Western PA Local News category, Page 2966
Idlewild to open Saturday for 142nd time
Idlewild in Ligonier Township will open for its 142nd season Saturday and Sunday with special prices on admission and concessions. The park voted for the ninth consecutive year as “The Best Children’s Park in the World” by Amusement Today magazine will commemorate the start of its season with special $18.78...
Rep. Frankel, Pittsburgh Jewish lawmaker, outraged with pro-life group using Holocaust images
An anti-abortion group went too far this week when it sent state Rep. Dan Frankel said an email loaded with black and white photos of Holocaust death camp victims to protest his vote on an abortion bill, the Squirrel Hill lawmaker said. Frankel, who is Jewish, represents the district that...
Mini food pantry comes to Greensburg park
A new community food box in Greensburg is the centerpiece of a renovated parklet on South Pennsylvania Avenue. Anyone can access the two plastic containers in the tiny park. People can donate items, and those in need can take from the box. The Greensburg Volunteer Fire Department and its junior...
Greensburg boys get surprise reunion with Air National Guard father
It was all tears and shock when brothers Liam and Connor Gallagher turned around Friday at Aquinas Academy in Greensburg and saw their father. Patrick Gallagher, a master sergeant in the Air National Guard, walked out of the school kitchen. Gallagher had been deployed for six of the last nine...
Pittsburgh-based Yodel Labs wins AlphaLab Gear Hardware Cup
Have you ever had a hard time finding an item you needed in a densely packed supermarket? “Where in the world is the aisle that has my eye drops?” you may have asked yourself. Well, now there’s an app for that, thanks to Yodel Labs, a Pittsburgh-based company and Carnegie...
Murrysville sets fracking well hearing for next month
A public hearing on a proposed Titan well pad off Bollinger Road in Murrysville is scheduled for June 19. Murrysville council will host the 7 p.m. hearing on the unconventional gas well in council chambers at the municipal building, 4100 Sardis Road. The Titan pad, proposed by Canonsburg driller Huntley...
Derry Township bridge detour to begin in June
Motorists will have to detour around a section of Bergman Road in Derry Township beginning in June, as PennDOT works to replace a bridge across McGee Run. The detour is expected to last throughout the construction season, with access maintained for local traffic only within 500 feet of either end...
Yough 8th graders celebrate completing drug-alcohol prevention programVideo
There was no “Pomp and Circumstance” playing Friday in the auditorium at Yough Intermediate School, but 150 eighth graders were just as excited about being the first local graduating class of the Project Alert drug and alcohol awareness program. “Project Alert is a specialized, school-based prevention program for middle school...
Mac Miller Fund announces recipients of its initial grantsVideo
Many former students of Hope Academy of Music and the Arts in East Liberty knew Mac Miller. “His music was a part of their environment,” Linda Addlespurger, director of Hope Academy of Music and the Arts, said at a Friday news conference. “His death impacted them significantly. Many of them...
Wilmerding man pleads guilty to having fentanyl from New York
A Wilmerding man took a bus from Pittsburgh to New York and spent an hour there before returning home with a backpack full of heroin and fentanyl, federal authorities said Friday. Ronnell Lawrence, 31, pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to a drug crime after investigators found nearly 400 grams...
Plum teacher vies with 5 incumbents in Greater Latrobe School Board race
Five incumbents and a challenger are seeking primary nominations Tuesday for five seats on the Greater Latrobe School Board. Challenger David Vitula, a teacher at Plum Borough School District, appears on both party ballots, as do incumbents Susan Mains, Eric Hauser, Conrad Lazor and Merle Musick. Incumbent Dr. Michael Zorch...
Wanted: New place for Irwin fire whistle
Wanted: Home in Irwin for a fire whistle. Must be atop a high building and cause minimal disruption to neighbors when it sounds in the middle of the night. Irwin officials are trying to figure out what to do with the fire department’s whistle, which is mounted on the roof...
