Valley News Dispatch category, Page 194

A familiar face has been appointed as chief of the Allegheny Township Police Department. Dan Uncapher, most recently officer in charge and a sergeant before that, replaces former Chief Duane Fisher, who resigned in mid-September to become chief in an eastern Pennsylvania community. Uncapher was appointed unanimously as chief during...

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For the first time in its history, the West Deer Police Department has a deputy chief. Township supervisors Wednesday voted to promote Sgt. Timothy Burk to deputy chief. Chief Robert Loper recommended the move. Burk began his career with the department in 2000 as a part-time patrolman. He became a...

Sharpsburg officials held the line on real estate taxes for next year. Council unanimously voted Nov. 16 to pass its 2024 budget and maintain the millage rate at 9.75 mills. Borough sewer rates also remain the same. Council approved its preliminary budget last month. Borough Manager Christine DeRunk said after...

A Fox Chapel man is alive thanks to the quick work of some first responders and bystanders in Aspinwall. Tony Suleski, 81, suffered a cardiac arrest in front of the Aspinwall Borough Building in the early evening of Oct. 4. His wife, Magdeline Jensen, said they were about to head...

Attorneys representing the property owner of the former power plant in Springdale are calling into question a “forgotten” notebook with “hundreds of photographs” from a site visit in October and are asking the judge presiding over the case to not allow them to be used in the hearing. Attorneys Dave...

The Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County water conservation warning issued this week has halted fracking activity at the Beaver Run Reservoir. Authority officials on Friday said two energy companies that operate deep natural gas wells on the reservoir property will not be permitted to extract water for their operations amid...

The recent deaths of two men from the Lower Valley have stunned the people who knew and cared about them. Sean Dugan, 58, of Springdale was found dead Tuesday in the Allegheny River. He had been missing since Oct. 30. The body of Jeremy Gilroy, 42, of Verona was recovered...

Dorseyville Road between Rawlins Run Road and Fox Chapel Road in Indiana Township has reopened to traffic, Allegheny County Public Works officials announced Friday. The road had been closed since Aug. 21 for the replacement of a bridge over Little Pine Creek. County officials said the project was done by...

A four-legged friend visited Acmetonia Elementary School on Friday morning as part of a new initiative to reward students’ positive behavior. Elizabeth Newill, a fourth grade science teacher, has started bringing Finnegan, her 7-year-old English springer spaniel, into her classroom every two weeks as part of a positive behavior reward...

A federal judge on Friday sentenced a New Kensington man to 25 years in prison for distributing child pornography, including more than 100 photos showing infants and toddlers being sexually abused. Robert Pacek, 53, pleaded guilty in December to seven counts of distributing images of children being sexually abused using...

Frazer will hold the line on real estate taxes next year. The township’s proposed 2024 budget amounts to $1.13 million, about $148,000 less than this year , said Frazer Township Secretary and Supervisor Lori Ziencik. The millage rate remains at 3.5 mills. The average property tax assessment for a home...

Two New Kensington sports legends will be honored through the naming of basketball courts at the city’s new downtown park. The two courts at the park on Barnes Street will be named Court 23, in honor of Tom Pipkins, and Court 15, honoring Baron “B.B.” Flenory, Councilman Dante Cicconi said....

To have your community event added to this listing, send detailed information to vndnews@triblive.com. Allegheny Township • Freeport Theatre Festival will present “The Nativity — A Christmas Delight” at 7 p.m. Dec. 1, 2 and 3 at the theater located at the Steele Family Farm off Route 356 on White...

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. Westmoreland County Marines to supply Christmas groceries Westmoreland County Marines will...

Emily and Ean Steele said a Westmoreland County jury found justice for their mother. The jury, after more than four hours of deliberations, convicted their father of first-degree murder Thursday for the May 14, 2022, execution-style slaying of 41-year-old Kelly Steele inside a U-Haul storage facility in Lower Burrell. “It’s...

A ruling on whether the former Cheswick Generating Station in Springdale can be demolished via implosion could come as early as the first week of December. Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge John T. McVay Jr., who is presiding over a court case seeking an injunction to stop the implosion, gave...

Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection announced Thursday a civil penalty in connection to the June 2 implosion of two smokestacks at the former power plant property in Springdale. According to the DEP, Cheswick Plant Environmental Redevelopment Group, Controlled Demolition Inc. and Grant Mackay Co. violated the state’s Solid Waste Management...

Plum Air Force Junior ROTC received a certification of achievement from Mayor Harry Schlegel during the borough council meeting on Nov. 13. The mayor read a proclamation, stating in part: “The goals of the AFJROTC program are to instill values and citizenship, service to the United States, personal responsibility, and...

A fresh crop of faces has been elected to serve on the Leechburg Area School Board. And one of the youngest school board members in the Alle-Kiski Valley earned the most votes of eight candidates vying to fill five seats on the board. Andrew Pallus, 22, received 917 votes in...

A federal lien could halt the condemnation of a structure Arnold Council deems a public health and safety hazard. Acting as the city’s Board of Health, council recently met for a hearing on two abandoned structures code enforcement officer Al Colelli brought forth as potentially hazardous. The buildings are at...

Fox Chapel officials hope a new community event will become a holiday tradition. The borough has partnered with Cooper-Siegel Community Library to present the inaugural Light Up Fox Chapel from 5-7 p.m. on Dec. 6 at the borough building, 401 Fox Chapel Road. Festivities include a visit from Santa, children’s...

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The body of a man who crashed his car on the Hulton Bridge in Oakmont on Nov. 7 and then jumped over the side into the Allegheny River was recovered on Wednesday afternoon from the Ohio River in Pittsburgh. Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the deceased as Jeremy Gilroy,...

Alfred Keith Steele told Westmoreland County detectives he had enough of his wife’s badgering when he shot her one time in the back of the head as the estranged couple argued last year in a Lower Burrell storage locker. “We were arguing, yelling at each other between storage units,” Steele...