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The Manor Public Library’s preschool program is well attended and, when it was forced to go on hiatus as the coronavirus pandemic locked down much of the country, children’s library assistant Melissa Paris immediately began thinking about how to keep things going. “Our biggest goal was to keep kids engaged...

Three Hempfield Area High School students tested positive for coronavirus over the past two days, according to Superintendent Tammy Wolicki. The new cases bring the district total to seven positive cases and three presumptive cases, when someone has been tested but is awaiting results, for the period between Oct. 28...

A 31-year-old Latrobe woman is accused of twice nearly running over a Ligonier Valley policeman who was trying to arrest her for violating a protection from abuse order last weekend. Amanda Jury was arraigned Sunday on two counts each of aggravated assault on a police officer and fleeing and eluding...

A person was extricated by firefighters from an overturned vehicle Wednesday morning after a crash on Route 119. The crash was reported around 7:30 a.m. on the northbound side of the highway in East Huntingdon, near the exit for Route 819, according to a Westmoreland 911 dispatcher. The dispatcher could...

Fundraisers •Level Green Lions Club will host an all-you-can-eat pancake and sausage breakfast from 7 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Level Green Community Building, 123 Murrysville Road. Menu: buttermilk or buckwheat pancakes, with or without blueberries, sausage and beverage. Cost: $6; children, $3; veterans, free. Restaurant provisions for covid-19...

Students at Greater Latrobe School District will head back to the classroom Monday after completing two weeks of full-time remote instruction. The school board voted unanimously to return to a blended instructional model, where students may choose either to receive in-person lessons five days per week or to continue with...

Devin Winklosky was the black sheep of his Derry Township farming family. While his three siblings all carried on the family’s agricultural legacy, Winklosky served in the Marines for two decades and has since lived in Gibsonia, specializing in commercial litigation as a Pittsburgh attorney. This year, he’s returning to...

More than 75 years later, memories of the USS Pennsylvania are still vivid for Bill Kowinski. The 94-year-old Greensburg man was a sailor aboard the battleship when a Japanese bomber struck it with a torpedo on Aug. 12, 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa in the waning days of World...

A former Westmoreland County sheriff’s captain, who was fired after he was accused of stalking a woman, is suing the county for race discrimination and retaliation. Travis Day, 26, alleges former Sheriff Jonathan Held had another deputy surveil him at his home when he was off duty, that he was...

Westmoreland commissioners will serve as the county’s elections board Friday to begin adjudication of challenges to mail-in and provisional ballots cast during the Nov. 3 election. Commissioners spent Monday and Tuesday reviewing 816 mail-in ballots that arrived at the courthouse between 8 p.m. on Election Day and 5 p.m. Nov....

The covid-19 cases in the Norwin School District keep piling up. The school district on Tuesday said that a Norwin Online Academy student and a high school employee have notified the school officials that they recently tested positive for the coronavirus. The online academy students take courses through remote instruction,...

State police this week filed criminal charges against Seward’s police chief, who has now resigned, accusing him of offering two women leniency in criminal matters in exchange for sex. Robert I. Baldwin Jr., 49, who served as police chief for just over a year, formerly was a part-time officer with...

Greensburg City Councilman Randy Finfrock likes to pepper his annual budget presentation with jokes to keep it interesting for his fellow council members and residents. “That’s not happening this time,” Finfrock said Monday. “This is a difficult budget, it’s a difficult year.” Council is considering a budget that would keep...

Latrobe residents face a new stormwater management fee, but no property tax increase, under the proposed 2021 city budget. Council is expected at its Dec. 14 meeting to finalize the $6.5 million spending plan, which reflects an increase of about $500,000 from the 2020 budget. City Manager Michael Gray said...

Members of the Hempfield Area School Board are considering moving forward with a feasibility study that would look into renovating or rebuilding the high school. Superintendent Tammy Wolicki and district Business Manager Wayne Wismar, who presented the idea to board members this week, said the study would determine what kind...

Central Westmoreland County residents looking skyward just after noon Thursday could get a sneak peek of what’s in store at the 2021 county airshow May 29-30 at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport. An advance team from the U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron, based in Pensacola, Fla., is expected to...

One thousand homeless students across Western Pennsylvania will be delivered some kindness next week courtesy of Westmoreland County. Stuffed in each of 1,000 backpacks are toiletries, school supplies, a blanket and a note card asking the student to pay it forward. The Westmoreland Intermediate Unit collected about $25,000 worth of...

Hempfield Area School District officials are modifying surveys sent to middle school parents after several people expressed interest in keeping with the hybrid model. Responses to the surveys, sent out at the end of October, will be used to determine how many students will make a full return to the...

Westmoreland County has 119 new covid-19 cases Tuesday, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. Five new coronavirus-related deaths were reported, as well. Total cases now stand at 5,293 and total deaths are 123. Westmoreland County coronavirus by dayInfogram In the county, there are currently 56 covid-19 patients hospitalized, with...

Norwin’s superintendent on Monday recommended the district postpone the return to full-time in-school instruction planned to resume Nov. 18 because coronavirus cases have risen in the school district and community, forcing the 14-day quarantining of “hundreds of student and staff” in the past few weeks. Superintendent Jeff Taylor said at...

The spread of new coronavirus cases in the North Huntingdon-Irwin area fell to slightly less than 10% from Nov. 2 to 9, after spiking as high as 20% in the last week of October, according to data reported Monday by the state Department of Health. There were 615 confirmed covid-19...

Amanda Forrester wasn’t going to let Veterans Day pass without Wendover Middle School’s annual celebration. But as covid-19 cases continue to surge across the state, she knew the event would not be the traditional cookie reception, luncheon and assembly. Instead, veterans will be honored by a drive-thru event consisting of...