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Greensburg fire officials hope electronic signs will give recruits the message
Greensburg fire Chief Tom Bell wants to try out a new recruitment method — electronic signs. He is planning to buy four signs with a $109,600 state grant that could be installed outside three fire departments and city hall, as long Greensburg officials give the OK. “We picked the three...
Penn Township 8th grader’s glass art earns spot in international showcase
Most 13-year-olds wouldn’t ask for a glass-blowing torch for their birthday. But Penn Township native Caitlin Dolhi isn’t like most 13-year-olds. Dolhi, an eighth grade student at Penn Middle School, learned three years ago about the Pittsburgh Glass Center, tucked along Penn Avenue in the city’s Friendship neighborhood, and enrolled...
Murrysville native steps into new role as director of her hometown library
Katherine Neidig had about three months of regular work when she started in a part-time position at the Murrysville Community Library in January 2020. “I was doing cataloguing and technical services, and then all the procedures were tossed aside during the pandemic,” said Neidig, who grew up in Murrysville and...
Fire crews knock down flames sparked by bathroom remodel in Derry Township
Fire crews knocked down Wednesday afternoon an attic fire at a Derry Township home that was sparked during a bathroom remodeling. Crews were called to a home in the 4000 block of Route 982 around 1:20 p.m., Bradenville Volunteer Fire Department Chief Mark Piantine said. A relative of the homeowners...
‘Height of the season’: Flu cases surge in Western Pa.
Flu cases are spiking in Western Pennsylvania as the region’s doctors treat high numbers of patients stricken with the seasonal respiratory illness. Dr. Amy Crawford-Faucher, a family physician and chair of the Allegheny Health Network Primary Care Institute, said Wednesday she’s seen a “significant increase” in the number of people...
Jury convicts New Alexandria man of resisting arrest
A Westmoreland County jury on Wednesday sided with police officers who used force to subdue a New Alexandria man who was found wandering through a Unity neighborhood two years ago. After nearly three hours of deliberations, the jury convicted Denton Krapf of one misdemeanor count of resisting arrest in connection...
Fayette County attorney’s license suspended 5 years because of money laundering case
A Fayette County attorney who completed a probation sentence for offering to launder drug money for clients had his law license suspended for five years, the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania announced Wednesday. The license suspension is retroactive to April 2020 when the temporary suspension started for...
Export looks at offering online billing, payment system for sewage customers
Export Secretary Tonia Writt hears one question consistently from borough sewage customers: Why can’t you guys process credit card payments? That could change if council decides to implement an online billing system through Muni-Link, a Blair County company that also handles online billing for the Franklin Township Municipal Sanitary Authority....
Westmoreland happenings: Soup sale, turkey dinner, meetings, more
Fundraisers • Holy Family Church will sell homemade soups and baked goods before and after the Feb. 8 and 9 Masses at the church, 225 N. Second St., West Newton. Public welcome. • A turkey dinner will be served from 4 to 7 p.m. Feb. 8 at Community Church of...
Export officials eager to showcase mining history via site cleanup, pedestrian walkway
Export officials are excited about the creation of a historical area showcasing the borough’s mining history. A $139,000 state grant designated to bring the project to life will likely pay only for the engineering work, but it’s a start, said borough Councilwoman Melanie Litz. “This has been a long time...
Weimer will seek return to Hempfield supervisor seat he’s held since 2001
Doug Weimer announced his candidacy for the Hempfield Township Board of Supervisors. Weimer, who has served on the board since 2001, pointed to what he described as a track record of producing a balanced budget with no property tax increases. He was part of a board majority that rejected a...
Motorists stranded in Laurel Ridge ice storm get warm welcome from Fairfield couple
A Fairfield Township couple provided sanctuary to motorists stranded by an ice storm Sunday evening on Laurel Ridge, earning thanks in return for their hospitality. The ice-slicked surface of Route 271 left a Greyhound bus and dozens of other vehicles stuck for several hours on the western slope of the...
