Allenport News

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.

John Lenhart doesn't have to look far for advice about running the restaurant that carries his name on Craven Hill in Fallowfield Township.

Chris Buckley can be reached via e-mail or at 724-684-2642. For the first time since its inception in 1985, the Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority will have a new carrier.

Two people have been charged with breaking into an Allenport house. R.E.S.A. police charged Stanley Morris, 20, of 193 Taylor Run Road, Carroll Township, and Kristen Garcia, 21, of 97 Kenric Ave., Donora, with burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief for allegedly breaking ...

A West Coast businessman is moving closer to reopening the Allenport rolling mill to manufacture a new stainless-steel laminate.

Chris Buckley can be reached via e-mail or at 724-684-2642. What if they conducted an election and no one ran? That nearly appears to be the case in many communities across the Valley, where no one is running or there are not enough candidates on the ballot for open positions.