Brackenridge News

Liz Hayes is a Valley News Dispatch staff writer and can be reached at 724-226-4680 or via e-mail. Ways to get us Sunday, January 3, 2010 To soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, the unending treat and gift packages from Cookies for Our Troops are more than a thoughtful gesture by folks back home, they are a major morale boost.

Pittsburgh has rarely played the Muse to the literary imagination. During its 250 years, when invoked by fiction writers, the city has served only as a stock character in the role of industrial boomtown or early American frontier.

Many Santas came through last month to ensure that about 450 families across several communities had food - and gifts - for Christmas.

Rex Rutkoski can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4664. Art's many expressions voice their colorful languages on the walls of Penn State, New Kensington Campus, throughout December.

Michael Aubele can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4673. Allegheny County Police questioned a man Thursday in connection with two robberies this week at the local Fueland gas station, but said they haven't made any arrests.

Two 18-year-old Brackenridge men have been arrested for allegedly robbing a 12-year-old boy.

For the second time in a little more than a month, a vehicle has smashed into Gatto Cycles Shop.

An East Pittsburgh public housing development has been awarded $4.4 million in federal stimulus funding for "green" renovations, federal and local officials said today.

Hard economic times have not hurt the goodwill of locals during the holidays. Area churches and community groups say they have more than enough food and helping hands for free meals on Thanksgiving.

A Brackenridge man who helped to rescue a Natrona man and four dogs from their burning house said a fireball that came at him Tuesday frightened him more than anything he saw in combat in the Middle East.

It is a tradition that started before the James 5:16 Center in Tarentum was a registered boxing club, and it continues today.

At age 80 and coming from a family of military veterans, Helen Stevenson worries that the importance of remembering the sacrifice of American soldiers is lost on today's younger generations.

Silence is golden?: When we learned last month the Flabeg Corp. had sold its Brackenridge plant site to neighboring Tomson Scrap, we were understandably concerned.

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.

A woman who was rescued from her burning home in Tarentum intentionally started the fire in an attempt to kill herself and her two young children, police said Tuesday.

Michael Remper said he didn't hesitate when he heard children screaming from the second floor of a burning house in Tarentum early this morning.

Flabeg Automotive U.S. Corp. will continue to lease the Brackenridge property it recently sold to Tomson Scrap Metal.

By George Guido , FOR THE VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Last updated: 8:26 am The comprehensive Natrona Revitalization Plan is nearly ready for publication.

A former Fawn Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization treasurer is charged with taking more than $15,000 from the PTO.

The Allegheny Health and Rehabilitation Center hopes to make Saturday's Make a Difference Day fundraiser an ongoing project.