Joyce Hanz stories, Page 58

An Aspinwall eatery is offering free home delivery of downsized Thanksgiving turkey meals this year, in response to recent covid-19 restrictions. Cornerstone Restaurant owner Erin Connolly said her regular Tuesday meal deliveries have been “through the roof,” with more people opting to remain at home this holiday season. She made...

A Leechburg Area School District student in grades 7-12 has tested positive for covid-19, Leechburg Superintendent Tiffany Nix said Monday in an email to district parents. It is the district’s first positive case. The district did not identify the infected or say what grade he or she is in. “Leechburg...

An iconic roadside eatery remains closed since March, due to covid-19 restrictions. The Cadet Restaurant, located along Route 422 in Manor Township, near Kittanning, has welcomed diners since opening in 1952. But owner George Morda, 90, said current coronavirus conditions are too dangerous to risk opening. Morda said customers have...

Kick off your holiday shopping when Leechburg presents its ninth annual “Luminate Leechburg” event, coinciding with Small Business Saturday on Nov. 28. Sponsored by the Leechburg Area Community Association, Luminate Leechburg is a “go” this year, despite covid-19 restrictions, but the popular parade is canceled. Normally the float-filled parade draws...

Formalwear and bling at bargain prices have arrived in Leechburg. Get Dressed Formals, a formalwear consignment shop for ladies, relocated from Vandergrift to 153 Market St. in Leechburg this month. Washington Township resident Michele Wehrle said she originally opened her store last year in response to customers seeking affordable formalwear....

The show will go on after all. Leechburg Area High School students will perform their postponed spring musical “Godspell” after the school board unanimously gave their blessing Wednesday night. The musical was canceled hours before opening night in March just as covid-19 pandemic restrictions and statewide school closures were imposed....

It’s lights, camera, action for three Leechburg Area High School students. Video Club members Eli and Nick Sherbondy and Tucker Spiering have been volunteering their time, broadcasting games on the district’s YouTube sports channel, in response to there being limited or no spectators allowed due to covid-19 restrictions. “We are...

The Leechburg Cemetery has a new entry sign that pays homage to its original. The sign at the cemetery was scrapped for metal in the 1940s during World War II and it hadn’t been replaced. The cemetery was founded in 1864. Longtime cemetery volunteer Larry Boehm, 47, installed the sign...

Meredith Levy of O’Hara was searching for a colorful and creative surprise for her twin daughters’ birthday during the covid-19 quarantine. She found it close to home. “I found these balloon arches offered by a lady online in a Fox Chapel Facebook group,” Levy said. “I ordered a Foxes-themed one...

The founder of a Leechburg fundraiser for breast cancer research managed to raise nearly as much money this year as she did last year, despite having to cancel this year’s major fundraising event because of the covid-19 pandemic. Leechburg’s Sherry Price, the founder and organizer of Pink Day, recently donated...

Leechburg Area School District students will receive instruction remotely for the next two Wednesdays so custodians can thoroughly clean the district’s buildings on those days. The district has been holding classes in person all five days each week. The move, approved by the school board on Wednesday, was prompted by...

Leechburg Public Library has a new location and reopening date. The library is set to welcome patrons Tuesday at 139 Market St., the former site of The Gifted Garden gift shop. Formerly housed within Leechburg Area High School for more than 93 years, the library closed abruptly in May for...

Lisa Akscyn of Manor Township has risen from a place of adversity. Akscyn, 54, received life-changing news in 2011 while caring for her terminally ill brother. “I got a letter in the mail informing me I was let go,” Akscyn said. She had lost her her lucrative, long-term corporate job...

Another food truck festival is coming to Leechburg. Oktober Fest 2020, sponsored by Leechburg Volunteer Fire Company, will be Saturday on the fire company grounds on Canal Street. The second mobile food-themed fundraiser comes on the heels of the inaugural food truck festival hosted last month, said Brian Scott, president...

A former restaurant in Leechburg remains unsold and is now up for public auction as the result of delinquent taxes. The former Pappy’s restaurant, located at 81-83 Second St., closed last year. The property, built in 1949, originally was listed for $185,000 last November by Coldwell Banker. The price has...

Alta Via, part of the Big Burrito Restaurant Group, reopened Oct. 6 Located in Fox Chapel Plaza in O’Hara Township, the upscale Italian-influenced eatery closed in June as pandemic restrictions tightened, along with Big Burrito’s five other specialty restaurants: Casbah, Eleven, Kaya, Soba and Umi. Those five have all reopened...

The Leechburg Volunteer Fire Company river rescue team has a new boat. The company took delivery of a new Rescue One inflatable rescue boat last week. It replaces a damaged 10-year-old Zodiak inflatable. Paid for with fundraising dollars, the new boat seats up to four people. It joins a larger...

The screams are silent this season at a popular Halloween destination in Fawn. The Shadows, Alle-Kiski’s only outdoor haunted attraction, announced late last month on Facebook that it would not open for the season. Co-owner Chuck Lynn said the decision not to open was made because of covid-19. “It was...

The only B&B in Leechburg is for sale. John Truett, a former Disney World executive, owns both the Old Parsonage Bed and Breakfast and the Enchanted Abbey (formerly Holy Innocents Episcopal Church) at 156 Siberian Ave. The two buildings are listed at $185,000 and are on the same lot. Truett,...