Dillon Carr stories, Page 27
Penn State Extension teaches heart-healthy eating at YMCA
Penn State University is coming to the Sampson Family YMCA to show people how to cook foods that helps reduce high blood pressure. There are around 15 spots for the 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 24 cooking class. Tickets cost $39. The class will be held in the YMCA’s Teaching...
Gateway students use emergency tip app to report bullet on bus
A student found a bullet on a school bus heading to Gateway Middle School on Thursday morning. Principal Rocco Telli said in an email blast to parents that the bus was greeted by building administration, who ushered students through bag searches and metal detectors. “No items of concern were discovered,”...
Gateway girls soccer lends a hand off the field
The Gateway girls soccer team got a break from the season recently when they took a Saturday to give back to the community. Coach Kelly Bender said 24 girls, two parents and a player’s brother divided into groups to lend a hand to several service organizations in Monroeville, Pitcairn and...
Penn Hills mayor, councilman, formally apologize for background check debacle
Mayor Sara Kuhn and Councilman John Petrucci offered formal apologies to two people they erroneously alleged to have not complied with a municipal policy requiring board and committee members to undergo a criminal background check. Arlene Holtz and Rita Spalding, both former members of the Penn Hills Arts Council, were...
Penn Hills Class of 1969 tours new high schoolVideo
A wide-eyed Lynn Staymates spun around, searching for direction at a hallway intersection inside Penn Hills High School. She asked if the nearest stairwell was where she started the tour about an hour beforehand. The tour guide, a senior student council treasurer, replied, pointing: “No. We started on that side.”...
Blighted properties in Penn Hills slated for demo
Four blighted properties in Penn Hills, including what officials described as a nuisance bar, are slated for demolition using Community Development Block Grant funding. Council awarded Lutterman Excavating its $42,790 bid to tear down the structures. The properties include 49 Verona Road, 4268 Verona Road, 4813 Verona Road and 470...
Federal funding will pave 3 Penn Hills roads
Penn Hills will use $311,000 of federal grant funding to pave three roads and one parking lot as part of the latest round of the Community Development Block Grant program. The roads include Westminster, Eastminster and Thon drives. Each road will be paved in its entirety. The Penn Hills Service...
Oakmont juicery to celebrate opening in familiar spot
Oakmont now has more beverage options. Rev22 Juice and Wellness Bar plans to celebrate its grand opening in the borough Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., when all will be welcome to sample its juices, smoothies and coffee drinks at the former Oakmont Bakery site. The juice bar is...
Export man faces drug, gun charges in Plum crash
An Export man faces drug and gun charges after police said he drove into a parked trailer and through a yard in Plum. Police said Carl D. Helms, 42, was driving a GMC Suburban that was pulling a trailer Sept. 13 when he crashed into a parked trailer. He then...
Annual Pittsburgh Bass Day taking place Sunday
Bassists unite! Bass guitar slappers, luthiers and students alike will congregate Sunday for the sixth annual Pittsburgh Bass Day. The event is open to the general public for $25, which gets people in the doors at Penn Hebron Garden Club, 237 Jefferson Road, access to bass clinics and chances to...
Human Dignity project comes to Monroeville
A Pittsburgh artist visited the Monroeville Library on Wednesday to start a project that aims to educate people on diversity and eventually to install a permanent art piece on the library’s property. Andrea London, of Point Breeze, brought a part of her art installation, entitled “We Are All Related,” in...
Pirates pay visit to Plum elementary schoolVideo
Children chanting “Pirates! Pirates! Pirates!” is not commonplace in the halls of Center Elementary School. But you can bet that’s what you hear from hundreds of students when members of the Pittsburgh Pirates come for a visit. Eight members from Pittsburgh’s professional baseball team took the school by storm Wednesday...
Monroeville caboose makes first stopVideo
A Monroeville family’s historical caboose has a new temporary home. The beloved red caboose from the 1940s was moved recently from the Segar’s backyard to Forbes Road Career and Technical School along Beatty Road. “It was an exciting day in the process in getting the caboose to live on,” said...
