Valley News Dispatch category, Page 144

Frazer will hold the line on real estate taxes next year. The township’s proposed 2024 budget amounts to $1.13 million, about $148,000 less than this year , said Frazer Township Secretary and Supervisor Lori Ziencik. The millage rate remains at 3.5 mills. The average property tax assessment for a home...

Two New Kensington sports legends will be honored through the naming of basketball courts at the city’s new downtown park. The two courts at the park on Barnes Street will be named Court 23, in honor of Tom Pipkins, and Court 15, honoring Baron “B.B.” Flenory, Councilman Dante Cicconi said....

To have your community event added to this listing, send detailed information to vndnews@triblive.com. Allegheny Township • Freeport Theatre Festival will present “The Nativity — A Christmas Delight” at 7 p.m. Dec. 1, 2 and 3 at the theater located at the Steele Family Farm off Route 356 on White...

Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Westmoreland County Marines to supply Christmas groceries Westmoreland County Marines will...

Emily and Ean Steele said a Westmoreland County jury found justice for their mother. The jury, after more than four hours of deliberations, convicted their father of first-degree murder Thursday for the May 14, 2022, execution-style slaying of 41-year-old Kelly Steele inside a U-Haul storage facility in Lower Burrell. “It’s...

A ruling on whether the former Cheswick Generating Station in Springdale can be demolished via implosion could come as early as the first week of December. Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge John T. McVay Jr., who is presiding over a court case seeking an injunction to stop the implosion, gave...

Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection announced Thursday a civil penalty in connection to the June 2 implosion of two smokestacks at the former power plant property in Springdale. According to the DEP, Cheswick Plant Environmental Redevelopment Group, Controlled Demolition Inc. and Grant Mackay Co. violated the state’s Solid Waste Management...

Plum Air Force Junior ROTC received a certification of achievement from Mayor Harry Schlegel during the borough council meeting on Nov. 13. The mayor read a proclamation, stating in part: “The goals of the AFJROTC program are to instill values and citizenship, service to the United States, personal responsibility, and...

A fresh crop of faces has been elected to serve on the Leechburg Area School Board. And one of the youngest school board members in the Alle-Kiski Valley earned the most votes of eight candidates vying to fill five seats on the board. Andrew Pallus, 22, received 917 votes in...

A federal lien could halt the condemnation of a structure Arnold Council deems a public health and safety hazard. Acting as the city’s Board of Health, council recently met for a hearing on two abandoned structures code enforcement officer Al Colelli brought forth as potentially hazardous. The buildings are at...

Fox Chapel officials hope a new community event will become a holiday tradition. The borough has partnered with Cooper-Siegel Community Library to present the inaugural Light Up Fox Chapel from 5-7 p.m. on Dec. 6 at the borough building, 401 Fox Chapel Road. Festivities include a visit from Santa, children’s...

Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Stuff a Cruiser event set at Harrison Walmart A Stuff a...

The body of a man who crashed his car on the Hulton Bridge in Oakmont on Nov. 7 and then jumped over the side into the Allegheny River was recovered on Wednesday afternoon from the Ohio River in Pittsburgh. Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the deceased as Jeremy Gilroy,...

Alfred Keith Steele told Westmoreland County detectives he had enough of his wife’s badgering when he shot her one time in the back of the head as the estranged couple argued last year in a Lower Burrell storage locker. “We were arguing, yelling at each other between storage units,” Steele...

A man wanted for warrants in Allegheny and Armstrong counties was arrested by Harrison police Tuesday night after fleeing from officers and trying to ditch a stolen gun and drugs, according to authorities. Warren Paul “Boo” Greenleaf Jr., 39, of College Avenue, Mt. Pleasant, was charged with two counts of...

Mandatory water conservation could begin as early as next week for customers in the northern half of the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County’s service area as water levels at the Beaver Run Reservoir continue to fall amid a dry autumn season. Authority manager Michael Kukura said more than 56,000 customers...

Taxpayers no longer would foot the bill when the state settles cases in which state lawmakers are accused of sexual misconduct under a legislative package proposed Wednesday by members of the Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus. “This will ensure perpetrators don’t get off scot-free,” said state Rep. Charity Grimm Krupa, R-Fayette....

Two men who are awaiting trial on drug charges were accused of making and selling crack cocaine at a New Kensington home raided by a SWAT team Tuesday morning. Police charged the homeowner, Andrew Michael “Sly” Slywczuk, 39, of the 400 block of Charles Avenue, with two felony counts of...

A former Valley High School math teacher is now the assistant principal of Deer Lakes High School. Joshua Tysk started his new role today. The Deer Lakes School Board approved Tysk’s hiring at its October meeting. He will be paid $86,000. “My excitement to be a part of the Deer...

Lower Burrell police accused a woman who had a warrant out for her arrest of dealing drugs after she was pulled over for a traffic violation and offered to let police search her vehicle. Michelle Lynn Dzugan, 45, of the 1500 block of Horne Boulevard in Arnold was charged with...

Electric rates in Tarentum are going up in 2024 — and likely for at least the next four years afterward — to combat supply costs that are set to double. Council voted Tuesday night to approve a new rate schedule that will increase the cost from 13 cents to 15.2...

Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime telephone number. Fall play planned by Springdale HS drama department The Springdale High...

Blawnox property owners should not expect to pay more in real estate taxes next year. However, their water, sewage and garbage collection bills will increase slightly. Council voted 5-0 Nov. 8 to advertise its preliminary 2024 budget of about $1.557 million. Councilwomen Meghan Kennedy and Christine Carnevali were absent. The...

A Texas-based toxicologist testified Tuesday that health complaints reported by some Springdale residents following the June implosion of two towering smokestacks at the former power plant there are consistent to exposure of materials and fibers from the implosion. But the defense attorneys for the landowner and demolition company attempted to...

Kelly Steele was shot execution style with one round fired from a semi-automatic pistol pressed against the back of her head, according to testimony Tuesday in the second day of her husband’s murder trial. Forensic pathologist Dr. Jennifer Hammers testified Steele, 41, was killed as a bullet traveled through her...