September 12, 2023 4:49 am
Washington City Council has unsealed bids for solid waste collection for the next five years. City Administrator Donn Henderson opened the bids from 3 providers. Those companies making bids were current hauler Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill, commonly referred to as County Hauling, Bigs Sanitation and Waste Management. Henderson said that he and the solicitor will comb through the bids. The city requested proposals for two options of trash collection using the traditional method and a third option using automated collection on those two options. All bids differ with Bigs Sanitation not bidding on the automated process and Waste Management bidding only on an automated process. County Hauling did offer bids on all scenarios. Henderson hopes to be able to have council award a bid at Thursday’s voting meeting. He cautioned residents that from a quick glance at the numbers, they should expect approximately a 30% increase in their trash bills over the length of the five year contract with annual increases throughout contract. Additionally, council will enact a registration fee for rental units in the city that was approved earlier in the year. The fee will be $15 per unit and information collected will be building owner, manager and name of lessee for each unit. According to Henderson the data collected will be used only in an emergency situation. Council will also consider several parking and traffic ordinances and changes to the ordinance governing business tax abatement privileges.
September 12, 2023 4:46 am
ROBINSON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — (WPXI) – A construction worker died after falling from a roof in Robinson Township on Monday. According to Allegheny County police, the man fell from a roof that he was working on in the 200 block of Clever Road at 12:35 p.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The Allegheny County Medical Examiner identified the victim as Rudy Davila, 27, of Burgettstown. Foul play is not suspected at this time. OSHA was notified about the incident.
September 12, 2023 2:29 am
South Strabane Township Police and Fire Chiefs gathered first responders from all over Washington County to observe the 22nd anniversary of the terror attacks on the United States committed by 19 al-Qaeda members in 2001. More than 2500 civilians and over 400 first responders lost their lives when hijacked airplanes struck the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City, The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and an empty field in Shanksville, PA where passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 took down a plane that may have been headed to another target in Washington, D.C. Speakers at the memorial included Dennis Bailey, a 31 year military veteran and retired master seargeant of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard. He spoke of the response of the 171st refueling wing and how Americans must never forget what many describe as the “deadliest act of terrorism.” Pastor Robert Grewe, Chaplain of the South Strabane Township Fire Department and the Washington County Sheriff department related how upsetting it was for him to realize that an extreme sect of religion was used to carry out the deadly attacks. Both men want Americans to remember that aside from the victims that day, deaths continue from cancer and other causes for people that were exposed to the toxic cloud at Ground Zero that day and the days after in the clean up of the site.
September 11, 2023 5:41 pm
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators have approved updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, shots aimed at revving up protection this fall and winter. The Food and Drug Administration’s decision Monday is part of a shift to treat fall COVID-19 vaccine updates much like getting a yearly flu shot. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must sign off. Its advisers meet Tuesday to recommend how to best use this round of vaccinations. The shots could begin later this week. Both the COVID-19 and flu shot can be given at the same time.
September 11, 2023 10:23 am
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Russia and North Korea say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will visit Russia, where he is expected to hold a highly anticipated meeting with President Vladimir Putin that has sparked Western concerns about a potential arms deal for Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The Kremlin’s website said Kim’s visit is at Putin’s invitation and would take place “in the coming days.” The visit also was reported by North Korea’s official KCNA news agency, saying he would meet with Putin. Associated Press journalists near the North Korea-Russia border saw a green train with yellow trim — similar to one used by Kim on previous foreign trips — at a station on the North Korean side.
September 11, 2023 5:13 am
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Charlie Robison, the Texas singer-songwriter whose rootsy anthems made the country charts until he was forced to retire after complications from a medical procedure left him unable to sing, died Sunday. He was 59. Robison died at a hospital in San Antonio after suffering cardiac arrest and other complications, according to a family representative. When he was approached by Sony in 1998, Robison signed with its Lucky Dog imprint, which was devoted to rawer country. His 2001 album “Step Right Up” produced his only Top 40 country song, “I Want You Bad.” In 2018, Robison announced that he had permanently lost the ability to sing following a surgical procedure on his throat. “Therefore, with a very heavy heart I am officially retiring from the stage and studio,” he wrote on Facebook.
September 11, 2023 5:12 am
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — President Joe Biden wrapped up a visit to Vietnam by calling on the two countries to improve their collaboration. Biden met Monday in Hanoi with Vietnamese government officials and business leaders. Both sides spotlighted new deals and partnerships between the U.S. and Vietnam. Biden also paid his respects at a memorial to his friend and former colleague John McCain. The late U.S. senator from Arizona was held for more than five years as a prisoner during the Vietnam War. Biden and McCain were colleagues in the U.S. Senate. Biden will observe the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in Alaska before he returns to the White House.
September 11, 2023 5:08 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Bells tolled at ground zero and solemn tributes unfolded around the country as Americans looked back on the horror and legacy of 9/11. People gathered Monday at memorials, firehouses, city halls, campuses and elsewhere to observe the 22nd anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. Nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijacked planes crashed at New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Vice President Kamala Harris is joining the ceremony at the trade center. President Joe Biden is due to join service members and their families at a ceremony on a military base in Anchorage, Alaska. His visit is a reminder that the impact of 9/11 was felt in every corner of the nation, however remote.
September 11, 2023 5:05 am
AMIZMIZ, Morocco (AP) — People in Morocco are sleeping in the streets of Marrakech for a third straight night as soldiers and international aid teams in trucks and helicopters begin to fan into remote mountain towns hit hardest by a historic earthquake. The disaster killed more than 2,100 people — a number that is expected to rise — and the United Nations estimated that 300,000 people were affected the magnitude 6.8 quake. Amid offers from several countries, Moroccan officials said they are accepting international aid from just four countries: Spain, Qatar, Britain and the United Arab Emirates. Some foreign search-and-rescue teams arrived on Sunday as an aftershock rattled Moroccans already in mourning and shock.
September 11, 2023 5:03 am
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Republicans trying to recapture the U.S. Senate majority have the candidate they want in Pennsylvania. Now they just need David McCormick to run. Almost since he lost last year’s Senate GOP primary, McCormick has floated the possibility that he’d again run for the U.S. Senate, this time to challenge Democratic Sen. Bob Casey. Republicans have tried to entice McCormick to join the 2024 ticket, but the ex-hedge fund CEO might be circumspect because he spent $14 million of his own money just to lose a crowded and bruising primary election. A state party meeting is approaching, and GOP circles are alive with chatter that McCormick will seek an endorsement vote there.
