Archives for 2016

Sauce Bar & Burgers received a consumer alert from the Allegheny County Health Department on Thursday. According to the health department’s web site: A Consumer Alert was posted at the subject facility for Multiple coolers not maintaining proper product temperature/unsafe cold holding, Unsafe hot holding, Improper cooling, Toxic items improperly labeled, stored or used, Presence of… [Read More]

via Bridgeville Police Department’s Facebook page: The Bridgeville Volunteer Fire Department in cooperation with the Bridgeville Police Department and many other local emergency service organizations are working together to collect clothes, and other supplies for the victims of the West Virginia floods that ravaged the area last week. Items needed include cleaning supplies, personal hygiene,… [Read More]

The Tribune-Review’s Jim Spezialetti offers some perspective on how many people were interested in filling the council seat left vacant by the death of Bill Colussy: Bridgeville Council meetings usually draw a dozen or so people. The same number were recently interested in serving on council. Council voted 5-1 to appoint Bert Cherry, who had… [Read More]

The Chartiers Valley School Board approved the district’s first tax hike in six years on Tuesday night. The .3892 mill increase means an additional $38.92 in taxes for every $100,000 of your property’s value. Overall, Chartiers Valley still has the lowest property tax rate of any school district in Allegheny County, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Residents pay… [Read More]

Some of Bridgville’s fire hydrants have become camouflaged by the grass, weeds, and shrubs growing around them. That’s obviously not an good situation for firefighters who might respond to calls in those areas. Now the borough is reminding residents with fire hydrants on their property not to let them become hidden by vegetation. Letters are being sent to a few… [Read More]

Earlier today, borough council appointed Bert Cherry to fill the council seat left vacant by the death of councilman Bill Colussy. The vote was 5-1 in favor of Cherry who served on council in the 1980s and more recently sat on the library board and the parking authority. Councilman Neil Lyons casting the lone dissenting… [Read More]

Bridgeville Borough Council finally gave up asking Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway to repair a dangerous sidewalk in the railroad’s right of way. After many months of hearing the privately-owned railroad company say “no” to fixing the sidewalk, council decided last week that the borough will just pay to have the sidewalk repaired. The project… [Read More]

The Borough of Bridgeville is looking for candidates to fill the council seat formerly occupied by Bill Colussy, who died on May 27. The term lasts until January 2018. [Update]: Council will hold a special meeting on Friday, June 24 at 4 p.m. to select a new councilperson. Here’s the full legal ad: PUBLIC NOTICE The… [Read More]

A brief Flag Day ceremony will be held at the Bridgeville War Memorial on Tuesday, June 14 at 7 p.m. This event is organized by the Holy Child Knights of Columbus, along with Boy Scouts Troop 2, the Bridgeville American Legion Post 54, and the Cuddy VFW Post 586. If you have a flag that… [Read More]