Grapeville News

Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation previously announced negotiations with respect to a third party seeking to acquire control of the company.

Matthew Richard Snyder closed his eyes and choked back tears as he told the friends and family of Christopher Allen Hays that he accepted responsibility for causing the 18-year-old's death last year.

The new president of Beacon Pennsylvania Holdings asked Hempfield supervisors Wednesday for at least another 120 days so he can raze the former Westmoreland Glass plant in the township's Grapeville section and salvage bricks from the decaying site.

A group of teenagers said they were taken aback by the extent of damage they saw in Jeannette on Wednesday, one week after it was ravaged by flooding caused by powerful thunderstorms.

Beacon Pennsylvania Holdings, a subsidiary of Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corp.

Teams from the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and Westmoreland County fanned out across flood-devastated areas Friday assessing damage from storms Wednesday night that turned meandering streams into raging rivers of destruction.

Aubrey Richardson, 12, swoops in with her plastic spoon to catch some chocolate ice cream oozing over the side of her banana-split boat.

The company that planned to develop the former Westmoreland Glass plant site in Hempfield says it has received an offer to sell controlling interest in the company.

Once the pride of the "Glass City," it's now a rusted, asbestos-laden shadow of its former glory.

Richard Gazarik can be reached via e-mail or at 724-830-6292. Hempfield has an identity crisis.

A Greensburg man has been charged in a November incident in which he waved his arms at a freight train in Grapeville and was struck by the locomotive.

The Hempfield supervisors want a financial audit of the township's 12 volunteer fire departments in 2009 "to get a better handle on resources in the township," according to John Silvis, chairman of the ...

Demolition of the former Westmoreland Glass Co. complex in Grapeville could begin early next year.

Late in October, just before his 65th birthday, Robert Marks got a phone call: Stop the pills.

The Grapeville Volunteer Fire Department is the oldest fire station in Hempfield, active since 1918.