Western PA Local News category, Page 1871
In brief: Charity golf tournament, LEGO Brick Fest and more in Monroeville
Charity golf tournament The Great Pyrenees Club of Western Pennsylvania will host its annual charity golf tournament Aug. 30. It will take place at Edgewood Country Club, 100 Churchill Road in Churchill. The cost is $195 per golfer, or $65 for dinner only. The full price includes golfing, golf cart,...
In brief: Fox Chapel Area girls volleyball to hold car wash, car show, cub scout picnic and more in Fox Chapel
Car wash fundraiser The Fox Chapel Area girls volleyball team will have a car wash from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Aug. 28. The fundraiser will be in the Aspinwall municipal parking lot, 241 Freeport Road, across from Jiffy Lube. Car show The Hampton Presbyterian Church at 2942 East...
In brief: Charity golf tournament, fellowship and more in Plum
Charity golf tournament The Great Pyrenees Club of Western Pennsylvania will host its annual charity golf tournament Aug. 30. It will take place at Edgewood Country Club, 100 Churchill Road in Churchill. The cost is $195 per golfer, or $65 for dinner only. The full price includes golfing, golf cart,...
In brief: Student news, class reunions and more in Penn Hills
Student news Derrell Smith-Porter was among the 129 seniors who graduated from Worcester Academy in Massachusetts on June 4. Class of 1975 reunion The Penn Hills High School Class of 1975 will celebrate its 45/46-year reunion from 6 to 11 p.m. on Sept. 25 at Green Oaks Country Club, 5741...
Shuman Juvenile Detention Center to close after state revokes license
Allegheny County’s juvenile detention center will close Sept. 18 after the state Department of Human Services revoked its license. The state notified county Manager William McKain the license for the Shuman Juvenile Detention Center was being revoked Friday. By Monday afternoon, McKain announced the closure of the 46-year-old facility in...
2 arrested in Irwin drug bust
Two people were charged by North Huntingdon police during the weekend after a drug bust at an Irwin home, according to court papers. Heidi Renee Mohammed, 43, and Colton Hayden Koett, 19, are being held at the Westmoreland County Prison on $25,000 bail each. Township and borough police said they...
Federal judge reinstates mandatory masks at North Allegheny
Students in the North Allegheny School District returned to classes from summer break Monday morning for full, in-person instruction with only a recommendation that they wear face masks while in school buildings. By afternoon, the mask mandate was back following a federal court ruling. On Sunday, a group of parents...
In brief: Bethel Park Art Guild to meet, crossing guards wanted and more
Bethel Park Art Guild to meet Bethel Park Art Guild will meet at 12:30 p.m. Sept. 2 at Bethel Park Community Center for refreshments, business meeting and guest speaker, artist Larry Branstetter. Unvaccinated attendees must wear masks. All artists are welcome. Crossing guards wanted Bethel Park police are hiring school...
In brief: Sewickley resident named to top attorney list, Edgeworth Garden Club and more in Sewickley
Super Lawyers Sewickley resident and real estate attorney W. Grant Scott II was among the Pittsburgh law firm Meyer, Unkovic & Scott attorneys who Super Lawyers named to the 2021 list of top attorneys in Pennsylvania. Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business rating service, evaluates outstanding lawyers across the nation...
In brief: Road work in Scott, Rock the Quarry and more in South Fayette, Carnegie area
Road work in Scott Periodic single-lane closures have begun on Hope Hollow Road between Washington Avenue (Route 50) and Greentree Road in Scott Township. The periodic restrictions on Hope Hollow Road will occur between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. on weekdays. The restrictions, which are expected to end in November,...
In brief: Sealarks chili kickoff, fall mum sale and more in North Hills
Sealarks Women’s Group Sealarks Women’s Group will hold a fall chili kickoff dinner Sept. 8 at 1 p.m. at Memorial Park Church, 8800 Peebles Road, McCandless. The group provides Christian fellowship and social activity for women alone —widowed, divorced or never married. All women alone are welcome to attend and...
In brief: Flight 93 Memorial bus trip, Log House Days and more in South Hills
Flight 93 Memorial bus trip To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Flight 93 crash in Shanksville, Jefferson Hills Library is hosting a bus trip to the memorial on Sept. 29. Included in the cost of $85 are lunch and a stop at a well-known bakery in the area. To...
