Saturday, December 22, 2012
We’ve put together a “live traffic map” that shows you how Route 50 and other roads around the South Hills are moving as people make a final rush on Christmas shopping.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Mike Jones
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
There are only a few more shopping days left before Christmas and the strip malls and stores that dot Route 50 from Bridgeville to Heidelberg are expected to be packed. That means Washington Pike likely will be bumper-to-bumper traffic as people try to get out of Chartiers Valley Shopping Center, Great Southern, Collier Town Square or Raceway Plaza. We’ve put together a “live traffic map” that shows you how Route 50 and other roads around Pittsburgh are flowing. You can click on the map and move it around to see other parts of the South Hills. Like the Chartiers Valley Patch Facebook page or sign up for our Daily E-mail Newsletter
Monday, December 17, 2012
The Pennsylvania Lottery says one of the winning Powerball tickets worth $1 million was sold at the Shop’n Save in Raceway Plaza.
Someone in the Pittsburgh area might be $1 million richer. The Pennsylvania Lottery says one of the winning Powerball tickets worth $1 million was sold at the Shop’n Save in Raceway Plaza. The ticket for Saturday night’s drawing matched all five white balls but missed the red Powerball. The winning numbers for Saturday night’s drawing are 15-23-40-44-55, and the red Powerball is 14. The Pennsylvania Lottery is asking the winner to sign the back of the ticket, call the Lottery at 717-702-8146 and file a claim at Lottery headquarters in Dauphin County, or at any of Lottery’s seven area offices. The closest location to this area is 1424 Western Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15233. The phone number to that location is 412-770-2760. The winner has one …
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Two men are accused of stealing a woman's purse while she stood inside Walmart waiting for heavy rains to stop. Police think the men have stolen other purses in Carnegie and North Fayette.
A woman standing inside Walmart waiting for a heavy rainstorm to pass had her purse snatched from her shopping car earlier this month. Scott police said a man ran past the woman and nabbed the purse shortly before 10 p.m. Aug. 9. The purse contained credit cards, which police said were later used to make illegal purchases elsewhere. Scott police Chief Jim Secreet said investigators reviewed surveillance video of the incident and have two suspects in the theft. However, he did not name them because they have not been arrested, although he expected charges to be filed against the two men early next week. Secreet said the pair is also being investigated for similar thefts at the Carnegie Bingo and Walmart in North Fayette. He said authorities…
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Walmart
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Friday, July 27, 2012
Two elderly drivers crashed into separate Scott Township businesses within 45 hours of each other.
Two elderly drivers crashed into separate Scott Township businesses within 45 hours of each other, although no one was seriously injured in either accident. A woman accidentally hit the gas pedal instead of the brake around 8 a.m. Thursday, causing her car to careen into the Tomatoes pizza shop next door to the Gab & Eat diner, Glendale fire Chief Tom Salerno said. The unidentified woman and her husband, who was a passenger in the car, were evaluated at the scene, but not seriously injured. No one was inside the pizza shop, which has been open only part-time in recent weeks. Tire marks could be seen on the tile floor and the cashier’s table was nearly broken in half. It’s not known how much it will cost to fix the damage. “The whole car, …
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Shop & Save
2100 Washington Pike, Carnegie, PA
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The Original Gab & Eat Restaurant
1073 Washington Ave, Carnegie, PA
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Racing enthusiasts gathered Sunday for the unveiling of the Heidelberg Raceway historical marker. Do you have memories of the racetrack? Share them with us in the comments section!
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Mike Jones
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Jim “Fireball” Sarasnick raced cars at Heidelberg Raceway for most of the 1960s while living in Bridgeville. So he was saddened and very disappointed when the legendary local speedway closed and turned into a strip mall. But he was happy to return from his current home in Tucson, AZ, to pay homage to the legendary speedway that was officially named to Pennsylvania’s list of historical places on Sunday. “It was a bad dream,” Fireball Sarasnick said of when the track closed. “It would’ve been nice to keep it a racetrack. It was a lot of fun, exciting. This probably would’ve been a NASCAR track if it had stayed around.” Instead, Heidelberg Speedway closed in 1973. But not before the track, which straddles the municipal border between Scott …
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Kings Family Restaurant
2100 Washington Pike, Carnegie, PA
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Friday, July 13, 2012
History buffs and car enthusiasts will have plenty to do Sunday afternoon when a historical marker is unveiled at Heidelberg Raceway to honor its rich legacy.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Mike Jones
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Friday, July 13, 2012
History buffs and car enthusiasts will have plenty to do this weekend when a historical marker is unveiled at Heidelberg Raceway to honor its rich legacy. The dedication of the blue and yellow Pennsylvania Historical Marker located next to the King’s restaurant at Raceway Plaza will begin at 2 p.m. Sunday and include state and local dignitaries along with racing experts. Heidelberg officials have worked in recent year to have a historical marker erected at the old raceway after learning the last ever Big Top circus in the country closed its tents in the track’s infield. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus had its final show under the famous Big Top at the racetrack on July 16, 1956 before sports arenas or convention center were …
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Friday, June 17, 2011
We suggest five favorite books to kick-off Summer Reading.
Fiction: Kristin Bair O’Keefe’s “Thirsty: A Novel” explores the life of a Croatian emigrant, Klara, living in Thirsty, a hapless community vertical slope above the Pittsburgh steel industry, not unlike Clairton, Pa. Set in the late 19th Century, Bair O’Keefe’s novel explores oppression and poverty. Although, fraught with grim images of brutality and cruelty, there are moments of exquisite joy, artfully rendered by a superb storyteller. The book is a deeply personal account of hard-scrabbled lives of Pittsburgh’s immigrant communities; penniless foreigners who hoped for a brighter future for their children, our own foremothers. Short-Stories: There’s murder in McKees Rocks in “Pittsburgh Noir,” a compilation of short stories set in the …
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