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Grants totaling nearly $70 million will help fund more than 300 recreation and conservation projects across the state, including a number in the Alle-Kiski Valley and Westmoreland County, Gov. Tom Wolf recently announced. Included among the more than two dozen grants from the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for
It looks like something out of a fairy tale: A new rustic covered bridge nestled in the woods of Kiski Township on a walking trail. It crosses the rollicking Roaring Run stream near its confluence with the Kiski River. It’s about 1.5 miles up the Roaring Run Trail from Canal
Community events To have your event listed, send information to Carol Pinto-Smith, Valley News Dispatch, 210 Wood St., Tarentum, PA 15084; or email cpinto-smith@triblive.com. Trick-or-Treats Residents participating in trick-or-treat should turn on their porch lights. Allegheny Township: 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 30 Avonmore: All events are Oct. 30. A
The Great American Outdoors Act was passed last year to ease backlogs in maintenance of natural parks and recreational areas on public lands.
Businessman and philanthropist Victor Cucci of Covington, who arrived in the small mountain community nearly penniless and later founded an Italian restaurant that became a local institution, has died. Cucci died Thursday at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke after a brief hospitalization, according to his obituary and friends. His death resulted from natural causes, according to funeral director Anthony Lowry of Arritt Funeral Home, which is in charge of arrangements. He was 68, his obituary said. Vittorio Giuseppe Cucci, who was born in Carini, Sicily, and moved to Covington with...