Etna News

Because Independence Day is Saturday, the holiday will be observed by city, county, state and federal offices and courts tomorrow, when all will be closed.

Starting at 6 tonight, all northbound traffic on Route 28 will detour at Exit 5A in Etna and turn right onto the 62nd Street Bridge.

PennDOT has just released a summary of weekend construction projects. Listed below, we have the major closings and restrictions that may impact your travel.

The four new regional vicars are: Father Frederick Cain Father Cain, pastor of Holy Child Parish in Bridgeville, was ordained in May 1970 by then-Bishop Vincent Leonard.

In tribute to a Vietnam hero, Apache attack helicopters will swoop low over Sharpsburg on this D-Day anniversary as part of the dedication ceremony for a construction project at American Legion Post 106.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation announced that northbound Route 28 will be closed to thru-traffic at the Etna Interchange beginning at 6 p.m. on Sunday evening.

Matthew Santoni can be reached via e-mail or at 412-380-5625. Thousands of outbound Route 28 commuters will have to criss-cross the Allegheny River when roadwork closes a bridge in Etna from Sunday night through late October, PennDOT officials said.

Reconstruction work will close Route 28 outbound at Etna beginning Sunday, sending motorists on a detour across the Allegheny River.

One group is working to make Etna Borough a little brighter and more colorful, one flower bed at a time.

Police say Raymond Thomas Levy, 32, is a white man with fair skin and a slender face.

Kim Leonard can be reached via e-mail or at 412-380-5606. Tom Lewis III plans to promote his new wastewater treatment process for the natural gas drilling industry using one of the first three loans from a fund created to help entrepreneurs and small-business owners who are minorities or women.

Crews will be working on the inbound Parkway East off-ramp to Grant Street on Saturday from 7 a.m. to noon.

Greenhouse grown tomatoes sold by Volkar Farm on the first day of the Original Farmer's Night Market in Collier.

Three Pittsburgh-area businesses are the first recipients of the Metropolitan Loan Fund of Pittsburgh.

The Allegheny County Fire Marshal was called to investigate the cause of a house fire in Etna early Tuesday.

Route 28 inbound is reduced to one lane from the Highland Park Bridge to the Etna Interchange from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation said.

Loaded down with bags, Shirley Cohn waits patiently inside her assisted-living facility in O'Hara for her ride.

With an extra $10 or so a week in his paycheck, Rob Wycoff figures he could buy dinner at Eat'n Park.

South 26th Street and South 28th Street are closed at intersections with East Carson through mid-April. Intermittent lane restrictions may occur on East Carson from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. nightly through mid-April. Fort Pitt, Squirrel Hill tunnels -- Traffic will be restricted to a single lane at various times tonight through Thursday night as the ...

Heralding a season of abundant hard hats and orange barrels, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation yesterday listed $2.8 billion in highway and bridge projects that will move ahead this year, thanks in ...