Hyde Park News

Several novenas to be held in preparation for observance next week. Harpist to perform in Pike Township.

Local musicians with big hearts are about to make the Alle-Kiski Valley a more welcoming place for some of its youngest residents.

Final plans have been drawn up for a new district magistrate's office in northern Westmoreland County.

'Once Upon a Miracle': 14th annual Hometown Christmas includes 'Once Upon a Miracle' and holiday vignettes, music and dance When: 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday Where: Casino Theatre, Lincoln and Washington avenues, Vandergrift Admission: $10 and $15 Details: 724-567-5049; tickets available online at: www.casinotheatre.org ; or at ...

What possesses a man to steal his ex-employer's bus, take it for a three-state joy ride and then post a video of the lark on YouTube? "It was inspired," Jacob Rehm, 38, said outside court Tuesday.

Leechburg budget: For the past several years, the borough council has pulled a number of tricks so as not to raise taxes -- borrowing from the sewer fund, overestimating revenues and underestimating expenses.

He's a first-grader's best friend, and his best chance of avoiding diabetic shock, but school officials won't allow the German shepherd on campus.

New Kensington artist Erin Burkett began painting the Liberty Square mural on June 22 but her work really began two months before that.

George Guido can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4689. After nearly five years of waiting, residents of Copeland Road will have to wait only about three more weeks to cross the new bridge over Chartiers Run that replaces the one destroyed by the remnants of Hurricane Ivan on Sept.

Many of the 13 communities in the Kiski Valley Water Pollution Control Authority have fixed their aging sewerage systems over the years, but a handful of municipalities still are working on projects.

Reading Eagle: Lauren A. Little From left, Mike L. Budenz, Mike L. Esser, Sr., and Doug W. Mininger, all of Hyde Park-based paving contractor Windsor Service, along a section of Fifth Street Highway in Reading near the Muhlenberg Township line.

Mary Ann Thomas can be reached via e-mail or at 412-782-2121 x1510. Carnival tents, fresh lemonade, fudge puppies, games of chance and loads of family and friends crowded Railroad Avenue for Hyde Park Community Days on Friday.

The office for a consolidated magisterial district judge's territory handling cases from Lower Burrell to Vandergrift likely will open in Allegheny Township sometime next year, officials said.

The neurosurgeon, formerly known to the late Julie Irwin as "Dr. Gloom and Doom," entered the room.

Some Alle-Kiski Valley races for tax collector have attracted a number of candidates for Tuesday's primary.