The Stroller, Aug. 23, 2021: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your club meetings, community events and fundraisers for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Knead Community Café welcomes donations Knead Community Café, New Kensington, is accepting donations to help the daily operation of the café,...
Overturned truck spills fuel along Route 65 near Downtown
A hazmat team responded to the scene of a tractor-trailer crash along Route 65 in Pittsburgh’s Chateau neighborhood early Monday morning after the vehicle overturned and began leaking diesel fuel onto the roadway, according to authorities. The crash was reported shortly after 2 a.m. Authorities said the driver was able...
Early-morning fire in Sharpsburg duplex sends firefighter to hospital
A firefighter was transported to the hospital for treatment of injuries suffered Monday morning while extinguishing a fire in Sharpsburg. A second firefighter suffered a minor injury and was treated at the scene of the fire in a frame duplex in the 1800 block of Main Street. The condition of...
Westmoreland County youths show off hand-crafted clothing at fair
They already had won blue ribbons for the clothing items they sewed. But now, it was more about stage presence while wearing them. Fifteen-year-old Ava Kozar of Loyalhanna wowed the judges Sunday, taking home top prize after expertly walking the stage during the 4-H modeling contest at the Westmoreland Fair....
Apollo woman faces DUI and multiple charges after rolling her car over in Kiski Township
Kiski Township police is pressing multiple charges, including DUI, against an Apollo woman who rolled her car on Saturday night on Sugar Hollow Road. Jamie Fulton, 39, received minor injuries and extricated herself from the severely damaged car, according to police. No other vehicles were involved. Police charged Fulton with...
Community health fair in Tarentum offers up bike helmets, jobs and more
A community health fair on Saturday in Tarentum provided much more than medical testing and pamphlets. About 50 booths lined First Avenue with the road blocked from traffic from Lock Street to Corbet Street. The region’s two major health systems, Allegheny Health Network and UPMC, were on hand with UPMC...
Pittsburgh police trying to ID people involved in fight during Steelers preseason game
Pittsburgh Police are investigating after a fight that broke out in the stands Saturday during the Pittsburgh Steelers and Detroit Lions preseason game at Heinz Field. In a video that is circulating on social media, a woman slaps a man and he hits the woman back and another man in...
Band Blast at New Kensington thrills crowds with line-up of 11 bands
Band Blast at New Kensington’s Memorial Park was all about the bands, 11 of them, that drew crowds throughout Sunday for more than seven hours of live music. The benefit concert pays for upgrades and projects in the park. The event was sponsored by the New Ken/Arnold Social, which also...
Labor United celebration is back at Northmoreland Park
The 2021 Labor United Celebration in Northmoreland Park is back. “It’s a go,” said Brandon Simpson, the county’s parks and recreation director. Simpson said covid-19 restrictions are not expected to impact the event as they did last year, when the pandemic forced the cancellation of the festival that draws about...
Washington County DA Gene Vittone remembered as devoted father who always had a kind word
Gene Vittone, Washington County’s district attorney, a Pitt fan, a choir member and a lover of good Italian dinners, died Saturday after a relatively private battle with lung cancer. He was 61. “He was humble that way,” said Steve Toprani, a friend and predecessor in the district attorney’s office. “He...
The Digital Foundry takes shape in a bid to tap the digital world to remake New Kensington
The digital world is colliding with the real one, only this time it’s not on a movie set but on the gritty streets of New Kensington. Workmen are setting the steel for The Digital Foundry at New Kensington, the brainchild of a coalition brought together by Penn State New Kensington...
Pittsburgh serves as research site for new test to detect Lyme disease
The difficulty of diagnosing early acute Lyme disease makes things doubly frustrating for Pennsylvanians, who live in a state that has consistently ranked highest in the nation for Lyme cases. But Seattle-based Adaptive Biotechnologies is working with clinical researchers across the country — including in the Pittsburgh area — to...
Northern area real estate transactions for the week of Aug. 22, 2021
Bellevue Tyler Grant Smith sold property at 100 Lincoln Ave. to Christopher Ryan and Sarah Anne Rouhier for $291,000. Stephen Scolaro sold property at 524 Madison Ave. to Robert and Shana Abramowicz for $121,900. Ryan Adam Buchanan sold property at 652 North Ave. to Ernestine Gross and Nicole Gee for...
