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Export officials want residents to know that “no-parking” signs are not just suggestions. And they’re going to start towing cars to make sure the message comes through loud and clear. “We are serious about no-parking areas,” Mayor Joe Zaccagnini said at Monday’s council meeting. “We will have your car towed.”...

Murrysville council will take public comment March 3 on what could be its first tax increase in 13 years. The public hearing will explore a proposal to double earned-income taxes from the current 0.5% to 1%. “This goes back to our fiscal analysis and the need to identify alternate revenue...

As Christine Michaels, CEO of the National Alliance on Mental Illness’ Keystone Pennsylvania chapter, prepares for the group’s first virtual conference on Friday, she can’t help but think of her own family. This year’s conference, “Closing the Gap: Prioritizing the Needs of Traumatized Youth,” will focus on the impact that...

The most recent data from the state Department of Health shows 1,171 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the Murrysville area since the pandemic started in March. Of those positive results, 65 cases were reported in the past seven days. The health department on Monday released figures for the three ZIP...

Ron Suvak, principal at Franklin Regional Senior High School, said his goal for 2021 was simple: To ensure students’ second semester experience is better than the first, educationally, socially and emotionally. Suvak presented school board members with the results from a recent survey of high school students, focused on their...

For those who believe, ghosts come in a wide variety of forms: floating orbs of light, haunting voices or, as in the opinion of famed fictional ghostbuster Raymond Stantz, “a full-torso, free-floating apparition.” As it turns out, so do “ghost kitchens”: food-world phantoms that put emphasis on flavor rather than...

Catholic Schools Week, which begins Sunday, is going to look a little different this year at Mother of Sorrows School in Murrysville. But the fact that it’s happening at all — with a Jan. 31 appointment-only open house — is a testament to the ways the staff and the families...

Franklin Regional administrators on Monday will present the results of a high school student survey aimed at addressing educational concerns that have arisen during the covid-19 pandemic. Superintendent Gennaro Piraino said some students want more in-person instruction — the school’s current hybrid model has two groups attending in-person class two...

Murrysville’s new code enforcement officer is taking the lead in helping the municipality upgrade the system it uses to track information about properties. Code enforcement officer Josh Steele said the system, bought in the 1990s, has reached the end of its usefulness. “It works really well for what it does,...

The following charges are filed with Export District Judge Charles Conway. All persons charged have the right to a preliminary hearing and are innocent until proven guilty or pleading guilty before a judge in the Westmoreland County Court of Common Pleas. • Jessica L. Cochran, 45, of Jeannette with possession...

The Murrysville Recreation Department is seeking ways to keep the public engaged during the winter, through exercise promotional programs and other activities. It also is making sure those efforts are inclusive, working with its nonprofit foundation on a fundraiser to create a sensory pathway along one of its park trails....

Here are news briefs and event listings for the Murrysville Star’s coverage area. Submit an event or a news brief by emailing pvarine@triblive.com. East Suburban Artists League hosts Michigan artist The East Suburban Artists League will welcome guest speaker and president of the Detroit chapter of the Colored Pencil Society...

The federal government plans to issue Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer cards to eligible schools and students beginning in early spring, following President Joe Biden’s executive order last week boosting those benefits by 15%. Through P-EBT, eligible students receive temporary emergency nutrition benefits loaded on EBT cards used to purchase food....

The most recent data from the state Department of Health shows 1,106 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the Murrysville area since the pandemic started in March. Of those positive results, 62 cases were reported in the past seven days. The health department on Monday released figures for the three ZIP...

The Rotary’s motto is “People Helping People.” So when Murrysville-Export Rotary President John Hartman heard that a longtime law enforcement friend needed some help, he was ready to go. Both Hartman and Murrysville Police Capt. Chuck Tappe underwent police training together. But neither was anticipating the need that arose. “Last...

Here are news briefs and event listings for the Murrysville Star’s coverage area. Submit an event or a news brief by emailing pvarine@triblive.com. Delmont library to host French program The Delmont Public Library will host a “Love My Library” program on Feb. 13. Or, as the French would say —...

As President Joe Biden settles into office amid the coronavirus pandemic, nonprofits and organizations battling drug addiction are urging the new administration not to lose sight of the national opioid crisis that predates covid-19 and has not slowed. “At the same time the coronavirus death toll grows, there is another...

Murrysville officials hope to break ground on an amphitheater and performance space at Murrysville Community Park by late spring or early summer. Council on Wednesday voted to reissue a request-for-proposals for a project consultant. A similar request last year returned proposals that Chief Administrator Jim Morrison said ranged between $60,000...

Pittsburgh Public Schools Board members are expected to make the “tough decision” next week to postpone the return of in-person learning until April 6, after the district’s spring break, board president Sylvia Wilson said Wednesday. “No one wants students back in school more than I do,” Wilson said. With covid-19...

A former McKeesport man who was arrested in connection with a 2019 fight and shooting at Monroeville Mall was sentenced to just over 5 years in federal prison following a conviction on narcotics and weapons charges. Jared Ogrosky, 23, formerly of Bowman Avenue, McKeesport, was convicted of narcotics trafficking and...

The Allegheny County Police are seeking information on a man who robbed the Family Dollar in Sharpsburg on Wednesday. County police responded to a request for assistance by Sharpsburg police after the Family Dollar on the 900 block of Main Street was robbed at gunpoint. Investigators described the suspect as...