Archives for 2020

Bridgeville is on solid financial footing, despite the challenges presented by COVID-19, according to a recent budget review. Now, borough officials are eager to move forward with approximately $1.1 million in flood-prevention and community infrastructure projects. Approximately two-thirds of that cost will be funded by various grants. The borough may borrow the remaining $360,000 dollars,… [Read More]

Bridgeville isn’t lacking ideas to improve the community, says former mayor Pat DeBlasio Jr., but it has lacked the follow-through to turn those ideas into reality. As Bridgeville’s planning commission takes the initial steps toward creating a new community-wide comprehensive plan—a sort of roadmap for the the town’s future—DeBlasio is concerned that the borough will… [Read More]

For the past 18 months, some Bridgeville residents have complained that the borough’s new trash collection provider, County Hauling, damages garbage cans, leaves debris scattered in the streets, and misses some stops entirely. The unhappy Bridgeville residents aren’t alone, it seems. County Hauling has been criticized for similar issues in some other Pittsburgh-area communities recently…. [Read More]

If you have “Bridgeville traffic” on your Apocalypse 2020 bingo card, congratulations. Beginning Monday, two different road closings at the same damn time are likely to result in some traffic delays. First, a portion of Chartiers Street will close from Monday, July 20 through (approximately) Wednesday, July 22, as PennDOT workers try to stop the… [Read More]

During the first few months of the COVID-19 epidemic, Bridgeville-area emergency medical responders encountered numerous patients who seemed to have all the symptoms of the virus, but none of those people tested positive. That’s changed in recent weeks, as multiple people in the Greater Bridgeville Area have tested positive for COVID-19 after calling an ambulance… [Read More]