East Vandergrift News

Chuck Biedka is a Valley News Dispatch staff writer and can be reached at 724-226-4711 or via e-mail. ALLEGHENY TOWNSHIP -- A Cheswick man will stand trial for the hit-and-run death of an East Vandergrift man in Lower Burrell last month, a district judge ordered on Thursday.

R.A. Monti is a Valley News Dispatch staff writer and can be reached at 724-226-4691 or via e-mail. According to state Rep.

Anthony M. Marasco, 29, of 1815 Pittsburgh St., Cheswick, is accused of leaving the scene of a fatal accident in the death of 46-year-old Robert Zidek of East Vandergrift.

Jodi Weigand is a Valley News Dispatch staff writer and can be reached at 724-226-4702 or via e-mail. East Vandergrift Senior Center patrons said on Tuesday that they wish they had been given the chance to try to save the place that many of them visit daily.

Liz Hayes is a Valley News Dispatch staff writer and can be reached at 724-226-4680 or via e-mail. The director of the Westmoreland County Area Agency on Aging said the decision to close the East Vandergrift Senior Center wasn't easy.