May 03, 2022 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Crime and Police News
Allegheny County police are still looking for a man who is accused of dragging a police officer from a car for more than 200 feet along Route 51.
The car involved in the incident was located in Braddock on Monday, but the person who was operating the car, shown above, remains at large, said county police Sgt. Todd Dolfi. He is believed to be from the Mon-Yough area, police said.
Early Saturday morning, Whitehall police stopped a suspected drunken-driver on Route 51 near Baldwin High School. The driver was taken into custody without incident, police said.
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May 02, 2022 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Announcements, McKeesport and Region News
UPDATED Monday night with news that David Newell’s appearance has been postponed.
The spring commencement for Penn State University’s Greater Allegheny Campus will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Wunderley Gymnasium. Jacqueline Edmondson, chancellor and chief academic officer, will preside over the ceremony and recognize 37 candidates with degrees.
Namy-Paul Kihonia Makiese will deliver the student commencement address. Makiese, who is earning a bachelor’s in information sciences & technology from PSGA, is a student athlete who has captained the men’s soccer team for the past three seasons.
He also set the Penn State Greater Allegheny school record for the 200-meter and 60-meter track events. An active member of the Pan-African Union, Makiese is the son of Samuel Kihonia Makiese and Nancy Manzeke Nzasa.
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May 02, 2022 |
By Submitted Report | Posted in: Announcements, White Oak News
Coulterville Road in White Oak will be closed at Lincoln Way beginning Tuesday (May 3) so that crews can replace a bridge, the Allegheny County Department of Public Works announced.
The closure begins at 9 a.m., a spokesman said, and is scheduled to continue through October. It will affect only a short stretch of the road near Lincoln Way Supply.
Crews are replacing a bridge over Long Run and also paving and installing new guide rail and signage, the county said. The $949,777 project will be done by Pugliano Construction Co., Inc., of Plum.
The posted detour includes Lincoln Way, Maus Drive, Clay Pike, Robbins Station Road and Ridge Road.
May 01, 2022 |
By Jason Togyer | Posted in: McKeesport and Region News
Editor’s Note: The writer has a conflict of interest. See note at the end of this story.
“Try to sleep,” said Alvin Decker of this CSX Railroad train that was parked — engines still running — behind his home for 72 hours last week. A federal spokeswoman said there are no regulations about how long a train can idle. (Tube City Almanac photo)
Alvin Decker has lived in the city’s 10th Ward since 1950 — long enough ago to remember when steam engines pounded the rails on the tracks behind his Pacific Avenue home.
But the noise, he said, was nothing like the racket created by CSX Railroad’s diesel engines when they park — still running — for hours, and sometimes days, at a time.
It happens several times a month, said Decker and other neighbors.
Last week, a CSX freight train stopped Wednesday morning with its diesel engines running. It didn’t leave until Friday afternoon — more than 72 hours later.
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April 29, 2022 |
By Kristen Keleschenyi | Posted in: North Versailles Twp. News, Wilmerding News
Logan Elementary School sixth-graders were armed with shovels last week to help find a time capsule buried in Wilmerding more than 20 years ago. (Photos courtesy Kim Reno)
When you think of places for an archeological dig, Wilmerding probably doesn’t stand out as a prime location. But for a group of current and former East Allegheny students, the grounds of Westinghouse Arts Academy this month provided an exciting locale for an excursion 23 years in the making.
Back in 1999, students in Kim Bollinger’s sixth-grade science class at Westinghouse Elementary School, then part of the EA school district, put together a time capsule as the final part of their ongoing recycling project.
Westinghouse Elementary School closed in 2009 and now is home to the Westinghouse Arts Academy Charter School.
“At the time we didn’t have paper recycling bins [in the school],” says Kim Reno, formerly Kim Bollinger. “We put boxes in everyone’s room and had all of the teachers put their used paper in the box. My students once a month would load it into the back of my trunk and I would take it to the South Side and they paid you for the paper.”
