Valley News Dispatch category, Page 299

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. Dynamic Community Foundation plans golf outing A golf outing to benefit Dynamic...

Lower Burrell decked out its public works garage with balloons and a large lunch spread earlier this month to celebrate the retirement of longtime driver Edmund Homa. For 40 years, Homa, 66, of Lower Burrell has answered calls in the middle of the night to jump into a snowplow or...

A new business is coming to the former space where the Rivertown Pub and Grill operated on 118 Third St. in Leechburg. In 2019, Hyde Park resident Chris Frank kicked around the idea of opening a pool hall with his friend, Kevin McKee, to provide a space for people to...

Steve Fazekas fondly recalls the day he entered the world of ham radio operators at age 13 while trying to earn a merit badge for his Eagle Scout project. So when he came out to participate in the annual 24-hour field day held by the Skyview Radio Society in Upper...

Bill Cleaver feels safer having a gun around the house. But he doesn’t think he will be fully equipped to defend himself until he gets some training. His wife, Kathy, said she doesn’t want to have a gun in her home unless she knows how to use it properly. The...

East Deer officials are looking forward to their next phase of renovating the recreation facilities in East Deer Memorial Park. East Deer Commissioners Chairman Tony Taliani said the township was approved for a $50,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development’s Greenway Trails and Recreation Program (GTRP)....

New Kensington civic leader Jane Glenn is set to be remembered at the library that meant so much to her. Peoples Library will revamp the garden space behind the library into “The Jane Glenn Courtyard,” library Director David Hrivnak said. A banner announcing the future name and the library’s intentions...

A Pittsburgh woman is charged with criminal trespass, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest stemming from an incident Saturday afternoon in Kiski Township. Devondra Miller, 25, also has been charged by township police with public drunkenness and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police said they found Miller trespassing behind a residence along...

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. Bike run planned to benefit Alle-Kiski HOPE Center A bike run to...

Spending two weeks walking across the state for the 14th annual PA Hero Walk gives you plenty of time to think, said Travis Reesman after he and five other military veterans were met by an honor guard at the Lower Burrell VFW on Saturday. But the 28-year-old from Kittanning said...

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. Saxonburg Fireman’s Carnival opens Tuesday The Saxonburg Volunteer Fireman’s Carnival will be...

PennDOThas announced single-lane restrictions will begin Mondayon Route 910 at the northbound Route 28 interchange in Harmar. The restrictions will occur on northbound Route 910 at the Harmar (Exit 11) interchange between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. until the end of July. Crews from Swank Construction Co. will perform concrete...

The search for a new Tarentum manager is moving at a good clip, according to borough leaders. “We’ve already started to get applicants, and they’re quality people,” council President Scott Dadowski said. “I can’t share too much, but my fingers are crossed that things will be happening in the next...

Rising Highlands fourth grader Genisus Prager said the best hack she has learned for getting good grades is to ask questions. “You have to listen and help others, but you also have to know when to ask for help yourself,” said Genisus, 9. Her method appears to have worked. Genisus...

Meager finances and dwindling attendance will force Guardian Angels Parish in Harrison to reduce its seven churches into two campuses later this year. “Decisions to recommend the closing of churches are never easy and never taken lightly,” said the Rev. John Lendvai in a letter to parishioners. “This is a...

Vandergrift is working with the Westmoreland County Land Bank on plans for Olmsted Commons, a $332,000 half-acre park in the borough’s historic district. The state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources awarded $151,000 for the project. The borough will provide in-kind services to match the grant award. The site is...

In a 5-4 vote, the Freeport Area School Board narrowly passed its 2022-23 budget calling for a real estate tax increase of 6.7% for Butler County residents and a 1.68% increase for Armstrong County residents. Three of the four board members who voted against the budget said they didn’t want...

A portion of the Leechburg Area School District will see a real estate tax increase for the next school year. School directors adopted a $15.5 million budget that will hike real estate taxes in West Leechburg by 6.85 mills — an almost 6% increase. Real estate taxes will remain the...

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. Free concert planned at Concordia Lutheran Ministries Concordia at Cabot Haven Apartments...

A woman was taken to a hospital as a precaution after her Allegheny Township home went up in flames Thursday night. Crews from multiple departments responded about 8:40 p.m. to a two-alarm fire at the two-story house in the 100 block of River Forest Drive. Township Fire Chief Mike Nickels...

Jeffrey Mark Fondrk told a jury Thursday that as his wife lay unconscious on the floor of their Hyde Park home, he extracted a gate from under her body and stepped over her to pour a glass of Pepsi and did so again to sit on a sofa and watch...

Live music and a new T-shirt commemorating police Officers Derek Kotecki and Brian Shaw will highlight Back the Blue III Saturday at Mogie’s Irish Pub and Magill’s Grill in Lower Burrell. About 400 to 500 people are expected for the fundraiser from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. that benefits police...

There will be no increase in real estate taxes in the Deer Lakes School District for the coming academic year. The school board gave final approval Tuesday night to a $41.2 million budget that will hold the line on the real estate tax rate at 22.69 mills. The budget for...

At 95, Gerry Mohney of Lower Burrell does just fine living by herself. But the spry woman needed a little help Wednesday evening when a powerful storm blew down trees that blocked the front and back doors of her Russell Drive home. The storm knocked out her telephone service, so...

A vision that grew from a love for God and sports is continuing to grow each year. Fun and Freedom, a Christian-based nonprofit, held its annual four-day camp, which wraps up Friday in Springdale. . In its first year in 2009, the camp had 54 campers. This year, the count...