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Notes for Hope festival benefiting breast cancer research returns to Hyde Park
A music and food festival benefiting breast cancer research returns this month to Hyde Park. The 2022 Pink Day Notes for Hope Music and Food Festival will host a lineup of seven bands and food trucks from noon to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 16, at the Hyde Park Heritage Pavilion....
Building the Valley: Harmar candy store to relocate, rebrand in Buffalo Township
After four years, Harmar’s niche candy store Oh How Sweet It Is will be moving and opening at a new home in early September. Owner Robert Wyant announced the move recently in a Facebook post. The candy store will relocate to plaza in South Pike Square in Buffalo Township. Wyant...
Criminal charges, firing spark protest at Fawn Personal Care Home
A worker at a personal care home in Fawn was arrested after, police say, he injured an elderly patient Sunday. Luke Bondra, 43, of Arnold is charged with neglect of care of a dependent person, simple assault and harassment. The charges stem from an incident at Fawn Personal Care Home,...
Officials hold meeting to discuss status of Cheswick railroad crossing, safety measures
Officials from Cheswick, PennDOT, Norfolk Southern and the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission met Friday, July 8, to reexamine the status of a railroad crossing that is at the center of a lawsuit. Cheswick Councilman Michael Girardi said the meeting focused on whether the railroad crossing — at Pittsburgh and Blockdale...
Police say woman who reported thefts charged with felony after video shows her firing gun
A Tarentum woman who told police her boyfriend stole her cellphone and a $3,000 pair of eyeglasses faces a felony gun charge. Tanishia Teyla Allen-Colvin, 37, of the 600 block of East Seventh Avenue was charged with a count of carrying a firearm without a license along with reckless endangerment...
Northmoreland National Night Out gives first responders chance to interact with residents
Northmoreland National Night Out 2022 returns to Northmoreland Park this summer after a successful turnout last year, organizers said. The free event is open to the public and is scheduled from 5 to 8 p.m. Aug. 3. The picnic aims to build relationships between the community and first responders and...
New Kensington police seek help finding 17-year-old runaway
New Kensington police are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing teenager. Police said Patience Johnson, 17, is listed as a runaway. Police did not say when she was reported missing or how long she has been gone. Johnson has been listed as a runaway before, police said....
The Stroller, July 11, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15068. Please include a daytime telephone number. Volunteer opportunities available with Family Hospice Family Hospice, Part of UPMC, serves...
Hartwood Acres Sculpture Garden officially opens after years of work on the project
A formal ribbon-cutting was held Sunday afternoon to officially open the Hartwood Acres Sculpture Garden. The yearslong Allegheny County project involved refurbishing and relocating sculptures around the landscape to provide a centralized experience for parkgoers. There were 12 sculptures acquired in the mid-1980s that were sandblasted, repainted and rewelded. New...
The Stroller, July 10, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15068. Please include a daytime telephone number. Help available to apply for subsidized child care Allegheny Family Network North...
Arnold sergeant who set standard for department retires after 38 years
Joe Nixon knew it was time to retire from his nearly four-decade career as a police officer in Arnold, but knowing didn’t make doing it any easier. “The night I left, I cried the whole way home,” he said. “I knew I wasn’t coming back.” Nixon, 60, of Lower Burrell...
Sizzling Summer Night makes hot debut, draws big crowd in New Kensington
It was a community party in New Kensington as the Sizzling Summer Night event made its debut Saturday afternoon. Hundreds of people already were wandering along Fifth Avenue between Eighth and 11th streets or setting up chairs to sit and mingle at the beginning of the first hour. About 45...
Lock Fest in Harrison gives a glimpse into Allegheny River Lock 4, water safety
With weather made for being out on the river, it couldn’t have been a better day for the annual Lock Fest in Harrison, a free water safety event. The event gave the community a chance to get an inside look of the inner workings of Lock and Dam 4 in...
Underground Railroad presentation set for Apollo’s Drake Log Cabin
The history of the Underground Railroad in the region will come alive today when the Apollo Area Historical Society offers a free presentation about the pathway to freedom at 6:30 p.m. in Apollo’s historic Drake Log Cabin. The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established...
A hero’s funeral: More than 100 honor Oakdale police officer slain in Blawnox
More the 100 people, including police officers from across the state and Marines, paid respects to fallen Oakdale Police Officer Charles G. Stipetich on Saturday. Stipetich, 23, was fatally shot on July 3 while off duty in what police described as a road rage incident. He lived in Blawnox, and...
‘It’s a shocker.’ Kiski Township residents want local police back
When residents of Kiski Township and North Apollo awoke Friday morning, some were surprised to learn they had lost their 24-hour, seven-days-a-week police department. Four police officers and the police secretary quit Thursday and early Friday, leaving only a newly appointed police chief and the school resource officer. State police...
The Stroller, July 9, 2022: Events in the Alle-Kiski Valley
Publicize your community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least a week in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15068. Please include a daytime telephone number. Operation Gratitude to benefit troops, first responders The fourth annual Operation Gratitude...
Police: Woman arrested on warrant faces felony for trying to conceal heroin in her underwear
New Kensington police charged a woman wanted on an warrants with a felony after they said she lied about having drugs in her possession when she was arrested for driving with a license that was suspended for DUI. Ashley Rae Karns, 38, was charged with felony possession of contraband by...
Arnold Furniture founder Gene Miller remembered as ‘a great man’
Gene and Dorothy Miller decided to go into the furniture business after she was hurt in a car crash and unable to continue working as a nurse. Using money from their family vacation budget, they started Arnold Furniture in 1975 — now in its third generation of family ownership and...
7th suspect in New Kensington murder accused of supplying gun used in attack
A man from Pittsburgh’s Carrick neighborhood is accused of providing a gun used in the attack that ended in the death of a man in New Kensington on Sunday. Raquan Carpenter, 18, is the seventh suspect New Kensington and Westmoreland County authorities named in the killing of Jason Donald Raiford,...
Kiski Township police cite ‘hostile work environment’ in resignation letters
Kiski Township police officers cited what they describe as a “hostile work environment” in resignation letters to the township. Four of the township’s six officers resigned Thursday or early Friday, as did the township’s police secretary. The resignations came after the department’s former officer-in-charge filed a grievance with the township...
Lower Burrell considers new recycling contract for bigger bins on wheels
With options from two companies providing six bids, Lower Burrell Council is favoring vendor-provided, 65-gallon bins with lids on wheels for residents to store recyclables and tote to the curb. Shank Waste Service Inc. of Lower Burrell and Waste Management of Moon Township submitted bids with city-supplied and contractor-supplied bins...
Vandergrift Council tables issue of joining Alle-Kiski Intergovernmental Council
Tight finances have prompted Vandergrift Council to delay joining the Alle-Kiski Intergovernmental Council. Action on joining the group of local communities, part of Westmoreland County’s first sub-regional plan, was tabled following a discussion at Tuesday night’s council meeting. The Westmoreland County Planning Department established the council last year to provide...
Residents could be jailed for putting furniture out with trash in Vandergrift
Upholstered furniture items are now forbidden to be put out for garbage pick-ups in Vandergrift. Council on Tuesday unanimously approved an ordinance prohibiting residents from doing that. Anyone wanting to test how serious borough officials are about the ordinance should be prepared to pay a fine ranging from a minimum...
Graffiti vandals strike again in Vandergrift; artist offers to cover damage with mural
A homeowner dealing with ongoing vandalism issues in Vandergrift has an ally committed to combating negative art images in the borough with positivity. Deanna Whaley said it’s not the first time she has dealt with vandalism on her property, along the 200 block of Franklin Avenue, and she’s tired of...
