Arguments heard in Washington Co. precinct consolidation plan
Peters Township could be carved out of the Washington County Elections Board’s overall plan to consolidate precincts and merge polling places in more than a dozen municipalities ahead of the May 19 primary election. During a nearly three-hour hearing before Judge Michael Lucas at the Washington County Courthouse, testimony and arguments were heard both for and against the consolidation plan and whether the rest of the proposal could be approved if Peters Township is excluded. The plan would reduce the number of polling places in the county from 180 down to 156, which would affect the communities of California, Charleroi, Cross Creek Township, Donora, Fallowfield Township, ...
The South Strabane Township Board of Supervisors enacted an ordinance this week that will dissolve the parks and recreation commission. The supervisors voted 3-2 to do away with the commission at their meeting Tuesday. Supervisors Bob Weber and Russ Grego voted against it. Earlier this year supervisors had reopened the budget and developed a new spending plan that would have cut the $10,000 allocated to parks and recreation. However, that revised budget never came to fruition because it was not properly advertised prior to the Feb. 15 deadline. Supervisor Jeff Bull said the decision to move ahead with the cut “was more of a budgetary reason than anything. “Ten thousand dollars ...
DONORA Assault alleged: Cody Dewayne Roach, 35, of Monessen, was charged by Donora police Wednesday with aggravated assault, simple assault and reckless endangerment. According to the criminal complaint, at about 7 p.m. Wednesday, police were called to the 100 block of Ninth Street for a domestic incident. Roach is accused of punching his ex-girlfriend and throwing two knives at her 12-year-old son. District Judge Mark Wilson sent Roach to the Washington County jail on $50,000 bond. EAST WASHINGTON Trespassing: William Andrew Biggs, 32, of Pittsburgh, was charged by East Washington police Wednesday with burglary, criminal trespassing, resisting arrest and false identification to law ...
While it was chilly outside Tuesday morning, Marge Prall was able to get her exercise with a walk around Washington Crown Center. That will soon not be an option, as the North Franklin Township indoor shopping mall will soon be closed to walkers while it is being transformed into Franklin ...
Drip. Drip. Drip. More than a dozen maple trees scattered across Mingo Creek County Park were tapped earlier this month and slowly, but surely, flowed their watery sap into buckets to eventually be evaporated and converted into sweet syrup. The annual educational event at the Washington ...
A Fayette County man is accused of breaking into a home in Brownsville and assaulting a resident who shot him several times when he refused to leave. Ronald Rosiek, 69, was transported by medical helicopter to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital for emergency surgery after he was found by police. His condition was unknown Wednesday. The complaint indicated the alleged victim, a woman who was not identified, was able to identify Rosiek as the person who was in her home, but did not explain how she knew him. Court paperwork stated the woman called police to her home on 18th Street after Rosiek repeatedly rang her doorbell around 11:25 p.m., according to the complaint. In a follow-up call 15 ...
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Ben Kindel scored the shootout winner to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 4-3 win over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night. Rickard Rakell scored twice and had an assist, and Erik Karlsson also scored for the Penguins, who moved into second in the Metropolitan ...
Sebastian Shulsky flew under the radar for a while during his junior season at Canon-McMillan. That was until a game at Norwin last year. College coaches were not there to see him pitch. They came to watch a player from Norwin, Caden Sirvich, but Shulsky opened some eyes by pitching well with ...
Faith Partozoti and Z Kyiah Hines combined for seven RBI as Washington defeated host Beth-Center 13-4 in a non-section game on Thursday. Beth-Center led 4-3 before Wash High tied it in the fourth and scored four runs in both the fifth and sixth innings. Winning pitcher Chessa Henderson struck ...
Periodically, a news story comes across my iPad that I just can’t stop thinking about. This story started like this: “On February 21 police officers were dispatched to a bar.” That opening line drew me in almost as fast as “A Florida man ..." “The caller was the bartender,” and ...
Interviewing April Brucker is kind of a two-for-one proposition. She’ll run through all the things she’s been up to lately, whether it’s working on three separate screenplays at the same time, appearing on her own streaming chat show or working on a music video. But while Brucker is ...
