Southern Armstrong police are looking for a man who fled a police stop in Gilpin Township, Saturday night, police said. The motorist, Robert Sipe, fled from his vehicle and ran into a wooded area behind the Portage Inn when police stopped it in the area of Route 66 and Johnetta
A deteriorating steel dock along the Allegheny River in Gilpin is showing its age but has promise to be a boon to the local economy. Located in the township’s Schenley section, at milepost 30.8 on the Allegheny River north of Pittsburgh, it’s the last commercial dock going upriver from the
A Gilpin man alleges a pattern of mistreatment and humiliation by local law enforcement over a five-year period in a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Pittsburgh. Dennis Kreashko, 59, names Gilpin Township, Southern Armstrong Regional Police Department and the Armstrong County District Attorney’s Office as defendants in the
Gilpin officials are throwing a financial lifeline to a local EMS service based in Leechburg. Supervisors unanimously approved an EMS tax to help fund Lower Kiski Ambulance Service in an effort to intervene with much-needed funds. “EMS is a mandatory service that townships must supply to its residents per state