Mary Ann Thomas stories, Page 14
Millvale, Etna working toward shared library system in Etna
A proposed $3.2 million renovation project at 341-343 Butler St. in the Etna business district will house a public library that will share resources with Millvale’s library. The Millvale Community Library, Millvale Borough, Etna Community Organization (ECO) and Etna Borough signed a memorandum of understanding in December 2021 creating a...
Lower Burrell Police awarded $105,000 for SWAT Team funding
The Westmoreland District Attorney’s office recently awarded Lower Burrell police $105,000 to go toward equipment for the Westmoreland SWAT team. The money comes from property seized from drug trafficking busts, which is forfeited to the DA’s investigative fund. It is distributed to law enforcement agencies to uphold the Controlled Substance,...
AHN to offer free monthly cancer screening clinics; first stop is Allegheny Valley Hospital
The Allegheny Health Network Cancer Institute will offer free monthly cancer screening clinics throughout the region starting with Allegheny Valley Hospital in Harrison on Saturday, Jan. 29. Advance registration is required. AHN offered five screening clinics last year that booked up quickly, said Dr. David Bartlett, chairman of the AHN...
Legislation in the works to change South Butler County School District to Knoch School District
The State House of Representatives is expected to move on legislation in the next month to change the name of the South Butler County School District to the Knoch School District. The school board approved the name change about a year ago. “There’s lots of enthusiasm and excitement about it,”...
Northern Tier Library offers block parties, robotics kits
Northern Tier Library is proving there’s more than books to peruse. It offering free open sessions with hundreds of wooden blocks to build anything and miniature robots to program. The library that serves about 26,633 patrons in Pine and Richland townships is offering free block parties and access to robotics...
Allegheny County denies permit for Tarentum’s Gatto Cycle Diner to reopen
The Allegheny County Health Department has denied a permit to reopen the Cycle Diner next to the Gatto Cycle Shop in Tarentum. The classic 1949 stainless steel, O’Mahony diner is attached to the Gatto Harley-Davidson showroom at the corner of Wood Street and East Sixth Avenue. During the pandemic, two...
$1 million winning lottery ticket sold at Lower Burrell supermarket
Lower Burrell’s Community Market was one of four sites in the state that sold a $1 million winning ticket for the state lottery’s new Millionaire Raffle drawing on Saturday, according to a Pennsylvania Lottery announcement Monday. Other winning Millionaire Raffle tickets on Sunday were sold in Cumberland, Delaware and Montgomery...
Professional firefighter moves to Lower Burrell, now fights fires as a volunteer
When Chad Grieff arrives at the scene of a fire in Lower Burrell, his mission is tactical and practical. A lieutenant for Lower Burrell Volunteer Fire Co. 3, Grieff, 48, helps align the fire trucks for access to battle the blaze. He calculates the best ways to douse the flames...
New Lower Burrell Council members want movies in the park, and a microbrewery would be nice, too
Two new Lower Burrell Council members are calling to help the city’s fire volunteer departments and bring a microbrewery and more to the city. Lower Burrell Council welcomed two new Republican members this month, Brandy Grieff and David Stoltz, who ran unopposed for a four-year term. They replace Councilmen Joe...
State grant helps pay for $130,000-plus rehab of Roaring Run Trail
An $86,100 state grant will help pay for a $130,000-plus rehabilitation of a 2.5-mile section of the Roaring Run trail in Kiski Township. The trail is a five-mile recreational trail along the Kiski River from the end of Canal Road to the village of Edmond in Kiski Township. The Roaring...
New Kensington photographer featured in ‘Pittsburgh Off the Wall’ photo exhibit
When Don Henderson of New Kensington has a lunch break from his job as a graphic artist or time to kill, he reaches for one of his 400 cameras and takes to the streets. Henderson is one of six area photographers featured in “Pittsburgh Off the Wall,” an exhibition running...
Kiski Township supervisors fire treasurer who became newest supervisor
The Kiski Township supervisors fired township Treasurer Sherry Tamski during their reorganization meeting this week. Like other municipalities across the Alle-Kiski Valley, Kiski Township held its reorganization meeting Monday night to swear in newly elected officials and appoint township professionals such as the solicitor, treasurer, township manager and others. Tamski,...
