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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Local Pets Resources: Thursday Is National Pet Day

Where can I care for my pet in the Bridgeville, Collier, Scott, Heidelberg areas? Or should I adopt?

National Pet Day is Thursday, April 11, and what better time to care for your critter? Or perhaps this is the right time to adopt a new pet. According to petdayusa.com, the day was started by celebrity pet lifestyle expert and animal welfare advocate Colleen Paige in order "to celebrate the joy pets bring to our lives and to create public awareness about the plight of many different kinds of animals awaiting a forever home in shelters all across the nation." There are a few popular Pittsburgh-area shelters where you can adopt pets, including Animal Friends along Camp Horne Road in Ohio Township and the Animal Rescue League along Hamilton Avenue in Larimer. If adoption's not for you, the immediate Chartiers Valley area still offers many …

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Restaurant Spotlight: Gab & Eat

This week's restaurant spotlight is The Original Gab & Eat Restaurant, located on Washington Avenue just outside Carnegie. Lots of Chartiers Valley area restaurants, shops and other great places can be found in our directory. Review them here!

This week's restaurant spotlight is The Original Gab & Eat Restaurant, located on Washington Avenue in Scott Township. The walls of this classic neighborhood diner are covered with local awards and photos, as well as photos of celebrities who have stopped by. Gab & Eat serves up breakfast, featuring waffles, pancakes, omelets and eggs, and also offers sandwiches for lunch. The restaurant won a Patch 2012 Readers Choice award for Best Breakfast! Have you been there? Review this restaurant on The Original Gab & Eat Restaurant directory listing. Like the Chartiers Valley Patch Facebook page or sign up for our Daily E-mail Newsletter!

Mike Jones

9:10 am on Monday, March 11, 2013

Gab & Eat in Scott Township is still open despite renovations being done at the Glenn Scott Plaza.   more ›

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Glenn Scott Plaza Getting a Facelift

Crews are out repainting the building and adding prominent towers on both sides to spruce up the shopping center on the outskirts of Carnegie.

The Glenn Scott Plaza on Washington Avenue is getting a facelift. Crews are out repainting the building and adding prominent towers on both sides to spruce up the shopping center on the outskirts of Carnegie. A new Dollar Tree also recently opened in the strip mall. The reconstruction comes about seven months after a car crashed through the front  of the Tomatoes pizza shop. However, the facelift is to make the strip mall more attractive and not tied to that crash. Click above to watch a panoramic video of work being done on the shopping center. Like the Chartiers Valley Patch Facebook page or sign up for our Daily E-mail Newsletter

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Business Spotlight: LaBella Bean

This week's local business spotlight is LaBella Bean Coffee House & Eatery located on Washington Avenue in Bridgeville. There are lots of Chartiers Valley area restaurants, shops and other great places can be found in our directory. Review them here!

This week's local business spotlight is LaBella Bean Coffee House & Eatery, located on Washington Avenue in Bridgeville. Decked out with comfy couches and a view of downtown Bridgeville, this local coffee shop is a cornerstone of the community's business district. LaBella Bean serves more than 15 varieties of coffee and 10 types of tea. It features breakfast and lunch menus, and offers catering. Free wi-fi is available in the shop. Have you been there? Review this coffee shop on the LaBella Bean Coffee House & Eatery directory listing. Like the Chartiers Valley Patch Facebook page or sign up for our Daily E-mail Newsletter!

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Business Spotlight: Sarasnick's Hardware

Lots of Chartiers Valley area restaurants, shops and other great places can be found in our directory. Review them here!

