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Vice President Mike Pence held an Alle-Kiski Valley manufacturing company up as an example to be followed as the nation reopens from the covid-19 pandemic. Pence spoke for about a half-hour before a crowd of 100 to 110 employees and apprentices at Oberg Industries in Buffalo Township, which the conservative...

Families, students and teachers at Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament School in Natrona Heights on Friday reacted with sadness and disappointment upon hearing that the 66-year-old Catholic elementary school is shutting its doors. “It’s hard for my brain to even function right now,” said Alyssa Imler, a teacher...

Vice President Mike Pence visited David’s Diner in Springdale Township today for a classic Reuben sandwich and some good company. Owners David and Lisa Speer they learned Sunday that the vice president was planning a visit. Pence found the restaurant online and wanted to support a business with their ideals,...

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The Fox Chapel Area School District needs to equip students for a post-George Floyd world, one that is evolving and answering cries for change, recent district graduate William Generett III told a crowd of protesters on Thursday night. “It’s not OK to talk about Martin Luther King Jr. and call...

A Black Lives Matter protest being held Saturday in New Kensington will start with demonstrators placing a wreath at a memorial honoring a city police officer who was killed three years ago, an organizer said. “This is not an anti-police event. This is a pro-black lives event,” said Jon McCabe,...

The Western Pennsylvania Diaper Bank is looking for volunteers to help repackage donated diapers . The event, scheduled for June 19 at 5 p.m., will take place at Lynch Field in Greensburg. Volunteers will wrap 25 diapers in plastic wrap while another group will distribute them to 26 social service...

Power has mostly been restored after the remnants of Tropical Storm Cristobal rolled through the region Wednesday evening. West Penn Power reported Thursday that a power grid was shut down, affecting a large portion of the Elizabeth Township, because of numerous utility lines that were down and other storm-related power...

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A community rally to support the Black Lives Matter message will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday at Squaw Valley Park in O’Hara. Leaders said this is planned as a peaceful, family-friendly event with songs and speakers that will focus on social justice. Fox Chapel Area graduate and immediate past president...

Clayton Falkner championed the effort to restore Harrison’s crumbling World War II Honor Roll memorial but didn’t get the chance to see it finished. Mr. Falkner, 84, died Tuesday, June 9, 2020, at the house in the township’s Birdville section where he lived his entire life. Mr. Falkner began lobbying...

Vice President Mike Pence will be in Buffalo Township on Friday, visiting an Oberg Industries facility. The visit will be the first stop on a nationwide “Great American Comeback Tour” by America First Policies, a conservative organization that promotes the policy agenda of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Pence will be...

Shady Side Academy president Bart Griffith told his school community this week that it’s time to move past talking about social injustices and focus on action. The Black Lives Matter message that has spurred protests across the region in recent weeks has students, alumni and parents challenging the school to...

Riverview High School seniors saw their names and faces on the big screen, with some students blowing kisses to their fans in the audience. It was not the premiere of a Hollywood production, but the conclusion of their time in the district, and the first time they’ve been able to...

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Arnold police responding to a domestic dispute Sunday discovered that a man, a convicted felon prohibited from owning guns, had allegedly made his own shotgun and was fashioning a second. Arnold police on Monday charged Mervin Hamilton, 49, with two counts of illegal possession of firearms and one count each...

Jeannette police have an arrest warrant for a 23-year-old man accused of assaulting and robbing a woman of about $2,000 early Monday. Dezmin Tre Lamar Edmonds, whose last known address was in New Kensington, is charged with robbery through inflicting serious bodily injury, simple assault, theft and receiving stolen property...

The concerts will go on in Tarentum. With covid-19 restrictions easing, the borough’s recreation board and council made the “very hard decision” to go forward with Tarentum’s popular summer concert series, starting this Thursday, Councilwoman Carrie Fox said. “We want to keep as much normalcy as we possibly can,” she...

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Plum officials denounced racism and police brutality Monday night at council’s first voting meeting back in the borough building during the covid-19 pandemic. Council President Dave Odom sat at the center of the elected board’s table in council chambers Monday night with other borough leaders spaced out more than usual...

Plum’s Movies in the Park returns this weekend as more recreation events become available with Allegheny County in the green phase of covid-19 recovery. Most of Southwestern Pennsylvania recently moved to the third part of the state’s economic reopening plan, allowing for more businesses to resume operations and more people...

The state’s waiver for construction of health care facilities during the mandated shutdown has allowed Allegheny Health Network to stay on track with plans to open a new 160-bed hospital in Pine Township, as well as a “small format” hospital in Harmar, officials announced Monday. Three other AHN hospitals that...

Brackenridge awarded three contracts totaling about $190,000 for road work in the borough. The largest contract, almost $75,000, is for resurfacing Roup Avenue from Prospect Street to Mile Lock Lane. Tresco Paving submitted the lowest of nine bids, borough Secretary Denise Tocco said. The borough also will resurface Sixth Avenue...

A Vandergrift artist has started a mural project he hopes will bring the community together. When Vandergrift’s annual ArtFest was canceled because of the covid-19 pandemic, Alex Chaffins said he saw an opportunity. The ArtFest, originally scheduled for July 25, was created to promote art as a mental health tool...

Tarentum will pay about 21% less for electricity in a new, four-year supply agreement, but residents won’t see any change in their bills, according to borough Manager Michael Nestico. The borough owns and operates its own distribution system and buys electricity from a supplier. Borough Council approved an agreement with...