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Pike Street from Greenside Avenue to Central Avenue in Canonsburg will close at noon Friday for the Doowopalooza Festival. The Luksis lot and a portion of the Rite Aid lot will close at 2 p.m. Friday. Pike Street and the parking lots will reopen at 8 p.m. Sunday.
Bridge improvements
Improvements on several bridges will be done on the Parkway West in Pittsburgh and Carnegie beginning Monday night, weather permitting.
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Work will occur from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Mondays through Thursdays, 10 p.m. on Fridays to noon on Saturdays, 6 p.m. on Saturdays to noon Sundays and 6 p.m. Sundays to 6 a.m. on Mondays.
Work will occur on the ramp from the outbound parkway bridge over Banksville Road to the inbound parkway in Pittsburgh and three mainline parkway bridges over Carnegie from Monday through Aug. 15.
Property owners cited
Several Washington property owners were cited through the office of Senior District Judge Marjorie Teagarden for violating city ordinances. Each was fined $300 plus court costs unless otherwise noted.
Receiving citations July 1 were:
n Matthew Khanolkar, 46 Shannon Ave.; failure to maintain abondoned property;
n Washington/Greene County ARS, 54 N. Main St. Washington, for 440-450 Henderson Ave.; grass and weeds;
n William Wood, 160 Dunn Ave.; placed refrigerator at curb for collection before day and time.
Receiving citation July 2 was:
n Felix Piazza, 235 Moon Road, Washington, for 1350 Allison Ave.; failure to maintain abandoned property.
Man hospitalized
Chartiers Township police are investigating a shooting at a home on Gretna Road that occurred shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Police responded to 219 Gretna Road after a call to 911 reported that a man at the residence had been shot in the stomach.
Police said the man, who was not identified, was flown by emergency helicopter to UPMC-Presbyterian hospital, Pittsburgh, for treatment.
They are continuing to investigate the shooting.
No further information was available Wednesday night.
Multiple charges
Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, assisted by McDonald police, arrested Joseph Donald "Tex" Freund, 56, owner of Greater Pittsburgh Gun Club, 920 King Road, Robinson Township, Allegheny County, and charged him with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon on Wednesday.
Freund was taken by ATF agents for arraignment before a federal magistrate in Allegheny County, and was placed in Allegheny County Jail.
McDonald police also arrested Timothy Staub, 27, manager of the gun club, and his wife, Kimberly Staub, 27, after drugs reportedly were found at the business. The two were charged with possession, possession with intent to deliver and paraphernalia.
McDonald police Chief Mark Dorsey said the pair also were charged with endangering the welfare of children and recklessly endangering another person because they admitted to smoking drugs while their 1- and 2-year-old children were in the club where the Staubs and Freund live.
Timothy and Kimberly Staub were scheduled to be arraigned by video before District Justice Larry Hopkins at midnight Wednesday.
Mt. Pleasant Township and state police assisted in the arrests.
