Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review
Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review
A quarter and penny from the year the Export war memorial was moved were pressed between the monument and base. Export Historical Society officials did likewise when it was moved on Thursday, inserting 2021 quarters and pennies on each end of the memorial’s footer.
Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review
A quarter and penny from the year the Export war memorial was moved were pressed between the monument and base. Export Historical Society officials did likewise when it was moved on Thursday, inserting 2021 quarters and pennies on each end of the memorial’s footer.
Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review
Patrick Varine | Tribune-Review
The fourth phase of the Westmoreland Heritage Trail curently ends at Lincoln Avenue in Export. Trail officials are proposing a 750-foot extension using funds left over from the construction.
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Westmoreland Heritage Trail officials may not have determined precisely how they’re going to finish the section connecting Export and Delmont, but leftover funding from the trail’s fourth phase will extend it another 750 feet eastward.
Construction of the trail’s fourth phase, connecting Murrysville and Export, wrapped up with some money remaining, said Jeff Richards, the county’s Parks Planning Coordinator.
Dustin Norris was a competitor.
“We ran a race together, the Liberty Mile in Pittsburgh,” said Norris’ partner, Megan Nelson of Export. “I run a seven-minute mile, but we started the race and all of a sudden I realized I was about to die, he was running so fast. He finished in 6 minutes and 11 seconds, fifth in his age group, and that was straight off the couch with no training.”
When Nelson yelled at him for “running all-out like that, he just looked and me and said, ‘You told me it was a competition,’” she said.
Norris lost his life in a September 2020 motorcycle crash, and Nelson organized a memorial race that will take place April 24 in Norris’ hometown of Export.
Westmoreland County is planning $2.2 million in improvements at Allegheny Township’s Northmoreland Park this summer.
Brandon Simpson, the county’s parks and recreation director, said the work will include adding a large playground, a walking trail and a handicapped-accessible kayak and canoe launch.
Soccer complex No. 2, used by the Kiski Area Soccer League, also is slated for improvements, including about 50 new parking spaces, grading work and drainage upgrades.
A splash park that had been set to accompany the playground was nixed because of feasibility and cost issues, Simpson said.
The playground will be located at ball field No. 1 and be unlike any other in the county’s park system. Simpson said plans include mounds and more open and separate play pieces.
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