Penn Hills Progress category, Page 94
Penn Hills real estate transactions for the week of June 7
UERD Inc. sold property at 6827 Alcoma Drive to VB One LLC for $58,333. UERD Inc. sold property at 337 Augusta Ave. to VB One LLC for $58,333. UERD Inc. sold property at 700 Beulah Road to VB One LLC for $58,333. Bank New York Mellon Trust Co. sold property...
Snap Fitness in Verona, Plum to remain closed despite state’s move to green phase
Gyms and fitness centers in Allegheny County can reopen under strict guidelines now that the area was moved into the green phase of the state’s economic reopening plan. However, Snap Fitness franchises in Plum and Verona appear to have closed their doors for good. Franchisee Mike Mettee took to Facebook...
Abby Lee Miller issues apology amid ‘Dance Moms’ co-star’s claim of racist comments
Abby Lee Miller has apologized on social media for racially insensitive “words.” The former Penn Hills reality star put up a statement Thursday on Instagram. “I genuinely understand and deeply regret how my words have effected and hurt those around me in the past, particularly those in the Black...
Verona’s Farmers Market opens for the season with new safety precautionsVideo
Tents were spaced out farther than usual and vendors wore masks at Verona’s Farmers Market during the first event of the season. “We were a little nervous we wouldn’t be able to open,” market organizer Stefani Garibay said Thursday afternoon. “A lot of these guys depend on making their living...
‘Running slowly:’ June council meeting in Penn Hills canceled
A Penn Hills council meeting originally scheduled for June 15 has been canceled. Mayor Pauline Calabrese said canceling meetings during the summer months is common, when agendas are light and there are no ordinances up for a vote. “There’s just not a lot of issues and items,” she said. “And...
State Rep. Tony DeLuca up big in primary rematch against Erin Vecchio
Penn Hills School Board President Erin Vecchio appeared to come up short in her bid to oust longtime state Rep. Tony DeLuca, according to unofficial election returns. It was the second attempt by Vecchio, 61, to toss DeLuca, 83, from the office he’s held nearly four decades. He defeated her...
Love of basketball, family carries Jennifer Bruce Scott into Pitt hall of fame
Jennifer Bruce Scott began her AAU and high school girls basketball coaching career more than two decades ago, hoping to pass along the same passion and dedication to the game that drove her to four standout seasons at Pitt in the early 1980s. The Monroeville resident started in high school...
Gym patrons ‘not worried,’ flock to open Penn Hills gym
Build it and they will come. Fortunately for patrons using Webb’s World of Fitness in Penn Hills, the gym is already built. All its owners had to do was open its doors. Earlier in May, that’s what owners Linda and Monty Webb did. And their members, and more, came. “I’m...
Penn Hills Arts Council collecting supplies for Sojourner House
The Penn Hills Arts Council is looking for art supplies to donate to an organization that helps women recover from addiction. Catherine Meara, director of Penn Hills Arts Council, said she has already received donated supplies like coloring pencils, crayons, coloring books for children and adults, markers and paper. But...
Penn Hills real estate transactions for the week of May 24
Penn Hills Daniel Babuscio sold property at 11412 Azalea Drive to UCG Forty LLC for $44,500. Robert Adams sold property at 2604 Blackridge Ave. to Sarah L Tafel for $103,000. Joy Bowser sold property at 243 Bramble St. to Bank New York Mellon trustee for $15,000. Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency...
Penn Hills gym reopens despite Gov. Wolf’s orders
Gym co-owner Monty Webb of Plum said he’s had enough. He and his wife, Linda, own and operate Webb’s World of Fitness in Penn Hills. And he’s open for business. “I opened because it’s essential. Your heath is essential,” Webb said. “I got tired of the gyms getting thrown under...
Penn Hills gets Department of Justice grant
Penn Hills is slated to receive a $51,000 grant through a federal Department of Justice coronavirus emergency supplemental fund, announced U.S. Attorney Scott Brady’s office Wednesday. The DOJ funded its Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding program with $850 million in early April, shortly after President Trump signed a $2 trillion stimulus...
