Monongahela News

WHEN Bob Zielinski, a former marine who owns a glass manufacturing company here, and his wife, Kim, showed contractors plans for the house they wanted to build -- a 53-foot-long glass-and-steel wedge cantilevered over their factory -- the contractors said they couldn't do it.

Adam Brandolph is a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 412-320-7886, via e-mail or on Twitter.

Paul Peirce is a Tribune-Review staff writer and can be reached at 724-850-2860 or via e-mail. A state appellate court has overturned the 2008 firing of Connellsville's health and code enforcement officer Rita Bornstein, saying she was denied due process.

While crews will be working throughout the year on the Aquatorium, the project will be ongoing for years, city councilwoman Claudia Williams announced Wednesday.

NEW EAGLE An in-house study estimated it would take less than half of an architectural firm's nearly $12 million price tag for making repairs to reopen two Ringgold School District elementary centers as middle schools, the school board learned tonight.

Jeff Pikulsky is a Valley Independent staff writer and can be reached at 724-684-2635 or via e-mail. Sitting in a backroom at the carpet and flooring business he has run on Main Street in Monongahela since 1975, Amoroso reflected on his early days as an entrepreneur.

The former varsity football coach and athletic director for Ringgold School District today pleaded no contest to charges stemming from the alleged sexual assault of a student while he was a teacher at Monongahela Elementary Center.

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania last week ruled that Rita Bornstein, former Connellsville City health officer, will be granted a new hearing by the city council of Connellsville in regards to her termination of employment -- four years after her dismissal.

A Donora woman who caused traffic to come to a stop in Monongahela Jan. 23 by walking around in nothing but underwear is facing criminal charges.

Once Brother Nathan Cochran settled upon an idea for his latest exhibition -- to bring attention to the talents of 20 regional artists -- the hard work began: deciding which artists to include.

A Pennsylvania woman stripped down in the middle of a street and slapped a bystander who asked if she was okay.

The merry-go-round of capital improvement projects and the brass ring of building openings and closings is spinning wildly in the Ringgold School District.

Police say a woman who stopped traffic in a western Pennsylvania city when she strode topless down the street and threw her shoes at a car could face criminal charges.

Stacy Wolford is a Valley Independent staff writer and can be reached via at 724-684-2640 or via e-mail. Monongahela police Chief Brian Tempest said officers were called to the 400 block of West Main Street, near McDonald's, at 3:18 p.m. after motorists saw the woman wearing only her underpants.

Coupon clipping has gone big-time for a Monongahela couple and that was before they reached the final round of a TLC reality show which airs tonight.

Walter H. Young , executive director of the Residence at Hilltop in Monongahela, was elected as the independent personal care representative for the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Health Care Association.

The Coast Guard reopened the Monongahela and Ohio rivers, Saturday, following the completion of salvage operations for two breakaway barges.

Her father was killed in a car crash in 1917, and when her mother remarried in 1918, Jackie moved to Monongahela, Pa., where her stepfather had a dairy farm.

A Monongahela man was arrested Sunday night by Monongahela police on several charges including attempted homicide by vehicle after twice trying to run over another man with his vehicle.

John Curcio, chief of Valley Inn Volunteer Fire Department said the blaze broke out around 5:20 a.m. in the single-story frame home at 12 Haywood St.