Valley News Dispatch category, Page 571

Alle-Kiski Valley residents might not be able to eat-in at their favorite local restaurants, but that doesn’t mean they have to go without their favorite foods. Many area restaurants remain open for takeout, home delivery, or both. Some use delivery services such as Door Dash. For specific information, call the...

Another six employees have tested positive for covid-19 at an Arnold meat processing plant, a union spokesman confirmed to the Tribune-Review on Wednesday. That brings the total cases at the Smithfield Foods facility to 12, said Wendell Young IV, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776. Six employees...

Estimated costs have climbed by about 25% to $75 million for the Allegheny Valley Joint Sewage Authority’s treatment plant expansion project. Plans for the expansion have been the works for years. Details of the project and obtaining permits are in progress for the federally mandated upgrade to control discharges of...

Arnold will resume recycling collection on May 15, the city announced. Collection had been suspended because of covid-19, administrative Assistant Amy Dziobak said. The city collects recyclables once per month. Recycling is collected on Fridays on a scheduled based on when garbage is picked up. Recycling is taken on the...

Did your neighbor call and check on you, or bring a face mask or groceries? The Stroller wants to recognize those around us who are performing small acts of kindness for others during this stressful time. Send a short, one-paragraph note highlighting someone and how they helped you, your family...

Vandergrift Council’s meeting Monday began with several council members shouting “Hello?” and a few curse words as they learned to turn on their webcams. The council held a meeting via Zoom on Monday, its first public meeting since the covid-19 pandemic began nearly two months ago. Once things got rolling,...

Did your neighbor call and check on you, or bring a face mask or groceries? The Stroller wants to recognize those around us who are performing small acts of kindness for others during this stressful time. Send a short, one-paragraph note highlighting someone and how they helped you, your family...

Summer STEM sessions at Camp Guyasuta in O’Hara are moving forward but will look a little different this year, with an eye toward coronavirus concerns, organizers said. Water fountains will be converted to bottle filling stations and touchless check-in will be instituted, among other changes at the Boy Scout-owned camp....

Arnold officials are asking for the public’s help in identifying a pickup involved in illegal dumping in the city. Unknown persons dumped several bags of household garbage at an abandoned house in the 1400 block of Third Avenue, behind the house in Cherry Alley, around 2:14 p.m. on Saturday, April...

Did your neighbor call and check on you, or bring a face mask or groceries? The Stroller wants to recognize those around us who are performing small acts of kindness for others during this stressful time. Send a short, one-paragraph note highlighting someone and how they helped you, your family...

An Oakmont nurse who lived to help others spent the last moments of her life on her way to do just that. Brianna M. “Bea” Kimmel, 28, died April 26 from injuries she suffered when her car collided with a tractor-trailer in Union County. A licensed practical nurse, Kimmel had...

David Wien’s customers are stalking him these days. Wien owns John’s Barbershop, a small-town institution his father-in-law, John Krautbauer, opened 56 years ago across the street from the post office in Delmont. The shop closed in March when Gov. Tom Wolf issued a stay-at-home order designed to limit the spread...

Did your neighbor call and check on you, or bring a face mask or groceries? The Stroller wants to recognize those around us who are performing small acts of kindness for others during this stressful time. Send a short, one-paragraph note highlighting someone and how they helped you, your family...

It wasn’t your typical viewing. Nor was it the way Kaye Barnes probably thought his family and friends would have to say goodbye. But it’s something he likely would have enjoyed, his son said. “He loved to have a good time,” said his son, David Barnes. On April 24, between...

West Deer police and fire trucks led about 50 cars filled with graduating Deer Lakes High School seniors in a parade through the residential streets surrounding the high school on Saturday, May 2, 2020. Parents and community members decorated yards, held signs and cheered them as they drove past. The...

Giant Eagle announced it is temporarily limiting the purchase of ground beef and on-sale meat items to two of each per transaction. The supermarket chain had limited some meat purchases before, early in the pandemic in March, according to Dick Roberts, a Giant Eagle spokesman. Meat isn’t disappearing from supermarket...

John Filo couldn’t get out of Ohio fast enough. It was early afternoon on May 4, 1970, and he was driving with rolls of film he had hidden in his red Volkswagen Beetle. The film contained photos Filo had just taken — images of the killings of unarmed students protesting...

Did your neighbor call and check on you, or bring a face mask or groceries? The Stroller wants to recognize those around us who are performing small acts of kindness for others during this stressful time. Send a short, one-paragraph note highlighting someone and how they helped you, your family...

Did your neighbor call and check on you, or bring a face mask or groceries? The Stroller wants to recognize those around us who are performing small acts of kindness for others during this stressful time. Send a short, one-paragraph note highlighting someone and how they helped you, your family...

Power has been restored to about 4,700 West Penn Power customers in the Alle-Kiski Valley who were without power Thursday, a spokesman said. The affected customers were in Arnold, New Kensington and Lower Burrell. The outage was reported shortly before 1:45 p.m. Power was back on for all affected communities...

Construction of a roughly $30 million sports complex in West Deer is continuing despite the coronavirus pandemic. Chase Development, the company in charge of the project, was granted a waiver from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development to be able to continue construction, according to Charlie Vrabel, founder...

Nearly 2,000 UPMC St. Margaret employees got a thank-you in the form of a $25 gift card this week for fighting on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. “Not all heroes wear capes,” St. Margaret Foundation President Mary Lee Gannon said. “The real heroes wear scrubs.” The Giant Eagle gift...

Did your neighbor call and check on you, or bring a face mask or groceries? The Stroller wants to recognize those around us who are performing small acts of kindness for others during this stressful time. Send a short, one-paragraph note highlighting someone and how they helped you, your family...