Plum News

Butch Frantz wants to stay on top of his children's progress in the Plum Borough School District.

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Plans are in the works for three Plum elementary schools. The Plum School Board approved hiring architectural firm L. Robert Kimble & Associates to draw up plans to construct a new Pivik Elementary School and renovate Adlai Stevenson and Holiday Park elementary schools.

Karen Zapf can be reached via e-mail or at 412-380-8522. The borough's proposed budget calls for two big items -- instituting a tax to fund the ambulance service and closing the police dispatch center.

Lance: To irresponsible political sign placers. Are you one of the people paid by a statewide political committee to stick signs in the ground? If so, go back out and get your signs off the sides of our highways.

Pivik Elementary School will remain closed tomorrow while gas lines are repaired, according to Plum School District spokeswoman Dawn Lynn Check.

The lack of high-profile races on the ballot for Tuesday's general election could result in lackluster voter turnout in the Alle-Kiski Valley.

Rex Rutkoski can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4664. The reality that she isn't dreaming still is just sinking in for Amy Colalella.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is working to find out what led to a fatal construction accident in Plum.

A New Kensington man pleaded guilty to homicide today in a 2008 stabbing death and thereby avoided a trial and possible life sentence.

PennDOT is forecasting major migraines on the Parkway East this weekend as it tries to cram as much work as possible into the waning days of the construction season.

Karen Zapf can be reached via e-mail or at 412-380-8522. A Sheetz convenience store is a step closer to coming to the East Oakmont section of Plum.

Construction workers clear machines yesterday from a new bridge that will carry eastbound turnpike traffic over the Allegheny River.

PLUM, Pa. - Federal workplace safety officials are investigating the death of a New Jersey construction worker crushed by a concrete slab at a job site near Pittsburgh.

Plum police and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are investigating the case on Route 909, where a construction project was taking place.

Not left, not straight, not even second right. There are several intersections in Warren that cause confusion and sometimes moving violations for some motorists.

Allegheny County sheriff's deputies arrested a convicted sex offender who they say violated his parole, converging on him while he played video games yesterday at a Lower Burrell bar.

A new book, "Remembering Monroeville: From Frontier to Boomtown," by Zandy Dudiak has been released by The History Press in Charleston, S.C. In the book, Dudiak, news editor of the Times Express in Monroeville - a Trib Total Media newspaper - relates 28 stories detailing Monroeville's evolution as part of Plum through its days as rural Patton ...

Police in Plum are looking for the person who robbed a store at gunpoint late Tuesday night.

Police are looking for the person who robbed a convenience store early Wednesday morning in Plum.