Meals on wheels: Yak Diner makes journey to new North Apollo home as Dolly’s DinerVideo
Local history was made in only 10 minutes Tuesday morning when a semitractor-trailer picked up the former Yak Diner in North Apollo and plunked it down one-third of a mile along River Road. The classic 1955 stainless steel dining car will begin a new life, after some renovation, as Dolly’s...
Zumba, great blue herons and hiking among winter attractions at North Hills parks
Nesting great horned owls, outdoor Zumba dance and fitness classes and hitting the trails are among the winter offerings in North Park and Hartwood Acres. As more people frequent the county parks in record numbers seeking refuge from the pandemic, they continue to visit during the colder months, said Andy...
North Apollo vintage stainless steel Yak Diner hits the road for move to new home
There’s more than meatloaf and homemade mashed potatoes keeping the old stainless steel Yak Diner in North Apollo going. The manufactured 1955 O’Mahony diner is a movable prefab building, and it has to go. The new diner owners will hook the Yak to a semitrailer Monday to move it just...
Yak Diner’s move to briefly close River Road in North Apollo on Monday
River Road closure for moving the Yak Diner delayed Closure of a section of River Road in North Apollo that was set of happen Monday will be delayed for at least a day. Arlene “Dolly” McCoy said Saturday that moving the diner must be delayed until PennDOT releases a permit....
Police drop rape charges against North Apollo man after accuser recants
Kiski Township police dropped rape charges against Jordan Michael Coleman of North Apollo after the alleged victim confessed she made up the allegations. Coleman was arrested and jailed after accusations that he choked, assaulted and raped an estranged girlfriend on Oct. 28 in North Apollo during an argument that started...
Juvenile shot in the back in Pittsburgh’s Perry North neighborhood
Pittsburgh Police found a juvenile with a gunshot wound on Tretow Street in the Perry North neighborhood on Sunday around 4:30 p.m. Police responded to reports of shots fired in the Viola Street area, which is near Tretow Street. The victim was shot in the back and was in stable...
Woman dies 3 days after apartment building fire in Washington County
A woman from a Washington County apartment building died Sunday after a fire swept through the building days earlier, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office reported. Frances Venen, 78, of Washington County, died at an area hospital about 10 a.m. Sunday, according to the medical examiner’s office. A cause of...
2 taken to hospital after Tarentum crash
Two people were injured in a two-vehicle crash in Tarentum Sunday in the 1400 block of Bakerstown Road. They were taken to an area hospital by ambulance, according to Allegheny County emergency dispatchers. Details on their conditions and the crash were not available. A section of Bakerstown Road was closed...
Allegheny County offering free covid-19 testing Monday in Tarentum
The Allegheny County Health Department will offer free covid-19 tests at the First United Presbyterian Church in Tarentum on Monday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The county has a purple van staffed by Curative Inc. which travels throughout the county each week to offer free testing. Visit the county’s...
Glen’s Frozen Custard demolishes old Clementine’s restaurant for new production facility
The owner of Glen’s Frozen Custard demolished the former Clementine’s Family Restaurant building at 2604 Leechburg Road in Lower Burrell last week to make way for a new production facility. Glen’s, with stores in Lower Burrell and Springdale, bought the old restaurant this year to build a 10,000-square-foot facility to...
Pittsburgh region won’t see a white Christmas, like most years
If you are pining for that nostalgic white Christmas depicted on holiday greeting cards with billowing swirls of clean snow, don’t look to the Pittsburgh region this weekend. Christmas Day will be unseasonably warm, with a potential high of 57 degrees and a low of 42, said David Shallenberger, lead...
260-pound black bear trapped near Downtown PittsburghVideo
The Pennsylvania Game Commission trapped a 260-pound black bear Wednesday morning next to a Lower Hill District dumpster near Downtown Pittsburgh. A sighting of the bear was first reported Dec. 6 in the 5700 block of Penn Avenue, but it disappeared, said Douglas Bergman, a game commission warden covering Allegheny...
Bald eagle cam goes live at U.S. Steel mill in West MifflinVideo
U.S. Steel Irvin Works in West Mifflin flipped the switch today on its first live webcam trained on bald eagles nesting on their property along the Monongahela River. The nest is believed to be the only one located at a working steel mill in the state. The birds built the...
