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Irwin plans to pave 15 streets
Irwin has approved paving 15 borough streets this summer. J.M. Paving Inc. of North Huntingdon, the lowest of 10 bidders, was awarded the $245,616 paving contract. The streets slated for paving are: parts of Cedar, Center, Green, Oak, Sixth and Walnut streets; Penglyn and Short streets; parts of Melrose and...
Tech center tenant partners with Westmoreland County Community College for 3-D printing programVideo
The first private entrepreneur to move into Westmoreland County Community College’s Advanced Technology Center has multiple ties to the college. Tronix3D President Buck Helfferich and business partner Kyle Metsger, Tronix3D’s director of technology and innovation, are alumni of the college and are partnering with WCCC to offer internships and potential...
Youngwood man claims he was on drugs when he confessed in 2017 robbery, murder case
A Youngwood man testified Thursday he was under the influence of drugs when he confessed to police about his role in the 2017 robbery and murder of an acquaintance. Jason Sullenberger, 41, claimed he consumed cocaine and 50 stamp bags of heroin in the hours just before he was brought...
Westmoreland County to again serve as its own workers compensation insurer
A controversial program initiated two years ago to have a private insurance company oversee Westmoreland County’s workers compensation cases will end this year. County commissioners on Thursday said they will not give a new contract to the Housing and Redevelopment Insurance Exchange. Instead, the county will return to serving as...
Westmoreland commissioners focus on eliminating political activities inside courthouse
As election season in Westmoreland County swings into full gear, commissioners on Thursday approved a revised policy they said will ensure there is no politicking by county employees while on the job. The revised policy specifically prohibits workers from performing any political activity while on duty or coercing any employee...
ESAL group to display pieces at Latrobe Art Center through April
A newly renovated art center in Latrobe will showcase East Suburban Artists League pieces through April. From April 3-27, the Latrobe Art Center will welcome around 80 pieces of art, including oil, acrylic, watercolor and pastel paintings, photography, drawings in ink and pencil and crafts. The 44 ESAL artists hail...
Charley Family Shop’n Save owner will bike 3,000 miles in 48 days for charityVideo
Ray Charley is going to bike a mile for nearly every year of his life. Every day. For 48 days. Charley, 67, owner of the Charley Family Shop ’n Save stores in Greensburg and Murrysville, sets out Monday from San Diego and heads to St. Augustine, Fla., cycling across the...
Belle Vernon superintendent stays in position after resigning in February
A little over a month after she submitted her resignation, Belle Vernon Area Superintendent Michele Dowell has decided to remain at the district. At the end of February, Dowell told the school board that she would be leaving to work as director of curriculum with the Ringgold School District in...
Outdoor Expo and Sportsman’s Flea Market in Norvelt memorializes outdoorsman
The second annual Outdoor Expo and Sportsman’s Flea Market honoring the late Andy “Chico” Crise promises to be bigger and better than the first. The Sunday event memorializes Crise, who died unexpectedly last year, collapsing in a stairwell at work. He was 28. The inaugural gathering attracted 26 vendors and...
Man accused of choking, pulling knife on ex-girlfriend in Latrobe store parking lot
A 25-year-old man is accused by Latrobe Police with choking a former girlfriend and threatening her with a knife during an argument Tuesday in the parking lot of a city convenience store. Police arrested Cody G. Riggin, who lists his address as Republic in Fayette County, Wednesday on charges of...
Feds: Two area women accused of tax evasion in theft scheme
A federal grand jury this week indicted two Southwestern Pennsylvania women on two counts each of tax evasion in connection with a theft scheme at a Connellsville glass recycling company. Tammy Lee Keefer, 45, also is known as Tammy Coffman, of Latrobe was indicted in connection with the theft of...
Seton Hill students plan Equal Pay Day rally
Seton Hill University students will demonstrate in Greensburg next week to mark Equal Pay Day. The university’s Feminist Collective and Griffins for Human Rights are sponsoring a rally at Courthouse Square from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday. The annual event is held to draw attention to pay disparities between...
Summer concert series announced for Hempfield Park
Hempfield officials are already planning events for the new Smail Auto Group Amphitheater at Hempfield Park this summer. During Monday’s public meeting, township supervisors approved agreements with eight bands and musicians for five concerts this summer, starting with the ribbon cutting event for the amphitheater at 220 Forbes Trail Road...
