Many area residents are eagerly awaiting the spring arrival of migratory birds in the Pittsburgh region.
Local experts will be featured in an online forum Wednesday, offering tips to help keep these feathered friends on a safe flight path.
The free program, presented by the Frick Art & Historical Center, is set for 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Topics in the panel discussion will include creative ways to prevent birds from colliding with glass windows and buildings.
Panel participants will include Robert Mulvihill, ornithologist at the National Aviary; Jon Rice, urban bird conservation coordinator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History; and artist Ashley Cecil.
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The Pennsylvania Department of Health will offer one of its latest drive-thru covid-19 testing sites beginning Sunday in Rostraver.
The popup site will be in operation for five days, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, at the Rostraver Ice Garden, Route 51 and Gallitin Road.
The free testing service is available on a first-come, first-served basis and is provided through a state contract with AMI Expeditionary Healthcare, funded through a federal grant. No appointment is necessary.
The testing is open to anyone 3 or older, regardless of the county where they reside. Participants need not show symptoms of covid-19 to be tested.
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The Unity Plaza retail center is seen earlier this month at Routes 30 and 981 in Unity Township.
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Greater Latrobe School Board has signed off on a settlement that will reduce the property tax assessment for a shopping center in Unity by 28%.
It also voted to increase the compensation for two elected real estate tax collectors ahead of this year’s municipal elections.
The board this week approved the settlement with First Latrobe Co. that reduces the assessed value of Unity Plaza at routes 30 and 981 from $600,000 to $432,000, for 2020 and this year.
Greater Latrobe School District officials say they’ll have greater flexibility in assessing the need for covid-related school closures now that Westmoreland County has completed two consecutive weeks in the moderate level for community transmission of the coronavirus. According to Superintendent Georgia Teppert, the county’s return to a moderate transmission level
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Kristin Kuhns, in foreground, and son, Mick, remove two of their 20 chickens from coops on Aug. 12 in the backyard of their home in Unity Township’s Lawson Heights.
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Neighbors complained about noise and odor from backyard chickens in Unity Tuesday as the owners concluded their testimony in pursuit of a zoning variance needed to keep the birds.
Kristin and Jeff Kuhns are appealing a July 13 ruling by township zoning officer Harry Hosack that they can’t keep a flock of 20 chickens on their Range Street property. Hosack testified that the couple’s yard measures less than the 2-acre minimum required to keep fowl, which are classified as farm animals under Unity’s zoning ordinance.