Awardees honored by the Highmark Bright Blue Futures award program, including McKees Rocks’ Focus on Renewal. Focus on Renewal was singled out from among 170 applicants for a Highmark Rising…
McKees Rocks zoning will soon meet PA law
McKees Rocks Borough council members are reconsidering the zoning code to bring local ordinances in line with established law. Solicitor Meghan Turnbull described McKees Rocks zoning code as “quite old…
Carnegie ghost walk haunts a new trail
The former Haunted Carnegie Walking Tour is expanding and rebranding this Halloween season. (Photos)
McKEES ROCKS | ‘Welcome to the Table’ settles into a new post-Covid home
Welcome to the Table, the organization started by Marlene Banks in 2018 to help feed people who are hungry, has begun serving weekly, in-person meals again at the McKees Rocks…
VOTER GUIDE ’23 | Coraopolis candidate responds to Gazette 2.0 election questionnaire
Part 2 of 3 In early September, Gazette 2.0 sent out identical questionnaires to the more than 50 candidates running for election to various local offices in the upcoming November…
Fundraiser to help with updates to Carnegie Park shelter built by Depression-era stonemason
The grandson of Domenico Masciantonio, one of the original stonemasons who built the stone shelter in Carnegie Park, is fundraising for its rehabilitation. (Photos)
DEADLINES PAST | The death and afterlife of the ‘most beautiful girl in New York City’
Silent film star Olive Thomas, who hailed from McKees Rocks, died on September 10, 1920, in a Paris hotel room after ingesting poison while her husband said he lay sleeping.…







