September 20, 2024 |
By T.J. Martin | Posted in: East McKeesport News
Mia Hooper (right) recites the oath of office as she is sworn in as East McKeesport’s newest councilperson by Mayor Robert Howard.
East McKeesport Borough Council is back to its full complement of seven members with the appointment last week of new councilperson Mia Hooper.
Hooper was sworn in by Mayor Robert Howard at the council’s September monthly meeting. She replaces Linda Nolan, whose resignation due to a work conflict was announced last month. Her appointment was approved by a vote of 6-0 with Councilman Edgar Ruffolo absent.
A resident of East McKeesport since 2018, Hooper, 34, is the Chief Operating Officer of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council.
Asked why she applied for the open seat, Hooper said, “I wanted to get more involved in my community. I’m not going anywhere.”
August 19, 2024 |
By T.J. Martin | Posted in: East McKeesport News
New police Chief Scott Lowden has been with the East McKeesport department for 27 years. (T.J. Martin photo for Tube City Almanac)
There’s a new top cop in East McKeesport and next month, the borough will welcome a new councilperson as well.
At the monthly borough council meeting, Scott Lowden was sworn in as the new borough police chief. Lowden has been with the East McKeesport Police Department for 27 years, the last 25 of those as a full-time officer. As chief, Lowden will oversee a department of three full-time officers, including himself, and seven part-time officers.
He replaces Chief Russell Stroschein who retired in June.
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May 30, 2024 |
By T.J. Martin | Posted in: East McKeesport News, North Versailles Twp. News, Wilmerding News
East Allegheny School District property owners could see their first property tax increase in more than a decade.
The school board has approved a preliminary 2024-25 budget containing a mileage tax increase of just over 1.05 mills. School board members Tisha Thomas and Merle Pusey voted against the preliminary budget and Robert Trout was absent.
The preliminary budget must be voted on at next month’s school board meeting.
Director of Fiscal Services Toni Valicenti said the state dictates a maximum millage increase that every district can impose and the proposed increase in East Allegheny is half of the maximum allowed by the state.
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March 22, 2024 |
By T.J. Martin | Posted in: East McKeesport News
East McKeesport Borough will be able to add a fourth vehicle to its police department after initially believing that an accident earlier this year would leave it stuck with only three.
One of the borough’s 2017 Ford Explorers was traveling to an accident scene with its lights and siren activated when it was broadsided. There were no injuries but the vehicle was totaled.
In February, Council President John Ekiert said due to the age of the vehicle, the insurance payment wouldn’t be enough to purchase a new police vehicle and the borough didn’t have the money in its budget for one.
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March 17, 2024 |
By T.J. Martin | Posted in: East McKeesport News, North Versailles Twp. News, Wilmerding News
(Source: Pennsylvania Department of Drug & Alcohol Programs)
North Versailles Twp. police and the East Allegheny School Board are warning parents about the dangers children face from vaping.
At this month’s school board meeting, Acting Superintendent Joseph DiLucente told the board that he and Norm Locke, North Versailles assistant police chief, sent letters to parents earlier this month warning of the dangers children face from vaping.
The school district letter, signed by DiLucente, junior high school principal Mark Draskovich and senior high school principal Brian Ferek, notes, “We have noticed an unfortunate upward trend in drug use among our student population and youth in the Mon Valley as a whole.”
“I ask that you address the dangers of drug use, particularly unknown substances in vape devices, with your children. In speaking with Norm Locke, Assistant Chief of NVPD, and reviewing recent confiscations of vaping devices at the high school, this is our chief area of concern,” the letter continues.
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March 17, 2024 |
By T.J. Martin | Posted in: East McKeesport News, North Versailles Twp. News, Wilmerding News
(File photo courtesy Fire Department of North Versailles via Facebook)
While not as much as originally proposed, some volunteer firefighters in the five fire departments serving the communities in the East Allegheny School District will receive a real estate tax credit of up to $300.
The East Allegheny School Board voted 5-1 at their monthly meeting earlier this week to approve the program, with Board President John Savinda opposed, Merle “Bud” Pusey and Shannon Basa-Sabol abstaining and Macey Kinard absent.
The proposal will give an annual $300 real estate tax credit to qualifying homeowners who are volunteer firefighters in the five fire departments — Crestas, the Fire Department of North Versailles, Wilmerding, West Wilmerding and United, which serves East McKeesport and Wall — within the district. The proposal places an annual cap of $7,000 on the program.
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February 11, 2024 |
By T.J. Martin | Posted in: East McKeesport News
(T.J Martin photo for Tube City Almanac)
East McKeesport Borough has awarded a bid for a project to help alleviate a stormwater runoff issue and part of the project will utilize drainage pipes that the borough didn’t previously know existed.
The borough council voted unanimously to accept a bid of $249,633 from Cranberry Twp.-based State Pipe Services Inc. for the Ice Plant Hill Remediation Project. The project will be financed by three grants the borough has received.
Borough Engineer Laura Branthoover of Glenn Engineering & Associates said rainwater runs off the hillside bordering Ice Plant Hill and into the parking lot of the Wilmerding Community Center at the base of the hill.
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