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Joe Napsha | Tribune-Review Parking meters in downtown Irwin that give motorists 30 minutes of time for five cents. The borough set rates for refurbished meters at 30 minutes for 25 cents.   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Irwin officials took steps this week to standardize parking rates in the borough at 25 cents for 30 minutes. It’s part of an ongoing process that will start with buying 75 refurbished di...

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Westmoreland Manor could begin in-person visits with residents within weeks even as coronavirus cases continue to pop up among residents and staff at the county-owned nursing home in Hempfield. Officials said Thursday that one additional case was reported and there are three active coronavirus infections among residents at the 403-bed facility. One staff member is off work after...

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. For the first time this school year, all Norwin students will have the option of returning to class five days a week, beginning March 19, officials said. Bringing students back to class for five days of instruction “is something that’s been very important to our students and our community members,” Superintendent Jeff Taylor said at the school board’s workshop meeting Mo...

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Property owners in the Norwin School District will not have to pay more in school taxes in the 2021-2022 school year for the first time since 2011, Norwin’s top official promised. In promoting a commitment of doing more with less, Superintendent Jeff Taylor told the school board Monday there will not be a tax hike “unless the board directs me otherwise.” Norwin levies a pr...

Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review Melvin Leeper (left) of Kecksburg Rescue is handed PPE supplies Tuesday from Jeffery Wess at AHN Hempfield Neighborhood Hospital. Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review Jared Stone, station manager with Mutual Aid Ambulance Service in Greensburg, loads PPE supplies into an ambulance at AHN Hempfield Neighborhood Hospital on Tuesday. Nate Smallwood | Tribune-Review Lorenzo Garino, of Mutual Aid Ambulance Service in Greensburg, loads PPE supplies into his vehicle outs...

Norwin school officials are planning to discuss options for more in-person instruction during a school board meeting set for 6:30 p.m. Monday. Superintendent Jeff Taylor is expected to address plans for students in grades five through 11 to have the option of returning to school for four days of in-person

Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review The water fountains as the looked on opening day in June 2019 at Veterans’ Memorial Pool at Lynch Field in Greensburg.   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. A good lifeguard is hard to find, which is why Greensburg’s recreation department is offering free lifeguard certification courses as a new recruitment tool. “We had a difficult time in general getting kids to apply for th...

Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review Ruth Shuster is greeted by friends and family as she is honored for her 100th birthday Wednesday at the McDonald’s Big Mac Museum on Route 30 in North Huntingdon. Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review Ruth Shuster, 100, reacts with surprise as she opens the birthday mailbox filled with dozens of cards from well-wishers for her 100th birthday on Wednesday outside the McDonald’s Big Mac Museum on Route 30 in North Huntingdon. The mailbox was stationed outside the resta...

• Japanese troops invade Phillippines on Dec. 8, 1941 About 75,000 Filipino and American soldiers on the Bataan Peninsula of the island of Luzon surrendered to the Japanese Army on April 9, 1942 • Prisoners were forced to march 65 miles in intense heat to prison camps. • Thousands died or were killed by Japanese guards in what became known as the Bataan Death March. Source: History Channel website TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you n...

Tribune-Review Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review The Norwin Air Force Junior ROTC Cadets will be conducting a food drive on March 20 and 21 at the Norwin High School, where they will collect boxes of donated food items like this food drive the Westmoreland Democratic Committee conducted on Jan. 18 for the Westmoreland County Food Bank.   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The Norwin Air Force Junior ROTC Cadets pla...