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Courtesy of Westmoreland County IDC The Westmoreland Business & Research Park, seen here in 2017, sits off State Route 780 in Washington and Upper Burrell townships.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Directors for the Westmoreland County Industrial Development Corp. have approved an option agreement for a lot at the Westmoreland Business & Research Park that will add a new manufacturing facility and office building, along with potentially 50 new jobs. The agreement gives WAB Associates six months to final...

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Leechburg Borough is a big winner in Governor Wolf’s $45.9 million funding package designed for highway, bridge and rail improvements. Leechburg will receive $294,135 to mill and repave about 1.1 miles of roadway. The roads to be restored include those impacted by the recent project throughout the borough that was also funded by the state. Also in Armstrong County, North Apollo will get $84,539 for the restoration of Oakwood Avenue, a road that has been deteriorating due to...

Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review Derica Carter, 10, holds her new puppy, CareBear, a pure-bred German shepherd, after it was delivered to her home in Upper Burrell by volunteer firefighters from Upper Burrell Volunteer Fire Company on Thursday, April 15, 2021. Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review Derica Carter, 10, embraces her new puppy, Care Bear, a German shepherd, after the Upper Burrell Volunteer Fire Company delivered the dog to her Thursday. Shane Dunlap | Tribune-Review Vivian Drane, right, with Upper Burrell Volunteer Fire Company, hands off Care Bear, a German shepherd puppy, to Derica Car...

Tribune-Review   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Construction of a new Olympus Energy natural gas well in Upper Burrell will start in September, according to company officials. The so-called unconventional wells into Marcellus shale are used in the natural gas extraction process known as fracking. Construction of the new Calliope Well pad, at 812 White Cloud Road, is planned from September to December. The drilling of five wells at the Calliope pad is expected in July and August 2022 with the well going o...

Courtesy of Macy Miller   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Upper Burrell officials want to make sure PennDOT is aware of the extent of drainage issues with its drainage pipe from Route 780 and surrounding properties that discharge to Lower Drennan Road. During their meeting Wednesday, supervisors temporarily shelved development plans for a Dollar General along Route 780 at Dewey Drive until the developer irons out the drainage problem and PennDOT fixes it. The stormwater drainage for the store has become a...