Here’s a roundup of the news that happened in Penn Hills this week.
• Bill Fralic was posthumously named as a distinguished alumni of Penn Hills High School. He won a WPIAL wrestling title and helped the football team win three PIAA championships before graduating in 1981. He died in December 2018 at age 56.
• A Goodwill store is coming to Penn Hills, next to the Planet Fitness in the shopping center off Rodi Road. It could open by late October or early November.
• Darlene Kuszyk is Penn Hills’ Bee Lady. Every once in a while, she dresses as a bee to remind people to “bee safe” during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Concerns over covid-19 are making some students’ future in the ROTC program unclear.
• Door-to-door trick-or-treating is a “go” in Penn Hills. Mayor Pauline Calabrese said government doesn’t have the ability to cancel the traditioinal activity. There will be a socially distant car parade and “The Addams Family” film screening on Oct. 24 in Penn Hills Community Park.
• Police are searching for a man who they think robbed a Dollar Bank in Penn Hills on Sept. 29. Investigators think the same man robbed a Citizens Bank in Monroeville in late August.
