Cheswick News

* There are an estimated 27 million shoplifters in the United States. * About 25 percent of all shoplifters are juveniles.

George Guido can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4689. Council soon will have to reactivate its civil service commission.

Springdale High School's proposed two-story wing would house 17 classrooms. The first floor would have consumer science, foreign language, special education and regular classrooms plus a faculty room and storage space.

When customers shop for outdoor furniture, they seem to be focusing on pieces that will stand up to storms as well as an equally unsettled economy.

Emmett Nury, of Harmar, left, a coal miner, chats with John Graznak, of Culmerville, at the Mining Memories ribbon cutting for a new memorial for coal miners.

Michael Aubele can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4673. As for having Harmar join a regional police force: One side says absolutely.

Street address: 603 N. Highland Ave. Political experience: Appointed to council, served from 2006 to 2007 Employment: Operates an auto repair shop in Cheswick FRANK MELEDANDRI Party: Democrat Age: 61 Street address: 343 Stoneybrooke Drive Political experience: Has served seven terms on council, starting in 1982 Employment: Curtiss Wright ...

Route 28 will be reduced to a single lane in each direction in Springdale next week while crews seal cracks on the bridge carrying the highway over Yutes Run Road.

From the neatly manicured lawn to the fine white furniture to the majestic steeples, it looks like the perfect setting, but the Covenant at South Hills tops the list of commercial properties in Allegheny County that owe back real estate taxes.

What: Present results of an Allegheny River water pollution study. When: 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday On the Web: University of Pittsburgh Center for Healthy Environments and Communities, chec.pitt.edu Once a week The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission sets consumption limits on fish throughout the state.

George Guido can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4689. Cheswick Council is hoping to stave off the departure of one of the borough's biggest employers to the former Montgomery Wards building in Lower Burrell.

Mercury, arsenic and selenium found in fish sampled in the Allegheny River from Springdale north to Ford City were found at levels significantly higher than in fish in the Pittsburgh area, according to a new study.

Allison M. Heinrichs can be reached via e-mail or at 412-380-5607. Proposed changes to Allegheny County's air pollution laws would give the county carte blanche to assess fees and direct the money toward other uses, an energy company manager charged in a letter made public Tuesday.

Gene Sardone has enough money in his retirement account to get through the year, but after that, he's not so sure.

Allegheny Energy is cleaning up smokestack emissions from its Hatfield's Ferry coal-fired power plant in Greene County but wants to dump some of the toxic pollutants it takes out of the air into the drinking ...

Tom Yerace can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4675. Cheswick's business community is about to gain another retail store.

George Guido can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4689. Officials hope to get state and federal funding to upgrade the borough's water plant.

Westminster College's Public Relations Student Society of America will host the 2009 regional activity "Black, White, or Gray: Facing Diversity Issues of Today" Saturday, April 4 , from 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in ...

Last year, Alle-Kiski Valley residents cast their lines into the Allegheny River to aid researchers fishing for answers about the health of the waterway.

Nazareth print headlines Alleged bandit in federal custody Fast facts on Nazareth library >> Q. The correct answer to Thursday's poll question is peccadillo.