May 23, 2024 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Announcements
More than 40 volunteers from Peoples Gas placed flags on the graves of 2,000 veterans in McKeesport & Versailles Cemetery last week. (Submitted photo courtesy Peoples Gas)
Volunteers from Peoples Gas fanned out through McKeesport & Versailles Cemetery on Friday to place 2,000 American flags on the graves of veterans.
Despite inclement weather, about 40 employees completed the task in less than two hours with help from Amvets members, said Nick Paradise, Peoples Gas spokesman.
“While many of the veteran graves are in designated sections, plenty were within family plots or otherwise isolated, so our team spread out amongst the 44,000 gravestones to do our best to mark and honor each veteran, as well as the Civil War and WWII memorials,” Paradise said.
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May 22, 2024 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Announcements
(Source: Allegheny County Health Department)
The Allegheny County Health Department is requesting public comment on its 2025 Air Monitoring Network Plan, an annual report that provides a detailed description of how and where air pollution is monitored in Allegheny County.
Comments will be accepted until 4:30 p.m. on June 14. Comments may be submitted via e-mail to david.good@alleghenycounty.us.
The 2025 Air Monitoring Network Plan is a document required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It provides the specific location of each monitoring station, siting criteria, monitoring methods and objectives, frequency of sampling, pollutants measured at each station and aerial photographs showing their physical location.
The 2025 Air Monitoring Annual Network Plan was posted onto the ACHD Air Quality website on May 16. All correspondence must include first and last name and a complete mailing address. It can be downloaded as a PDF.
General information on the ACHD Air Quality Program’s public comment periods can be found online.
May 01, 2024 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Announcements
(Tube City Almanac photo)
Local officials are praising the speedy installation of a new traffic signal on Richland Avenue in Dravosburg.
The signal, which allows left turns at the intersection of Fifth Street and Richland, near Italian Village Pizza, is one of several improvements made to Dravosburg Hill in the wake of a crash between a car and a school-bus that claimed the life of a Serra Catholic High School student and seriously injured the bus driver and several other passengers.
The light is currently set to blinking red and yellow but will be operating in a few days, said a spokesperson for State Rep. Nick Pisciottano.
The signal was installed by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, which is currently working on an extension of the Mon-Fayette Expressway — Route 43 — that will cross Richland Avenue not far from the intersection.
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April 30, 2024 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Announcements
(Photo courtesy Penn State Extension)
Penn State Extension will host a food-safety course in McKeesport designed for volunteers who may be working at community events this year.
“Cooking for Crowds for Volunteers” will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. June 4 at Penn State Greater Allegheny, said Elizabeth Kocsis, Penn State Extension educator and Nutrition Links Supervisor for Allegheny County
Cooking for Crowds is a food safety course intended specifically to address safe food handling of foods served by volunteer-based organizations. It covers topics such as how food becomes unsafe, preparation practices to keep food safe, and purchasing and storage of food and supplies.
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April 30, 2024 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Announcements, West Newton News
(Photo courtesy West Newton Community Singers via Facebook)
West Newton Community Singers will hold its spring concert at 7:30 p.m. May 10 at the Presbyterian Church, corner of East Main and Third Street, a spokesperson said. Tickets can be purchased from members or at the door.
First Church of God will hold its annual strawberry festival from 4 to 7 p.m. May 23 at the Sewickley Grange, Mt. Pleasant Road, West Newton. The menu will include sandwiches, salads, desserts and beverages to eat-in or take out. Call (724) 872-7467.
West Newton Public Library, 124 N. Water St., will hold another book sale this coming Saturday (May 4) from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot. Items for sale will include adult fiction and non-fiction, paperback and hard cover books, children’s books, DVDs and music. A bag of books will be sold for $5.
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April 19, 2024 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Announcements
(Photo courtesy Altrusa Club of McKeesport)
The Altrusa Club of McKeesport will hold a mystery dinner fundraiser at The Rose Bar & Grille, 2811 Lincoln Way, in White Oak on May 4, a spokeswoman said.
The event, titled “Murder on the High Seas,” will raise money to support outreach from Altrusa, including donations to local charities such as the Salvation Army, The Intersection and animal-rescue organizations.
Tickets are $50. Reservations are limited to 100 people and sales will continue through this weekend, said Diane Kolesar, club treasurer and a member for more than 20 years.
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April 09, 2024 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Announcements
During the 2022 flag-raising ceremony, Jeffrey Alvarez, nursing director at UPMC McKeesport, liver transplant recipient Gene Wagner and Leslie Lash of the Center for Organ Recovery & Education displayed a flag for “National Donate Life Month.” (Tube City Almanac file photo)
UPMC McKeesport will join doctors, nurses, professional staff and patients for a flag-raising ceremony to celebrate April as “National Donate Life Month.”
The event will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the courtyard of the hospital, near the Prescott Building, a spokeswoman said.
National Donate Life Month, recognized each April, is an annual commemoration of organ donors and the recipients they have helped. A UPMC spokeswoman said more than 100,000 people in the United States are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant, and at least 17 will die each day waiting to receive an organ.
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March 26, 2024 |
By Jason Togyer | Posted in: Announcements
(Tube City Almanac file photo)
State and city officials are cheering the announcement Tuesday that $1.8 million in economic development funding has been allocated toward the replacement of the Versailles Avenue Bridge.
The two-lane span, which crosses Ravine Street, has been closed to all traffic since February 2022, when an inspection found that the bridge had become unsafe.
In a joint announcement, state Sen. Jim Brewster and state Rep. Matt Gergely said that a state multimodal transportation grant has been awarded to the city for a new bridge.
The grant was approved Tuesday during a meeting in Harrisburg of the Commonwealth Financing Authority, an independent agency of Pennsylvania’s Department of Community & Economic Development, the legislators said.
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March 04, 2024 |
By Jason Togyer | Posted in: Announcements
Built in the early 1960s to house the hospital’s School of Nursing, the Kelly Center at UPMC McKeesport is being demolished this month. (Tube City Almanac photo)
Demolition of the J. Clarence Kelly Center at UPMC McKeesport will free up space on the hospital campus for future reuse, a spokeswoman for the health system said.
The six-story building, constructed in 1963-64 as a dormitory and classroom building for the former McKeesport Hospital School of Nursing has been completely vacant since 2017 and was used only for meeting space prior to its closure, said Sarah Deist, senior manager of public relations for UPMC McKeesport, UPMC East and other hospitals.
The windows were removed last week. Deist said the demolition is expected to be complete by the end of summer.
No disruption to hospital operations is expected and while there will be temporary parking restrictions near the construction area, no long-term inconveniences are expected, Deist said.
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February 11, 2024 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Announcements
(Pennsylvania Resources Council photo)
Allegheny County and the Pennsylvania Resources Council will offer a glass recycling program in county parks again this year.
The PRC’s Traveling Glass Recycling Bin Program will be available February through November to allow residents a resource to recycle glass, a spokesperson said.
The service is increasingly important because many communities have reduced their recycling programs or do not offer collection of glass jars, bottles and jugs.
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