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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff, dies at 88
Chartiers Valley area real estate transactions, week of April 21, 2024
Bridgeville Michelle Shaw sold property at 310 Lesnett Road to Benjamin Lehman and Cora Zerfoss for $239,000. Bridget Peterson sold property at 991 Ridge Road to Frederick Snyder Jr. and Jillian Hutton for $250,000. Joseph Patterson sold property at 1561 Critchfield Drive to Sally Newcomer for $250,000. Rosanne Moore sold...
New Saturday Soirées series transforms the Carnegie Carnegie
“How was your weekend?” I am a lucky person because I can often start the work week by answering that question with the reply, “Great! I went to work this weekend and had a lot of fun!” That was certainly the case Monday, April 8, following the kickoff of our...
Scott, public works employees ink 5-year contract; new officer hired
Scott Township officals and its public works department have agreed to a new five-year contract. The contract provides for pay increases of 3.75% after the first year, 3.5% each year from 2025 to 2027, and 3.25% in 2028. Base wages will rise to $73,000 plus benefits. Township commissioners signed off...
Heidelberg Raceway featured in book published by Chartiers Valley 2nd graders
The history of the Heidelberg Raceway has been introduced to a new generation. Students in Shelley Territ’s second grade class at Chartiers Valley Primary School recently published a book, “The Story of the Heidelberg Raceway.” The Heidelberg Raceway held weekly races and other special events between 1948 and 1973. It...
Chartiers Valley Primary students put science skills to test at annual Olympiad
Chartiers Valley first grader Ivy Woods carefully lined up her small, wooden catapult and placed a gummy bear in its bucket. And with a quick fling of the catapult, the gummy bear launched in the target’s bull’s-eye. The gummy bear launch was one of 14 stations at Chartiers Valley Primary...
Chartiers Valley increases substitute rates in effort to draw more interest
In the hope of filling more positions, Chartiers Valley School District increased its pay rates for substitutes. School directors set the increased rates during their March 26 meeting. “The pay is going to help,” said Pat Connolly, Chartiers Valley’s director of finance and operation. “Every school district in Allegheny County...
Meetings scheduled for Chartiers Valley superintendent search
Taxpayers in the Chartiers Valley School District can sound off on what they’d like to see in the district’s next superintendent at two meetings later this month. Meetings are scheduled Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. in the district office training room, 2030 Swallow Hill Road; and April 22, from...
Chartiers Valley senior to compete at national business competition
Kendal Astor has been around sports her entire life. Growing up, the 18-year-old Chartiers Valley student was involved in softball and currently is the team manager for the Colts’ football, boys soccer and track teams. She competes on Chartiers Valley’s unified bocce team and is president of the school’s Best...
Chartiers Valley counselors present 3-year plan, a ‘snapshot of what we do’
Chartiers Valley School District counselors have updated school directors with a three-year district plan for career and technical education. Nicolette Churilla, K-12 counseling head and counselor at the Intermediate School, and Lesley Kunkel, a high school counselor, presented the school’s three-year guidance plan at a school board meeting in March....
Carnegie eyes parks, police technology improvements
Carnegie Borough is hoping to upgrade its parks as well as its technology in the police department. The borough recently was awarded a $178,786 police technology and wellness grant from the state’s Commission on Crime and Delinquency. With it, the borough has or will purchase more record management system licenses,...
Collier Eat’n Park demolished, set to be rebuilt and reopen by end of year
When the Eat’n Park on Washington Pike in Collier reopens later this year, the renovated restaurant will have a new pickup window, a salad bar and 100 more seats. The building was demolished Tuesday, April 2 to make way for the upgrades. West Deer-based Allison Park Contractors performed the demolition....
Gregg Avenue steps slated for rehab in Bridgeville
Bridgeville will be replacing steps near Gregg Street that are currently in poor condition. The borough was awarded $248,780 from the state’s multimodal transportation fund to pay for the project. The grants are awarded through the Commonwealth Financing Authority. Bridgeville’s project was announced by state Sen. Devlin Robinson, R-Bridgeville and...
‘Celebrate CV’ highlights school district’s students, achievements
The Chartiers Valley School District celebrated all that’s great in the district last month. The annual event, named “Celebrate CV,” is a districtwide open house that was held March 20. It consisted of more than 30 groups and activities, plus food trucks, games, and live performances from student musicians and...
