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Valley Dairy general manager Alex Blystone prepares a taco order Thursday at Valley Dairy in Unity as part of the restaurant’s new ghost kitchen business, Taco Joe’s.
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Valley Dairy general manager Alex Blystone, an employee of the restaurant since he was a high school student, grabs a Door Dash order for tacos that just came in on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 at Valley Dairy in Unity as part of their new ghost kitchen business, Taco Joe’s.
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Alex Blystone, general manager at Valley Dairy, puts the final topping of guacamole onto a burrito bowl order for a Door Dash customer on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021 at Valley Dairy in Latrobe. The burrito bowl and tacos are part of Valley Dairy’s new ghost kitchen business, Taco Joe’s, which can be ordered through Door Dash.
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PITTSBURGH – A battery maker charges that a Pennsylvania state court has no personal jurisdiction over it, in an action brought against it by a Western Pennsylvania man who says he suffered severe burns after a lithium ion battery for his vaping device exploded in his pants pocket.
Glenn Armstrong of Kittanning first filed suit in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas on Oct. 20 versus Vape Lab, Vape Laboratory and Walter Wright (doing business as “Vape Lab”) of Kittanning, Lithicore, LLC and Lithicore Tech of Houston, Texas, Demand Vape, LLC of Buffalo, N.Y. and John Does 1-3.
Thick-crusted Detroit-style pizzas continue to gain popularity in the Steel City.
One might say they’re Iron Born.
Kittanning native Pete Tolman knew he had to bring the doughy slices to Western Pennsylvania the first time he tried them, on a trip not to the Motor City but to Telluride, Colo.
Tolman attended culinary school at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, worked in several fine dining restaurants and spent years managing prepared foods for Giant Eagle. “I felt I had the experience and passion to open my own place,” he said.
He launched Iron Born Pizza in 2017 in the Strip District, starting out in Smallman Galley the restaurant incubator and moving to his own location on Smallman Street in late-2019. In between, he opened a takeout shop in Millvale.
Courtesy of Jeff Pyle
The site of the former Ford City High School at Fourth Avenue and 16th Street in Ford City will become the home of a new Butler County Community College site in 2022.
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Butler County Community College’s announcement of $2.2 million from public and private sources for a new site in Ford City increases its sites to five Western Pennsylvania counties.
The college’s new location in Ford City, known as “BC3 @ Armstrong,” will cost $4.5 million to construct.
School officials say it will provide much needed economic opportunity and will help fill specialty and technical jobs in Armstrong County.
IMA Adds Maier as VP in Houston Energy Practice January 25, 2021
Insurance brokerage firm, IMA Inc., has hired veteran underwriting professional Conrad Maier as vice president in the company’s Houston-based energy practice.
Maier is the first dedicated producer in Houston, marking the next stage of IMA’s aggressive expansion plan in the nation’s energy capital. Bringing more than 20 years of experience in the energy risk sector to the role, he is among five highly respected insurance brokers that IMA has recruited since opening the Houston office in October 2020.
A Canadian native turned proud Texan, Maier has spent the entirety of his long career in the oil and gas sector. In the last decade, he held Houston-based senior leadership roles managing risk and underwriting for upstream energy companies. Prior to his time in Houston, Maier worked internationally, serving as vice president and senior offshore energy underwriter for Swiss Re Gro