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Westmoreland events include pie and soup sales, pancake breakfast
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...
Adelphoi moves educational support programs to larger space at former Latrobe ElementaryVideo
Area students who need extra help with mental health or behavioral issues can get that additional support, along with their lessons, at a new, larger Adelphoi facility in Latrobe. This week, Adelphoi unveiled its new emotional support and partial hospitalization education programs on the second floor of the former Latrobe...
Greater Latrobe students heading back to classrooms after 2 weeks learning at home
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...
Gibsonia veteran, Unity in-law hop on crop trend to supply craft brewers
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...
75 years later, memories of World War II, USS Pennsylvania vivid for Greensburg veteran
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...
North Huntingdon man details Pitt football coach, Carnegie native who died in World War IVideo
A World War I history buff from North Huntingdon shed light on the University of Pittsburgh football coach who quit patrolling the Panthers’ sideline at Forbes Field more than a century ago so he could become a lawyer, only to be killed a month before the Armistice took effect on...
Fired Westmoreland sheriff captain sues county on racial discrimination claims
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 County ballot challenges to be heard Friday
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....
Norwin covid-19 cases piling up
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,...
Seward police chief accused of offering women leniency in exchange for sex
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 budget would keep taxes flat despite ‘revenue killer’ pandemic
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 to hold line on taxes in 2021 while assessing new stormwater fee
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...
Hempfield considers feasibility study to look at high school renovation, rebuild
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...
Blue Angels visit to Unity airport delayed until Thursday
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...
Westmoreland Intermediate Unit sends 1,000 backpacks of supplies to students in Western Pa.
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 officials reworking middle school surveys prior to full return
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 adds 5 new covid-19 deaths, 119 new cases
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 considers postponing return to in-person classes as covid-19 quarantining rises
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...
Norwin area covid cases up almost 10%
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...
Murrysville girl cast in Westmoreland native’s latest filmVideo
Esha Chundru technically was cast as the main character in the upcoming film, “Definition Please.” Luckily for the 8-year-old Murrysville girl, she was cast for a flashback to the character’s elementary-school days — and the toughest thing she had to memorize was how to spell “opsimath,” since her first scene...
Hempfield school to host drive-thru event in honor of Veterans Day
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...
School districts mull options as Westmoreland coronavirus rates inch down
State data show Westmoreland County’s coronavirus transmission risk dropped a bit, which means school districts once again may face difficult decisions about how to educate students in the weeks and months to come. The county’s latest reported seven-day coronavirus incidence rate was 99.8. That means about 0.998% of county residents...
Westmoreland courtroom closed due to pandemic case
Westmoreland County Court Administrator Amy DeMatt said a coronavirus outbreak hit the county criminal courts. As a result, cases scheduled Monday before one judge were canceled, though other courtrooms continued to operate as scheduled. Common Pleas Court Judge Christopher Feliciani and his staff were not at the courthouse on Monday....
State troopers seeking identity of suspected burglar at Dairy Queen in Hempfield
State police in Greensburg are trying to identify a man who recently broke into the exterior coolers at Shrader’s Dairy Queen along College Avenue in Hempfield and made off with multiple food items. Police released a still photograph taken of the accused thief carrying multiple items away from the establishment...
Latrobe counselor accused of paying teen girl to see nude photos
Police arrested a Latrobe therapist on accusations he paid a girl he was counseling in order to see nude photographs of her, according to court papers. Gregory Patrick Miscik, 59, of Salem, was charged Friday with trafficking, sexual abuse of children, child pornography, corruption of minors, indecent assault and harassment....
