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Delmont officials are taking steps to recover money allegedly stolen by a former borough secretary. Borough solicitor Dan Hewitt said former borough secretary and treasurer Karen Shola was bonded, and that the bond company has offered the borough a $35,000 settlement. Shola, 67, of Pittsburgh was charged in October with...

Franklin Regional School Board will hold a special meeting Wednesday to vote on authorizing the district to advertise and solicit bids for the Sloan elementary campus project. The meeting will be at 6 p.m. in the Murrysville municipal building at 4100 Sardis Road. The $54 million project includes the renovation...

Franklin Regional band members will hold a Feb. 23 spaghetti dinner in Murrysville as a fundraiser for their trip to the 2019 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. The dinner will be from 4 to 7:30 p.m. in Laird Hall at First Presbyterian Church, 3202 North Hills Road....

When aspiring Eagle Scout Troy Florian and a crew of fellow scouts cleared several entrances to the former Westmoreland Coal Co.’s No. 2 mine in Export, councilwoman Melanie Litz was quick to point out that they “would not be reopening the mine.” That has changed a little, thanks to the...

There’s no more satisfying feeling than forcing your grandmother into bankruptcy during a heated game of “Monopoly,” is there? Okay, perhaps that’s a bit harsh, but even if the cutthroat capitalism of Rich Uncle Pennybags isn’t your thing, area residents are still invited to take part in several other classic...

A Murrysville woman has been named the Pennsylvania School Counselor Advocate of the Year by the Pennsylvania School Counselors Association (PSCA). Elizabeth DeChurch Strenkowski of Murrysville, director of admissions at the Community College of Allegheny County’s Boyce Campus, was recognized at the 63rd Annual PSCA Conference, held in Hershey in...

Franklin Regional Senior High School parents will have a chance to hear from the district’s safety and security director at the near year’s first PTO meeting on Jan. 10. The guest speaker will be Timothy Skoog, who is heading up the district’s internal police force. Skoog will discuss his role...

There was plenty of swearing for Murrysville residents last week. Swearing-in, that is. In addition to the municipality’s police department adding its first female officer, Samantha Malik, on Jan. 3, former mayor Bob Brooks spent New Year’s Day taking the oath of office for his 54th District state representative seat...

If state lawmakers want a truly politically unbiased map of voting districts in Pennsylvania, they will need to look beyond the traditional map-making criteria, according to Carnegie Mellon professor John Nagle. “Traditional” criteria include best efforts to keep voting districts compact, and to not split existing political boundaries. “Why should...

As 2018 rolls over into 2019, John Bosetti of Murrysville will be swapping sewer maps for site plans. Bosetti, who previously served on the Franklin Township Municipal Sanitary Authority board before resigning as of Dec. 31, was confirmed by Murrysville council to fill a vacancy on the municipal planning commission....

If you were caught off-guard by a recent change to recycling pick-ups in Murrysville, you were not alone. At least nine residents contacted the municipality after their recycling pick-up did not appear to match the 2019 schedule provided by Republic Services and posted to Murrysville.com. “I learned something in the...