Elizabeth Perry
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Lasagna Love volunteer Joe Allen prepares lasagna in his Crafton home. Local cooks celebrate National Lasagna Day year-round Crafton resident Joe Allen faced a challenge that could only be met with Bulgarian sheep’s milk cheese. Allen volunteers with the organization Lasagna Love, a non-profit connecting hungry people with local volunteers willing to bring them home-cooked…
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Maribeth Taylor started off her comments to the McKees Rocks Borough Council ironically. “I want to wish you a happy anniversary,” Taylor said at the July 12 meeting. President Archie Brinza thanked her, but wasn’t sure what she meant. “This begins three years of me coming to council about the dumpster on 114 Sarah St.,”…
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The Western Pennsylvania Dachshund Club commemorated National Dachshund Day by donating two resuscitation masks for animals to the Kennedy Township Volunteer Fire Department. Pet resuscitation masks are specially shaped and can save an animal’s life during a fire by properly providing oxygen. Animals tend to hide during a fire, rather than try to escape, which…
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Sto-Rox directors unanimously voted down a proposal from officials at the Cornell district asking to combine the two neighboring school district’s girls’ basketball teams. Cornell Superintendent Aaron Thomas reached out to Sto-Rox Superintendent Megan Van Fossan with the proposal to merge the teams because they were both small, and because his district didn’t want their…
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Code Enforcement Officer Nick Leffakis has resigned his role with Stowe Township because of staffing issues and what he calls “over-involvement” from a commissioner. His last day was July 1. Leffakis said he left because he felt he’d been set up for failure. “The efforts that the township were going to put in were not…
