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Sharky’s Cafe, community help make, deliver 450 Christmas meals for Latrobe area families
Hundreds of Westmoreland County families will receive hot Christmas dinners thanks to the generosity of donors and volunteers. Sharky’s Cafe in Unity organized a donation drive and cooked the dinners, which will be delivered Wednesday. Cafe co-owner Jamie Huemme said she was overwhelmed by the community’s response. “I put a...
Murrysville filmmaker’s latest earns honorable mention at Top Shorts film festivalVideo
Dillon Black had finished up principal photography and was headed into post-production on his new short film, “What’s Left of Barry,” when the coronavirus pandemic turned things upside down. “I had six people helping me with post-production, and covid-19 threw a big wrench into everything,” said Black, 22, of Murrysville....
South Greensburg steel fabricator settles sex harassment suit for $80,000
A South Greensburg steel fabricator agreed to pay $80,000 to a fired female welder. The worker claimed co-workers harassed her with sexist remarks, that a foreman told her to clean feces in the women’s bathroom that her co-workers had dirtied, and then was fired four days after revealing she had...
North Huntingdon auto dealership spreads Christmas joy with boxes of foodVideo
Like millions of other Americans, it’s been a terrible year for Michelle Davis of Monroeville. She lost her job months ago as a food delivery person for InstaCart when the economy plunged and covid spread across the region. Her father died last week in New York of a non-covid-related illness,...
Route 119 southbound reopens in East Huntingdon following fatal crash
The southbound lanes of Route 119 at Route 819 in East Huntingdon reopened just after 9 p.m., following a fatal crash involving a vehicle and pedestrian late Tuesday afternoon. The crash was reported just after 3:45 p.m., according to a Westmoreland County 911 supervisor. The Westmoreland County Coroner’s Office has...
Derry group plans Christmas dinner giveaway
A group of Derry residents who helped make Thanksgiving happier for those in need are doing the same thing for Christmas. Derry Area School Board member Sean M. Kemmerer and Larry and Jessica Gray, owners of Taps N’ At restaurant, started a donation drive to buy more than 150 Christmas...
Westmoreland County issues final covid-relief grants
More than $615,000 in covid relief grants were handed out Tuesday to local volunteer fire departments and emergency medical service units as Westmoreland County exhausted its share of federal stimulus money to help struggling businesses, nonprofits and municipalities amid the ongoing pandemic. Commissioners awarded 24 volunteer fire departments and 10...
Westmoreland commissioners rescind covid grant to Salem gym, allow North Huntingdon to keep money
Westmoreland County commissioners on Tuesday rescinded a nearly $5,000 grant awarded last week to a Salem gym after it refused to accept a provision that requires recipients to pledge to adhere to state covid guidelines. Officials said representatives of Matshark Fitness, which operates as Wallace Training Systems, declined to sign...
The Westmoreland’s online furniture series looks at a Chippendale desk
How much can you say about a desk? Pittsburgh-based designer Tony Allgeier can go on for at least 30 minutes. Granted, it’s not just any desk — it’s an 18th-century Chippendale mahogany slant-front desk that he’ll be examining during an online “For the Love of Furniture” program at 7 p.m....
Oregon man charged with ransacking Greensburg church
An Oregon man is accused of breaking into a Greensburg church and dismantling and disconnecting electronic equipment hours before Sunday worship was set to be broadcast live, according to police. Timothy Lansdale, 55, was arraigned Monday on charges of burglary, criminal trespass, theft, receiving stolen property, criminal mischief and failing...
Man accused of stealing donation jar from Greensburg pizza shop
Greensburg police said a submarine sandwich helped lead them to a suspect accused of stealing a donation jar from a local pizza shop. Gabriel A. Smith, 41, of Jeannette is charged with theft and receiving stolen property in connection with the theft of approximately $100 in donations collected in a...
Westmoreland County covid numbers continue to make December worst month of pandemic
As the month winds down, covid cases and deaths in Westmoreland County continue to make December the county’s worst month of the pandemic. There were 302 new covid-19 cases and nine deaths reported Tuesday. Those figures bring total cases to 17,079 and 358 total deaths in the county. This month,...
