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Penn Hills School District students pledge to promote peace
Penn Hills School District students recently participated in a non-violence week and promoted peace and unity. Students signed a peace pledge, and the signed pledges were hung in hallways. Elementary students also made various crafts featuring peace signs and positive messages....
Sewickley Valley Community Fund awarded record $40K in grants during pandemic
The Sewickley Valley Community Fund awarded a record number of grants this year to local organizations in need during the coronavirus pandemic and is now trying to raise funds to continue its work. John Poister, secretary for the SVCF, said the nonprofit was able to award more than $40,000 to...
Code Orange air quality alert issued for Allegheny County
High air pollution might pose a problem for vulnerable groups in Allegheny County Thursday, especially those in Liberty, Clairton and the surrounding area, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. The department issued a Code Orange air quality alert for particulate matter for Thursday. Rapidly rising temperatures Thursday morning...
Pittsburgh police seek missing teenage girl
Pittsburgh Police are looking for a teenage girl who has been missing since Wednesday afternoon, according to the city Department of Public Safety. Helen Bray, 14, was last seen in the 2800 block of Neeld Avenue in the city’s Beechview neighborhood around 2 p.m. Wednesday. Police do not have a...
The Stroller, Nov. 5, 2020: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Is your church or organization going to host a food drive or free Thanksgiving Dinner? Send information to The Stroller as soon as possible to vndnews@tribweb.com. Please include a daytime telephone number. Harrison church to offer holiday grief support session Christ Our Hope Anglican Church, Harrison, will offer, “Surviving the...
Ohio Valley Lines in Ambridge cancels open house, holiday train display this year
Model trains of Ohio Valley Lines in Ambridge will not pull out of their station this year due to health concerns and covid-19 safety restrictions. The club of locomotive enthusiasts have hosted an open house and holiday display for nearly 40 years. It’s been held the last two decades at...
New book chronicles North Huntingdon soldier’s recovery from life-altering accidentVideo
Two North Huntingdon veterans, Dan Priatko and his father, Bill — the son in the Army and the father in the Air Force — will observe Veterans Day at the J. Howard Snyder Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 781 in North Huntingdon, like they have for many years. Instead of...
Plum School District approves new deal with its food services department
Plum School District officials recently inked a new three-year deal with their food service workers. The previous contract expired in June. The new deals runs through this school year and the next two. District Business Manager John Zahorchak said the five cook managers and 25 other food service workers will...
Medical examiner IDs man shot, killed in car in Pittsburgh’s Highland Park area
A man was fatally shot inside a vehicle in Pittsburgh’s Highland Park area Wednesday night. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner identified the victim as Lavonte Martel Howard, 28, of Pittsburgh. City Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz said officers responded to a Shotspotter alert for multiple shots fired shortly before 8:10...
Pittsburgh police: Man in critical condition after being struck by vehicle
A man was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle in the city’s Homewood West neighborhood. Public Safety spokeswoman Cara Cruz said officers responded to a pedestrian struck by a vehicle shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday along the 800 block of Lincoln Avenue....
With narrow lead U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb declares victory over Republican challenger Sean ParnellVideo
U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb declared victory Wednesday night as incomplete results showed the Democratic incumbent take a whisker-close lead over Republican challenger Sean Parnell, with barely 700 votes separating the candidates in the hotly watched race for the 17th Congressional District. By noon Thursday, Lamb’s lead had grown to about...
Murrysville administrators look to bring next generation of municipal caretakers aboard
Murrysville’s top administrators are looking to put a transition team in place as both consider how they may spend their retirement in a few years. Although no official retirement announcements were made, council approved job descriptions for an assistant administrator and assistant finance director, hiring a Franklin Regional graduate for...
Greensburg rally: ‘Count all the votes,’ speakers sayVideo
In a sea of some 60 people rallying Wednesday in front of the Westmoreland County Courthouse for counting all mail-in ballots that reach county election bureaus by Friday, Bill Wertz of Greensburg stood out. At the Voice of Westmorelan rally, a community activist organization, Wertz admitted to the crowd carrying...