Brookline man allegedly performed lewd act near students at bus stop
A Brookline man was arrested Sept. 19 while allegedly performing a lewd act as he watched students waiting for a school bus, police said. Anthony Cardamone, 55, faces seven misdemeanor charges related to the incident, according to court records. According to a criminal complaint, a male student on Wednesday reported...
Parks in East Suburbs get state money for improvements
Penn Hills, Verona, Oakmont and Plum are slated to receive state grants totaling more than $650,000 to be used for park improvements, state Sen. Jay Costa Jr. announced Tuesday. Penn Hills got $104,410 to replace the Red Oak and Maple pavilions at Penn Hills Community Park along Colorado Street. The...
Penn Hills School Board trying to oust financial recovery officer
The Penn Hills school board is trying to remove the district’s state-appointed financial recovery officer, Daniel Matsook. In a letter obtained by the Tribune-Review, the school board alleges Matsook attempted to “employ or appoint people, entities or other businesses of his own choosing without notice, input or consultation with the...
Connellsville, Allderdice trade allegations of racial slurs, homophobic comments
The Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League will investigate whether “homophobic comments” and “racial slurs” were uttered during a game between two high school boys soccer teams on Labor Day. Pittsburgh Allderdice High School parents wrote a letter outlining allegations that said two of their varsity soccer players were “goaded …...
Rabid raccoon found in Monroeville
A raccoon that was found in Monroeville tested positive for rabies, the Allegheny County Health Department said Tuesday. The raccoon was discovered near the 500 block of Patton Street. It’s the county’s 20th rabid animal so far this year. There have been 15 raccoons, four bats and one cat, according...
WPIAL to look into alleged racial, homophobic slurs during Connellsville-Allderdice boys soccer game
Two varsity soccer players from Allderdice High School in Pittsburgh were “goaded … with racial slurs” during a Labor Day boys soccer match against Connellsville Area High School, according to a group of parents. Pittsburgh Public Schools Superintendent Anthony Hamlet said Monday in a prepared statement he is aware of...
Monroeville employee faces drug charges
A Monroeville Public Works employee was charged last week on drug-related offenses. Christopher Masters, 44, of Monroeville was not home when Pennsylvania Attorney General investigators entered his residence with a search warrant. According to a criminal complaint filed against him, police found several types of drugs during the probe. Police...
Online petition seeks to rename Indiana site to Nalani Johnson Park
An online petition to rename a park in Indiana County has purportedly garnered more than 18,700 signatures since its launch a week ago. Nadia Tillman, of Blairsville created the petition in early September, two days after Nalani Johnson — who would have turned two on Sunday — was found dead...
Plum task force forming as more than 50 properties still affected by July flood
Plum council members plan to form a stormwater management task force and could hold its first meeting by the end of the month. The idea was first discussed Sept. 4 during a workshop meeting by council Vice President David Seitz. Officials have received several complaints from residents whose homes, businesses...
Resisting arrest, defiant trespass among cases before Judge Herbst
Monroeville District Court Judge Jeffrey Herbst handled these cases recently. Defendants will have court dates set in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. Charges were filed by Monroeville police unless otherwise noted. Held for court • Crystal A. Knopsnider, 28, of Hutchinson on charges of intent to deliver drug...
Monroeville police file drug, DUI charges
Police filed the following charges Sept. 5 through Sept. 10 in District Judge Jeffrey L. Herbst’s office. All charges were filed by Monroeville police unless otherwise noted: • Bobbie J. Lloyd, 43, of Pitcairn with theft by deception in connection to an incident that happened along the 4500 block on...
Monroeville, 11 other Allegheny County libraries waive late fines
Got late fines from the library? Not anymore — at least for members of the Monroeville Public Library and 11 others in Allegheny County. As of Sept. 1, those past due library fines have been deleted and the libraries will not continue fining patrons for missed due-back dates. The hope...