Video shows state police punching New Alexandria man during 2023 arrest as resisting arrest trial beginsVideo
State police officers testified Tuesday they believed a New Alexandria man was under the influence of drugs when he refused to comply with troopers responding to a call two years ago of a man wandering through yards in a Unity neighborhood. Westmoreland prosecutors contend Denton Krapf, 48, resisted arrest on...
Franklin Township sewage authority will test its alert system on Thursday in Murrysville
Murrysville residents living in the area of the Franklin Township Municipal Sanitary Authority at the bottom of Meadowbrook Road may hear sewage officials testing a new audible alert system on Thursday. The testing will consist of audible tones and messages related to the FTMSA facility, and may be heard locally....
State Senate signs off on new Westmoreland register of wills, judge
Westmoreland County’s newest row officer and a judge could be sworn later this week after the Pennsylvania Senate on Tuesday confirmed both nominations from Gov. Josh Shapiro to fill the vacancies. Republican Jon Wian, 43, of Delmont takes over the Register of Wills, the office where wills, estates, adoptions and...
Westmoreland County Community College names interim president
The former president of a Michigan community college will serve as interim president at Westmoreland County Community College while trustees continue the search for permanent leadership. Ohio native David Devier retired last year after serving a decade as president at Glen Oaks Community College in Michigan. He previously worked as...
Seton Hill to honor MLK through speaker, day of service
Seton Hill University in Greensburg will honor Martin Luther King Jr. with its annual educational program and day of service. The program will feature speaker Don C. Sawyer III, Fairfield University’s first vice president for diversity, inclusion and belonging. An associate professor in the university’s department of sociology and anthropology,...
Penn-Trafford student, inspired by 8-year-old cancer survivor, aims to raise $10K for nonprofit
Penn-Trafford sophomore Abby Rayman is on a mission to raise $10,000 to support children diagnosed with leukemia and lymphoma. It’s part of a challenge posed by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, a national nonprofit with a branch on Pittsburgh’s South Side. As a candidate for the society’s Student Visionary of...
Teen pleads guilty in Arnold street shooting
An Arnold teenager who has been in jail for the past three years as he awaited trial for the attempted murder of five people in 2021 pleaded guilty Monday to lesser charges. Ikquan Hassain Amid Lynn, 18, told a Westmoreland County judge it was in his best interest to admit...
Aide at Quality Life Services accused of stealing patient’s debit card
A traveling health care worker from Louisiana who police said has a history of theft is accused by Washington Township authorities of stealing a debit card belonging to a patient and using it at a grocery store, according to court papers. Family members of the patient at Quality Life Services,...
Westmoreland happenings: Chili cook-off, bingo, Black History Month event, more
Art • The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, 221 N. Main St., Greensburg, will have a free Sunday Fun Day celebration from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 9 as part of its Black History Month celebration. There will be live music, community partner tables, activities and food vendors. Reservations...
Derry nonprofit plans park concerts, looks to boost pool activities, invigorate borough
A group of Derry community boosters wants no moss to grow in Mossback Park, the town’s gathering spot for seasonal festivities. Increasing the number of events at the South Chestnut Street site is one of the goals of the Friends of Derry, a new nonprofit group dedicated to promoting community...
Hempfield park solar power project to be revisited
A proposed solar power project at what is to be Hempfield’s new emergency management headquarters and municipal park was put on hold last week over concerns that federal funding designed to fuel clean energy projects might be in danger because of the actions of the new administration. But that hold...
Historical society marks 65th anniversary of Southern lunch-counter protests
Kelton Edmonds doesn’t just know the history of the “Greensboro Four,” the group of Black freshman students at North Carolina Architectural & Technical State College, who staged the first lunch-counter sit-in protest. He got a firsthand account of it from Jibreel Khazan, who was known then as Ezell Blair Jr.,...
Donegal man accused of scamming insurance companies out of $30,000
A Donegal man faces multiple counts of insurance fraud and theft on accusations that he scammed two insurance companies on separate occasions with false claims totaling more than $30,000. Walter A. Smith Jr., 45, was charged on Friday by the state Attorney General’s Office. Smith faces eight counts of insurance...
