Hempfield Park’s Smail Auto Group Amphitheater in Hempfield Township, on Thursday, May 16, 2019.
Hempfield Park’s Smail Auto Group Amphitheater in Hempfield Township, on Thursday, May 16, 2019.
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Hempfield Park’s Smail Auto Group Amphitheater in Hempfield Township, as seen in May 2019.on Thursday, May 16, 2019. Murrysville officials are looking into using a $299,000 state grant to help fund a similar style of amphitheater at Murrysville Community Park.
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Murrysville officials hope to break ground on an amphitheater and performance space at Murrysville Community Park by late spring or early summer.
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Dan Silvey of Delmont looks for a John Grisham book Thursday at Delmont Public Library during a grand reopening at its new location on School Street in Delmont.
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Assistant director Ann McCamy checks out a customer at Delmont Public Library during a grand reopening at its new location on School Street in Delmont on Thursday.
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Zoe Eliason, 8, of Hempfield plays in a patch of sunlight inside the children’s area at Delmont Public Library during a grand reopening at its new location on School Street in Delmont on Thursday.
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Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County water rates will remain unchanged for the third straight year under a 2021-2022 operating budget approved Wednesday.
Authority board members unanimously voted to adopt the nearly $104 million budget that allocates about $7.3 million for routine capital improvement projects and maintenance of the water and sewer systems.
“It’s very important to remember that, by our growth, we’ve been able to keep rates steady,” said board Chairman Randy Roadman.
Officials said the average customer will continue to pay about $46 a month for water, a figure that authority leaders said is $15 below the national averages last compiled in 2017 by the U.S. Census Bureaus’s American Housing Survey.
When Alyson Holt pursued a degree in electrical engineering, she was keenly aware of how few fellow students looked like her. “Women were 6% of the students,” said Holt, 48, of Murrysville. Holt came from a family full of technology careers — both grandfathers were engineers, and her grandmother and
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Most Westmoreland County employees won’t see additional pay this month for working during the covid-19 pandemic, but commissioners Thursday agreed to a bump in wages for workers from a private company providing care at the county-owned nursing home.
The pandemic pay was included in a contract extension with Dedicated Nursing Associates of Delmont to provide staff to assist with operations at Westmoreland Manor in Hempfield. Commissioners Sean Kertes and Gina Cerilli approved the extension through Jan. 30.
“It’s the only company that can supply us with nurses so, if we don’t have them, we won’t have enough staff to care for our residents at the Manor,” Cerilli said.