As bad as the flood was for some Westmoreland County residents whose appliances, furnaces and other items in their basements were ruined by flood waters Wednesday, the losses may not rise to the level needed to be declared a disaster, which releases government aid, a county official said Friday. “Westmoreland
When Carmen Capozzi founded Sage’s Army in 2012, his phone rang off the hook every day. “From the day we started, it was my (phone) number,” Capozzi said. “We weren’t funded then — it was just volunteers.” After the death of his son, Sage, from a heroin overdose, Capozzi felt
Westmoreland County Commissioners are expected to award grants to three municipalities this week with money from the national opioid abuse settlements. North Huntingdon is slated to receive nearly $105,000, while Rostraver and Lower Burrell will each receive $62,832 to operate drug prevention and education programs through municipal police departments. The
Between 2017 and 2020, unbalanced books led to more than $650,000 in state reimbursements not being made to the Westmoreland County Children’s Bureau. It is a testament to reviews of those books by state Auditor General Timothy DeFoor that the unpaid funds were identified in December 2022. The audits turned