Gibsonia News

This is the second week of the Pine Creek Journal's list of area golf courses so that players may use it as a quick reference guide to finding their favorite places to play.

Christine's Painting Place is located at 5475 Wm. Flynn Highway, Gibsonia, Pa., and their phone number is 724-444-1411. There are things to do if you want to get away by yourself, or if you want to take the kids for an Christine's Painting Place Neigborhood: afternoon of fun.

Vanessa Cox's mother-in-law was the reason she joined Greater Harmony Chorus. Other members joined to sing with their grandmothers, or to be with other women who became empty nesters at home.

Rainy weather didn't dampen spirits at St. Barnabas' 90th anniversary celebration.

A man was killed in a crash in Richland Township overnight. Police said the man hit a concrete barrier at the intersection of Gibsonia on North Montour roads at about 11 p.m. Saturday.

Durham School Services, a York-based school bus provider, has notified the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry that it is closing its Gibsonia plant effective June 30.

When Nicola Moschella took a train to Germany from Italy to work construction in the 1950s, he always returned home with a freshly baked loaf of pumpernickel for his wife, Maria Rosaria, and the couple's children.

To Janet Littrell, Eden Hall Farm might as well be the Garden of Eden. "I think this is the most beautiful place on Earth," says Littrell, who moved from San Diego to Gibsonia in 2007 to serve as dean of Chatham University's College of Continuing and Professional Studies.

To Margaret Schlass, farming is a dance, and she follows the lead of the land. "You're just reacting to everything that's going on in the fields," she said.

Alice T. Carter is the theater critic for the Tribune-Review. She can be reached via e-mail or 412-320-7808. Cows that type and pigeons that party are among the characters set to appear as part of the Pittsburgh International Children's Theater's 40th season.

Chrysler plans to cut nearly 800 dealers, including in western Pa. Pittsburgh Business Times Photo by Brandon Poole, bizjournals View Larger Chrysler LLC plans to eliminate 789 dealerships, or about 25 percent of its dealers.

Emergency crews are at the scene of a fatal accident involving a car and a motorcycle.

America's best-known fighter-jet test pilot foresees a day when the military no longer needs pilots in the air.

As two of the four teams tied atop the Presidents' Athletic Conference standings, the Westminster College and Bethany College softball teams split a doubleheader at Bethany on Saturday.

To make a donation, send checks payable to 'Luke Hadley Foundation' to: North Districts Community Credit Union 5321 Wm.

The township soon will be welcoming an addition to the police force - a police dog.

Members of the community are invited a seven-week video series entitled "Discovering God's Way of Handling Money," on Wednesday evenings beginning April 15.

An Allegheny County man pleaded guilty to drunken driving this afternoon for a January 2008 incident in which state police said he crashed into a restaurant along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, injuring several people.

St. Ursula Parish is hosting a Vintage Fashion Show and Tea on Saturday, March 21, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will be fashions from the 1900s, tea, sandwiches and sweets.

Eight people from the Cranberry area were arrested Tuesday in a drug sweep by local police and the Butler County district attorney's office.