Brian C. Rittmeyer

2 days ago | triblive.com | Brian C. Rittmeyer

The Plum Chamber of Commerce’s streak of beautiful weather for its Touch-A-Truck event remains unbroken. The chamber hosted its fourth Touch-A-Truck on the campus of Plum Middle School and Holiday Park Intermediate School under sunny, blue skies and comfortable temperatures Saturday. Around 1,000 people were estimated to have attended, said Anna Nesbit, past chairperson of the chamber and committee chair for the event which featured more than two dozen vehicles of all types.

3 days ago | triblive.com | Brian C. Rittmeyer

A three-quarter replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., will make its only appearance in the Pittsburgh area this year in Shaler. The Wall That Heals and a mobile education center will be at Shaler Area High School over the Memorial Day weekend, May 22-26, as the cornerstone of the township’s 125th anniversary observances this year. The last time it was in the Pittsburgh area was in 2019 in Indiana. The wall will arrive in Shaler on May 21.

3 days ago | triblive.com | Brian C. Rittmeyer

GAMA Sports Training’s new home in Plum is “absolutely everything that this area needed,” says Gabrielle Fischetti. “It’s a big space that is going to create a lot of good athletes,” said Fischetti, 24, of Murrysville, a partner in GAMA Sports with her father, Joe Fischetti, and retired NFL football player Chris Edmonds of Penn Hills, who played for the Cincinnati Bengals in 2002 and 2003.

3 days ago | triblive.com | Brian C. Rittmeyer

Two teens were flown to Pittsburgh hospitals after a single-vehicle crash in Butler County Sunday, according to state police. According to state police, the crash happened around 7 a.m. on West Sunbury Road near Aggas Road in Center Township. State police said the vehicle, a pickup, went off the road after failing to negotiate a left curve. It hit a guardrail and then went into a heavily wooded area where it hit numerous trees and rolled over.

1 week ago | triblive.com | Brian C. Rittmeyer

Millvale’s newest park is open, but not finished. After years of work, residents of Millvale and the Shaler Area community celebrated the grand opening of Rainbow Raccoon Park on April 26. It’s located at an entry to Millvale, at the end of the Route 28 South exit into the borough, on East Ohio Street between Evergreen Avenue and Meade Street.