Monessen’s missing mayor says he hasn’t abandoned his city
It’s been a year since Monessen’s mayor last took a seat at the dais, leaving some residents of the Mon Valley city frustrated and prompting a state lawmaker to propose changing the Pennsylvania constitution to allow absentee elected municipal officials to be removed. Elected in 2017 for a term that...
17 indicted in suspected Western Pennsylvania cocaine ring
Seventeen members of a drug ring spanning four states have been indicted on 34 counts involving a scheme to deliver cocaine to the Pittsburgh area and other states, U.S. Attorney Scott Brady said Friday. “This is one of the largest cocaine distribution rings in Western Pennsylvania,” Brady said in a...
Greensburg husband, wife died 5 days apart, remembered as ‘classic American couple’
Howard and Frances Loflin were the “classic American couple,” according to daughter Stephanie Mulligan. “All of our friends tell me that my parents showed them what true love and marriage was like when they grew up in homes that didn’t have love,” Mulligan said. Meeting in kindergarten in Oberlin, Ohio,...
Highlands rallying community to save Tarentum family center
The Allegheny Intermediate Unit would be forced to close most of its centers serving vulnerable Allegheny County families because of a more than $1 million reduction in state funding. The Highlands School District has put out a “call to action” for support for the center in Tarentum, and the county’s...
Trees, trails part of Etna pool’s opening day celebration
Etna officials are using the kick-off of summer pool season as a springboard to launch several outdoor initiatives in the borough. When the Etna pool opens at 11 a.m. May 25, the Etna Community Organization and the borough will unveil a new Urban Walking Trail project, dedicate 12 newly planted...
Police investigating Harrison home invasion charge occupant with drug offenses
Authorities called to a Harrison house to investigate a reported home invasion this month ended up charging a man living there after he told them there was marijuana inside, according to police. Chase Taylor Young, 19, told Allegheny County Police he had marijuana in an upstairs safe and gave police...
Wilkinsburg CDC to host Two-Way Street Fest
The Wilkinsburg Community Development Corporation will host an event Saturday to celebrate and promote local businesses. The third-annual Two-Way Street Fest takes place on Wood Street between Penn and Franklin Avenues. “It’s a nice day to get out, talk to each other and to have a positive day of fun...
Airport board eyes Palmer bridge, Rostraver restroom
Work should begin soon to install a new passenger bridge at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport and extend utility lines for a new restroom at Rostraver Airport. The Westmoreland County Airport Authority awarded a $106,145 contract to Arcon Contracting for laying water and sewer lines to serve a new modular restroom...
Whitehall, PennDOT at odds over Baptist Road repairs
Tom Stefano fought back tears as he stood at the top of his Baptist Road driveway in Whitehall Borough. The gravel on the driveway is gone in some parts, shifted in others, due to water from heavy rains that swells up from underneath. There are drainage issues along the street....
CCAC to host VA official for roundtable
Paul R. Lawrence, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Under Secretary for Benefits, will be on hand Monday at the Community College of Allegheny County to meet student veterans, reservists and their dependents who attend CCAC. A CCAC spokesman said Lawrence will participate in an 11 a.m. roundtable discussion in...
5 things to do in Pittsburgh this weekend: May 17-19
If you aren’t one of the 70,000-plus fans going to the Garth Brooks concert on Saturday, here are some other options for what to do this weekend Spanish celebration ENIX Brewing in Homestead is hosting Feria, a festival from the south of Spain from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday. Guests...
Shady Side Academy students honored for stepping up fundraising efforts
Shady Side Academy students were honored by Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation for stepping up efforts to help sick children. The SSA Striders team, consisting of students and teachers, raised nearly $25,000 for the 2018 Walk for Children’s and plans to participate again in the 2019 walk on June 1....
Monroeville drug, alcohol rehab facility planned
A residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility is coming to Monroeville. Recovery Centers of America received unanimous approval May 14 from Monroeville council to begin renovating a vacant building at 2380 McGinley Road. The organization plans to spend up to $20 million on renovations. Approximately 78,000 square feet, the building...
