Valley News Dispatch category, Page 468

An Allegheny Township family is offering a $2,000 reward for their pet horse that went missing Sunday. Jessie, a 10-year-old Clydesdale mare, was last seen on video surveillance about midnight Saturday in the pasture on the family farm and business on Lardintown Road in Clinton Township. Owner JeNeen Fleishner said...

Traffic stoppages lasting up to 15 minutes are planned Wednesday on the Tarentum Bridge, according to PennDOT. The stoppages will occur as needed in each direction between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., PennDOT said. PennDOT said crews will be performing jacking operations on the bridge while traffic is stopped between...

Pennsylvania’s top law enforcement official condemned Vandergrift police Officer William Moore’s conduct during a police call this month, saying the officer “should not be trusted” to carry out the duties of his job. Footage of the April 17 incident that started inside G&G Restaurant was taken by a Black patron...

As promised, Allegheny Technologies Inc. has changed its contract offer to the United Steelworkers after the striking union did not accept the company’s proposal by a Monday deadline. ATI had given the union until 5 p.m. Monday to accept the four-year offer made April 20 or else it would replace...

Publicize your club meetings, events and fundraisers in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Peoples Library seeks new board members Peoples Library, with locations in New Kensington and Lower Burrell, is seeking engaged, committed individuals to serve on...

A New Kensington woman is accused of stabbing a man twice early Monday in a domestic dispute. City police charged Nicole Brundage, 35, of Freeport Road with aggravated and simple assault in connection with the incident. A criminal complaint filed against Brundage said police went to her apartment shortly before...

No matter the size of the audience, Liberty Vasey is going to give her all when she takes the stage as Donna in Highlands High School’s production of “Mamma Mia!” The musical will not be open to the public for the performances April 30, May 1 and May 2. The...

Publicize your club meetings, events and fundraisers in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Advice available for those with financial troubles Allegheny Valley Association of Churches has free support services available for anyone who is having trouble making...

Making a reservation on Lower Burrell’s new website to see the Easter Bunny this year was so easy that officials hope more residents will visit for a host of other reasons. The city launched its new website early this year to offer online, for the first time, services such as...

Lower Burrell and Upper Burrell aren’t considering raising the $15 annual per capita tax on residents but collecting it in a shorter time frame from 11 months to six months within the same year. Most residents in both municipalities older than 18 years of age have been paying the $15...

The newly established Kiski Township Sewage Authority will hold its first meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday to organize and chart plans for a townshipwide $16 million sewerage project. With only about 10% of township homes and businesses connected to public sewer lines, supervisors in the past several years have been...

Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley is offering its first public event at its new facility in New Kensington — a drive-through rabies clinic on May 1 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The shelter’s new Church Street facility has been closed to public events during the pandemic, but a rabies...

The Burrellton Garden Club of Lower Burrell will present its annual May Market to pay for the club’s beautification of six public gardens, which the club designs, plants and maintains. The market will offer up annual and perennial flowers, hanging baskets, herbs and other items. It will be held at...

Dozens of Leechburg High School students and parents, decked out in Blue Devils gear, crowded outside a borough council meeting Tuesday. They huddled on the steps and crammed into the doorway of the overflowing gallery, there to support a proposal by the school district to upgrade stormwater management at Veterans...

Republicans James Morabito and Kathy Starr are vying for one open seat on Allegheny Township’s board of supervisors. Township supervisors serve six-year terms. Starr is the incumbent supervisors chairwoman since 2003. A lifelong township resident, Starr, 78, owns a catering business in the township. A newcomer to the political scene,...

Publicize your club meetings, events and fundraisers in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Rabies clinic offered Saturday in New Kensington Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley will host a rabies, distemper and microchip clinic from 11 a.m. to...

Community college enrollment booms when the economy busts. That was an accepted fact, proven time and again during the cycles that characterize the U.S. economy. But the covid-19 pandemic, which sent the world into a series of lockdowns, shattered that pattern. Although the region’s community colleges were expecting an enrollment...

The Alle-Kiski Valley’s population has declined since the 2010 census, but four of its communities are growing, according to census estimates. The Valley’s 42 municipalities had a combined population of 190,950 in 2019, down about 3% from the 2010 census, the numbers show. Bucking that trend were Oakmont, which saw...

Two Alle-Kiski Valley communities held community clean-up days Saturday in observance of Earth Day. Volunteers in Blawnox and Plum took to the streets for several hours Saturday morning, cleaning up parks and other public areas. In Plum, it was the fifth year the cleanup has been held. Groups met at...

O’Hara council is expected in May to discuss potential changes to the township’s home rule charter. A referendum could be placed on the November General Election ballot that would impact how vacant council seats are filled. Another referendum under consideration would repeal gender references in the charter. A council workshop...

Publicize your club meetings, events and fundraisers in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. TryLife Center to sponsor Walking for Babies fundraiser The annual Walking for Babies event that benefits the TryLife Center in Lower Burrell will be...

Editor’s note: The original version of this story attributed board member Ron Coleman to a different person. A Kiski Area School Board member who opposed hiring a search agency to help the district find a new superintendent said he thinks the district’s top administrative job should go to an internal...

A 16-hour fundraiser hosted by Sprankle’s Neighborhood Markets last week raised $17,700 for Salvation Army Food Pantries of Leechburg, Kittanning and Saxonburg. “It was unbelievable,” said Ryan Sprankle, owner of the Kittanning store and one of the event’s organizers and hosts. During the Campout for Community fundraiser last Friday, 10%...

A Pittsburgh man is facing drug delivery and aggravated assault charges after almost backing his car into a police officer during a drug bust Tuesday in Lower Burrell. Corey Steven Prunty, 31, of Pittsburgh, is charged with aggravated assault, criminal use of a communication facility (a cell phone), and a...