Valley News Dispatch category, Page 31

Someone who bought a lottery ticket in Harrison on Thursday is $620,000 richer. A jackpot-winning PA Lottery Match 6 Lotto ticket was sold at a Freeport Road gas station. The winning ticket was sold at Bob’s Exxon, 2602 Freeport Road. It correctly matched all six winning numbers, 1-14-28-35-42-47. The gas...

A shed fire spread to two mobile homes in Buffalo Township on Thursday night, seriously damaging them. A Butler County dispatcher said crews were alerted of a fire around 9:45 p.m. in Jack’s Mobile Homes park along Shaner Drive. No injuries were reported, the dispatcher said, but the Red Cross...

Buffalo Township residents voicing concerns about two proposed solar farms prompted the supervisors to postpone a vote on the facilities. Residents were united in their opposition to SolAmerica’s proposal at two public hearings Wednesday. The hearings, which were attended by about 35 residents and went on for almost three hours,...

Some extra food is being made in preparation for the 51st Oakmont Greek Food Festival presented by the Dormition of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Church at 12 Washington Ave. later this month. Event co-chair Andy Gavrilos said last year’s festival ended in disappointment for some attendees when a few of...

Memories flooded back to former Aspinwall councilman and volunteer firefighter John “Jack” Lovey as he stood in a recently renovated borough building conference room. Lovey was on Aspinwall council for 28 years and president for 15. “It brings back a lot of memories sitting there looking at my people,” he...

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The more than 30 campers at the New Kensington STEAM Camp this week each had a different answer when asked their favorite part of the four-day session. To JT Slosky, 9, of Lower Burrell, it was coding. To brother and sister Alivia Saunders, 9 and Alex Saunders IV, 6, of...

An Upper Burrell man was found safe Friday morning, a day after he was reported missing, according to state police. Police and firefighters spent several hours Thursday evening looking for Harry Radaker, 69, after he was last seen around 4:15 p.m. near Alcoa Lab Lodge in Upper Burrell. They searched...

Carl Nasse was 10 when he began working as a caddie at Oakmont Country Club in the late 1940s. Just a few years later, a 15-year-old Nasse found himself walking the Oakmont course as Ben Hogan’s caddie when the Texas-born golfer won the 1953 U.S. Open Championship. Nasse was paid...

The first round of the U.S. Open got underway Thursday at Oakmont Country Club. Here is a look at the day in pictures....

Mike Komaniak is one heck of a Tetris player. But his version of the game is a bit more immersive than the actual puzzle-building video game. Every five years since 2006, Komaniak and his wife, Suzanne, open their backyard to men’s and women’s U.S. Open spectators trying to find a...

For a college sports management major, practical experience doesn’t get much better than working a major American golf championship where 200,000 people are expected to come through the gate. So when Dakharee Mann’s professor texted him last fall about the U.S. Golf Association’s Pathways internship program at the U.S. Open,...

Defense attorneys are seeking copies of more than 1,400 documents from the FBI in an appeal for a man on death row for killing New Kensington police Officer Brian Shaw. A response to a public records request filed by attorneys representing Rahmael Holt, 37, of Harrison indicated it would take...

Clare Sliben had to leave for her summer job as a lifeguard almost an hour early Monday morning. Like many other Oakmont residents, Sliben, 16, has been battling traffic, mainly on Hulton Road, during rush hour each day this week as the 2025 U.S. Open takes place at Oakmont Country...

Terry Onufer will never get a pet cremated again. The Buffalo Township resident is still reeling after Patrick Vereb, owner of Harrison and Pittsburgh funeral homes and pet crematoriums, was charged in April with allegedly discarding animals in landfills. “He had disrespect and disregard for our pup and others,” Onufer...

On any given day, the Linden Gym is bustling with basketball fanatics hitting the courts. It’s been that way for more than a century, since the building was established in the late 1800s as a YMCA. Early on, the building at 205 N. Canal St. served the borough’s youth and...

After crews removed several overhanging trees in the area, Agan Park reopened this week following a more than 40-day closure caused by severe April storms. The park is an extensive green space along Riddle Run Road in Springdale Township but is jointly managed by Springdale and Cheswick boroughs. Cheswick Council...

The Casino Theatre in Vandergrift could have become anything over the years — a parking lot, like the theater on Longfellow Street did, or maybe basketball courts. Yes, that almost happened. It even survived a 13-year period of neglect, between 1982 and 1995, after the company that ran it as...

Zachary Filous described his 2½ years as Freeport borough manager, especially early on, like “drinking from a fire hose.” He’s done more than just send emails and direct personnel. His hiring roughly coincided with the departure of the borough’s treasurer, public works director and sewage plant operator — roles he...

Green means go, at least to the geese at Blawnox Community Park. Mayor Tony Gross said that for whatever reason, the borough’s new green laser system meant to shoo geese is working like a charm. Council hired Harrietta Hills Trout Farm to tackle the persistent problem of birds on the...

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Amid the sweeping grounds of Oakmont Country Club sits one man alone in the women’s locker room of the clubhouse — meteorologist Jake Swick — whose sole job is to monitor the weather for the U.S. Open in real time. Inside that women’s locker room is a window that opens...