Throughout October, the Bridgeville Public Library becomes home to an impressive collection of outdoor and indoor art as part of the First Annual Bridgeville Library Sculpture Exhibition. The Bridgeville Library Sculpture Show is the result of a partnership of the Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors, Public Art Bridgeville, and the Bridgeville Public Library’s Bill & Grace… [Read More]
Archives for 2022
[Updated] Here Are The 4th of July Decoration Winners
AND THE WINNERS ARE… This year’s 4th of July Decoration Challenge winners are: 1).Missouri Avenue #1 1351 Missouri Avenue 2). Elm Street # 2 670 Elm Street 3). Charlet # 3 210 Charlet Streetwise Honorable Mention – Northwest Bank, 431 Avenue Prizes may be picked up at the Bridgeville Area Historical Society on Friday, July… [Read More]
Oyler: Operation Pastorius
For its first program meeting of the New Year, the Bridgeville Area Historical Society welcomed back an old friend, Dr. Todd DePastino, for an entertaining and informative talk on the 1942 German plot to sabotage key defense facilities in the United States, code-named “Operation Pastorious”. In addition to being a highly gifted historian focused on… [Read More]
Oyler: The JB Higbee International Glass Collectors Association
This document may be considered the formal announcement of the establishment of a new organization, the JB Higbee International Glass Collectors Association, also known as JBHIGCA. Its mission is to preserve the history and heritage of the JB Higbee Glass Company, a firm that operated in Bridgeville from 1907 to 1918 and produced thousands of… [Read More]
First Council Meeting of 2022 Brings A Few New Faces to Local Government
The winners of November’s borough council elections were sworn into office Monday night. First-time borough councilmember Justine Cimarolli joined incumbents William Henderson, Bruce Ghelarducci, Joe Verduci for a brief ceremony where they swore to uphold the United States and Pennsylvania constitutions while serving on council. Henderson was reappointed as council president, with Nino Petrocelli Sr…. [Read More]
Bridgeville Borough Council: Jan 10, 2022
Full meeting video, agenda, and reports to council.
Oyler: The Twenties Did Indeed Roar in Bridgeville
My research on Bridgeville in 1922 generated a number of newspaper clippings related to Prohibition, bootleggers, and speakeasies; a subject area that warrants a column of its own. The story of Bridgeville in the 1920s is a complicated tale involving respectable proprietors of commercial establishments, the Borough Council, the two-man police force, police from neighboring… [Read More]
PennDOT Begins Revamping Busy Bridgeville-South Fayette Intersection [Post-Gazette]
Oyler: New Year’s Day In 1922
On New Year’s Day I got to wondering what life was like in Bridgeville one hundred years ago. Thanks to old maps, photographs, and newspaper clippings we can piece together a reasonable picture of those days. These were prosperous times, especially to the eyes of the middle-aged folks who had witnessed massive changes in technology… [Read More]