Jeff Himler stories, Page 67

Paddlers, runners and bicyclists are gearing up for the annual Conemaugh Valley Conservancy West Penn Trail Triathlon, set to return on Oct. 9. Now in its eighth year, the event attracted about 170 participants in 2019 and has at least 100 registered for the upcoming edition, including residents from neighboring...

Members of the Pitt-Greensburg Class of 2020 had a virtual graduation ceremony last year because of pandemic restrictions. Some of them will be taking advantage of an opportunity to return to the Hempfield campus for an in-person commencement ceremony on Saturday , in conjunction with the annual Homecoming Blue and...

PennDOT is preparing to begin work on the southern section of the Laurel Valley Transportation Improvement Project, between Mt. Pleasant and Norvelt. Meanwhile, the public will have a chance to view and comment on plans for the next section of the project — extending from Norvelt north to a point...

A power outage forced the closure of Baggaley Elementary School in Unity on Wednesday. The school experienced a partial outage overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, which caused the utility company to “de-energize the power line and knock out power to the entire building” just before 7 a.m., according to Mike...

Latrobe’s Brewery Bridge is on track to fully reopen to traffic in December after the final beams arrived this week . 28 for rehabilitating the county-owned span on North Ligonier Street. Throughout construction, which began in April, traffic across the bridge over Loyalhanna Creek has been one-way northbound. That has...

Latrobe City is considering updates to sections of its zoning regulations to make them more accessible and to include provisions for potential new land uses, such as electric-car charging stations. Councilman Ralph Jenko, who served on a committee charged with recommending the updates, said they will be reviewed by the...

A growing electronics manufacturing firm settled into a newly expanded facility in Westmoreland County. Area officials joined Intervala executives Monday for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark completion of the company’s 217,000-square-foot location at the RIDC Westmoreland Innovation Center near New Stanton. Intervala President and CEO Teresa Huber said the expansion...

A trooper assigned to the state police barracks in Belle Vernon was charged with aggravated assault following a disturbance call Monday morning in Claysville, Washington County. In addition to the second-degree felony assault charge, Trooper Dustin Schumacher, 30, of Claysville, is charged with misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest and disorderly...

Fans of Major League Baseball may know that Pennsylvania native and early pitching star Christy Mathewson was an inaugural member of the sport’s Hall of Fame — entering posthumously in 1936 with the likes of Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner. What many don’t know is that...

Patrons of this year’s Loyalhanna Watershed Association Art Auction will have a choice of bidding on 29 creative works, either remotely from Monday through Oct. 2 or in the company of other bidders during an Oct. 1 Pop-Up Gala. Last year, in response to pandemic restrictions, the nonprofit shifted the...

Greater Latrobe School Board and the union representing 67 of its support employees agreed on a three-year contract extension. The agreement, which the board ratified this week, is retroactive to July 1 and continues through June 30, 2024. According to a joint release by the district and the union, the...

Franklin Regional School District sent senior high students home Thursday morning after the secondary campus experienced a power outage just before 7 a.m. According to information posted on the district website, the district planned to dismiss senior high students to return home at 9:30 a.m. District spokeswoman Tina Gillen said...

Ray Charley is ready to ride again — and this time it will be “a ride to the sky.” On Oct. 3, the Unity man, who co-owns a number of local Shop ’n Save supermarkets, plans to head out with several fellow adventure bikers on a 12-day, 440-mile mountain bike...

Greater Latrobe School Board this week amended its health and safety plan to formally include a state mask mandate that has been in place since Sept. 7. Several residents called for the school board to contest it, but solicitor Ned Nakles advised the panel to honor the order while legal...

Low turnout disappointed Unity township officials this week people to weigh in on options for improving the intersection of Wimmerton Boulevard and Route 30. “If you’ve got 400 homes in the Wimmerton development and 50 people showing up, the numbers were a little disappointing as far as what we expected,”...

Some opponents of a state requirement that masks be worn inside school buildings predicted it would drive students out of classrooms into other educational settings to avoid the face coverings. But, after a group of Greater Latrobe students staged a walkout to protest that mandate, few district learners have traded...

A Pittsburgh man is accused of setting fire to a fuel pump Monday at a gas station in the city’s Beechview neighborhood. City police and firefighters responded to the fire reported in the 900 block of Saw Mill Run Boulevard. When they arrived, they found the flames had been extinguished,...

Traffic restrictions will start Wednesday as crews work to make drainage-related improvements in Youngwood and a detour on Route 982 in Mt. Pleasant Township. Work on Route 982 was to have started this week but has been delayed until 6 a.m. Sept. 27. In Youngwood, a section of Depot Street,...

Mark Hult believes dealing cards to casino patrons will be a good deal for him. The 21-year-old Salem resident is among a dozen prospective dealers learning blackjack techniques under the tutelage of Trinity Savage, a four-year veteran dealer from Canonsburg who works as a floor supervisor at Live! Casino Pittsburgh...

Greater Latrobe School Board on Tuesday will consider spending about $120,000 to upgrade surveillance cameras at two district elementary schools. The board is looking to add a combined 86 cameras, two video recorder servers and supporting equipment at the Baggaley and Mountain View elementary campuses, based on cost quotes totaling...

Westmoreland County Airport Authority has wrapped up contracts for widening and strengthening the runway at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport while looking ahead to taxiway adjustments in the spring. Final change orders, for quantity adjustments, brought Golden Triangle Construction’s contract, for the second phase of the runway project, to slightly more...

Officials in PennDOT District 12 are looking to stock up on seasonal snowplow drivers and mechanics to avoid a labor shortage when winter arrives. A series of job fairs is planned at each of the district’s four county offices. Each will be held from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The...

America’s 20th-century “tree army” brought generations of citizens closer to nature’s wonders while enduring the nation’s greatest economic plight. If the political winds are favorable, new recruits might get the chance to repeat that effort during the current health crisis. U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Scranton, and the National Wildlife Federation...

Greensburg Salem School Board is looking to fill two positions at the district’s central administration office, with the pending departure of its business manager J.R. Dzurica. The board meanwhile is considering candidates for superintendent as Ken Bissell, the coordinator of secondary education, fills in as acting superintendent. Dzurica also serves...