Bridgeville cop watched cellphone in patrol car before striking pedestrian, police say
A former Bridgeville police patrolman was looking at his cellphone in December before striking and injuring a pedestrian with his patrol car, authorities said. It is unclear if Daine Lower, 25, of Washington, Washington County, was on his cellphone at the exact time of the accident, Allegheny County Police said....
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall Holds 4th annual Earth Day Celebration
I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t interested in environmentalism. My childhood home sat just across the river from Three Mile Island, site of an infamous partial nuclear meltdown four years before I was born. My parents, a couple of idealistic young hippie types, routinely took our family off...
In brief: Bridgeville, Carnegie area news and events, week of March 25, 2024 and beyond
Bridgeville Area Historical Society events scheduled Coordinated by the Bridgeville Area Historical Society, Gary Euler will present “The Life and Times of Roberto Clemente” on April 30. On Tuesday, May 28, Layla Asbury will present “An insight into the relationships of Presidents and their Wives.” Both events start at 7:30...
Chartiers Valley appoints interim superintendent, hires firm to help with search for replacement
Chartiers Valley has a plan in place as it searches for its next superintendent. The school board on March 12 appointed Julie Franczyk as interim superintendent. Franczyk came to Chartiers Valley in 2018 as the Intermediate School Principal. She was named assistant superintendent in 2022. Franczyk replaces Johannah Vanatta, who...
New initiatives at Carnegie Elementary aim to promote community
One thing realized from the covid-19 pandemic is the necessity of human connection and interaction in education, according to Carnegie Elementary principal Jenna Mozzocio. “We have the unique ability to be that connection,” Mozzocio said. “Everybody has something to gain when having a close connection with school.” In Mozzocio’s first...
Chartiers Valley softball aims to build on strong fall season
Chartiers Valley’s 2023 softball season came to a sudden halt when it was blanked in the WPIAL Class 4A semifinals. A 10-0 loss was not the way the Colts wanted their season to end against the team they shared the section title with. Fast forward a few months and the...
Chartiers Valley baseball maintains lofty goals despite inexperience
It might be a fresh start for the Chartiers Valley baseball team with a new coaching staff and a renovated lineup with a bevy of seniors graduating from a year ago, but the Colts don’t plan on missing a beat. After going 14-7 and sharing a section 3-4A title with...
Chartiers Valley area real estate transactions, week of March 24, 2024
Bridgeville Sandra Mekonis sold property at 207 Eisner Ave. to Ryan Snyder and Solomi Anwar for $175,000. Clinton Eric Gastgeb sold property at 165 Pennsylvania Ave. to Dana Martin for $257,000. Lauren Gregory sold property at 1028 Bank St. to Sean and Alyssa Airesman for $260,000. Michelle Shaw sold property...
Jury convicts Ohio felon in connection to armed robberies at pharmacies including Bridgeville, Pittsburgh
A federal jury has convicted an Ohio man accused of armed robbery at one pharmacy in the Buckeye State and five in Western Pennsylvania, including in Pittsburgh and Bridgeville. Abdulrahman Abdelaziz Jamea, 26 and formerly of Columbus, Ohio, was found guilty on three counts of conspiracy to commit armed pharmacy...
Chartiers Valley stings Greensburg Salem in overtime to win Class A Penguins Cup
Sometimes you just need a bounce. That’s what Chartiers Valley got in overtime to defeat Greensburg Salem, 2-1, in a tremendous PIHL Class A Penguins Cup championship game Tuesday night at the UPMC Lemieux Sports Complex in Cranberry. The Colts (23-0) got the game-winner when a shot from the right...
Chartiers Valley Primary School Principal named Penguins’ MVP
Deidra Stepko wasn’t too sure of being an administrator when she became the interim principal of Marion Elementary School in the Belle Vernon Area School District in 2018. She had taught first and third grades at the school, and she was uncertain if she’d like being in the principal’s office...
Public hearing for proposed Bridgeville comprehensive plan scheduled April 8
Bridgeville Council will hold a public hearing April 8 at 6:30 p.m. to hear comments on the borough’s proposed comprehensive plan. Comprehensive plans define a future vision for a municipality and are required under the state’s Municipalities Planning Code. Bridgeville’s Planning Commission recommended council schedule the public hearing so the...


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