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April 29, 2022 |
By Adam Reinherz | Posted in: McKeesport and Region News
A series of presentations at Wednesday’s meeting of McKeesport Area School Board congratulated community members.
Superintendent Mark Holtzman Jr. dedicated his initial comments to honoring former McKeesport Mayor Louis Washowich and presenting Washowich’s family with a plaque highlighting the late civil servant’s contributions to communal betterment.
The honorary gesture, Holtzman explained, was the suggestion of School Director Dave Donato, who in February said that Washowich should be recognized in the McKeesport High School Hall of Fame.
Washowich’s son Michael accepted the award and thanked the group before recounting the late mayor’s childhood, time at McKeesport High School and efforts to serve the city.
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April 29, 2022 |
By Adam Reinherz | Posted in: McKeesport and Region News
McKeesport Area School District is facing budgetary pressures from charter school tuition, salaries and employee benefits, Superintendent Mark Holtzman Jr. told the board this week.
Holtzman dedicated a portion of Wednesday’s meeting to informing school board members of the budgetary pressures facing the district.
The projected preliminary budget for 2022-23, Holtzman said, is $79,772,968, a 1.68 percent decrease from the previous year.
Holtzman noted that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, taxes were not raised — “for good reason,” he said — though that decision did mean the loss of $1.7 million in revenue for the district.
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April 27, 2022 |
By Bonnijean Cooney Adams | Posted in: Entertainment
Members of the cast of Serra Catholic’s “Beauty and the Beast” rehearse the entertaining “Gaston” dance scene. (Photo courtesy Serra Catholic High School)
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Serra Catholic High School presents:
“Beauty and the Beast”
Where: School gymnasium, 200 Hershey Drive, McKeesport
When: Friday, April 29 at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 30 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m., and Sunday, May 1 at 2 p.m.
Tickets: $8 for adults, $5 for students, available from any cast or crew member, in the main office, at the door, or by contacting fedorc@serrahs.org.
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With the available talent of this year’s Serra Catholic High School musical cast, director Jesse Bush said it seemed appropriate to grant a request.
“‘Beauty and the Beast’ has been highly requested over the years,” Bush said. “This seems like the right year to perform it.”
A full house is anticipated for each performance of the family-friendly show, which opens at 7 p.m. this Friday (April 29) at the school along Hershey Drive in McKeesport. It continues at 1 and 7 p.m. April 30, with a concluding matinee at 2 p.m. May 1.
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April 25, 2022 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
An argument in a liquor store led to the gunfire on Friday afternoon that left a city man dying in a Downtown street, according to Allegheny County police.
At least five shots were fired, including one that struck a car two blocks away and forced the driver to flee for their life, a criminal complaint states.
County detectives have charged Vernon D. “Vern Loc” Eutsey, 25, of Pittsburgh’s Hazelwood neighborhood with criminal homicide, reckless endangerment, tampering with physical evidence and unlawful possession of a firearm in connection with the death of 22-year-old Michael Gunter of McKeesport.
Police allege that Eutsey shot Gunter in broad daylight on a busy street, and then fled the scene. Gunter died about an hour later at UPMC Mercy hospital, Pittsburgh.
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April 23, 2022 |
By Staff Reports | Posted in: Crime and Police News
A city man died Friday afternoon following a shooting on a Downtown street in broad daylight.
Michael Gunter, 22, of McKeesport was pronounced dead at UPMC Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh about an hour after the incident, the Allegheny County medical examiner’s office said.
Allegheny County police said Gunter was shot at about 1:35 p.m. near the corner of Fifth Avenue and Market Street. His assailant then fled the area, police said.
Witnesses described multiple shots being fired. Police closed the intersection and re-routed traffic as the investigation continued on Friday. Officers searched the area around the Jerome Avenue Bridge following the incident.
Anyone with information concerning the shooting is asked to call the Allegheny County Police Tip Line at 1-833-ALL-TIPS. Callers may remain anonymous.