Suspect in North Belle Vernon stabbings jailed without bond
A man wanted for stabbing three people in a North Belle Vernon bar is being held without bail in the Westmoreland County Prison after turning himself in to police. After a three-week investigation, county detectives and borough police obtained an arrest warrant for Eric D. Cook, 43, of Donora, Washington...
Fontana appointed new chief of Westmoreland park police
Veteran officer Henry Fontana is the new chief of the Westmoreland County Park Police. Fontana, 56, replaces Kirk Nolan, who left to become chief deputy to Coroner Ken Bacha. Since 2014, Fontana has served as a park police lieutenant, overseeing patrols at Westmoreland County Community College and the complex that...
Police: Philadelphia man hid 20K stamp bags of heroin in SUV on Pa. Turnpike
State police found 20,000 stamp bags of suspected heroin Wednesday hidden in a sport utility vehicle heading east on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, according to court papers. Troopers pulled over Cristobal Rosa-Robles, 48, of Philadelphia, for a traffic violation at 1:30 p.m. near mile marker 78 in Mt. Pleasant Township. Police...
Westbound Pa. Turnpike reopens in Westmoreland after crash cleared
A portion of the westbound Pennsylvania Turnpike in Westmoreland County reopened Thursday morning after a tractor-trailer crash was cleared, according to a Westmoreland 911 dispatcher. The truck reportedly overturned at 8:43 a.m. near mile marker 86 in Mt. Pleasant Township, shutting down the westbound lanes between the Donegal and New...
Banana Split Princess to be selected during pageant prior to Latrobe festival
A pageant will now be part of becoming the Banana Split Princess, who will reign over Latrobe’s annual Banana Split Celebration. The pageant on June 2 at Latrobe Elementary School is open to any Derry, Latrobe or Ligonier student between ages 9 and 11, according to the Greater Latrobe-Laurel Valley...
County to display plans for Latrobe Brewery Bridge replacement
PennDOT and Westmoreland County officials on April 4 will present plans for replacing the county-owned Ligonier Street bridge over the Loyalhanna Creek in Latrobe. A public open house meeting, including a display of project plans and a detour for southbound traffic, is set for 5-6:30 p.m. in the city municipal...
North Huntingdon donates used police car to Norwin
The Norwin School District’s police officer has a police vehicle to drive between the district’s seven buildings — not a new one, but a used one from the North Huntingdon Police Department. The township commissioners unanimously approved a request on March 20 from Norwin to donate a 2014 Chevrolet Impala....
Saint Vincent-Harvard education partnership to focus on adult-child interactions
The Fred Rogers Center at Saint Vincent College is working with Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education to promote adult-child relationships in early learning. The new three-year collaboration continues a partnership between Dana Winters, assistant professor of child and family studies at Saint Vincent, and Junlei Li, former co-director of...
3 to graduate from Westmoreland drug treatment court
Three people will be recognized Thursday for graduating from the Westmoreland County Drug Treatment Court. Westmoreland Judges Christopher Feliciani and Megan Bilik-DeFazio will preside at the graduation ceremonies at noon Thursday in Courtroom 5 at the Westmoreland County Courthouse on North Main Street, Greensburg. The diversionary court program works to...
Hempfield gets 2019 Governor’s Awards for Local Government Excellence
Hempfield was awarded the 2019 Governor’s Awards for Local Government Excellence for their work to sustain volunteer fire departments by applying for, and receiving, a federal grant. The Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response, or SAFER grant, which was awarded in Sept. 1, 2017, by the Federal Emergency Management...
Finalists for Norwin superintendent’s job address school officials, teachers
The Norwin School Board has narrowed its choice for its next superintendent to two experienced administrators — the Mars Area superintendent and a North Hills assistant superintendent. Both finalists for the job — Wesley Shipley, 52, a Scottdale native, and Jeffrey Taylor, 46, a Canonsburg-area native — told the school...
Lawyers for Hempfield murder suspect claim confession was illegally obtained
The lawyers for a Hempfield man awaiting trial on charges that he killed his girlfriend claim a confession made to police hours after the murder was illegally obtained. Defense attorneys Donna McClelland and Eric Hoffman contend police handcuffed and placed Allen Eugene Trent in custody and improperly elicited statements in...
