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A deteriorating stormwater line in O’Hara will be replaced with a natural open channel thanks in part to a grant from Allegheny County. The township was among three local groups to share in more than $795,000 distributed through the county’s Gaming Economic Development and Tourism grants program. The projects include:$245,248...

Let us know about your Halloween happenings The Valley News Dispatch is compiling a list of autumn events and Halloween parades, parties and trick-or-treat nights. Send an email to cpinto-smith@triblive.com. Vandergrift Area Meals On Wheels seeks volunteers Vandergrift Area Meals On Wheels is looking for regular and substitute volunteers to...

A missing Lower Burrell boy was found unharmed Tuesday night following a three-hour search by the Lower Burrell police department and firefighters. Lower Burrell police officer Aaron Rodgers said the boy was found near Stewart Elementary School at about 7:45 p.m. The boy’s parents called police after he ran off...

New Kensington-Arnold School District is very close to the “tipping point” with the number of students who want to return to schools, and as a result may have to go to a hybrid schedule, Acting Superintendent Jon Banko told the school board Tuesday. The district set a deadline of 8...

A Highlands Middle School student has tested positive for covid-19, according to an email from Principal Kimberly Price. The school was notified of the case on Tuesday, Price wrote. The student is on the middle school soccer team. District Superintendent Monique Mawhinney, district spokeswoman Jennifer Goldberg and school board President...

A West Deer supervisor who loved playing music and scaring people at the haunted house he created died unexpectedly over the weekend. In addition to being a township supervisor, Shawn Maudhuit, 50, was a singer-songwriter-musician and the creator of the West Deer Nightmare haunted house at Bairdford Park. But his...

A 17-year-old New Kensington boy allegedly shot a girl in her leg during a fight in the city Friday evening, according to New Kensington police. Police charged Deonte Joseph Slomkoski with aggravated assault, simple assault, recklessly endangering another person and possession of a firearm by a minor. Slomkoski’s attorney, Duke...

An employee at the Sheetz store in Buffalo Township tested positive for covid-19 on Monday. The employee was working at the store at 717 S. Pike Road on Monday, according to Nick Ruffner, a public relations manager for Sheetz. The store was immediately closed after the positive test result. It...

Is your non-profit organization going to have a fundraiser? Send information to The Stroller at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Let us know about your Halloween happenings Today is the first day of autumn! The Valley News Dispatch is compiling a...

Personnel moves approved Monday by Highlands School Board included transferring one principal to teacher, accepting the school board secretary’s resignation and signing off on a statement of charges against an unidentified employee. The board did not comment on any of the actions before approving them in a single motion. Samantha...

A Pink Day event has been held annually in Leechburg since 2011, raising more than $100,000 for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, but the covid-19 pandemic forced organizer Sherry Price to cancel this year’s event. Leechburg-area businesswoman Linda Alworth stepped in to help when she found out about the cancellation....

Bubbling cauldrons, pumpkin patches and gory goblins will overtake Camp Guyasuta in O’Hara for one day only in October. Dubbed Haunted Guyasuta, tickets are on sale now for the Halloween-themed event. Haunted Guyasuta will be 3 to 9 p.m. on Oct. 17, with specially timed events for those who prefer...

A Fox Chapel Area senior is spearheading a social justice workshop for teens that aims to challenge discrimination and develop potential legislation. Abby Rickin-Marks said the remote conference Oct. 24 is meant to enlighten students about issues of inequality and arm teens with the know-how to write proposals and petitions...

When the global pandemic forced them to cancel their largest annual fundraiser, officials with Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Greensburg decided to look online for support. A diocesan spokesman said a $50,000 goal has been set for the virtual fund drive, dubbed the Heroes of Hope Guardian Angel Appeal....

Is your non-profit organization going to have a fundraiser? Send information to The Stroller at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Food truck event planned Wednesday in Apollo The Wheel Good Wednesday food truck event sponsored by the Apollo Events Committee and...

If West Leechburg residents continue efforts to transfer the borough to another school district, it would become the fifth Pennsylvania municipality in recent years to seek such a move. And if the other four cases are any indication, the process wouldn’t be an easy one for West Leechburg. The state...

No one was injured Sunday in a porch fire on 1200 block of Argonne Drive in Harrison, according to Hilltop Hose Fire Co. Officials said the fire started around 8 p.m. Firefighters were able to stop the flames before they spread off the porch of the duplex, Chief Michael Krzeminski...

A Parks Township man accused of stealing and wrecking another man’s truck while driving under the influence threatened to kill the man if he reported the incident to police, according to a criminal complaint. Michael Joseph Crocker, 21, faces charges of theft, receiving stolen property, victim intimidation and terroristic threats,...

West Deer supervisors are one step closer to imposing harsher fines on people whose alarms accidentally go off three or more times per year. Supervisors on Wednesday approved advertising an update to the township’s false alarm ordinance, which could potentially be voted on and approved at the supervisors’ Oct. 21...

West Deer leaders are considering an ordinance that could prevent residents who make less than $35,000 a year from having to pay increased real estate taxes. Supervisors on Wednesday approved formally advertising an ordinance that would establish a township real estate tax deferral program. The program would add any township...

A car crashed through a guardrail over an embankment on Route 56 in New Kensington Sunday morning, according to Westmoreland County 911. The single-vehicle crash happened around 8:30 a.m. near Craigdell Road. Route 56 westbound was closed as of 9 a.m. Nobody was trapped in the car, but first responders...

Another 10 dilapidated houses are on the path to demolition in New Kensington. That’s great news for Paula Tracz, who lives near one of them at 814 Ross Ave., which was damaged by fire. “It’s such an eyesore. I sit on my back porch, and I see the squirrels all...