Tarentum council on Tuesday will provide the public with a chance to weigh in on the proposed transformation of the Tarena roller rink. A Wexford-based construction company hopes to buy the 50-year-old skating rink and use it as a storage facility. Bridges & Co. is seeking a conditional use zoning
Tarentum residents will pay the same in taxes next year but costs for water use and garbage collection will increase. Council approved the borough’s $11 million budget with a vote of 5-0. Members Lou Ann Homa and Adam Blythe were absent. The property tax rate will remain at 5.48 mills,
A project to replace Tarentum’s street lights will save taxpayers more than $30,000, officials said. The savings won’t come through lower energy consumption, Manager Michael Nestico said, rather the lower cost of the light mechanism. “The street lights were already LED,” Nestico said. Borough leaders chose to rebuild the fittings
Tarentum received bids from five contractors to tear down three vacant and abandoned residential properties in the borough. The buildings are a duplex at 243-245 W. Seventh Ave. and single-family homes at 339 W. 11th Ave. and 532 E. Third Ave. They had appeared on previous lists to be torn
West Tarentum is the focus of Tarentum’s road paving this year. Roads included in the project are the intersections of West Sixth Avenue and Center Street; Center Street at West 12th Avenue; the 200 block of West 12th; Hill Street, from Bakerstown Road to Locust Street; Locust Street, from Hill