities and moments happening in your backyard. To have a photo considered as a “Scenes from the Valley” candidate, please...
Building the Valley: The Amish Home in Frazer thrives with custom, handcrafted furniture
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 3 injured in Vandergrift bar shooting, according to dispatcher
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...
Pittsburgh Brewing wants to make sure docks are in place for summer concerts
One way or another, boaters are expected to have another summer of concert-listening from the water at Pittsburgh Brewing in East Deer. The company submitted an application with the state Department of Environmental Protection to build a temporary dock on the Allegheny River at the rear of its facility along...
The Stroller, Dec. 15, 2024: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Follow the Stroller on X at @VNDStroller. Holiday art on display...
Buffalo Township indecisive on fix for draft budget deficit
Buffalo Township officials have yet to decide how they’re going to plug a $140,000 revenue shortfall in their $4.2 million draft budget for next year. Options include a short-term loan, property tax increase or draw-down of federal American Rescue Plan funds. Pulling from reserves alone wouldn’t suffice, as the rainy...
S’mores, songs and skillet tossing create successful Christmas in the Woods in Lower Burrell
Andrea Guido isn’t a trained performer but there she was Saturday, donning a Santa hat and belting out Christmas carols at K-9 Officer Derek Kotecki Park in Lower Burrell. Guido got a text from a friend earlier in the month, asking if she would like to perform at the city’s...
4 Highlands grads host Christmas ‘dinner’ for those in need
Not everyone has enough money to enjoy a Christmas feast with all the trimmings, so four Highlands alumni are stepping in to provide help. A free giveaway with holiday dinner items will be hosted from 5 to 8 p.m. Dec. 19 by high school friends Chris Nemeth, Tom Schmaus, Kurt...
The Stroller, Dec. 14, 2024: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Follow the Stroller on X at @VNDStroller. Free Christmas brunch offered...
New Kensington’s Feisty Goblin gaming store taking in Retrograde video game shop
A New Kensington gaming store is getting plugged in — at least a little bit. When table-top gaming shop The Feisty Goblin opens in its new and larger storefront in January, it will include Retrograde Gaming and Collectibles, a video game and collectibles store previously in Monroeville. Retrograde will add...
‘I was raised to always help’: Verona man rushes to help residents escape apartment fire
Erik Kust only wants to be known as a good neighbor. Others call him a hero. Thursday night, Kust was heading home from the grocery store. He was about four blocks away from his Verona home when he stopped at an intersection and noticed heavy smoke billowing from the windows...
Springdale Township property owners hit with 46% tax hike
Springdale Township property owners will pay 46% more in real estate taxes next year under the township’s $1.14 million budget approved by commissioners. The 2025 spending plan, which increases the millage rate from 6.5 to 9.5 mills, passed 3-0 during a commissioners’ meeting, with Commissioners Tim Basilone, Rick Schwartz and...
Data center planned at vacant portion of Arconic site in Upper Burrell
When complete, a new data center facility in Upper Burrell will have the potential to hold a digital cloud like Meta or other technology household names, its developers said. TECfusions, a data center owner and operator, closed on property at a vacant portion of the Arconic property in Upper Burrell...
The Stroller, Dec. 13, 2024: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Follow the Stroller on X at @VNDStroller. Food bank accepting donations...
Harvest Baptist and Walmart enable kids to ‘Shop with the Heroes’
Kourtney Hawkins and her daughter, Daisy, have struggled through extraordinary losses the past two years. Hawkins’ son, Ryder, died two years ago, and her husband, Scottie Joe, was killed in June in a motorcycle crash along Markle Road in Allegheny Township. “My daughter has been through it,” Hawkins, of Vandergrift,...
Friends recall West Deer’s Rev. James Legge as tireless advocate for less fortunate
The Rev. James Legge, longtime pastor at Bull Creek Presbyterian Church in West Deer, is being recalled by friends as a team player and ardent supporter of leveling the playing field for the less fortunate. Serving on the board at Allegheny Valley Association of Churches and the Alle-Kiski Area HOPE...
Fire at Verona apartment leaves at least 6 people homeless
At least six people were left homeless Thursday evening after a fire ripped through an apartment building in Verona. Multiple fire departments responded to the call for a fire with entrapment shortly before 5 p.m. in the 400 block of Center Avenue. Bystanders and borough police were kicking in doors...
Leechburg Drama Club stages ’50s film noir parody as fundraiser
Leechburg Area student Katie Monroe has been in seven shows with the Leechburg Drama Club. She remembers the first year the club began hosting a student-run production that serves as a fundraiser for the club’s spring musical. Three years later, she’s one of the student officers helping to direct and...
New Kensington man sentenced in kidnapping case called ‘a single woman’s worst nightmare’
A New Kensington man convicted of kidnapping a woman he met online in 2022 was sentenced to serve five to 10 years in prison for what a Westmoreland County prosecutor called a chilling crime. “This defendant is more dangerous than anyone else I could imagine. The facts of this case,...
Acmetonia students’ project connects literacy and community service
Logan Schutzman loves Dr. Seuss books. When he was younger, he was glued to the stories with whimsical rhymes and silly animations. So it made sense for the 11-year-old at Acmetonia Elementary School to spread that joy through a school project that donates blankets and book recordings to the Lower...
Boyce Park slopes set to open for skiing, snowboarding
The slopes at Boyce Park will open Friday for the 2024-25 season, Allegheny County announced Thursday. The slopes, a 20-minute drive from Downtown Pittsburgh, will be open for skiing and snowboarding. The opening of the snow tubing area has been delayed. The lodge is located at 901 Centerview Drive in...
Buffalo supervisors deny zoning change, likely killing housing proposal off Riemer Road
The Buffalo Township supervisors rejected a zoning change Wednesday that would have paved the way for yet another housing subdivision near the Route 356 corridor. Hawthorne Residential LLC asked the board to rezone a section of land off Riemer Road from agricultural to residential with the goal of building an...
