Bridgeville’s public works department will get some extra help cleaning up the borough this summer. Two Chartiers Valley students will assist the public works crews as part of MyWork, a state-run program that matches high school students with disabilities to paid, summer work in their communities. The service will be cost-free to Bridgeville. The students’ wages and… [Read More]
Monday Is Voter Registration Deadline for the Upcoming Primary
Monday, April 17 is the last day to register to vote in the upcoming Pennsylvania primary. This election year is a big one for Bridgeville, where the mayorship and five council seats are in play, and for theChartiers Valley School Board, which has four seats up for grabs, according to the Allegheny County Department of… [Read More]
5 Borough Streets Slated for Repair This Summer
Five borough-owned streets will be repaired this summer as part of Bridgeville’s 2017 pavement maintenance program. Council voted unanimously this week to award a $151,737 contract to Youngblood Paving to complete the work. Pennsylvania-American Water Company will reimburse the borough for $74,900 of the cost. The following streets will be repaired: Shady Avenue from Murray… [Read More]
Poorly Maintained Vacant Lots Can Be An Eyesore, So Why Not Let Nature Reclaim Them?
Twice a year, Universal Stainless Steel sends workers to cut the grass in a vacant lot it owns at the end of Union Street in Bridgeville. The parcel’s permeter is surrounded by a rusty, leaning barbed-wire fence that hasn’t protected anything since the steel company removed its water tanks from the area years ago. It’s… [Read More]
Bridgeville Borough Council – April 10, 2017
Update: April 2017 Council Meeting Minutes — ROLL CALL VISITORS, PLEASE STATE NAMES AND ADDRESSES MINUTES A motion of the Borough Council regarding the minutes of the March 13, 2017 regular meeting as submitted. 2017 PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE PROGRAM Bids were advertised and publicly opened on Friday April 7, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. in the Council… [Read More]
Will Smartphone App and Updated Software Alleviate Parking Frustrations?
After several minutes, the parking payment kiosk in Bridgeville’s public parking lot #2 still wasn’t cooperating for Marjorie Jablonski. The Bridgeville resident kept trying to enter her license plate number, but the letters she tapped on the keyboard weren’t the letters popping up onscreen. “I’m only parking for a few minutes,” she explained, “but I don’t want… [Read More]
Scout Asks Council to Name a Problem that Young Residents Can Help Solve
As part of his citizenship merit badge project, Nicholas McKelvey, 12, of Boy Scout Troop #262 visited council to ask a few questions about how local government works. He also wanted to know which problems in Bridgeville young people can help address. Responses ranged from “Don’t get your driver’s license” (due to current traffic issues)… [Read More]
What Makes the Bridgeville Police Department’s Facebook Page So Good?
When it comes to law enforcement agencies using Facebook as a community-building, crime-fighting, crime-solving tool, few police departments get more value per post than the Bridgeville Police Department. We said as much last year. Borough council has also repeatedly praised the police department’s social media efforts. Most importantly, the people say it’s good. Any given Facebook post… [Read More]
The Great Castle Shannon Bank Robbery—A Bridgeville Area Historical Society Presentation
One-hundred years ago next month, an otherwise quiet day in Castle Shannon became a bullet-riddled bloodbath as a bank robbery gone bad spilled into the streets and into the countryside. “The Great Castle Shannon Bank Robbery” is a tale of gun fights, suicide, and vigilante justice in a quiet town that, at the time, didn’t… [Read More]
Don’t Befriend Random Sexy “Women” Online and Definitely Don’t Send Them Nude Photos of Yourself
Scammers are targeting area men with a blackmail plot that begins with a hot young woman becoming your new Facebook friend and ends with X-rated images of you shown to all of your friends. According to Bridgeville Police, the scheme starts when you receive a Facebook friend request from what appears to be an unknown,… [Read More]
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