The Westmoreland’s upcoming Community Day will be last for a while
Fans of Community Day programming at The Westmoreland Museum of American Art might want to make sure they join in the Jan. 3 virtual installment. Not only will it offer three hours of diverse programming, it also will be the last session for a while. “This will be the museum’s...
Retired UPMC executive will lead the board at the United Way of Southwestern PA
The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania will welcome a retired UPMC executive as board chair Jan. 1, while it continues efforts to meet growing needs triggered by the ongoing pandemic. The agency’s board of directors voted Robert DeMichiei, who has been a member of the board for nearly two decades,...
Restaurant and bar owners decry Gov. Tom Wolf’s orders, encourage others to openVideo
“Just open.” The words, spoken by Joe Tambellini, resonated with dozens of restaurant and tavern owners who gathered in a parking lot outside of Al’s Cafe, a restaurant in Bethel Park, on Monday. They were there for a “Rights for Restaurants” rally organized by the restaurant’s owner, Rod Ambrogi, and...
Westmoreland food bank benefits from annual United Way fundraiserVideo
Rather than mapping out the most efficient route through the East Pittsburgh Street Shop ’n Save in Greensburg on Monday evening, Renee Sasanko spent her time deciding on a nonprofit organization that would benefit from a $750 donation. The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania’s annual fundraiser, which normally sends one...
Norwin-area covid cases increase, but at slower pace
The number of new confirmed coronavirus cases in the Norwin area ending the week of Dec. 21 trended below the previous week , the first time since the Thanksgiving holiday , according to the state Department of Health. The number of new covid-19 cases last week increased by 229 to...
No raises in new year for Westmoreland elected officials
Westmoreland County’s elected officials will not get raises in 2021. Annual cost-of-living raises earned by county commissioners and row officers since 1995 have been determined by changes to the consumer price index calculated by the U.S. Department of Labor for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. For 2021, that index...
Troopers ask help finding teen runaway from Derry Township group home
State police are asking the public’s help locating a 14-year-old girl who ran away from a Adelphoi group home in Derry Township Sunday. Police reported that Dajah Whetstone ran away from the Susan’s Place group home on the 2800 block of Ligonier Street about 5:30 p.m. Trooper Josh Abernathy reported...
Westmoreland County posts 574 new covid cases, 4 deaths over 2 days
Westmoreland County posted 574 new cases of coronavirus over the past two days, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. The county added 213 cases on Sunday, 361 on Monday. Of the new two-day cases, 75% (430) were confirmed through PCR tests, while 144 were considered probable cases. There were...
Greensburg man accused of assaulting, choking and robbing Youngwood woman
A Greensburg man is jailed on $10,000 bond after state police say he assaulted, choked and robbed a woman of $275 and her cell phone before abandoning her along a rural Derry Township road. Robert W. Kinney is charged with robbery, theft, simple assault and strangulation in connection with the...
Delmont updates stormwater ordinance, approves 2021 budgetVideo
Delmont council members approved an updated stormwater ordinance earlier this month that incorporates county and state requirements for best-management practices. The updated ordinance brings in elements of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s 2022 model ordinance, mandated by Act 167 and Westmoreland County’s integrated water resource plan. Communities that are...
Justice Dept. charges bombmaker in 1988 Pan Am explosion
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Monday unsealed charges accusing a Libyan bomb expert in the 1988 explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, an attack that killed 259 people in the air and an additional 11 on the ground. The charges were announced on the 32nd anniversary...
Man jailed after breaking into Jeannette home, attacking woman
A Somerset County man is behind bars after Jeannette police accused him of breaking into a city home Saturday night and attacking a woman, according to court papers. Larry E. Ramsey, 47, of Somerset Township, is charged with burglary, terroristic threats, reckless endangerment, driving under the influence and related offenses....
Westmoreland County coronavirus rate five times higher than ‘substantial’ threshold
Westmoreland County’s coronavirus incidence rate — a statistic that tracks the spread of the virus through the population — has more than tripled in the last month. It was 516.5 for the most recently measured 7-day period, which ended Thursday, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health data. That’s down...
