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TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. North Huntingdon could lose its $30,000 grant for covid-related expenses because township officials are thumbing their noses at state public health mandates designed to mitigate the spread of coronavirus. County Commissioner Doug Chew said Wednesday during an online forum that the county is bound by contract to distribute federal CARES Act money only to entities that comply with state public health mandates. Township commissioners have spoken out against state limits on publi...

North Huntingdon property owners will not have to pay more in real estate taxes in 2021. The commissioners on Wednesday approved setting the tax rate at 11.55 mills for the $14.7 million general fund budget. Commissioner Jason Atwood was the lone opposition to setting the tax rate at 11.55 mills; Atwood and Commissioner Eric Gass opposed approving the budget. Atwood said last week during a special meeting he had wanted to raise taxes by about 2 mills to cover a budget deficit rather than transferring $1.14 million from the fund balance to provide enough money to cover expenses in 2021. Atwood...

Tribune-Review Westmoreland County Recorder of Deeds Frank Schiefer takes his oath of office during the swearing in ceremony at the Westmoreland County Courthouse in Greensburg, on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Westmoreland County commissioners are expected to settle a federal lawsuit filed earlier this year by a former employee claiming she was fired by new Republican Recorder of Deeds Frank Schiefer after he took office in January. The $27,500 settlement includes no admissio...

The coronavirus has been good for Westmoreland County’s bottom line. Commissioners on Thursday unanimously approved a $339.7 million budget for 2021 that does not raise property taxes in part because federal covid relief money held back to pay for personnel and other expenses related to the ongoing pandemic. Property taxes will remain at 21.49 mills, a figure set last year by the outgoing board of commissioners that represented a 2.4% increase and the first tax hike in 15 years. “Our goal this year was obviously with unemployment being so high and people being sick with covid is making su...

Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The number of patients hospitalized in Westmoreland County because of the coronavirus jumped 27% in the last few days — from 131 patients on Saturday to 166 on Wednesday, according to state data. That’s a 55% increase from Nov. 30, when the county reported its first triple-digit patient count. Excela Health last week added 12 beds at one of its three hospitals and is “consistently redeploying staff” to help treat covid patients, said ...