Tay Waltenbaugh concedes state Senate race to incumbent Kim Ward
First-time candidate Tay Waltenbaugh on Wednesday night conceded the race for the 39th District State Senate seat to incumbent Kim Ward, who had built a sizable lead as vote counting neared an end. “For nearly a year and a half, we have worked diligently to achieve victory on Nov. 3,”...
Protesters in Downtown Pittsburgh disperse, 3 from splinter group arrested
Pittsburgh police have arrested three people in connection with a protest downtown Wednesday night, according to Pittsburgh Public Safety officials. The arrests came after a small group of protesters broke off from a larger group and began overturning every garbage can they passed and knocking over traffic signs shortly before...
Oakmont’s Carrie DelRosso holds small lead over House Minority Leader Frank Dermody
A first-term Republican councilwoman from Oakmont held a small lead Friday over House Minority Leader Frank Dermody with thousands of votes yet to be counted in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties. The state’s unofficial election results on Thursday showed Carrie DelRosso’s early lead tighten to a margin of just 4 percentage...
Allegheny County warns of surging covid cases coupled with flu season
On a day that Allegheny County reported 200 new covid-19 cases — and the state set a single-day record for new cases, with more than 2,800 confirmed and probable infections — health officials implored residents to cooperate with case investigations and contact tracing. “The behavior of the virus in our...
Joyce holds big lead for second term in Congress
U.S. Rep. John Joyce, R-Blair County, appears poised to win a second term in office. On Wednesday afternoon, Joyce held a commanding lead over Democrat Todd Rowley of Donegal Township in Westmoreland County. According to unofficial results with more than 92% of state precincts reporting, Joyce received nearly 78% of...
Pennsylvania could be key in Republican legal election challenges
It is likely that Pennsylvania will remain the epicenter of Republican legal challenges to continuing election results in coming days, but whether those challenges will even matter was in doubt Wednesday evening. The state Republican Party on Tuesday filed two lawsuits in Pennsylvania challenging whether counties could follow Secretary of...
Pittsburgh residents vote to expand powers of Pittsburgh police review board
The independent board tasked with reviewing police conduct in Pittsburgh received an endorsement from voters Tuesday, who overwhelmingly voted to expand the board’s power. More than 76% of voters supported a ballot question expanding the board’s power, according to unofficial, incomplete election results as of Wednesday afternoon. “It’s a very...
Motorcyclist injured in New Stanton crash
A motorcyclist was seriously injured Wednesday when he crashed in a work zone along Route 119 North in New Stanton, according to a 911 dispatch supervisor. The accident occurred about 2 p.m. near Hepler’s Hardware, where the highway merges into one lane because of ongoing construction work in Youngwood. The...
Chick-fil-A in O’Hara expected to open by February
Work continues on the construction of fast food giant, Chick-fil-A, going up along Freeport Road in O’Hara. The restaurant will open at the far end of Fox Chapel Plaza where Rita’s Ice once stood. Despite construction delays because of covid-19 restrictions, the restaurant is expected to open by February, Township...
Westmoreland vote count continues, showing Trump with expected big lead
President Trump is on his way to another big victory in Westmoreland County. According to unofficial results, with more than 77% of the vote counted, Trump continued to hold a commanding lead over former Vice President Joe Biden among county voters. With all 307 precincts reporting votes cast in-person on...
No tax hike proposed in Bridgeville 2021 budget
Bridgeville council members are considering a balanced budget for 2021 that does not propose raising property taxes. Council heard from Joe Kauer, the borough’s newly-hired manager, during a budget hearing on Nov. 2. The meeting did not include any voting items and came one week before the Nov. 9 meeting,...
New Kensington-Arnold students will return to schools next week, superintendent says
New Kensington-Arnold School District will resume in-person instruction for students on Monday, Acting Superintendent Jon Banko said Wednesday. The district moved all students to remote instruction for the week of Nov. 2 on the advice of state officials citing Westmoreland County as having a substantial rate of community coronavirus spread....
