Allenport News

Like their counterparts throughout this Mid-Mon Valley, the Stockdale Volunteer Fire Department enjoys a long legacy of dedicated firefighters.

Fran Roberts began working on cars as a teen. He still owns the 1969 Camaro he once raced.

Labor contract negotiations between the prospective buyer for the Allenport steel mill in Washington County and the United Steelworkers are scheduled to resume next week, said William "Russ" Kingston of Chino Hills, Calif., who has an agreement with Severstal North America to buy the plant.

Labor contract negotiations between the prospective buyer for the Allenport steel mill in Washington County and the United Steelworkers are scheduled to resume next week, said William "Russ" Kingston of Chino Hills, Calif., who has an agreement with Severstal North America to buy the plant.

Labor contract negotiations between the prospective buyer for the Allenport steel mill in Washington County and the United Steelworkers are scheduled to resume next week, said William "Russ" Kingston of Chino Hills, Calif., who has an agreement with Severstal North America to buy the plant.

Traffic is reduced to a single lane in each direction along Route 88 after a massive sinkhole opened up in Allenport.

Jodi Weigand can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7910. Traffic on Route 88 in Washington County will be slowed through at least the end of the month due to a large sinkhole that opened late this morning, said PennDOT spokesman Jay Ofsanik.

"I think it will be back on track rather shortly," Kingston told The Valley Independent.

Joe Napsha can be reached via e-mail or at 724-836-5252. A deal that would have given jobs to about 90 laid-off workers at a closed steel mill in Allenport in Washington County fell through Tuesday, leaving the prospective buyer of the mill and a union in disagreement over what killed the sale.

Negotiations between the United Steelworkers union and a California businessman who hopes to reopen a steel mill in Allenport in Washington County, are expected to resume Tuesday.

Severstal Wheeling, Inc. has signed a letter of intent to sell its Allenport, Pa., sheet rolling plant to North American Trading Company.

No one loved 5-Town Park more than Marguerite Cox. The lifelong Roscoe resident and her husband, Charles - along with a group of devoted volunteers - worked tirelessly to restore the park more than a decade ago.