Valley News Dispatch category, Page 643

A Pittsburgh husband and wife bought a 50 percent share of River Forest Country Club in Allegheny Township and want to open the course and its restaurant to the public. Jamy and Robert Rankin of Pittsburgh’s Stanton Heights neighborhood bought a share of the property that had been owned by...

The cost for Harmar to meet requirements related to a state anti-pollution program could be lower than the township anticipated. Township Engineer Matt Pitsch told Harmar supervisors last week that he thinks it will cost about $155,000 for the township to comply with the Department of Environmental Protection’s Municipal Separate...

Just minutes after Harrison residents Alyse and Joe Zylinski returned home from a walk with their 4-month-old baby Sunday, their house was struck by a downed tree. “I heard a boom, a big boom,” Alyse Zylinski said. “I looked up and it was coming toward (the skylight).” Although no one...

The outcome of a report of a malnourished dog at the Pittsburgh Mills Petland is unclear after new information came to light on Sunday. An initial report from Frazer police on Saturday indicated representatives from Animal Protectors of Allegheny Valley evaluated the dog and found it to not be malnourished,...

New Kensington will get its first medical marijuana dispensary Monday, Feb. 25 and become the state’s first such shop to let its customers pre-order products online. Cresco Yeltrah’s CY+ dispensary plans to open up for business at 10 a.m. Monday at 4 Kensington Square. The shop will become the company’s...

Work on a 1.5-mile extension of the Tredway recreational trail in Allegheny Township is expected to start at the end of April and be completed in August. PennDOT has awarded the $245,000 contract to A. Folino Construction, Inc., which submitted the lowest bid. Folino is tasked with extending the trail,...

Tropical storm force winds could hit western Pennsylvania Sunday afternoon and evening, according to the National Weather Service in Moon. Meteorologist Lee Kendricks said Sunday morning that sustained winds of 20 to 30 mph are expected to begin around lunchtime today and last through Monday morning. The region could see...

A Penn Hills man is accused of selling and providing the drugs that police allege killed a Lower Burrell man last summer. Christopher Krishawn Napper, 24, was charged this week in connection to the death of Douglas Shirey. Shirey, 41, of Lower Burrell died Aug. 26. Police said they were...

Next week PennDOT plans to install a lane barrier along a part of the two-lane Markle Road in Allegheny Township. But a permanent fix is nowhere in sight. It’s been more than a month since the Jan. 3 landslide closed one lane between Park and Pine Run roads. At some...

Investigators are trying to confirm the identify of a man whose body was found in the driver’s seat of a burned out car in East Franklin on Friday morning. The authorities believe the man is a 19-year-old from Manassas, Va. The 2000 Ford Mustang apparently had been driven off the...

Rayne Plance has seen first-hand the impact of a heroin overdose — she’s had several siblings struggle with addiction. It’s part of why Plance, a family support partner with Allegheny Family Network, wanted to bring a training session on how to prevent, recognize and respond to an overdose to Harrison,...

Calling all trucks: Harrison’s recreation board is going to be hosting another hands-on event in the township this year. The second annual Touch-A-Truck is scheduled for May 18 at Highlands High School. The Highlands School Board recently approved the recreation board’s request to use the high school grounds and parking...

A section of Freeport Road in Springdale Township closed Friday because of a landslide could potentially stay shut down until Monday as officials worry more debris could fall. PennDOT spokesman Steve Cowan said the slide, reported to PennDOT about 7 a.m., closed Freeport Road between the New Kensington Bridge and...

Burrell School District is seeking contract bids to repair Bon Air Elementary School’s parking lot and the girls softball field. The school board zeroed in on those two projects out of five proposed by the administration. Other projects included recrowning the football field or replacing it with a synthetic turf...

The Buffalo Township supervisors recently approved the last phase of the Village at Sarver’s Mill housing plan. Phase 5 allows the developer to construct up to 13 houses. The property is not far from the Butler-Freeport Community Trail and Little Buffalo Creek. It’s in the Freeport Area School District. According...

Harrison commissioners will be considering how to rebuild the township’s zoning and ordinance office after accepting the resignations of two of its three officials. Commissioners voted 3-0 Thursday to accept the resignations of office supervisor Lindsay Fraser and department coordinator Jody Lamison. Both will be effective March 1. Commissioners William...

A fund has been set up to help a couple who lost their home in a house fire in Allegheny Township last week. Mike and Suzanne Donnelly lost their home along Route 356 and several pets in a massive fire that closed the road and took firefighters hours to put...

Longtime Cheswick resident Brad Yaksich has been appointed to fill an empty seat on borough council through the end of the year. Council unanimously approved Yaksich’s appointment Tuesday. He will fill the seat previously held by Cathy Crail, who stepped down at the end of December. “His knowledge of our...

Highlands School Board has renewed a long-term agreement with Allegheny County for air quality monitoring. The county’s Health Department has been monitoring air quality in Harrison since the 1980s, department spokesman Ryan Scarpino said. The new three-year agreement for placement of an air monitoring station at Highlands High School runs...

A power outage that had been planned in part of East Deer on Wednesday has been rescheduled due to the weather, West Penn Power spokesman Todd Meyers said. The outage is now set for between about 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Thursday, he said. The utility will be upgrading facilities...