Jack Troy stories, Page 7

Perking up: How the arrival of a coffee shop can get a small town buzzing

Avonmore has long chased an economic renaissance that never quite arrived. If anything, the dream of a bustling business community slipped further out of reach when the town’s rolling mill closed in 2019, taking more than 100 jobs with it. But the borough has a coffee shop among its small...
Giant Eagle buys prescription files from another 15 Rite Aid stores, completing buying spree

Giant Eagle has purchased prescription files from another 15 Rite Aid stores as part of a fourth and final wave of transfers from the bankrupt pharmacy chain to the Cranberry-based grocer. Altogether, Giant Eagle has bought files from 83 Rite Aid stores across Pennsylvania and Ohio since late May. The...
Environmental groups demand Nippon Steel work to cut emissions after buying U.S. Steel

With U.S. Steel’s $14.9 billion sale to Nippon Steel made official last week, environmental advocates say it’s time for corporate leadership to take make real strides toward limiting pollution. “U.S. Steel has gotten everything that it wished for in this deal with Nippon,” said Matt Mehalik, executive director of the...
UPMC to stop gender-affirming care for patients 18 and under by month’s end

UPMC has confirmed it will end gender-affirming care for patients 18 and younger in response to the Trump administration’s policies aimed at transgender youth. A spokesperson for UPMC, the region’s largest hospital network, said federal guidance has made it clear clinicians who provide care such as puberty blockers and hormone...
Highmark joins major insurers in prior authorization reform

Highmark was among more than 50 health insurers who pledged Monday to speed up and slim down prior authorization, the process through which patients and their doctors must seek insurance approval for certain care before it’s administered. “It’s all about decreasing the administrative burden,” said Highmark Chief Medical Officer Tim...
‘Roller coaster’: High-stakes drama marked Nippon’s winning courtship of U.S. Steel

Three Mon Valley mayors remember it well: A series of mid-December meetings with union leaders and Nippon Steel executives as Japan’s largest steelmaker aggressively courted U.S. Steel, the storied American manufacturer. Relations between the United Steelworkers union and Nippon — never friendly, exactly — had deteriorated over the course of...
U.S. Steel, Nippon finalize $14.9B merger, security agreement

Japan’s Nippon Steel has finalized its $14.9 billion takeover of U.S. Steel, the companies announced Wednesday, as they unveiled details about the deal, which amounts to a tightly monitored merger. To win government approval, the companies also have entered a national security agreement meant to mitigate worries about Nippon having...
Organizers hope Freeport’s 6th annual Pride celebration can be a low-key safe space for LGBTQ+ people

Pittsburgh’s boisterous Pride parade may soak up a lot of attention, but Freeport Pride Stroll and Festival is a chance for LGBTQ+ people in the Alle-Kiski Valley to feel supported in their own community, organizers say. “You don’t have to go to a big city to feel safe,” said Sidney...
Fire damages multiple mobile homes in Buffalo Township

A shed fire spread to two mobile homes in Buffalo Township on Thursday night, seriously damaging them. A Butler County dispatcher said crews were alerted of a fire around 9:45 p.m. in Jack’s Mobile Homes park along Shaner Drive. No injuries were reported, the dispatcher said, but the Red Cross...
Vandergrift’s Casino Theatre still a beacon of culture after 125 years

The Casino Theatre in Vandergrift could have become anything over the years — a parking lot, like the theater on Longfellow Street did, or maybe basketball courts. Yes, that almost happened. It even survived a 13-year period of neglect, between 1982 and 1995, after the company that ran it as...
Freeport’s 1st manager reflects on defining the role as he readies to resign

Zachary Filous described his 2½ years as Freeport borough manager, especially early on, like “drinking from a fire hose.” He’s done more than just send emails and direct personnel. His hiring roughly coincided with the departure of the borough’s treasurer, public works director and sewage plant operator — roles he...
Doubled steel and aluminum tariffs leave W.Pa. businesses uneasy

Christian Klanica’s gut told him President Donald Trump wasn’t done raising steel and aluminum tariffs, so he turned down long-term production contracts and stocked up on supplies throughout the spring for his tool-and-die shop in Hempfield. Already, the 25% tariffs on these metals imposed in March have inflated the cost...
Freeport Area School Board OKs $55 million high school renovation, tax hike

After years of planning and debate, the Freeport Area School Board moved ahead Wednesday with a $55 million high school renovation project — and approved a tax increase to help fund it. Both measures passed 5-4. The school directors who voted for both were Christine Davies, Michael Huth, Gregory Selinger,...
Vandergrift officials won’t let damaged roof in business district be ignored

Vandergrift officials are going after the owner of a building with a prime location on Grant Avenue for failing to fix its partly collapsed roof. Council voted Monday to pursue a nuisance complaint in Westmoreland County Court, which could result in the borough completing the repairs itself and billing the...
UPMC reports $237 million operating income in Q1 2025

UPMC is off to a strong financial start in 2025, with both its health care and insurance services in the black last quarter for a total operating income of $237 million. The health care network made $142 million, while the insurance side — a drag on many recent quarterly reports...
Retirees live it up at retired school buildings

Catholic school taught Jim Scafuri as much about how to take a beating from a nun as math or reading, so when he started at the public Morningside Elementary School in the 1960s, it came as a welcome reprieve. “I started to learn for the first time in my life,”...

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