This week's local business spotlight is Sarasnick Brothers Hardware, located on Washington Avenue in Bridgeville. Sarasnick's opened in 1938 and keeps the store full of everything needed for every project, from home repairs and plumbing to lawn and garden supplies. The shop is a staple of Bridgeville's business district, and was featured last year in a commercial for Chevrolet at the 1:20 minute mark. The video is attached to this article. It also won the Chartiers Valley Patch 2012 Readers' Choice Award for Best Home Improvement Store. Have you been there? Review this shop on the Sarasnick Brothers Hardware directory listing. Like the Chartiers Valley Patch Facebook page or sign up for our Daily E-mail Newsletter!

fran jones

9:51 am on Sunday, February 3, 2013

This is one hardware store that has everything. No matter what you need they have always had it. Don't bother looking at the other stores, Home Depot, Lowes etc.I just go to Sarasnicks.....   more ›

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Christmas Lights Coming Down in Bridgeville

The borough’s public works crews spent Tuesday taking down the holiday decorations that adorned each lamp post along Washington Avenue.

The holidays are officially over as the Christmas lights finally came down in Bridgeville this week. The borough’s public works crews spent Tuesday taking down the holiday decorations that adorned each lamp post along Washington Avenue. By noon, all the decorations on the westbound side of Route 50 were gone and dragged off in the public work department’s red pick-up truck. Do you still have your Christmas and holiday lights up at your house? When do you usually take them down? Tell us in the comment section below! Like the Chartiers Valley Patch Facebook page or sign up for our Daily E-mail Newsletter

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Mike Jones

10:04 am on Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Sounds like quite a chore! I think the nice weather expected this weekend will make it a little easier for me.   more ›

Monday, November 12, 2012

New Jazzercise Center Opening in Scott

A new Jazzercise fitness center is opening on Washington Avenue in Scott Township later this month.

A new Jazzercise fitness center is opening in Scott Township later this month. The center that teaches the high-tempo dance fitness routine will hold a grand opening “Girls Night Out” ceremony on Nov. 30 at 7 p.m. at its new location at 1100 Washington Avenue near Carnegie. The center offers 42 classes each week and will have a special for new customers that removes the normal $50 initiation fee for new members if they join from Dec. 1 to 3 during it’s Grand Opening sale. The Jazzercise fitness center is moving from its former location in Carnegie in order to expand and serve more customers. “Jazzercise is so popular in Carnegie that we found it necessary to move to a bigger facility with more amenities,” said Tamara Dzeskewicz, who is the…

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Afternoon Crash Leads to DUI Arrest

Police charged a Washington County man with DUI following a crash in Bridgeville. Police also released info from a DUI checkpoint earlier this month. Read police news from Bridgeville and Heidelberg in this week’s police blotter.

A Washington County man faces DUI charges after Bridgeville police said he crashed into another car on Washington Avenue in the middle of the afternoon. Police said they were called to a crash shortly before 1 p.m. on Aug. 18 in the 400 block of Washington Avenue and noticed one of the drivers might be impaired. John Flatz, 56, of South Strabane, failed a field sobriety test, police said, and was charged with DUI, prohibited acts and reckless driving. Police said no one was seriously injured in the crash.   Bridgeville DUI checkpoint arrests: Two people were arrested during the large DUI checkpoint in Bridgeville earlier this month. Bridgeville police said Robert Robison, 60, of Upper St. Clair, was charged with driving under the influence…

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Streetscape Project Nearly Finished

Bridgeville’s streetscape construction project is expected to be completed by the end of the month.

Bridgeville’s summer-long streetscape project is winding down and expected to be completed by the end of the month. That should come as welcome news for business owners who have been working around construction crews and motorists who have been stuck in traffic from the lack of turn lanes on Washington Avenue. All lanes should be reopened in a couple of weeks and the borough is now ordering bushes and other plants where the trees used to stand. Borough Manager Lori Collins said they will plant shamrock hollies, big blue lily turf and black eye susans. “We can’t put trees in because the planting beds are too shallow,” Collins said. “We’d end up with issues like we had before. “We’re happy about get everything in. Maybe next year, some of …

Friday, July 27, 2012

Elderly Drivers Crash Into Two Scott Businesses

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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