Murrysville News

Laurel : To the PA Hero Walk. Everyone involved in the effort to raise money and awareness for the Wounded Warrior Project, which aids veterans returning from the Middle East, is to be commended for inspiring the successful effort.

Brian C. Rittmeyer can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4701. Walking about 300 miles between Philadelphia and New Kensington left Annette Gorgoglione with more than sore feet.

For years, they were confined, ordered to await death by the state's needle or God's hand.

Sean Hickey is seeing the country. Programs from all over are recruiting the 6-foot-6, 280-pound offensive lineman from Murrysville, Pa., and he's making sure he checks out as many of them as he can.

The Murrysville tax office is staying put, at least for now. The office, located in the municipal building next to Murrysville Public Library, was slated to be moved this summer to what is now a meeting room for local organizations.

Three former lunch ladies with the Woodland Hills School District filed a federal lawsuit this week, claiming they were fired due to their ages and overblown allegations of stealing leftover chicken nuggets.

A husband and wife have been jailed for smuggling $2.1 million worth of scrap silver out of a western Pennsylvania plant in their lunch boxes.

A husband and wife from Loyalhanna Township will do time for smuggling an estimated millions of dollars worth of scrap silver out of a Murrysville plant in their lunch boxes.

A husband-and-wife team convicted of stealing more than $2 million in scrap silver from a Murrysville factory were sentenced Monday to serve up to nearly two years in jail.

With the budget deadline looming on June 30, county commissioners from across Pennsylvania made a last minute plea yesterday to lawmakers for permission to raise sales taxes in their counties by 1 percentage point.

As the White Valley Church in Export is being considered for the National Register of Historic Places, the story of how it came to be is being uncovered along with many other stories of the tiny borough's past.

Paul Paterra can be reached via e-mail or at 724-836-6220. A Penn Township police officer will work in the Penn-Trafford School District each day of the upcoming school year.

Liz Hayes can be reached via e-mail or at 724-226-4680. When Al Pulice of Murrysville first planned to walk across Pennsylvania to raise money for injured veterans, he envisioned himself walking alone, sleeping in a roadside tent.

Residents of Murrysville who have trash as a result of this week's flood can obtain a special permit from the municipal office to dispose of items at the Pleasant Valley Landfill Monday through Friday.

Anyone interested in moving into Staymates Cabin can call Chief Administrator Jim Morrison at 724-327-2100, ext.

Thanks to the dedication of a group of volunteers, Murrysville's gardens will remain growing and blooming for decades to come.

Murrysville Council took apart its council chambers in a matter of minutes Wednesday evening.

The Export farmers market takes place every Tuesday from 4 to 7 p.m. on Export's Municipal Drive.

Aliquippa City Manager Thomas Stoner is caught between a financial rock and a hard place.

Jeff Giles of Murrysville looks at his firepit as the "fraternity stop" for neighborhood Little League dads who sometimes gather round longer than he would like.