Penn Hills woman caught with unloaded revolver at Pittsburgh International Airport
A Penn Hills woman was arrested Friday by Allegheny County police after an unloaded revolver was found in her carry-on bag at Pittsburgh International Airport. A Transportation Security Administration officer spotted the gun when the woman was going through a checkpoint at the airport. Allegheny County Police charged Kierra Allen,...
Rosedale Beach Club, Blackridge Swim Club postponing season openings
Two private pools in Penn Hills plan on opening – but not this month. Rosedale Beach Club, at 5407 Third St. in Verona, originally scheduled opening over Memorial Day weekend. That date has been pushed to a tentative nonspecific date in June, said Dani Scott, the club’s secretary. If that...
Details emerge of how police charged Fox Chapel man with 2nd homicide in 3 months
Lured to his friend’s house to play video games and smoke marijuana, Christian Moore-Rouse didn’t even make it up the long driveway leading to Adam Rosenberg’s place in Fox Chapel. Instead, he was shot in the back of his head and dragged into a ditch, lifeless — and left to...
Police: Penn Hills man accused of stealing $19,500 outside Kennedy ATM
A Penn Hills man was arrested Wednesday morning on charges of stealing $19,500 on Dec. 30 in Kennedy from a vehicle parked by an automated teller machine, police said. Luis Carde, 48, is accused of smashing a window of the vehicle and stealing the cash. The vehicle belonged to a...
5 Lincoln Park homes slated for demolition
Penn Hills Council is expected to vote next week on whether to demolish five homes in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. The five houses slated for demolition are on Columbia and Blackadore avenues: • 1280 Blackadore Ave. • 246 Columbia Ave. • 248 Columbia Ave. • 7513 Columbia Ave. • 7515...
Fox Chapel man jailed in Baldwin man’s killing faces 2nd homicide charge
A Fox Chapel man accused of killing a Baldwin man in February now faces charges in connection with the death of a Verona man whose remains were found near the suspect’s home in March. Adam Rosenberg, 21, was charged Tuesday with criminal homicide, robbery, abuse of a corpse, tampering with...
Faces of courage: Ambulance personnel on coronavirus front lines
The call comes over their radio — the patient is having trouble breathing, they need an ambulance. Then, “call the center for special patient information,” says a Westmoreland 911 dispatcher. The paramedics know it’s likely they’re heading toward the invisible threat that everyone else is trying to stay away from...
Hundreds of suspected marijuana plants worth $500K seized in Penn Hills
Authorities seized hundreds of suspected marijuana plants during a raid on the home of a 66-year-old Penn Hills man, according to the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office. Kenneth Creekmore will face charges of drug possession and possession with intent to deliver, District Attorney spokesman Mike Manko said. Police from numerous...
Pending no longer: What will happen with the old municipal building in Penn Hills?
A developer with big plans for the old municipal building on Frankstown Road has fallen victim to the economic woes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The building at 12245 Frankstown Road had been under contract with Dolney Properties LLC since September. But as of May 1, the deal fell...
‘Sewing for Angels’ makes and delivers masks beyond Western Pennsylvania
A new Rosie the Riveter is in town. Today, the cultural icon from the World War II era, symbolizing women stepping up to work in factories and shipyards, has taken a different form: a group of more than 1,000 men, women and children – connected through social media – banded...
Portion of Indiana Road in Penn Hills closed through July
Work on Indiana Road in Penn Hills will keep a small section of the road closed through late July, PennDOT announced last week. The road closure between Hulton and Hamil roads began May 4. It will continue through July as crews work on a $1.97 million slide remediation project that...
Police: Boy stabbed twice after getting off bus in Penn Hills
A teen boy was stabbed after getting off a Port Authority bus in Penn Hills, police said. Penn Hills police Chief Howard Burton said the juvenile was stabbed twice in the back about 5 p.m. Monday at the intersection of Duff and Frankstown roads. He said a man and a...
Pandemics, economic woes: Turner Dairy Farms still ‘figures it out’ 90 years later
Ninety Aprils ago, a young Charlie Turner proposed to a widow who lived on a Penn Hills farm. The year was 1930. At age 25, and after 12 years of working on his dad’s farm in Wilkinsburg, Turner was ready for a life change. He had just five possessions: four...
